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FCC Commissioner Clyburn guts anti-net neutrality order in extended dissent

January 7th, 2018|Categories: Gizmo News|

FCC Commissioner Clyburn’s passionate dissent at last month’s meeting left no room for guesswork on her position on the Commission’s plan to eliminate net neutrality. But it wasn’t all she had to say. Today, released alongside the final [...]

Google has planted its flag at CES

January 6th, 2018|Categories: Gizmo News|

Google’s here, and it’s planning something big. The company’s presence is impossible to miss as you drive down Paradise Road toward the Las Vegas Convention Center. Like much the rest of the show, the company’s parking lot booth [...]

How Tier 2 cloud vendors banded together to cope with Spectre and Meltdown

January 6th, 2018|Categories: Gizmo News|

Earlier this week news broke of a pair of massive chip vulnerabilities dubbed Spectre and Meltdown (for an explainer see this post). We learned that the larger cloud vendors like Amazon, Google and Microsoft have been in touch [...]

Cassette tapes are back, kind of

January 6th, 2018|Categories: Gizmo News|

Add the surprise return of the cassette tape to the long list of why the last couple of years have been some of the strangest in recent memory. After a number of strong years for the vinyl record, [...]

RIP IPO (1602-2018)

January 6th, 2018|Categories: Gizmo News|

In comparison to an anemic 2016 for venture-backed technology IPOs, 2017 was a much better year. Companies as diverse as Yext, Cloudera, Blue Apron, StitchFix, and SendGrid all went public last year, not to mention one of the [...]

The light and dark of AI-powered smartphones

January 6th, 2018|Categories: Gizmo News|

As more smartphones get on device AI processing powers it could support a new range of advanced consumer features. But what kind of value exchange might be required for mobile users to tap into these touted ‘AI smarts’? [...]

CTRL+T podcast: As long as it tastes like chicken, folds my clothes for cheap and doesn’t run me over

January 6th, 2018|Categories: Gizmo News|

Wait, what? Yeah, this week a company called SuperMeat announced that it raised $3 million to create chicken in a lab. It requires real chicken cells, Petrie dishes probably and some patience. The benefits for fake (fake real?) [...]

Original Content podcast: Netflix’s ‘Bright’ offers dumb fun with orcs and elves in modern LA

January 6th, 2018|Categories: Gizmo News|

Netflix’s original film Bright has been decimated by critics, but Darrell Etherington and Anthony Ha, the hosts of TechCrunch’s Original Content podcast enjoyed it — kind of? Maybe? As Darrell put it: “I don’t regret watching it.” To [...]

GE Appliances is launching its own version of Quirky for businesses called Giddy

January 6th, 2018|Categories: Gizmo News|

GE Appliances (now a subsidiary of the Chinese appliance manufacturer Haier) is spinning out a crowd-sourced product development business as a service for corporate customers under the name Giddy. It’s the idea that won’t die — even though [...]