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Why Tom Kelley of IDEO is the ultimate disciple of ‘design thinking’

May 30th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

In our 16th episode, we talk with Tom Kelly, a partner at IDEO, about the definition of innovation, how to take back your creative confidence, and the habits that can shape not only your current design team, but [...]

Fixing cities

May 30th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Exciting news for people who live, well, everywhere: Incremental changes happening across tech, local news and local government are finally making the world around you transparent. This isn’t some “smart cities” concept fantasy, like those corporate marketing videos [...]

Judah vs. the Machines: Kairos face recognition AI can tell how you feel, but does it know what you dream?

May 30th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Instead of humanity working together on our own collective sense of caring and empathy, we have made the brave decision to build computers that can interpret emotions for us. In this installment of Judah vs. the Machines, Judah [...]

NYU’s Sarah Kaufman talks about the shape of cities to come

May 30th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

On this week’s episode of Technotopia we talk to Sarah Kaufman, the Assistant Director at the Rudin Center for Transportation Policy & Management. Kaufman is working to create new transit opportunities for New Yorkers – and the world [...]

Uber board reportedly receiving Eric Holder’s report this week

May 30th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Uber’s board of directors will reportedly hear the results of former Attorney General Eric Holder’s investigation into its workplace culture on Wednesday, according to Axios. The investigation by Holder was announced after former Uber employee Susan Fowler published [...]

This Memorial Day Don’t Remember; Just Celebrate

May 30th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

As a soldier who occasionally is in uniform in public in the Bay Area as part of my Army Reserve duties I am overwhelmed by the volume of “Thank You for Your Service” comments I receive. We’ve come [...]

Where are the rest of the tech IPOs?

May 30th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

When Snap went public in early March, it opened up the floodgates after what had been a stagnant period for tech IPOs. The warm investor reception for the Snapchat parent helped pave the way for MuleSoft, Alteryx, Elevate, [...]

How not to launch a company in the U.S. — lessons learned from LeEco

May 28th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

After a months’ long parade of endless red flags, LeEco’s Stateside woes finally came to a head this week. The company announced that it would be laying off 325 employees in the U.S. alone. And judging from a [...]

The difference between smartphone gimmick and game changer

May 28th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

It’s hard to find a legitimately bad flagship phone these days. Sure, one peeks its head out from time to time, but on a whole most phones are pretty good. The screens, the cameras, the internals. There are [...]