An acquisition could put the messaging provider’s value at about $9 billion.
Source: CNET
Don’t expect algorithms to rescue us from misinformation.
Source: Wired
The voice-activated assistant and bar-code scanning gadget costs $20, but it also comes with a $20 credit.
Source: CNET
Airbnb has become of the more popular ways of travelling around Europe, offering visitors to cities and regions home-based alternatives to staying in impersonal or expensive hotels when they are away from home.
That hasn’t been without controversy, though, and so as it continues to grow — to an estimated 24 million stays by 2020 in the region —Â the company is embarking on… Read More
Source: TechCrunch
The developer training and recruitment service Andela announced its expansion into Uganda. The company―which recruits African software developers and places them at global companies―completed its first recruitment cycle in Kampala. The Uganda opening adds to offices in Nairobi, Lagos, New York, and San Francisco. It also marks year three of Andela’s rise as a VC backed, revenue… Read More
Source: TechCrunch
They pick through garbage and steal pizza from locals.
Source: Wired
At first glance, Microsoft’s new 2017 Surface Pro looks like an incremental update to the Surface Pro 4. Does it earn its own place at the top of the 2-in-1 heap?
The post Microsoft Surface Pro (2017) review appeared first on Digital Trends.
Source: Digital trends
More than any single change, the new design refocuses Twitter as place you go to see what’s going on.
Source: Wired
Sphero continues its partnership with Disney today, with the launch of a new toy based on the Marvel superhero Spider-Man. But where BB-8 and Lightning McQueen could move around the room, Spider-Man is more stationary — his real power involves holding conversations. The simplest thing this Spider-Man can do is tell jokes — he seems to have an infinite simply of eye-rollers. If you… Read More
Source: TechCrunch
The season finale of Hulu’s show promises a story for Offred that Margaret Atwood’s book never told.
Source: Wired