AccuWeather and Spotify launch "Climatune" playlists for any weather

Too gloomy out? Maybe this will help. Today, AccuWeather announced it has partnered with the music streaming service, Spotify, on a new site, Climatune. The site offers music fans around the world insights into how the environment around them affects the music they listen to everyday and creates playlists based on current weather moods.

Through a yearlong study comparing 85 billion anonymized streams on Spotify in over 900 cities nationwide, AccuWeather and Spotify analyzed the impact weather has on the music people listen to. Conclusions included:

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Toronto-based Bunz barter startup now has major update on iOS app

Bunz, the app that spawned a bartering movement in Canada, is evolving in a big way with their largest app update to date and a fresh new look to go with it.

It’s been a very big first year in market for the Toronto-based startup with Bunz now available in over 250 cities around the world. Available on the App Store for free, Bunz lets people exchange things they no longer need, for things they do. What’s next, however, is their most ambitious idea yet: The City Network.

City Network fills the gap between people’s online lives and their real lives, by localizing people and information to create a new kind of community resource. Bunz is the place where you find the things you need - from a home to a bike, advice or a helping hand, its all on Bunz.

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Moto Mods hackathon in San Francisco produces more practical Mods

Lenovo has been hosting hackathons to help develop more useful Mods for its Moto line. At the recently concluded hackathon in San Francisco there were a lot of great and practical ideas we’d actually want to see as actual products on the market. The winning Mod was a solar-powered battery charger. But aside from that, there was a baby monitor with real-time notifications for things like room temperature, a mod for allowing diabetics to check their blood sugar, and even a breathalyzer Mod from a group of high school kids. Called ModCoholic, it’ll ask you if you want to grab a cab if you’re over the legal limit.

The winning teams at these events get to present their ideas at Motorola’s headquarters in Chicago to industry leaders like Lenovo Capital, who could invest and fund promising ideas. These hackathons are being held around the globe with the next one happening in Shenzhen, China by mid-March.

Source: Engadget

LG drops more hints about G6 in MWC invite

It seems now’s the best time for LG to steal Samsung’s thunder at the Mobile World Congress 2017 in Barcelona. With Samsung delaying the release of the Galaxy S8, this could be LG’s big chance to capitalize on it. Engadget received their invite for the G6’s unveiling at MWC. It has the words: “Big Screen… That Fits.” The words as well as the diagram shows off a device with a minimal bezel but it’ll come in the size you can manage. LG has previously said the device will have a unique 18:9 ratio display and calls it Full Vision. We can’t say if LG plans to drop more hints about its upcoming flagship but what we do know is it’ll be debuting on February 26.