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Why Is Facebook Page Reach Decreasing? More Competition And Limited Attention — Every Page on Facebook wants everything they post shown to everyone. But people only read a limited amount of News Feed per day. There simply isn't room for everything, and the competition for feed space is intensifying.| iFixit: |
Amazon Fire TV Teardown — Rainy weather got you down? Stuck inside sitting on the couch eating popcorn? What better to do whilst eating popcorn than...watch TV. While on Fire. Amazon Fire TV.™ Yesterday, Amazon announced a tiny black box that supposedly does everything better than all of the other tiny black boxes.| Brendan Eich: |
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Samsung claims breakthrough in commercializing graphene, of potential use in flexible displays — Samsung Claims Progress on the Next Wonder Material — A group of researchers supported by Samsung Electronics said Friday that they've developed a technique for synthesizing graphene … | Associated Press: |
“Cuban Twitter” heads to hearings in Congress — WASHINGTON (AP) — The head of the U.S. government agency that secretly created a “Cuban Twitter” communications network designed to undermine the communist government in Cuba is expected to testify next week before a senator who thinks the whole idea was “dumb, dumb, dumb.”| Derrick Harris / Gigaom: |
Facebook open sources code for managing A/B tests — A/B tests to determine which features or designs work best is a standard tool of the trade for any data scientist working on a web or mobile application. On Thursday, Facebook released a portion of its A/B testing code, called PlanOut … | Aaron Souppouris / The Verge: |
Samsung's Ativ SE Windows Phone now available for pre-order from Verizon — Ships April 12th without Windows Phone 8.1 update — After multiple leaks, the Samsung Ativ SE is now official. As expected, the device arrives with Windows Phone 8, a 5-inch 1080p display, a 13-megapixel camera … | Ben Fox Rubin / Wall Street Journal: |
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Founders under 35 are likely the majority among those who built billion-dollar businesses — How Old Are Silicon Valley's Top Founders? Here's the Data — Last week, The New Republic published a lengthy exploration of ageism in Silicon Valley, the idea that venture capitalists discriminate … | Neha Dimri / Reuters: |
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Google pays $1.4 million fine in Italy over StreetView concerns — (Reuters) - Google has paid a 1 million euro ($1.4 million) fine imposed by Italy's data protection watchdog over complaints that cars it used to record images on Italian streets in 2010 were not clearly recognizable, the regulator said on Thursday.| Andy / TorrentFreak: |
Slysoft DVD Ripper owner fined $30K in criminal action by Antigua & Barbuda court — Slysoft DVD Ripper Owner Found Guilty in Criminal Action — If one existed, Antigua would hardly head up a list of countries sympathetic to copyright claims originating from the United States.| Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch: |
Khosla VC Rabois Looks To Make Homes Easy To Sell In A Few Clicks — Keith Rabois, the former Square and PayPal executive who is now handling much of Khosla Ventures' consumer investments, has a new side gig. — He's co-founding a company under the codename Homerun that will make it easy to sell entire homes in a few clicks.| Leslie Picker / Bloomberg: |
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Kingsoft Subsidiary Cheetah Mobile Files for IPO on the NYSE to Raise $300 million — Kingsoft Corporation (SEHK: 3888) announced two months ago that it would spin off a business unit for Internet security and other services and list its shares in the U.S. The spinoff has filed … | Matt Burns / TechCrunch: |
T-Mobile CEO Fires Back After Losing BlackBerry Sales Arrangement — BlackBerry and T-Mobile executives should read Jordan's #love column. Breaking up over the Internet is rough on everyone. — In a letter released this evening, T-Mobile's outspoken CEO John Legere talked … | Angus Loten / Wall Street Journal: |
Business owners frustrated with Yelp are suing to try to unmask anonymous reviewers — Yelp Reviews Brew a Fight Over Free Speech vs. Fairness — Many Businesses Say Anonymity of Comments Is Unfair, Sue to Unmask Users — A closely watched Internet free-speech case is headed … | Jacob Gershman / Wall Street Journal: |
In bid to trademark “Glass”, Google faces objections from USPTO — Google Is Having Trouble Trying to Trademark the Word ‘Glass’ — Google is trying to register the word “Glass” as a trademark for its computer-powered glasses. But so far, the company and the U.S. trademark office aren't seeing eye to eye.| Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
You Can Now Create Windows And Windows Phone Apps In One Go With Microsoft's App Studio — Microsoft's App Studio service is fun. At launch, it supported the creation of simple Windows Phone applications so everyone could get their hands dirty and build something.| Al Jazeera English: |
Turkish court rules YouTube ban violates human rights, limits restrictions to 15 videos — Turkey court eases YouTube restrictions — Court limits restrictions to 15 videos after ruling that blanket ban on social-media site violated human rights. — A Turkish court has ruled …
Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens.
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