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Profile of Facebook's Chief Product Officer Chris Cox and how the social network is building Reactions, rolling out in “next few weeks”, to go beyond the Like — Inside Facebook's Decision to Blow Up the Like Button … Photographs by Adam Amengual
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| Clay Bavor / Official Google Blog: |
Google says 5M+ Cardboard viewers have shipped, 25M+ Cardboard apps installed from Play store, and 350K+ hours of YouTube videos watched in VR — (Un)folding a virtual journey with Google Cardboard — A year and a half ago we introduced Google Cardboard, a simple cardboard viewer …
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google speeds up Chrome for iOS by using Apple's WKWebView, reducing crashes by 70%, and launches Data Saver extension out of beta for desktop — Google speeds up Chrome for iOS with Apple's WKWebView, launches Data Saver extension out of beta — A week after launching Chrome 48 for Windows …
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| John D. McKinnon / Wall Street Journal: |
FCC to propose new rules giving cable and satellite customers more choice over set top boxes, 40 telco and media groups are expected to oppose the plan — FCC to Propose Overhauling Rules on Set-Top Boxes — Measure, aimed at cutting cable bills, likely would let consumers choose among competing devices| Google Research Blog: |
Google's AlphaGo program beats Go professional, uses both deep neural networks and tree search algorithms; match against top player scheduled for March in Seoul — AlphaGo: Mastering the ancient game of Go with Machine Learning — Games are a great testing ground for developing smarter …
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Apple says it's fixed an issue that caused its Safari browser on iOS and Mac OS X to crash when users typed into address bar — Apple Says It Has Fixed The Bug That Was Crashing Safari — Apple has fixed the bug that caused the Safari browser to crash on iPhones, iPads, and Macs around the world, BuzzFeed News has learned.
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Microsoft reassigned half of its research arm to MSR NeXT, which has worked on products including Skype Translator, HoloLens, and more — How Microsoft Plans to Beat Google and Facebook to the Next Tech Breakthrough — The company behind Windows and Office is remaking its research arm …
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| Kirk Koenigsbauer / Office Blogs: |
Microsoft Office Online now allows real-time co-authoring on documents stored on cloud services like Dropbox, Box, and Citrix ShareFile — New cloud storage options for Office mobile and Office Online — Today's post was written by Kirk Koenigsbauer, corporate vice president for the Office team.
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| Kurt Wagner / Re/code: |
Sources: Twitter's former VP of product Kevin Weil joins Instagram as product head — Former Twitter Product Head Kevin Weil Is Joining Instagram — Kevin Weil, Twitter's former VP of product who was among the group of executives who left the company over the weekend, has a new job: Head of Product at Facebook-owned Instagram.
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Tweets: @sarahfrier, @chrismessina, @mikeisaac and @mikeisaac
| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
Starry aims to deliver gigabit wireless internet service using millimeter waves, beta tests this summer around Boston, $350 Wi-Fi router ships in March — Aereo dared to take on the broadcast industry by streaming over-the-air TV channels on the internet — that is, until the Supreme Court ruled that its technology was illegal.
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Tweets: @mrnowise, @dcseifert and @nedwards
| Don Clark / Wall Street Journal: |
Google partners with Movidus to bring latest chip tech to handsets, improving real-time image recognition and deep learning on devices — Google to Make Smartphones That Recognize Faces — Soon, smartphones will not only take snapshots and videos but also recognize the objects pictured.
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| Shira Ovide / Bloomberg Business: |
Twitter's revenue growth rate better than almost every company that had $2B in sales over the past year — Changing the Twitter Conversation — Shira Ovide is a Bloomberg Gadfly columnist covering technology. She previously was a reporter for the Wall Street Journal.
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Wall Street Journal. Tweets: @frwrdnet, @sarthakgh, @davidbychkov, @labboudles, @markzohar, @yoreekoh and @marcelweiss
| James Niccolai / PCWorld: |
Major telcos including Verizon and AT&T join Facebook's Open Compute Project, in a challenge to network vendors like Cisco and Juniper — Look out, Cisco: Major telcos join Facebook's open hardware push — Verizon and AT&T are among those looking to speed innovation and cut costs
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New York Times, TechCrunch, Wired, Financial Times, The Register and The Stack
| Apple: |
Apple Reports Record First Quarter Results — CUPERTINO, California — January 26, 2016 — Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2016 first quarter ended December 26, 2015. The Company posted record quarterly revenue of $75.9 billion and record quarterly net income of $18.4 billion, or $3.28 per diluted share.
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Tweets: @mims, @tomgara, @drudge_report and @billboard
| Daisuke Wakabayashi / Wall Street Journal: |
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