While smartphone navigation apps are great for learning how to get to new places, they’ve never been that smart about leading you along familiar routes.
But if things are jammed up along your usual route, it can be helpful...
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HBO plans to add 600 hours of original programming, taking direct aim at Netflix
Just like the major networks duking it out for live television ratings, HBO and Netflix are going for the jugular when it comes to streaming original content.
Egyptian enrolled in US flight school to be deported after taking to Facebook to threaten Trump
An Egyptian student enrolled in a US flight school is in custody and facing deportation after posting threatening comments against Donald Trump to Facebook, according to a story in The Guardian newspaper.
Emad El-Sayed said...
BMW tests car-sharing service in Seattle, taking on Car2Go in first U.S. move since halting S.F. pilot
BMW appears to be expanding its DriveNow car-sharing service in Seattle, taking direct aim at Car2Go in one of its most successful markets. GeekWire readers spotted the BMW cars in Seattle’s Belltown neighborhood this week, signaling that the test program is...
Seattle electric bike startup Propella debuts affordable e-bike, taking cues from Tesla and Apple
A few years ago, 2011 UW graduate Ben Tarassoli was looking for an electrically-assisted bicycle (e-bike). Although there were plenty of makes and models to choose from, he couldn’t find one that measured...
Microsoft to give back some of the free OneDrive storage it’s taking away
Microsoft will be giving back some, but not all, of the OneDrive storage that it was planning to take away from users of its cloud storage service.
In early November, the company made a surprising announcement to OneDrive users in two parts. First, the unlimited storage that came with Office 365 subscriptions was being cut back to 1TB. Second, the free storage tier was cut...
Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Reid Hoffman and others commit $1B to stop AI from taking over the world
While flying cars and (real) hoverboards may not be coming any time soon, there’s a lot of effort and money pooled behind the development of a robust artificial intelligence. That pool just got a lot bigger thanks to a newly formed non-profit...