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Twitter hires former Apple designer Alessandro Sabatelli as Director of VR and AR, forms a new team focused on VR and AR development — Until recently Twitter has appeared dormant through the rise of two of Silicon Valley's hottest technologies, augmented and virtual reality, but the company's silence appears to be drawing to a close.
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Examining principles for the development and applications of AI as well as the human skills and values future generations must prioritize — Advanced machine learning, also known as artificial intelligence or just A.I., holds far greater promise than unsettling headlines about computers beating humans …
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| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
A free bot service, DoNotPay, has helped successfully challenge 160K+ traffic tickets in London, New York since launching last fall; Seattle expansion planned — A bot made to challenge traffic tickets has been used more than 9,000 times by New Yorkers, according to DoNotPay maker Joshua Browder.
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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Evernote raises prices of paid plans: Plus tier now $4, previously $3, and Premium tier now $8, previously $6; device sharing on free tier limited to 2 devices — Evernote today announced a new suite of pricing for its paid plans and new limitations for its free service.
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| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
Pinterest is rolling out a shopping bag, buyable pins on web, visual search with your camera — Pinterest, the startup whose app lets people pin photos and other content to boards and even buy things shown in pins, today announced that the buy buttons that first appeared on the app are now coming to the web version.
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| Noah Pepper / The Twitter Blog: |
Twitter launches Twitter Dashboard, an iOS and desktop app to help businesses manage their accounts, now in beta — For businesses, Twitter is a place to share news, tell stories, and have conversations that support, educate, and delight their customers. It's a place for authentic interactions …
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| New York Times: |
Sources: Airbnb seeking a new investment round at a valuation of around $30B, about a year after raising at a reported $24B valuation — Airbnb, which lets users list their homes and apartments for short-term rentals, is in talks for a new round of investment that would value the company …
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon gives the Alexa ‘app store’ a makeover, now lets you add new Skills by voice — It will now be easier to add “Skills” - new functionality by way of voice-activated apps to Amazon's smart speaker Echo, and its other Alexa-powered devices, Amazon announced this morning.
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| Adam Jourdan / Reuters: |
New Chinese rules for mobile app developers require user verification with real-name registration and preservation of user activity logs for 60 days — China has tightened rules for mobile app developers including requiring real-name registration and preserving users' activity logs …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Japan WhatsApp Rival Line Sets Price Range for Potential $1.1 Billion IPO — WhatsApp rival sets a $26.50-$31.50 per-share price range for Tokyo, New York IPO in July — TOKYO—Japanese messaging-app operator Line Corp. said it had set its price range for an initial public offering in Tokyo …
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| Biz Carson / Business Insider: |
Leaked investor update doc: Lyft had record May, providing 12.7M rides that month, but volume may flatten with Austin retreat and college students heading home — Lyft had a record May, completing 12.7 million rides in the month, according to a leaked investor update viewed by Business Insider.| Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
| Mark Harris / Guardian: |
Documents reveal Google's Sidewalk Labs is working on technologies to fix public transit in US — Exclusive: Documents reveal Sidewalk Labs is offering cloud software Flow to Columbus, Ohio, to upgrade bus and parking services — Sidewalk Labs, a secretive subsidiary of Alphabet … | Oliver Suess / Bloomberg: |
Siemens plans to invest $1.1B over next five years in a new startups unit focused on developing AI, decentralized electrification, blockchain apps, more — Next47 will operate from Berkeley, Shanghai and Munich — CEO Kaeser aims to foster a more nimble corporate culture
| Yue Cai / Facebook Developers: |
Facebook launches official Share and Save Chrome extensions and redesigns its web-embeddable Like, Share, and Follow buttons — Today, we're introducing several new ways for developers to help people improve their sharing and saving experience. This includes two new Chrome extensions …
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