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Apple acquires another machine learning company: Tuplejump — Apple is on a machine learning company buying spree. After buying Perceptio at the end of 2015 and Turi just a few months ago, Apple has now acquired an India/US-based machine learning team, Tuplejump.
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Yahoo confirms data associated with at least 500M accounts was stolen in late 2014 breach by apparent state-sponsored actor — As expected, Yahoo revealed a massive data breach of its services on Thursday. — Yahoo “has confirmed that a copy of certain user account information was stolen …
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Trump backs Cruz in opposing transfer of Domain Name System to ICANN in October, claiming Internet freedom would be at risk — Back in December, Donald Trump suggested fighting terrorism online by “closing the internet in some way,” openly mocking potential First Amendment concerns.
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Microsoft to launch full version of Minecraft: Education Edition on November 1 for annual fee of $5/user — Since June 9, more than 35,000 students and educators around the world have utilized the early access program and provided feedback to help us fine-tune the experience across a diverse set of learning environments.| Trevor Mogg / Digital Trends: |
Amazon Prints now available to Prime and Drive members, starting from $0.09 for prints of digital photos, and $20 for photo books — It's been at least a couple of hours since Amazon rolled out a new service or launched a new product, so it's no surprise that another one has just landed: photo printing.
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple releases first iOS 10.1 public beta, adding Portrait photo mode to iPhone 7 Plus — Apple today seeded the first beta of an upcoming iOS 10 update to public beta testers for testing purposes, just under two weeks after releasing iOS 10 to the public and one day after providing the iOS 10.1 beta to developers.
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| Eduard Kovacs / SecurityWeek: |
Scan shows 840K+ Cisco devices have NSA-linked flaw discovered from a Shadow Brokers leak; most of the affected Cisco IOS software versions remain unpatched — An IOS software vulnerability identified recently by Cisco while analyzing the firewall exploits leaked by the group calling itself Shadow Brokers …
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
LinkedIn launches LinkedIn Learning, an e-learning portal tailored to individuals, with Lynda.com content and 9K courses — LinkedIn, the social network for the working world that now has some 450 million members and is in the process of being acquired by Microsoft for $26.2 billion …
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| Nick Summers / Engadget: |
Bluestacks adds Facebook Live streaming option to its desktop Android emulator — Draw a crowd while you play ‘Clash Royale.’ — Streaming your favorite smartphone apps on Twitch is pretty hard. Through Facebook? Even harder. To simplify the process, Bluestacks is adding a Facebook Live option to its desktop Android emulator.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Amazon's Etsy rival, Handmade, launches in Germany, France, Italy, Spain, and the UK — Amazon continues to try to turn the screws on its competition through its scale, and now it's the turn of Handmade, the e-commerce giant's marketplace for arts and crafts that competes most closely with Etsy.| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Instagram says it now has over 500K active advertisers, up from 200K in February — For those of you following Instagram's ad business, my headline might seem a bit familiar — yes, the Facebook-owned photo-sharing service announced another advertiser milestone back in February …
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| Nathan Martz / Google Developers Blog: |
Google launches VR SDK 1.0 out of beta, with support for Daydream — Posted by Nathan Martz, Product Manager, Google VR — At Google I/O, we announced Daydream—Google's platform for high quality, mobile virtual reality—and released early developer resources to get the community started with building for Daydream.
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| Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land: |
Allo: much like Google Hangouts except it doesn't send or receive messages using a phone number, and will likely be unsuccessful in messaging wars — Yet another messaging app from Google with little reason to expect it to be a success. — Hey! Google has a new messaging app out today called Allo.| Nathan Ingraham / Engadget: |
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