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Delphi and Transdev to develop global on-demand driverless transportation

June 7th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Dance cards are filling up for the coming autonomous driving revolution: The newest partners are Delphi and Transdev, who are joining forces to create an automated, on-demand mobility systems, with a service offering set to make its debut [...]

Amazon, Kickstarter, Reddit, YC join ‘save net neutrality’ protest planned for July 12

June 7th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

A day of protest over the FCC’s controversial proposal to eliminate net neutrality rules has been planned for July 12, with supporters of the online action including the likes of Amazon, Etsy, Github, Kickstarter, Reddit and Y Combinator. [...]

SpaceX will launch the US Air Force’s top secret X-37B spaceplane in August

June 7th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

SpaceX has secured a contract to launch the uncrewed X-37B spaceplane, a secret military spacecraft created by the U.S. Air Force that’s kind of like a compact space shuttle, but whose functional purpose is ultimately kept under wraps. [...]

Stem raises $8M to get music artists paid more seamlessly

June 7th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

While music streaming has become more and more commoditized, artists still have a wide array of places to distribute their songs like Spotify, YouTube and Apple Music — but getting paid properly can start to complicate things. That [...]

Online learning startup Coursera raises $64M at an $800M valuation

June 7th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

As the cost of in-class education continue to rise, and the cost for computing continues to fall, we’re seeing a flourishing of startups that target the market for online learning. As one mark of the trend, one of [...]

Vault now offers retirement accounts for any independent contractor

June 7th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

A little more than six months ago, Vault took to the Disrupt Battlefield stage to introduce automated investment accounts small and medium-sized business owners could offer to their employees. Today the company is launching a set of mobile [...]

SpaceX aims to reuse a Falcon 9 booster used in January on June 17

June 7th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

SpaceX is hoping to return the Falcon 9 first stage booster used in its first flight back to active operations on January 14. That’s an impressive turn around time if they can pull it off – roughly six [...]

Upbeat gets $1.5M to create a data science-driven alternative to PR agencies

June 7th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Out of all the how-to guides ever written about pitching journalists, I’ve never seen one address the truth—that most are simply too busy trying not to get murdered by their inboxes to even open emails. Upbeat wants to [...]

Sesame Workshop and IBM team up to test a new A.I.-powered teaching method

June 7th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Can A.I. help build better educational apps for kids? That’s a question Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit organization behind the popular children’s TV program “Sesame Street” and others, aims to answer. The company has teamed up with IBM to [...]