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How the shutdown of Cyanogen services and the forking of CyanogenMod to Lineage OS will affect one of Android's most stable custom distributions — The King is Dead, Long Live the King! — Cyanogen Inc. has finally delivered a bullet to the brain - of CyanogenMod.
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| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Cyanogen announces it will stop issuing Cyanogen-supported nightly builds and shut down all services for the OS on December 31 — It's been a rocky few months for Cyanogen, the ambitious startup that aimed to build a better version of Android than Google. It has laid off staff …
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| Aaron Tilley / Forbes: |
Apple publishes an artificial intelligence paper for the first time, after recently promising to open up its AI research — Earlier this month, Apple made a splash when it told the artificial intelligence research community that the secretive company would start publishing AI papers of its own.
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MacRumors, 9to5Mac, arXiv.org e-Print archive, iPhone in Canada Blog, and iDownloadBlog.com. Thanks:@aatilley
| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Report: Snap acquired four-year-old Israeli AR startup Cimagine Media for $30M to $40M — Snap has reportedly made an investment in augmented reality, purchasing Israeli-based startup Cimagine Media in a deal that's said to be worth between $30 million and $40 million.| Alene Tchekmedyian / Los Angeles Times: |
California AG Kamala Harris files new criminal charges against Backpage.com CEO and two controlling shareholders, accusing them of pimping and money laundering — Carl Ferrer, from left, James Larkin and Michael Lacey were charged in a pimping case in connection with international classified ad website Backpage.com.| Lulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg: |
China's “Uber for trucks” Huochebang raises $115M at $1B valuation from Tencent, others — Tencent-backed Huochebang raised $115 million for expansion — IFC, All-Stars Investment co-led the new funding round — Truck Alliance Inc., an Uber-type service for trucks known … | Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents: |
Apple's patent battle with Nokia escalates rapidly: Nokia now suing Apple over 40 patents in 11 countries as Apple adds Nokia as defendant in antitrust suit — Yesterday, Apple's antitrust lawsuit in the Northern District of California against certain Nokia privateers (patent assertion entities … | Diana Goovaerts / Wireless Week: |
Dutch regulator rules that T-Mobile's “zero rating” music streaming service is illegal; T-Mobile says it will appeal, will offer service until court verdict — Dutch regulators on Friday said T-Mobile must end its offer of zero-rated music streaming because the practice violates that country's net neutrality regulations.
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| Ina Fried / Recode: |
Jawbone says Fitbit is no longer seeking to block sales of its products — Of course, Jawbone isn't selling that many fitness trackers these days either. — Jawbone said Saturday that one part of its legal battle with Fitbit has been resolved. — In a statement to Recode … | Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land: |
Google algorithm change appears to be moving Holocaust-denial and other controversial sites down in search results — Several days after Google put a search ranking change into place, the first page of results for “did the holocaust happen” now appears to be entirely free of denial sites.| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
CB Insights report: top 5 companies most likely to have an IPO in 2017 are Qualtrics, Blue Apron, Zuora, Okta, and Pluralsight, among 369 firms in pipeline — There will be more tech companies going public in 2017 than this year. — That's the takeaway from CB Insights' fifth annual Tech … | JC Torres / SlashGear: |
Samsung Gear VR Internet app gets WebVR support — The problem with smartphone-powered virtual reality experiences is the dearth of significant content for the platform. At least compared to the likes of the HTC Vive or Oculus Rift. While there are, of course, a few mobile VR apps around …
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