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Here’s how much it will cost me to watch the NFL this season without cable

 Some of us like sports but don’t want to pay for channels we’ll never watch. Fortunately there are ways to watch the NFL without cable for the 2017-2018 season. I’m a Baltimore Ravens fan, and I live in San Francisco. It will cost me $17.87 per game to watch every Ravens game from the 2017-2018 NFL season without cable, satellite, or antenna. That’s a lot less than it… Read More

Echo’s messaging service may add support for SMS texts from your own ‘Alexa number’

 Amazon appears to be planning an expansion of Alexa’s existing messaging capabilities to support sending SMS text messages to friends using your Echo device or Alexa app. That means Echo users could then text anyone using voice commands, not only other Echo owners. According to code found in the Amazon Alexa app, there are references to a new type of phone number – referred to… Read More

Here’s what happened at Uber today

 It’s a brand new day for Uber, the transportation startup that has been caught up in a whirlwind of drama. At an all-hands meeting today, Uber employees met their new leader: Dara Khosrowshahi, the former CEO of Expedia, who discussed a number of things, including how Uber should go public within the next 18 to 36 months and how he has the support of former CEO Travis Kalanick. Read More

New Uber CEO says IPO is 18-36 months out

 Uber has a new CEO and he wasted no time in talking about IPO prospects. Addressing employees at a company meeting today, Dara Khosrowshahi, who recently had the top job at public company Expedia, said that Uber could IPO as soon as 18 months. He also said it could take up to 36 months (three years), but that the timing wasn’t finalized. Read More

Uber Movement traffic data finally makes it out of beta

 Uber Movement, announced back in January, finally went live today. The service gives anyone access to some of Uber’s internal demand and usage data. The hope is that cities and urban planners can use the data to support projects that would help reduce congestion and generally help people get from point A to point B faster. For now the data is only available for a handful of cities,… Read More

Benchmark-Kalanick Uber board suit sent to arbitration

 Today, a Delaware court ruled in the favor of former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick, who asked that a case brought against him by early Uber investor Benchmark be moved to arbitration, allowing him to avoid a nasty public battle with one of the company’s earliest supporters. Kalanick quickly sent out a statement to reporters, saying that he is “pleased that the court has ruled in his… Read More

LeEco’s Silicon Valley offices are a virtual ghost town

 Last April, LeEco heralded the opening of a new Silicon Valley office in San Jose. The new building would be the home of the company’s US operations, with enough space to house up to 800 workers. The Mayor of San Jose was on-hand to help cut the ribbon.
Seventeen months later, the space appears to be a virtual ghost town. The company won’t disclose exact numbers, but did tell… Read More

TravelBank raises $25 million to reward employees who save on travel budgets

 If you travel a lot for work, you know there are two kinds of employees. There are those who spend less than the budget allows and those who push it to the very limit. Most people don’t feel incentivized to save money for their employer, so that’s why a handful of startups are attempting to solve this problem by rewarding travelers for cost-savings. TravelBank is the latest. Read More

The Instagif is a camera that ‘prints’ animated GIFs

 Have you ever wanted to print an animated image? Well now you (almost) can. A maker named Abhishek Singh has created an instant camera that outputs a little box that contains a Raspberry Pi connected to a PiTFT screen. When you take a picture the camera transmits a short video to the screen which then plays it over and over again until you take another picture. The entire project is… Read More

MIT CSAIL teaches a robot to follow contextual voice commands

 MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab has devised a method by which robots can understand and respond to voice commands, stated in clear, plain language. The system is advanced enough to understand contextual commands, too, including references made to previously mentioned commands and objects.
The so-called ComText system (short for “commands in context”)… Read More