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Revolar – Instinct, discreet personal safety device

June 14th, 2017|Categories: Wearables|

What is Revolar? At the push of a button, Revolar lets you and your loved ones be there for each other, even when you’re apart. This beautifully designed wearable is discreet enough to wear anywhere, yet [...]

RE2 is making bomb-defusing robots as intuitive to control as your own hands

June 13th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Within a few minutes, I’ve got one hand grasped gingerly on the zipper. The other is holding the bag’s handle in place. I unzip it slowly, as if performing surgery. There’s none of the pressure of a real [...]

Microsoft joins the open source Cloud Foundry Foundation

June 13th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Microsoft today announced that it is joining the Cloud Foundry Foundation, the non-profit behind the open source Cloud Foundry platform-as-a-service project that’s currently in use by about half of the Fortune 500 companies. Microsoft is joining at the [...]

Advertising giants leave little room for adtech startups, and VCs are noticing

June 13th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Since the earliest days of the commercial web, there was a Faustian bargain struck between users and content publishers: Users got free access to online content in exchange for tolerating ads sold by the very same publishers delivering [...]

Accessibility and communication apps take FCC honors

June 13th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

It may seem strange to see a headline with “FCC” in it that doesn’t concern net neutrality. But the Commission has a wide variety of responsibilities, among which is promoting and enabling tech that empowers people with disabilities [...]

Uber investors who called it “toxic” are satisfied by plans for change

June 13th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Freada and Mitch Kapor broke rank with typical investor silence in the face of scandals at their portfolio companies by publicly criticizing Uber in February, saying it was “toxic” and had “a culture plagued by disrespect, exclusionary cliques, [...]

Uber board member gets sexist at a sexism apology all-hands

June 13th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

At least one Uber board member didn’t seem to get the memo about sex discrimination and the changes Uber is trying to make from within. In an audio taping of the company all-hands meeting today about sex discrimination, [...]

No acting CEO at Uber, no problem?

June 13th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Instead, Kalanick told employees, the company will be run by his direct reports. Meanwhile, owing to the results of a probe led by former U.S. attorney general Eric Holder — who was hired to look into allegations of [...]

AI on your lock screen

June 13th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

For the last 10 years, news feeds have been the main way — the mainstream user interface — to discover interesting and relevant digital content. Today, news feeds, from Facebook and Twitter to LinkedIn, Instagram and Pinterest, are [...]