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Intel could be about to release a very expensive Core i9 CPU

May 15th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Computex is right around the corner. While we don’t generally cover PC component updates, this leak about Intel’s plan is interesting. The company is apparently about to unveil a new lineup of desktop CPUs with a new high-end [...]

NuCypher is using proxy re-encryption to lift more enterprise big data into the cloud

May 15th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

After spending time at a London fintech accelerator last year, enterprise database startup ZeroDB scrapped its first business plan and mapped out a new one. By January this year it had a new name: NuCypher. It now will [...]

WeWork’s Adam Neumann on how to hit $1B in revenue with a careful balance

May 15th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

WeWork, which is said to be raising as much as $4 billion at a valuation worth more than $20 billion, is still on its way to hitting $1 billion in annual revenue this year — though CEO Adam [...]

Phil Libin exits General Catalyst for All Turtles, a new AI ‘startup studio’

May 15th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

AI is one of the buzzwords of the moment in the world of tech, with startups coming at the concept from all angles — computer vision, machine learning, unstructured data inference and natural language processing being just a [...]

Amazon is helping to remove false wake words from Alexa’s vocabulary

May 15th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Amazon’s smart assistant has gotten pretty good at recognizing its own name (much to the apparent chagrin of many who share it), but that doesn’t make it immune from false positives. To make Alexa better at filtering out [...]

Outdoor Voices and Glossier are cleaning up by making fashion inclusive

May 15th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

The founders of Glossier and Outdoor Voices, Emily Weiss and Tyler Haney, spoke at TechCrunch Disrupt in New York today about how they’re taking a bite out of the massive beauty and apparel industries. Key to both startups’ [...]

Apple’s new ad shows how Portrait mode changed this imaginary barbershop

May 15th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Apple just released a new ad featuring the “practically magic” tagline at the end. The ad focuses on Portrait mode once again. It takes place in an barbershop in New Orleans. Portrait mode is a software feature for [...]

Libratone’s Q Adapt On-Ear headphones pack noise cancellation into a small package

May 15th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

I’ve been playing around with Libratone’s on-ear headphones for a while, and I have to say that they sound quite convincing. I’m not really into headphones as I’d rather carry some tiny earbuds in my pocket when I’m [...]

Dataminr announces new tool to assist first responders

May 15th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

This is the age of the citizen journalist where people on the street armed with a smartphone and a Twitter account are often the first on the scene of an accident, fire or other emergency. These folks know [...]