Fitness

Silicon Valley Tech Companies Jump on the Super Bowl Bandwagon

With the historic Super Bowl 50 coming soon to that great entrepreneurial gridiron known as Silicon Valley, local tech companies large and small are getting in on the action. Headquartered smack dab in the middle of what SB50 host committee’s Keith Bruce calls “the heartbeat of the world’s digital economy,” giants like Apple, Google and

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Ride-hailing company Lyft Inc. said Monday it’s partnering with General Motors Co.

With the investment, Lyft is much smaller than Uber, the giant of the ride-hailing space.Here are some of the major players who are changing the way we get from Point A to Point B. Funding: More than $10 billion from traditional venture investors, institutional lenders and tech giants like Google, Microsoft and China’s Baidu, which

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Scientists crush our childhood dreams of becoming Spider-Man

A group of buzz-killing researchers from the University of Cambridge have dashed our childhood dreams by proving that Spider-Man-style wallcrawling is physically impossible. Even if a radioactive spider bite did bestow arachnid abilities upon you, scaling walls would still be out of your reach. The work depicts Jobs in his trademark black turtleneck jumper carrying

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Crowdfunded Ion Belt puts a complete smartphone recharge around your waist

​Portable battery boosters are a great idea. Trouble is you’ve always left them at home when your phone decides to haemorrhage its last 20% of battery and leave you in the lurch. This Kickstarter project is looking to solve that issue, however. The Ion Belt puts a 3,000mAh battery where you can’t forget it – around

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Comcast Tests Gigabit-Speed Internet Service in Philadelphia

Google Fiber, the gigabit-speed Internet service that is slowly rolling out to cities across the country, may soon have some competition from an established service provider. Philadelphia-based Comcast has announced that it is testing a new protocol known as DOCSIS 3.1, which it said has the potential to boost download speeds to the gigabit level.

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Fitbit launches its first colour touchscreen tracker with the Blaze

Fitbit is the market leader in wearables, so it might come as a surprise to hear that it’s only just announced its first colour touchscreen device. Billed as a ‘smarter fitness tracker’ rather than a smartwatch, the Fitbit Blaze was announced during the company’s pre-CES 2016 press conference. The work depicts Jobs in his trademark

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