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Alleged owner of biggest torrent site, KickassTorrents, arrested in Poland on US charges of copyright infringement and money laundering, KAT domains seized — With millions of unique visitors per day KickassTorrents (KAT) has become the most-used torrent site on the Internet, beating even The Pirate Bay.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
A history of Facebook Messenger as it reaches 1B monthly users five years after its debut; 17B photos are now sent through the service each month — Facebook's gamble of forcing users to download Messenger has paid off. Despite the backlash, Messenger has doubled its user count in 20 months …
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Thanks:@joshconstine| Paul Thurrott / Thurrott.com: |
How Skype is transitioning from a legacy P2P infrastructure to a new mobile-friendly, cloud-based solution, expecting to complete the transition this year — Good news for those stung by Skype weirdness and reliability issues over the past several months: The problems have been caused …
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| Avery Hartmans / Business Insider: |
Airbnb hires former Attorney General Eric Holder to help “craft a world-class anti-discrimination policy” — Airbnb has hired former Attorney General Eric Holder. — CEO Brian Chesky announced the hire in a blog post on Airbnb's website. Holder will help “craft …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft debuts Bookings, a new Office 365 service for online appointment scheduling — Microsoft this morning announced an expansion to its Office 365 suite with the debut of a new service called Bookings, which will allow customers to schedule appointments with a business using online software.
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| Jack Clark / Bloomberg: |
Google says DeepMind-powered AI has improved its datacenters' power usage efficiency by 15% — Game-playing AI coordinates data center tasks like cooling — DeepMind efficiencies cover part of cost of 2014 acquisition — Google just paid for part of its acquisition of DeepMind in a surprising way.
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| Dan Primack / Fortune: |
Unilever acquires Dollar Shave Club, sources say for $1B; DSC founder and CEO Michael Dubin to continue running the company — Unilever announced on Tuesday evening that it is getting into the razor business, by agreeing to acquire Dollar Shave Club. — No financial terms were disclosed …
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SwiftKey debuts emoji prediction keyboard Swiftmoji, its first product since the Microsoft acquisition — Keyboard app maker Swiftkey, which was acquired by Microsoft for $250 million in February, has officially launched its first product since that acquisition — and it's an emoji-predicting keyboard app, called Swiftmoji.
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| Benjamin Smedberg / Future Releases: |
Firefox will block non-essential, invisible Flash content starting in August — Browser plugins, especially Flash, have enabled some of our favorite experiences on the Web, including videos and interactive content. But plugins often introduce stability, performance, and security issues for browsers.
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| Jordan Pearson / Motherboard: |
Mining is underway for a new Ethereum blockchain, following a hard fork that refunds ether to original investors of the hacked DAO — Ethereum, a virtual currency and coding platform, passed one of the most important and potentially dangerous milestones for any piece of software on Wednesday …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Intel Q2 misses on sales of $13.5B, beats on EPS of $0.59 as it hunkers on with restructuring — Chipmaker Intel, which in April announced that it would need to take a $1.2 billion charge on a massive restructuring of its business, has posted its Q2 earnings, and they are unsurprisingly mixed.
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| Katie Roof / TechCrunch: |
Report: global VC funding, propped up by mega deals, rose 3% from previous quarter to $27.4B in Q2 but number of deals fell by 6% to 1886, lowest since Q2 2013 — If you look at the investment dollars for the last quarter, you might be surprised to see an uptick in deal volume.
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