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Quarterly launches PageHabit to give book lovers a peek into the writing process

June 12th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Quarterly started in 2011 as a highbrow subscription box service, with boxes (delivered every three months, as its name suggests) curated by celebrities like Neil deGrasse Tyson, Pharrell Williams, and Gretchen Rubin. Now the company wants to take [...]

Mobike will launch dockless bike-sharing in the U.K., its first market outside of Asia

June 12th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Mobike, one of China’s largest bike-sharing companies, will launch in Manchester and Salford, its first cities outside of Asia. The service is slated to arrive on June 29, the Beijing-headquartered company said, and will start with 1,000 bikes. [...]

Grab is assisting police following the alleged rape of a passenger in Malaysia

June 12th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Uber’s business is going through a period of turmoil in the U.S. right now, but Grab — its main rival in Southeast Asia — is under pressure itself after a driver in Malaysia was arrested on suspicion of [...]

Apple pays off its future-of-computing promise with iPad Pro

June 12th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

After playing with the new iPad Pro 10.5″ for a few days I am convinced that it’s fairly impossible to do a detailed review of it in its current state. Not because there is some sort of flaw, [...]

Snap is developing a second version of Spectacles which may include augmented reality

June 12th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Snap extended the sale of its Spectacles into Europe this month, but already the company is working on a second version of the video-recording glasses which could be quite radical, according to a source with knowledge of the [...]

Time-tracking startup Timeular raises $1.1M to help you work smarter

June 12th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Timeular, the Austrian startup behind the neat Zei time-tracking device that we wrote about last year, has raised €1 million ($1.1 million) in funding to develop new productivity coaching tools to help you work smarter. The company is [...]

Taiwan will finally get its first Apple Store

June 12th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Apple is getting ready to launch its first retail store in Taiwan. According to its Taiwan website, the Apple Store will be in Taipei 101, the landmark skyscraper, and decorated with papercut art by Yang Shiyi, whose work [...]

Lyft gets $25M and a fleet of cars from new partner Jaguar Land Rover

June 12th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Lyft recently raised $600 million in a massive funding round, and now we know that $25 million of that came from Jaguar Land Rover, via its mobility services subsidiary InMotion. The car maker’s investment in Lyft goes beyond [...]

Bethesda announces Skyrim for the Switch plus VR versions of Fallout 4 and Doom

June 12th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Bethesda Softworks took the late-night stage at this year’s E3 games expo. Virtual reality is their sights, with upcoming HTC Vive support for Fallout 4 and Doom, turning those instant classics into VR wonderlands. However, if VR isn’t [...]