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Microsoft debuts Azure Cosmos DB, a globally distributed database with five consistency choices, and new MySQL and PostgreSQL options for Azure Database — Arguably the biggest Azure news to come out of Microsoft's Build 2017 developer conference is the debut of Azure Cosmos DB.| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft launches Visual Studio 2017 for Mac out of preview — At Microsoft's Build 2017 developer conference, its biggest Visual Studio news wasn't even for its own platform: Visual Studio 2017 for Mac has hit general availability (download here, requires OS X El Capitan 10.11 or higher).| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft releases public preview of its Cortana Skills Kit, which lets developers build voice apps for its assistant — Microsoft today announced a public preview of its Cortana Skills Kit that allows developers to create voice apps for the intelligent assistant.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft says 500M devices are now running Windows 10, up from 400M in September 2016 — Microsoft is announcing today that 500 million active machines are now running Windows 10. The latest statistic comes almost 8 months after the company revealed 400 million devices were running Windows 10.
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Google launches event suggestions in US search results on mobile web and in app; data pulled from 13 sources including Eventbrite, Ticketmaster, Meetup, StubHub — Google today is updating its app and mobile web experience in the U.S. to help web searchers more easily find things to do …
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Interviews with Macron campaign staff reveal the obfuscation techniques used to slow hackers, who US intelligence believe were Russian — PARIS — Everyone saw the hackers coming. — The National Security Agency in Washington picked up the signs. So did Emmanuel Macron's bare-bones technology team.
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| Jason Del Rey / Recode: |
Founder of Nucleus, which raised $5.6M from Alexa Fund, and now faces competition from similar Echo Show device, says Amazon crippling its Alexa Fund ecosystem — Another cautionary tale for would-be Amazon partners. — When the investment arm of Amazon's Alexa division led …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook says it will now rank sites with “disruptive, shocking or malicious ads” lower in News Feed — Facebook will bury links to low-quality websites and refuse to carry ads pointing to them in a News Feed algorithm changeannounced today. Facebook defines a ‘low-quality site’ as one …
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| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
FCC's website has been flooded with 128K+ identical fake anti-net neutrality comments via its public comment system API — Several people we spoke to denied they had posted comments to the FCC's feedback pages, in which one-in-ten comments appear to be fake.
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Opera rolls out major update to desktop browser that now features quick access to Messenger, WhatsApp, and Telegram from an optional sidebar — Opera has been working on a complete redesign of its desktop browser for a few months. Codenamed “Reborn”, the browser is now available as a stable release.| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple acquires Beddit iPhone-connected sleep monitoring system, according to updated privacy policy — Apple recently acquired Beddit Sleep Monitor, an app and sleep system designed to monitor daily sleep habits through the iPhone, according to an updated privacy policy posted …
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| Brandon Vigliarolo / TechRepublic: |
Stratasys demos new 3D printing tech, a modular wall of cloud-controlled 3D printers linked together, continuously producing in assembly-line fashion — Stratasys' latest innovation is designed to continuously produce parts with minimal human interaction, making larger runs, prototyping, and lowering costs easier than ever before.Sponsor Posts
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