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A year after its launch, Tech:NYC has become a force in New York politics

May 24th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

It’s been a little over a year since Fred Wilson and Tim Armstrong appeared onstage at Disrupt in New York to launch Tech:NYC. The two titans of New York City’s tech scene were angling to create a new [...]

Microsoft now uses Git and GVFS to develop Windows

May 24th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Microsoft today announced that virtually all of its engineers now use the Git version control system to develop its Windows operating system. The Windows Git repository includes about 3.5 million files that weigh in at about 300GB when [...]

MIT researchers invent clothes that breathe with the help of biological cells

May 24th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

MIT researchers have invented a new type of workout material that can breathe using biological cells. The project, called bioLogic, is essentially a “breathable workout suit” covered in small flaps. The flaps are “lined with live microbial cells [...]

Xbox Game Pass launches June 1 with over 100 titles

May 24th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Xbox One owners get a new reason to fire up their consoles on June 1: Xbox Game Pass, the download service Microsoft created to deliver subscription-based gaming with a library of Xbox One and Xbox 360 games in [...]

Robotic toymaker Sphero unveils Ultimate Lightning McQueen — a chatty, smartphone-controlled car

May 24th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

While Sphero has released a whole lineup of robotic, Internet-connected toys, it remains best-known for its BB-8 droid from Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Today it’s launching its next Disney tie-in — Ultimate Lightning McQueen. This is a [...]

Report: Microsoft to buy security firm Hexadite for $100M as Cloudyn still in progress

May 24th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

While we wait to get more news on Microsoft closing a reported acquisition of Cloudyn, another report has emerged of one more enterprise startup that the software giant is buying in Israel. Calacalist reported earlier today that Microsoft [...]

The final Valerian trailer makes me want to live in a thousand-planet city

May 24th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

This is the last trailer we’re getting for Luc Besson’s Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets before it hits theaters on July 21, 2017. The bright, bold sci-fi epic looks like trademark Besson, which is to [...]

Softbank’s Nvidia stake is reportedly worth $4BN

May 24th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Bloomberg is today reporting the size of Softbank’s stake in Nvidia is $4 billion, for 4.9 per cent of the company, which it says would make it the fourth largest investor in the chipmaker. Read More on Tech [...]

Stae helps cities take advantage of their data

May 24th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Stae wants to help local governments collect, manage and process data about their infrastructure. The company just raised $1.5 million from Story Ventures, Fontinalis Partners and Samsung Ventures. I first covered Stae back in April 2016. The vision [...]