Currently, when the Google Translate apps for iOS and Android has access to the internet, its translations are far superior to those it produces when it’s offline. That’s because the offline translations are phrase-based, meaning they use an older machine translation technique than the machine learning-powered systems in the cloud that the app has access to […]
Daily Archives: June 12, 2018
More financing is coming in for Bird, this time potentially valuing the company at $2 billion, according to a new report by Axios. There’s not a ton to add here compared to the last round (which happened just weeks ago), as the same dynamics are probably in play here. While Uber was a bet on […]
Scooter startup Bird is reportedly about to hit a $2B ...
Amino has raised a big Series C round of funding — $45 million from GV, Venrock, Union Square Ventures, Goodwater Capital and Time Warner Investments, with Hearst Ventures joining as a new investor. Co-founder and CEO Ben Anderson has described Amino as an way to help people who have “passionate niche interests” find others who […]
Amino raises $45M for to bring fan communities to smartphones
Instagram’s shoppable tags are about to pop up in Stories. The company first started testing the feature back in 2016 with a limited set of 20 partners. Since then it’s been a hit, expanding broadly to regular brand posts in the feed. Starting today, hitting a little shopping bag sticker in a Story will lead […]
Instagram adds shopping tags directly into Stories
The Furbo helps you keep an eye on your dog and reward them, too.
Furbo Dog Camera Review: Remotely Amuse Your Pets
The Furbo helps you keep an eye on your dog and reward them, too.
Furbo Dog Camera Review: Remotely Amuse Your Pets
Another E3 has come and gone, but Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo still have great deals available.
Best E3 Game Deals: PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch (2018)
Robot maker Patrick Stefanski has created a 3D-printed – and animated – model of L3-37, the droid in the recent Solo movie. L3-37 is one of the funnest – and woks – droids in recent memory and this recreation is fun and ingenious. Stefanski used Alexa voice controls to let the robot head respond to […]
Build your own L3-37 droid complete with voice interaction
“The next hundreds of millions of riders for us are going to come from outside of the United States”, Uber’s head of rider experience Peter Deng tells me. The transportation giant already sees 75 million riders per month and 15 million rides per day. But to grow in the developing world, it had to rethink […]