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Facebook testing M, an AI-based, human supervised virtual assistant inside Messenger that can complete tasks such as purchasing on your behalf — Facebook Launches M, Its Bold Answer to Siri and Cortana — Today, a few hundred Bay Area Facebook users will open their Messenger apps to discover M, a new virtual assistant.
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| Cade Metz / Wired: |
How Facebook's M virtual assistant's artificial intelligence works — Facebook's Human-Powered Assistant May Just Supercharge AI — Face it: Siri sucks. So often, she has no clue what you're saying. And when she does, there's a pretty good chance she'll respond with nothing more than a page filled with Internet links.| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Amazon lays off dozens of Fire engineers, scales back and reorganizes its hardware-development center Lab126 — Amazon Curtails Development of Consumer Devices — Amazon is scaling back its efforts to develop consumer devices, laying off dozens of engineers …
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| Roberto Baldwin / Engadget: |
Ex-Apple CEO John Sculley unveils two sub-$200 Android Obi smartphones for Asia, Africa, and Middle East markets, will be available October — Former Apple CEO John Sculley launches a line of stylish smartphones — Like most consumer items, the lower the price point of a phone, the less exciting the design.| Annalee Newitz / Gizmodo: |
Ashley Madison had approximately 31M male members, 5.5M female members, but likely only 12K women actively used the site — Almost None of the Women in the Ashley Madison Database Ever Used the Site — When hacker group Impact Team released the Ashley Madison data, they asserted that “thousands” of the women's profiles were fake.
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| Sam Altman / Y Combinator Posthaven: |
Y Combinator has funded over 940 companies so far, eight of which have a valuation over $1B — YC stats — We get asked (a lot) for statistics on the YC portfolio about valuation and fundraising. Although these are very imperfect indicators of success, here they are.
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Leaked images reveal Microsoft's 5.2-inch Lumia 950 and 5.7-inch 950XL, to launch in October — Leaked images reveal Microsoft's new flagship Lumia phones — Microsoft is preparing to launch two new Lumia flagship devices at an event in October. While we've seen some images emerge along …
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| Mark Bergen / Re/code: |
Google confirms it triggers recruiting tool when people search for specific programming terms — ‘Puzzles Are Fun. Search On’: Google Cops to Secret Recruiting Tool Baked Inside Search — How does the world's best search engine recruit programming whizzes? Through search, naturally.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google's Container Engine For Running Docker Containers On Its Cloud Platform Is Now Generally Available — Google's Container Engine, its service for running and managing Docker containers on its cloud platform using its open source Kubernetes system, is now out of beta and generally available.| Yoree Koh / Wall Street Journal: |
Mobile video combined with autoplay and social media's reach bring unexpected horror to users' feeds — Twitter, Facebook Users Unwittingly Shown Video of Virginia Shooting — Soon after Vester Lee Flanagan allegedly gunned down two TV reporters while they were on air Wednesday morning …
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Agora, the Dark Web's biggest marketplace for drugs, pauses operations over Tor vulnerability that could expose IP addresses of servers — Agora, the Dark Web's Biggest Drug Market, Is Going Offline — The Dark Web's biggest marketplace for drugs seems to have learned a lesson from the downfall … | Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Adobe's new mobile Photoshop app, dubbed Project Rigel, will launch in October free on iOS, integrate with Creative Cloud subscription — Adobe aims to bring Photoshop to mobile masses with upcoming app — Dubbed Project Rigel, the mobile app will let people retouch photos on iPhones and iPads.
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| Kait Gaiss / Pocket Blog: |
Pocket updates web, Android, and iOS apps to 6.0 with recommendations tab — Introducing Recommendations: The Most Interesting Articles and Videos You Might Have Missed — Today, we're incredibly excited to announce a major new update to Pocket: Recommendations.
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| Leena Rao / Fortune: |
Qasar Younis, former Y Combinator graduate and creator of Talkbin which was acquired by Google in 2011, named Y Combinator COO — Meet Y Combinator's New COO — To appreciate the rapid growth at Silicon Valley incubator Y Combinator, consider this: In 2009, it shepherded 42 startups through its boot camp.Sponsor Posts
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