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Nest is disabling the Revolv home-automation service on May 15, effectively bricking Revolv home hub hardware, after acquiring the startup in 2014 — Google's parent company is deliberately disabling some of its customers' old smart-home devices — Nest, a smart-home company owned …
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Salesforce acquires MetaMind, a deep learning startup backed by Marc Benioff and Khosla Ventures; services to be discontinued in May — Salesforce buys hot deep learning startup MetaMind, services shutting down May 4 — Salesforce has acquired MetaMind, a deep learning startup backed …
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Facebook announces Automatic Alternative Text on iOS, that uses AI to automatically describe images to blind users — Facebook begins using artificial intelligence to describe photos to blind users — Ask a member of Facebook's growth team what feature played the biggest role in getting … | Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code: |
IHS teardown of 16GB iPhone SE reveals it costs about $160 to build — Teardown Finds Apple's iPhone SE Costs at Least $160 to Build — The cost to build and assemble Apple's iPhone SE runs to about $160 for a device that sells for a starting price of $399 without a contract …
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Intel announces head of PC business Kirk Skaugen to depart April 8, Navin Shenoy to take over; Doug Davis, head of IoT effort to leave by year end — Shake-up at Intel as veteran execs Davis and Skaugen leave — Chipmaker Intel just announced the departure plans of two longtime executives … | Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: |
Techies Project launches, offering photos and interviews of people from underrepresented groups in tech — Photo project aims to take cringe factor out of “techies” — Techies Project, a photo and interview project that launched today, explores the personal stories and experiences of hundreds of underrepresented people in tech.| Sarah Ellison / Vanity Fair: |
Yahoo scales back its media focus as cutbacks follow tensions between media stars seeking home-page space and engineers who swear by algorithms — Marissa Mayer vs. “Kim Kardashian's Ass”: What Sunk Yahoo's Media Ambitions? — After a pricey talent spree, Yahoo News is reversing course—again.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon launches the Amazon Payments partner program to integrate “Pay with Amazon” option into e-commerce platforms like Shopify, not just individual merchants — Amazon takes on PayPal and others with launch of Amazon Payments partner program — Amazon announced this morning …
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Outlook Premium, Microsoft's subscription email service, starts trials at $3.99 per month, gives users up to 5 personalized email address, ad free inbox, more — Outlook Premium, Microsoft's subscription email service, starts trials at $3.99 per month — Microsoft's experiment …
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$85M patent verdict covering Android's push notifications, the largest ever against Google, overturned on appeal — $85 million patent verdict, largest ever against Google, wiped out on appeal — Patent describes a failed company's 1996 desktop notification system.| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft partners with the R3 banking consortium to develop and deploy blockchain technologies on the Azure Blockchain-as-a-Service cloud platform — Microsoft solidifies its blockchain-as-a-service work with new banking partnership — Microsoft is making its Azure blockchain … | Steve Lohr / New York Times: |
MIT Media Lab launches Data USA, the most comprehensive visualization of US public government data — Website Seeks to Make Government Data Easier to Sift Through — For years, the federal government, states and some cities have enthusiastically made vast troves of data open to the public.
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