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Google Translate now converts Chinese into English with neural machine translation — Google today is announcing that web and mobile versions of Google Translate are now using a new neural machine translation system for all translations from Chinese into English — and the app conducts those translations about 18 million times a day.| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Google debuts data-friendly YouTube Go app for Android with offline viewing, Bluetooth sharing, video previews, more and expands public Wi-Fi program in India — Google has introduced a new version of YouTube that is dedicated to users in emerging markets. — ‘YouTube Go’ is initially available in India and Android only.
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Source: Facebook is ready to launch Facebook at Work, its enterprise collaboration network, in the next few weeks; companies will be charged per user — Facebook is ready to make work as addictive as socializing. The company plans to launch its enterprise communication and collaboration network Facebook …
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Facebook ordered to stop collecting data on WhatsApp users in Germany and to delete info already forwarded to Facebook from roughly 35M German WhatsApp users — When WhatsApp, the internet messaging app, announced last month that it was starting to share some of its users' online information with Facebook …
| Ben Popper / The Verge: |
DJI's Mavic Pro drone is extremely small and portable, packing high-end features, 40MPH speed, 27 mins of battery, starts at $749, less than GoPro Karma at $800 — The unit is extremely small and portable, but still packs all the high end features DJI drones are known for
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Major music labels, RIAA, others sue stream-ripping site YouTube-MP3 for copyright infringement — Two weeks ago, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry published research which claimed that half of 16 to 24-year-olds use stream-ripping tools to copy music from sites like YouTube.| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Report: Amazon is teaming up with smartlock company August and garage-access startup Garageio to provide in-home package deliveries — Amazon's delivery prowess is impressive; just today, it announced free Prime same-day delivery for my home city of Toronto, and the speed and consistency …
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| Ian Hamilton / UploadVR: |
Occipital unveils $500 VR headset dev kit with room-scale tracking for phones, including iPhones — The first time I actually put my money into VR was summer 2014, when I received a Rift DK2 after putting together my first PC from parts purchased on Amazon and elsewhere.
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| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft is killing Yammer Enterprise plan in January 2017, will start integrating Office 365 Groups first — Microsoft today provided new information about how it will be integrating Office 365 Groups into its Yammer enterprise-focused social network. The Yammer Enterprise service tier will be going away on January 1, 2017.
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HERE to fit Audi, BMW, Mercedes Benz cars with sensors to gather data on traffic conditions and driver actions for real-time digital map service coming 2017 — Audi, BMW and Mercedes Benz cars fitted with on-board sensors are to share information in real time about on-street parking spaces and roadworks via a digital map service.
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| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
SAP officially announces acquisition of big data startup Altiscale — SAP today issued a statement confirming what some people have known for weeks: its acquisition of Altiscale, a startup that offers cloud-based versions of the Hadoop and Spark open source software for storing, processing …
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ZDNet, SAP News Center, Altiscale, CMSWire.com and SiliconANGLE
| Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: |
2K-person BloomReach survey: 55% of online US shoppers start their product searches on Amazon, up from 44% last year; Google is down from 34% to 28% — Web retailer dominates over search engines, big-box stores — Website is reference point for online consumers, survey finds
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