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Facebook debuts Spaces, its social VR platform that lets up to four users hang out in VR, available in beta for Oculus Rift, to expand to other VR platforms — More than three years after its acquisition of Oculus, Facebook is a product even more deeply intertwined with people's online identities.
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| Agam Shah / PCWorld: |
Facebook open sources Caffe2, a deep-learning framework that will let developers program AI features like image recognition directly into mobile devices — Your smartphone may soon be able to recognize objects in images without accessing the cloud — New intelligence can be added …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook debuts Camera Effects developer platform: Frames Studio for simple picture effects, available now; AR Studio for creating masks, scene effects, in beta — Facebook will rely on an army of outside developers to contribute augmented reality image filters and interactive experiences to its new Camera Effects platform.
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| Tim Peterson / Marketing Land: |
Interview with David Marcus on making bots easier to find on Messenger, updates to M assistant, debut of Chat Extensions to help devs add in-chat functionality — ‘We have a shot at becoming the Yellow Pages of messaging apps,’ says Facebook's Messenger boss, David Marcus.| Pasquale Anatriello / Facebook Code: |
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple makes iMovie, GarageBand, and iWork apps for Mac and iOS free for all users; formerly they were free with the purchase of a new Mac or iOS device — Apple today updated several of its Mac and iOS apps, making them available for all Mac and iOS users for free.
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| Andrew Dalton / Engadget: |
Microsoft now lets users use phone authentication instead of passwords to access accounts — Microsoft's Authenticator app can now save you a step when logging into anything that requires a Microsoft Account. According to a blog post from the company's identity division …
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| Serdar Yegulalp / InfoWorld: |
Docker unveils LinuxKit, a containerized kit for assembling custom Linux distributions, and the Moby Project for building customized container systems — LinuxKit provides tools for creating container-centric Linux distros, and the Moby Project helps integrate container elements Docker has released to the community
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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Samsung S8/S8+ review: gorgeous design, build quality, great camera, but fingerprint scanner is in awkward spot, Bixby's useless, preinstalled apps are annoying — The new S8 and S8 Plus aren't perfect, but they are damn close — People “aren't excited by new phones anymore.”
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple to unveil three iPhones this fall, including two revamped models and new high-end model with curved OLED display; high-end model could be delayed — Apple is testing a revamped iPhone with an all-screen front, curved glass and a stainless steel frame alongside upgrades to the current models.
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| Jason Del Rey / Recode: |
Sources: PetSmart is acquiring Chewy.com for $3.35B in the largest e-commerce acquisition ever — Bigger than Walmart's deal for Jet.com. — PetSmart has agreed to make the biggest e-commerce acquisition in history, putting a deal in place to snatch up fast-growing pet food …
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Google Maps for iOS now lets you retrace your steps with Timeline, which has been in Google Maps for Android since 2015 — Google hasn't had a terrific record with building social networks, but its Timeline feature for Google Maps is actually surprisingly similar to a primary facet of most social products … | John Callaham / Android Authority: |
Google's Cloud Speech API, which recognizes over 80 languages and variants, comes out of beta, is now available to all developers — The same tools that handle the speech recognition features in Google Assistant can now be used by a larger audience. The Google Cloud Speech API …
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| Rich McCormick / The Verge: |
Baidu opens up self-driving vehicle platform Apollo, encompassing both hardware and software, which aims to offer fully autonomous driving by 2020 — Project Apollo aims to offer fully autonomous driving by 2020 — Chinese tech giant Baidu has announced a new autonomous vehicle platform …
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| Ricky Villacrez / GSMArena.com: |
Instagram on Android gets offline mode for users to see, comment on, save, and Like content previously loaded, among other features — At Facebook's annual developer conference in San Jose, Instagram announces the Android app will be getting offline capabilities that will allow … Sponsor Posts
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