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Apple announces it will discontinue Thunderbolt Display amid speculation that it will soon launch a 4K or 5K version — Apple today announced that it is discontinuing its Thunderbolt Display, the large external display many use to connect to MacBooks or other Macs for extra screen real estate.
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| Andrew J . Hawkins / The Verge: |
Uber starts showing upfront fares for uberX instead of multipliers for dynamic pricing during demand surges — Surge pricing has long been Uber's Achilles' heel: during periods of excessive demand, when there are more riders than drivers, Uber increases its normal prices to encourage drivers to flood the zone.
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| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Twilio stock closes at $28.53, jumping more than 90% in first day of trading — Twilio (TWLO) ended its first day as a public company with a bang. Shares in the cloud communication company rose more than 90 percent to close at $28.53, a feat that beat analyst expectations and comes …
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| Steven Levy / Backchannel: |
Inside Google's “ML Ninja” program for teaching its coders AI techniques as it looks to apply machine learning across the company's products — Carson Holgate is training to become a ninja. — Not in the martial arts—she's already done that. Holgate, 26, holds a second degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do.
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Google's RankBrain machine learning system is now used to process every search query, up from processing less than 15% of the queries last year — Google is now using its RankBrain machine learning system to process every query that the search engine handles, and the system is changing the rankings of lots of queries.| Kim Zetter / Wired: |
Researchers find Chrome vulnerability that may allow hackers to download videos from streaming sites like Netflix or Amazon Prime — For years Hollywood has waged a war on piracy, using digital rights management technologies to fight bootleggers who illegally copy movies and distribute them.
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Twitter starts rolling-out Foursquare-powered location-tagged tweet feeds on iOS — Finally Twitter will let you see tweets from a specific place, like a business, sports stadium, or music festival. After a reader tipped us off, Twitter confirmed to TechCrunch it's now rolling out this big … | Wikimedia blog: |
Wikimedia Foundation appoints Katherine Maher, earlier its Chief Communications Officer, as Executive Director — It is our great pleasure to share that during the Board meeting at Wikimania 2016 in Esino Lario, we unanimously voted to appoint Katherine Maher as Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation.| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
Qualcomm files a patent infringement lawsuit in China against Meizu — U.S. company files suit against Meizu Technology in Beijing — First test after winning agreement to charge licensing fees — Qualcomm Inc., the largest mobile phone chipmaker, is filing a lawsuit in Beijing …
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Facebook announces future updates to Live at VidCon: ability to go live with face filters from MSQRD, add a friend's stream to a broadcast, and schedule streams — Today at VidCon Facebook pre-announced three new big product updates for Facebook Live, their live-streaming platform built into Facebook.| Sam Machkovech / Ars Technica: |
In latest update, Oculus removes DRM that prevented porting Rift games to other VR headsets, says it will not use hardware checks as part of DRM on PC anymore — News breaks not from official announcement, but from discovery by workaround dev. — What a difference an Internet uproar can make.
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Apple clarifies that differential privacy will be opt-in, won't start until iOS 10 — “Differential privacy” is Apple's way of collecting data without being totally creepy. — After years of touting itself as the company that didn't access its users data, Apple has finally acknowledged …
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