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RelayRides Re-Branded the Name of Company as ‘TURO’

As an example of the sharing economy that Relayrides offers share car and hire your car.Relayrides re-branded the name as Turo announced that we got $ 47 million series C investment from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.

Relayrides which based in San Francisco in service for 6 years.They re-branded the name of company Turo which touring and the turism combination.It shows that Turo would get the wind back.Andre Haddad, the CEO of the company said that we chose the name would be a global tend.

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Turo old named Relayrides bought the Wheelz to expand business worldwide in 2013.Now they try to expand business worldwide with the new investments.Its users are now making cars available at more than 300 airports around the country, and its peer-to-peer model means that renters typically get much better rates than when they rent from one of the traditional car agencies.

Name change and the new investment surely will effect the success of Turo.Hovewer they did not share the entire data of company.Turo only said that 60 percent of the income through tourists from outside the city.

Google’s new feature for Gmail ”Smart Reply”

Google announced an innovation for mailing that would be useful who intensively using e-mail.It is possible that under the incoming mails, there will be ready-made templates to answer in Google’s Inbox.

The new feature called ‘’Smart Reply’’ the question of “Is there a need to respond to this email?” began to be developed by Google engineers.Then, e-mail content, “machine learning” algorithms began to be analyzed and if they need an e-mail response, including possible answers intelligent algorithm by creating three different states began to show the user the massage.smartreplygmail

Google will be broadcast next week to update the Inbox for iOS and Android “smart answers” named by including features that will be available.You can examine the structure of visual describing functioning of the Google’s smart response feature below.

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Puzzlephone Launched Campaign on Indiegogo

In recent years, many modular smartphones projects and prototypes is preparing.One of them is Puzzlephone introducing new smartphone with ” Upgradable Sustainable Amazing ” slogan waiting on indiegogo to support.

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Puzzlephone modular smart phones consists of three main parts.The first part of the ” Brain (Brain ) ” as named and in processor, graphics interface, RAM, camera and storage space. The second part of ” Spina ( spine ) ” is called and there are phone’s screen and other small electronic components are included in this section depending on it.The last part of the phone is ” Heart (Heart ) ” include the battery and secondary electronic components.Puzzlephone was introduced last December, will go into production if they collect fund on indiegogo.

The technical characteristics of Puzzlephone which offered to users as the company’s standard we can say it was pretty good.5 -inch HD display, 3GB RAM, Octa – Core processor, 16-32-64 GB of storage options and Android 6.0 operating system.First Puzzlephone will meet users in September 2016 and 16 GB will be 333$, 32GB 444$ and 64GB is with the price of 777$ can be ordered from indiegogo.

Amazon Opened Its First Physical Store in US Seattle

Amazon entered the market as an online book sales company about 20 years ago.It has become one of the world’s largest company which decided to open a classic book shop US which will open its doors to customers as of today in the name of the Amazon Books Store US Seattle.

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This shop isthe first physical space of Amazon history, but also carries the distinction of being the first physical book shop of the company.According to the statement from Amazon, it is not a traditional store, it offer fully function to customers as consumer polls, and the total sales figures in GoodReader include information such as the popularity on Amazon.Not only books but also some devices will be shown in the store.Visitors could experience Kindle Echo, Fire TV and Amazon Fire tablet.Though it will be as a technology and book store.As seen from the photo, this store basically was designed as a book store.

Prices in-store will match the online price of products,when customers examining the books on hands means that probably these price could change.

Google : Project Wings Will Start Operation in 2017

Internet and technology giant Alphabet (Google), shared the details of unmanned aero vehicles called Wing Project for delivery service in 2014.The service will start in 2017.

Commercial potential of the unmanned aerial vehicle called the drone is growing and Google also wants to use this potential.Larry Page said that the Wing Project which was initiated under the Google X aims to deliver safely to the desired address within 30 minutes and maximum 2.3 kilograms (5 pounds) in weight of product.

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Google is certainly not to move their products to these areas, in the long term, they would like to transfer a small sized file / product.According to a statement of Project Wing chief executive David Vos flight tests which started at the beginning of this in in Australia have been successful.

As knows amazon and Alibaba also pays attention to the shipping business with the UAVs and it is expected to be the first player on the market with Google’s robust step.However Amazon is enthusiastic and active in this field should be able to act before Google.

Project Wing were used for disaster relief and medical product supply in Australia.

Vivaldi Web Browser Was Downloaded 2 Million Times

Opera’s founder and former CEO Jon von Tetzchner developed a new web browser called Vivaldi with a small team.Vivaldi was introduced earlier in this year as known.So far, Beta version of Vivaldi was downloaded 2 million times.

Beta version of Vivaldi’s interface has customization that offers quick instruction and you also see many different feature details such as speedy search and commend.With version 1.0, which will be released in the soon, Vivaldi has six main feature which two of them will not be ready for the latest version to use.One of them is an e-mail client called M3.And the other one is Vivaldi Sync which synchronizes multiple computers in your browsers.These two features will meet with the users in the future.

If you would like to try beta version of the Vivaldi browser, it offers a different experience.According to the new version of Vivaldi’s statement also it allows you to run Google Chrome extension.

Oculus Founder : The Biggest Obstacle is ”Cable’ for VR Kits

Oculus VR founder Palmer Luckey clarified the future of virtual reality and the important point on users.Palmer Luckey pointed out that the virtual reality systems which work with computers have a great handicap.

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Many of the companies which operate in the field of virtual reality were offered first generation virtual systems in recent months.According to Palmer Luckey technologically, there is another handicap of these systems which is ‘’Cables’’ need to be further developed.Luckey argued that Cables are restricting the movements of users also users have stressed when they live virtual reality experience with cables.

Palmer Said that the wireless technology is necessary for computers like offered by virtual systems.Luckey also remarked that it would directly affect the success of the virtual reality.Luckey, mentioned that mobile virtual reality kit was also faced with another question due to lower hardware capabilities.Luckey finished his speech by saying that Rift and Sony Playstation need to have a higher capacity hardware.

DJI Introduced a Mini Computer to Make Intelligent Drones

DJI which is one of the most popular drone manufacturer introduced a mini computer which can be programmed by developers.DJ pave the way for more intelligent drone can be used in various fields and want to support with this product.

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You can think of it as a mini computer called manifolds like the Arduino.However, the size and weight DJ Manifold produced less because to move by a drone.DJI says using Manifold by developers.Using Manifold of DJI says developers will make processing including advanced and complex visual computing.Manifolds have USB, Ethernet, Mini-PCIe, HDMI, UART, SPI and I2C ports and is located slightly more than 200 grams. Quad-core, 4-Plus-1 ARM processor, NVIDIA Kepler graphics processor.It has also 2 GB RAM and 16 GB eMMC DDR3L storage, 14.04 Ubuntu operating system is running on Manifold.

The reason for choosing Ubuntu and graphics unit as NVIDIA Kepler by DJI deliver rich open source libraries to developers.Through both Ubuntu and Kepler, developers be able to develop artificial intelligence using CUDA, OpenCV, ROS, DirectX, OpenGL and much more API source.Alone selling price of the manifold announced as $ 499.DJ will start to ship on November 15.

​ No UBER In GERMANY

The new unstoppable transportation giant Uber will not be at some cities of Germany, the car service is pulling out their service from Dusseldorf, Frankfurt and Hamburg. The reason was their battle over driver licenses, and it looks like the company lost the battle over harsh and restrictive regulations of these cities. Uber noted; the process of registering an independent vehicle is cost too much and takes so much time,

Well for German this isn’t surprising because the government decided that Uber drivers need to obtain the same licenses as commercial taxi drivers if they want to transport people across the city. German still can call a car in Munich or in Berlin.
From Uber Germany, Christian Freese said : ” Many people in Germany want call a cheap ride with press of a button on their phone ” and he added Uber is very popular in Munich and Berlin so company will be focusing on these cities in the future.

Google Began Publishing HR Practices Re:Work

Google one of the most talked-tech companies from recruitment to office layouts, benefits given to employees and best practice about HR.Google is sharing these practices to the public in recent years.Google starting a new publication which is called Re:Work, the Human Resources (HR) strategies and tools used by the applicant to open field.

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Re: Work, an issue related to HR “Look, this work precisely, done like that” is not a published advice page.Instead, Google and other organizations faced to problems which could develop data-driven solutions consists in the bringing together of research and tools.

There are research recommendations for your reading about Google could follow or not these case studies and the outputs.You could also find tips about Recruitment (Hiring) as a part of a draft or to create job of ” human analytics” approach by adapting the HR applications.

Google shares these practices to become better business locations worldwide. If you want to examine Re:Work you can follow the link.