Instagram Stories is widening its lead over Snapchat and rolling out new features to keep everyone entertained. Instagram Stories now has 250 million daily active users, up from 200 million in April, 150 million in January, and 100 million in October after launching the Snapchat Stories clone in August. That compares to Snapchat’s total 166 million daily actives for its entire app,… Read More
Source: TechCrunch
GM’s Maven car-sharing service debuted Gig in May, a new offering on the platform designed specifically for gig economy workers. The idea is that people can rent cars for as little as a week at a time, with an all-in cost that covers insurance, maintenance and free charging for EVs. Now, Gig is kicking off in San Francisco, after its initial rollout in San Diego. The SF launch includes… Read More
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The system detects problems in flight, and helps the unmanned aircraft get back to the ground.
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Dictate, a new project from Microsoft’s experimental R&D group, Microsoft Garage, is launching today to offer a way to type using your voice in Office programs including Outlook, Word and PowerPoint. Available as an add-in for Microsoft’s software, Dictate is powered by the same speech recognition technology that Cortana uses in order to convert your speech to text. This is… Read More
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Elon Musk’s company will have a chance to prove it can handle the pressure of rapid launches, which will be needed for its most ambitious plans.
Source: CNET
The new program, called Prime Wardrobe, is still in beta, so you can’t sign up for it just yet.
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Commentary: Up to a quarter of Copenhagen’s 1.2 million residents were using Uber — until it disappeared. I visited to see how the Danes are coping.
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The rival companies banded together and spent millions of dollars on political campaigns and state lobbying to get the ride-hailing law they wanted.
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Proton’s new publicly available private network wants to protect you as you browse the web.
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Who says Silicon Valley doesn’t fund real technology any more?
Source: Wired