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AOL co-founder Steve Case on why VCs need to look beyond Silicon Valley

May 15th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

AOL co-founder Steve Case took to the stage at Disrupt New York this morning to discuss myriad issues, from his former company’s merging with one-time competitor Yahoo (pro) to a potential run for Congress (naw). It’s clear, however, [...]

Yahoo’s Bob Lord said massive data breach felt like Vertigo

May 15th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Being the chief information security officer at the company that’s suffered the biggest (known) data breaches in history isn’t the kind of fame most CISOs would be looking for. But it’s Yahoo’s Bob Lord’s bag. His LinkedIn profile [...]

Facebook cracks down on fake live videos

May 15th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Facebook is banning misleading uses of its Live video format. The company tells TechCrunch that it’s adding a section to its Live API Facebook Platform Policy that reads “Don’t use the API to publish only images (ex: don’t [...]

Razer gets backing from Horizons Ventures, inks phone JV with Three

May 15th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Razer, the gaming company that acquired the Robin smartphone maker Nextbit earlier this year, is now opening the curtains on the next steps to make a deeper move into the mobile space. Razer has announced a strategic partnership [...]

How US tech companies can help Cuban entrepreneurs

May 15th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

What’s it like to be an entrepreneur in a place that has little to no Internet access? Today at TechCrunch’s Disrupt NY, we got the perspective of a trio of Cuban entrepreneurs to learn about the challenges they [...]

Judge ruling means Uber can continue self-driving work but Levandowski barred from LiDAR

May 15th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

A judge has ruled in the matter of a preliminary injunction related to Uber’s use of autonomous tech, finding that Google employee and Otto founder Anthony Levandowski can no longer work on any projects that involve LiDAR technology. [...]

NY Times CEO Mark Thompson isn’t fazed by Trump’s criticism

May 15th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Mark Thompson, CEO of the company that President Donald Trump has called the “failing” New York Times, doesn’t sound too bothered by presidential criticism. “I’ve been in journalism for more than 30 years,” said Thompson, who appeared this [...]

Singapore gets a gigantic ‘vending machine’ for buying luxury cars

May 15th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Singapore is a country known worldwide for both a very high cost of living and limited real estate space — that combination makes it hard to imagine a better location for a gigantic vending machine that spits out [...]

Facebook’s ParlAI is where researchers will push the boundaries of conversational AI

May 15th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

To most of us, communication is a single task. But in reality, it’s not and if you’re a machine trying to replicate dialog, you need to be good at lots of tasks like answering questions, completing sentences and [...]