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US shuts down biggest torrents site KickassTorrents, arrests owner after Apple hands over his personal details — With millions of unique visitors per day KickassTorrents (KAT) has become the most-used torrent site on the Internet, beating even The Pirate Bay.
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Corning unveils Gorilla Glass 5, claims 0.6mm thick glass will not break 80% of the time when dropped from 1.6 meters — Glassmaker Corning just unveiled its newest version of Gorilla Glass, the chemically strengthened super glass that dozens of consumer electronics makers use in their devices.
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| 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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| Stephanie Condon / ZDNet: |
Google Cloud Platform launches two ML APIs into open beta: a natural language API that lets devs perform sentiment, syntax analysis on text and Cloud Speech API — The Natural Language API enables sentiment and syntax analysis, as well as entity recognition.| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
IDC: Smartwatch shipments fall for the first time; Apple only company in top 5 to decline — The smartwatch market has hit its first bump, and it's all Apple's fault. Vendors shipped a total of 3.5 million smartphones worldwide last quarter. This Q2 2016 figure is down 32 percent …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / Softpedia News: |
Apple fixes Stagefright-like vulnerability, which allows attackers to compromise devices via a malicious image, in latest updates to iOS, OS X, tvOS, watchOS — RCE flaw exploitable via image files affects many products — Apple has fixed five issues in OS X and iOS that pose … | Heather Clancy / Fortune: |
Sprinklr raises $105M Series F led by Temasek, at a valuation of $1.8B, for its social media management software — Marketing software startup Sprinklr, which last year declared it had topped $100 million in revenue, has raised another $105 million to fuel international growth and, if the occasion arises, to make more acquisitions.| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Lenovo's Moto Z and Moto Z Force Droids to launch on Verizon July 28, for $624 and $720 — The latest Droids are near. Verizon and Lenovo today announced that the Moto Z Droid and Moto Z Force Droid will launch on the leading US carrier on July 28th — a week from today.
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| Ed Bott / ZDNet: |
The French National Data Protection Commission serves notice to Microsoft for Windows 10 privacy failings, gives company three months to comply — Strict online privacy laws in the EU continue to bedevil American tech companies. Latest to catch flak is Microsoft, over a handful of objections from a French data protection agency.
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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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| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Facebook Live to double broadcast length to four hours, offer fullscreen streaming and ability to temporarily hide comments and reactions during broadcast — Facebook has begun rolling out several updates to its livestreaming capability this week. People and Page administrators will now be able …
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
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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