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Basis Peak, a fitness watch tracking your health and sleep habits, is now being recalled by the company after reports of overheating. The Intel subsidiary first sent a statement about the overheating issues mid-June and is now asking customers to stop wearing their watches and is shutting down service “immediately.” “We had hoped to update the software on your watch… Read More... →

The field of artificial intelligence is so huge, and the potential applications so numerous, that it would be folly to try to explain it all in one — no, wait, IBM just did. Read More... →

Lyft is seeing record ridership, including an all-time high of 13.9 million rides during July first reported by Recode and confirmed by TechCrunch via sources familiar with the matter. In addition to the total ride increase, along with a new record for monthly active riders of over 3 million, Lyft also saw significant growth in use of it Concierge service, a bulk booking service similar to… Read More... →

Google сообщил, что ошибки микроразметки на AMP-страницах были переведены в разряд примечаний. Теперь они не отображаются в отчёте по ускоренным страницам в Search Console. Отсутствие разметки, а также наличие непроверенных структурированных данных больше не считаются ошибками. Это изменение вызвано тем,  что в будущем AMP-страницам больше не будет нужна микроразметка для появления в результатах поиска. Напомним, что отчёт по ускоренным мобильным страницам появился в […]... →

Austin-based VR studio Owlchemy Labs just secured a $5 million Series A led by Qualcomm Ventures with participation in the round also coming from HTC, The VR Fund, Colopl Next and Capital Factory. “VR has been a deep passion of ours for many years and being at the forefront of designing new virtual worlds is truly a dream for our whole team,” Owlchemy Labs CEO Alex Schwartz said… Read More... →

Many American Olympic athletes are using cutting-edge technology like motion tracking systems, wearable jump monitors and Doppler radar to help them jump higher and go farther before hitting Rio this August 5 for the Summer Games — and so can you! So fasten your joggers and come along as we take a look at the technology our Olympians are using to help them go for the gold. Read More... →

2 августа 2016 года Nike приобрела стартап Virgin Mega, который принадлежит Virgin Group Ричарда Брэнсона (Richard Branson), с целью доработать свои уже существующие приложения. Об этом сообщает Business Insider с ссылкой на сообщение компании.... →

After a relatively short beta, Microsoft today announced that the Excel API — a way for developers to programmatically use Excel for Office 365 for doing calculations, building dashboards and more — is now generally available. Microsoft first announced the API last November and then detailed its plans for turning Office 365 into more of a platform for developers at it Build… Read More... →

Finding life beyond Earth means combing through an incredibly vast array of potential planetary candidates, but one new study from a team of researchers led by San Francisco State University astronomer Dr. Stephen R. Kane hopes to add some additional specificity to the search. The international group of scientists behind the study examined the over 4,000 planets outside of our solar… Read More... →

After launching in Seattle in April, BMW’s car sharing service ReachNow is expanding down the I5 corridor to Portland, Oregon. In Seattle, more than 13,000 people signed up in the first month, and ReachNow was able to add 150 vehicles and expand its service area by late June. It’s likely the Portland expansion will follow the same plan, with a fleet of vehicles in the city center… Read More... →

25 июля 2016 года генеральный директор продуктового ретейлера «Магнит» Сергей Галицкий сообщил о грядущем масштабном редизайне своих магазинов. Представители торговой сети не смогли предоставить редакции vc.ru фотографии, иллюстрирующие редизайн магазинов. Фотограф Юлия Семенченко отправилась в первый обновлённый магазин сети в Краснодаре и подготовила собственный репортаж.... →

YouTube Kids, the child-friendly version of YouTube’s service launched last year which faced criticism for the way it handled advertisements, has today launched a version of the service that will offer parents the option to pay for an ad-free experience. Now, YouTube Kids will be bundled into the YouTube Red subscription program, a paid membership that offers a variety of features… Read More... →

Comma.ai, the startup that George Hotz (aka Geohotz) founded to show that making driverless vehicles could done relatively cheaply using off-the-shelf components and existing vehicles, has open-sourced a dataset of 7.25 hours of highway driving. Read More... →

This is going to be fun. I’ll be in Columbus, Ohio next week, Wednesday, August 10, and I’ll be holding a night of pitches and open mic shenanigans so bring your guitar. The event will be at O’Toole’s 4796 W Broad St, right off I-270. We’ll start at 7pm sharp with pitches so get there after work and at 8pm we’ll have an open stage with live music –… Read More... →

Take a tour of Facebook’s new 22,000 square foot hardware lab where it’s building drones, satellites, lasers, VR headsets, and the machines that store the world’s biggest collection of photos. Click the arrow to the right or scroll down on mobile to see what’s behind the Area 404 security doors. Read More... →

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There is much talk of “cloud native” these days, and people are taking liberties with the interpretation — as they do with everything else associated with the cloud. Cade Metz put it right: “The term has taken on so many meanings in recent years. But keep in mind: most of these meanings come from IBM, HP, EMC, Dell, Cisco and other companies that don’t want to… Read More... →

About one year ago, Apple unveiled a diversity site featuring its employee representation data and a letter from Apple CEO Tim Cook about the company’s commitment to diversity and inclusion. Today, Apple has revealed its latest diversity numbers, showing slight but consistent improvement year over year. Worldwide, Apple is 68% male and 32% female (last year, Apple was 69& male and… Read More... →

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