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Stayawhile gets $1.5M to target the sweet spot between Airbnb and long-term rentals

June 26th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

New York-based startup Stayawhile announced today that it’s scored $1.5 million in seed funding to provide travelers with what founder Janine Yorio refers to as “medium-term housing.” It’s a midway point between your standard hotel/Airbnb stay and a [...]

iOS 11’s blue bar will shame apps that overzealously access your location

June 26th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Apple’s new mobile operating system iOS 11, which ships to the public in September, will give users a better understanding over how apps are using their location data. One notable change, which will be immediately obvious, is a [...]

Sony to demo 3D face biometric running on an Xperia smartphone

June 26th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

If smartphone hardware rumors are on the money, and they are usually at least in the ballpark (with the exception of transparent, bendable phones; apparently forever doomed to be mocked up in Photoshop) — then a 3D depth [...]

Autotalks brings motorcycles into the conversation

June 26th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Autotalks has been developing technologies that allow vehicles to talk to anything — V2X, to the nerds in the know. It’s one of the technologies that will enable fully autonomous vehicles to roam our roads. But where does [...]

The Amazon Echo now doubles as a home intercom system

June 26th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Amazon will officially release the Show in a few days, but in the meantime, the company is introducing a long-awaited intercom feature for existing Echo devices. The addition uses Drop-In, a teleconferencing feature introduced on the Show that [...]

Amazon said to be working on translation services for AWS customers

June 26th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Amazon is working on an offering that would allow developers building apps and websites using AWS to translate their content to multiple languages, CNBC reports. The machine translation tech used to provide the multi-lingual versions of client products [...]

Anki’s Cozmo gets a free update aimed at helping kids learn to code

June 26th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

You can’t throw a rock without hitting a coding toy these days. In just the last couple of weeks both Apple and Sony have announced new initiatives, and now Overdrive-maker Anki is getting in on the action with [...]

Google Earth comes to the classroom with new educational tours and lesson plans

June 26th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

In April, Google introduced a revamped, reimagined version of Google Earth, which included a number of new features that go beyond visualizing the planet through the use of maps and satellite imagery, to also allow users to explore [...]

Facebook brings new masks, filters and reactions to Messenger video chat

June 26th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Facebook is bringing a ton of new filters, masks and video reactions to video chats in Messenger, aiming to deliver a more fun experience to younger users on the app and shore up the service against competing video [...]