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Instagram Location Stories appear in Explore. Is Story Search Coming?

May 22nd, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

It’s taking Instagram less and less time to copy Snapchat. Less than two months after Snapchat launched its Stories Search feature for seeing what’s going on at a location or related to a topic, Instagram is rolling out [...]

Amazon’s Echo Look companion app goes live

May 22nd, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Amazon’s odd foray into the world of selfie cameras via the Echo Look is now complete with the launch of a companion application for iOS and Android devices that works with the new connected camera. The app allows [...]

Here’s the teaser for the mini-drone DJI is announcing this week

May 22nd, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

DJI has released a video teaser for the new drone they are announcing at their event in NYC this Wednesday. When the company sent out an invite we assumed it was to announce a new mini-drone, and this [...]

Auto1 Group, a young used-car marketplace serving Europe, is now worth $2.8 billion

May 22nd, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Auto1 Group, a nearly five-year-old, Berlin-based used-car marketplace, just announced a huge round — €360 million ($404 million) in debt and equity financing that includes €75 million ($84.2 million) from Princeville Global, itself a Hong Kong-based investment firm [...]

Disrupt SF 2017 is headed back to Pier 48

May 22nd, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

We are excited to announce that Disrupt SF 2017 will once again be held at the lovely Pier 48, which is right down the road from AT&T Park — the home of the San Francisco Giants. While the [...]

Postmates CEO will testify before Congress about the promise of robots and drones

May 22nd, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Postmates CEO Bastian Lehman is testifying before congress tomorrow in a hearing called “Disrupter Series: Delivering to Consumers.” In his written testimony, Lehman makes a case for delivery via robots and drones, with the hopes that Congress will [...]

Sayspring raises $1.5M for software that lets designers prototype and test voice apps without coding

May 22nd, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Sayspring, a startup that enables designers to create voice-enabled apps without code ahead of handing over projects to development, has just raised $1.5 million in funding for its efforts, the company is announcing today. The round was led [...]

This concept video shows some great improvements for iOS 11

May 22nd, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

2017 is no different — I still hate concept videos. But Federico Viticci and Sam Beckett teamed up once again to design some of the changes they’d like to see with iOS 11. It’s more convincing than your [...]

Dish integrates with Amazon Alexa for hands-free TV

May 22nd, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

TV provider Dish Network is today rolling out new technology that will make watching television a hands-free experience, via a new integration with Amazon Alexa. The company says that its pay TV customers using either its Hopper or [...]