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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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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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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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| 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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| 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 …
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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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| 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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Xiaomi announces 5.15-inch Mi 6 with Snapdragon 835, 12MP dual-cameras, 6GB RAM, 3,350 mAh battery, no headphone jack, starting at $360 — Xiaomi has announced its latest flagship phone, the Mi 6, at an event in Beijing. While Xiaomi drew widespread attention last year … | 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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| Elizabeth Weise / USA Today: |
Trump's newly signed executive order to reform H-1B visas may make outsourcing less viable, but could bring more educated and better paid tech workers to US — SAN FRANCISCO — H-1B visa holders could get a lot more expensive and a lot better educated under a new executive order signed … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft tests power throttling background apps in pre-RTM build of Windows 10 to save up to 11% battery life, currently only for Skylake and Kaby Lake systems — Microsoft is planning to throttle the amount of power that background apps can use to improve battery life in Windows 10.| 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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