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Boeing will build DARPA’s XS-1 experimental spaceplane

May 24th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

You can hear the champagne corks popping here in Seattle as Boeing is awarded the contract to make DARPA’s cool experimental spaceplane. The XS-1, as it’s called, would allow for relatively cheap and simple trips to space for [...]

G2 Crowd, Glassdoor for software reviews, gets $30M from Accel, LinkedIn

May 24th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

In the age of social media, you’re only as good as your last like, and today a startup has raised a sizeable round of funding banking that the same maxim applies to software. G2 Crowd — a Chicago-based [...]

Airbnb is running its own internal university to teach data science

May 24th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Tech companies, and increasingly even non-tech companies, are struggling with the fact that there are not enough trained data scientists to fill market demand. Every company has their own strategy for hiring and training but Airbnb has taken [...]

R.I.P. Imzy

May 24th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Imzy, the kinder, gentler online community platform will be shutting down on June 23rd. Company co-founder Dan McComas made the announcement in a blog post today, stating his apologies and explaining to the community Imzy just couldn’t find [...]

Amazon adds shoppable stickers to its iOS app

May 24th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Using stickers to decorate your photos is a common feature found in social apps like Snapchat, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and others. But today, stickers have started showing up in a more surprising place: Amazon’s mobile app. Following a [...]

Judah vs. the Machines: SeuratBot is an artistic robot that knows art, but lacks purpose

May 24th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

If art is a window into the soul, what does art discover when it peers deep into the inner workings of a robot? In this installment of Judah vs. the Machines, actor Judah Friedlander tests his art skills [...]

Rackspace appoints a new CEO

May 24th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Rackspace today announced that its board has appointed Joe Eazor as its new CEO, effective June 12. Eazor will replace Rackspace President Jeff Cotten, who stepped in as the company’s interim CEO after former CEO Taylor Rhodes left [...]

Tennis star Serena Williams joins SurveyMonkey’s board

May 24th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Serena Williams (yes, THAT Serena Williams) has joined the board of consumer survey startup SurveyMonkey, along with Intuit CEO Brad Smith. This is the tennis superstar’s first venture into Silicon Valley and, according to a SurveyMonkey spokesperson, came [...]

Facebook shrinks filter bubbles with alternate news sources in Trending

May 24th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

You’re vulnerable to bias and polarization if you only get your news from one source. So instead of highlighting a single news outlet when you click through to a Trending topic, Facebook will now show a carousel of [...]