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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Facebook unveils Surround 360, a 17-lens, 3D VR camera, will open-source hardware designs and specs this summer, materials to build will cost $30K — This is Facebook's gorgeous, open-source 360-degree video camera — Hoping to dramatically increase the amount of 360-degree video on its platform …
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| Blair Hanley Frank / PCWorld: |
Facebook launches Account Kit, offering new analytics and login tools for developers, allowing users to sign up or log in to apps with just a phone number — Facebook helps developers with new analytics and login tools — Soon, developers will be able to see what their users do for a living
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| Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
Facebook makes its Live API publicly available, allows streaming directly to Facebook from non-mobile devices like drones, TV broadcast feeds — Facebook Opens Up Live Video to Developers to Allow Streaming from Any Device — Facebook just took video streaming on its Live platform beyond … | Aigerim Shorman / Facebook Developers: |
Facebook's Profile Expression Kit lets users update their Facebook profile with videos from third-party apps, like Vine — Enabling Self Expression with Facebook's Profile Expression Kit — With more than 4.5 billion views and nearly 30 million profile picture updates every day …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook launches Messenger platform with chatbots — Facebook will now allow businesses to deliver automated customer support, e-commerce guidance, content and interactive experiences through chatbots. By providing utility through its huge developer and business ecosystem …
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Thanks:@joshconstine| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook says it's testing allowing businesses to send sponsored messages in Messenger — Facebook starts allowing “Sponsored Messages” ads — Facebook launched its Messenger chatbot platform today, but how will it make money on it? By charging businesses to send re-engagement messages …
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| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Facebook releases Bot Engine to help developers build more complex, machine-learning enabled bots, a further development from last year's Wit.ai acquisition — Facebook releases Bot Engine to create much smarter bots — Messenger is all about bots now. As expected, Facebook unveiled the Send and Receive API at its F8 conference.
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| Jessi Hempel / Wired: |
Facebook's David Marcus on the future of Messenger, how brands integrate into the platform, and how there are no plans for a bot store — Facebook Believes Messenger Will Anchor a Post-App Internet — The week before David Marcus will take the stage at Facebook's annual F8 developers' conference …
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| Joshua Ho / AnandTech: |
HTC 10 hands on: SoC in parity with every high-end device in US, Super LCD 5 display one of best, smooth and responsive navigation — Hands On With The HTC 10: A Fresh Start — At this point it's probably not a secret that HTC has been struggling for the past few years.| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
HTC 10 launched with 5.2-inch quad HD display for $699, Snapdragon 820, 12MP camera, 3000mAh battery, AirPlay audio support, can pre-order now, ships next month — HTC 10 announced: a modern phone with familiar design — HTC is today formally announcing the 10, its flagship smartphone for 2016.
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| Narottam Medhora / Reuters: |
Uber releases its first transparency report, showing it gave US regulatory agencies data on over 12M users and received 415 data requests from law enforcement — Uber says gave U.S. agencies data on more than 12 million users — Uber Technologies Inc [UBER.UL] on Tuesday released …
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| Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code: |
Box teams up with AWS and IBM for Box Zones, which lets firms store files locally in Europe, Asia — Box Teams Up With Amazon, IBM to Offer Local Storage Worldwide — Cloud storage company Box is making an effort to widen its appeal as the office file storage and sharing product … Sponsor Posts
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