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Inside the inaugural test flight of Facebook's first internet drone, Aquila — Inside the test flight of Facebook's first internet drone — At 2AM, in the dark morning hours of June 28th, Mark Zuckerberg woke up and got on a plane. He was traveling to an aviation testing facility in Yuma …
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Thanks:@sarahaasullivan| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Mark Zuckerberg discusses Facebook's 10-year plans to improve internet access, the importance of AI, plans for VR, and the challenges of AR — Mark Zuckerberg on his plan to bring the internet to every human on earth — By nearly any measure, Facebook has had a remarkable year.
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| Kara Swisher / Recode: |
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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| 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 smartwatches worldwide last quarter. This Q2 2016 figure is down 32 percent …
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| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Moto Z review: huge price increase, no 3.5mm headphone jack, slow OS updates, and lame modules make it hard to recommend — The first Moto flagship under Lenovo's rule isn't a compelling one. — Under Google, Motorola was one of our favorite OEMs. The company delivered bang-for-your-buck hardware …
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| Greg Hartrell / Official Android Blog: |
Google Play Books debuts Bubble Zoom, which uses machine learning to detect and expand speech bubbles in comic books, starting with some Marvel and DC volumes — Whether it's reading up on the origins of Justice League or enjoying a reboot like Invincible Iron Man, we all love our heroes …
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| William Alden / BuzzFeed: |
Document shows Peter Thiel's venture capital firm Founders Fund privately values Palantir at 40% less than its latest valuation of $20B — Thiel's venture capital firm privately values Palantir — the data analysis company of which he is chairman — at a 40% discount.
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Tinder launches Tinder Social, a feature that lets groups plan nights out and “match” with other nearby groups that are also going out — Get ready to roll. Your night just got better. — Tinder has always been about getting you out of the house to meet someone new.
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| Stephanie Condon / ZDNet: |
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.| 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 … | 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.| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
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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