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A preview of the RNC speech by Peter Thiel, the eccentric investor who is unlike anyone else in tech — The eccentric investor is not like anyone else in tech. — Okay, I will just say what pretty much everyone in tech thinks, even if they never seem to be able to say it out loud …
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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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See also Mediagazer| 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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Google Cloud Platform debuts 2 machine learning APIs in beta: a natural language API that lets devs perform sentiment & syntax analysis, and a Cloud Speech API — The Natural Language API enables sentiment and syntax analysis, as well as entity recognition.| Lauren Goode / The Verge: |
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 this year — Good news for those stung by Skype weirdness and reliability issues over the past several months: The problems have been caused by a transition to a more modern …
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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.| 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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| Nirav Mehta / Google Lat Long: |
Google Maps adds more ways to add missing places and suggest edits to existing information — Each day, we make million of updates to Google Maps throughout the world. But it's still not enough to ensure that every single restaurant, shop or landmark worldwide has the most accurate information possible.
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Periscope adds “Replay Highlights” automatic trailers for broadcasts, ability to view Periscope feeds within embedded Tweets — There are hundreds of millions of live and replay broadcasts on Periscope, and more get added everyday. We're introducing three new features today …
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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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