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Experimental Facebook face-recogniton software can discern identity with 83% accuracy even when faces are hidden — Facebook can recognise you in photos even if you're not looking — Thanks to the latest advances in computer vision, we now have machines that can pick you out of a line-up.| The Intercept: |
NSA and GCHQ have tried since at least 2008 to reverse-engineer antivirus software like Kaspersky, monitored company emails for new malware they could use — Popular Security Software Came Under Relentless NSA and GCHQ Attacks — The National Security Agency and its British counterpart …
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| Sean Michael Kerner / eWeek: |
Docker, CoreOS unite with Google, Amazon, Microsoft, VMware, others to define container standards under new Open Container Project, backed by Linux Foundation — Docker Rivals Join Together in Open Container Effort — The open-source container community is uniting today … | Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Hillhouse, an investor in China's taxi hailing firm Didi Kuaidi, leads $1B investment in Uber — China's Hillhouse Leads $1 Billion Uber Investment Deal — Hillhouse Capital is an investor in Didi Kuaidi Joint Co. — Chinese fund manager Hillhouse Capital Group is leading … | Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
Eddy Cue: Apple will pay rights holders on a per-stream basis during trial period — Apple Says It Will Pay Taylor Swift for Free Streams After All — Taylor Swift isn't just the biggest pop star in the world. She's also the world's most effective Apple lobbyist.
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Sources: Dollar Shave Club raises $75M at a $615M valuation led by Technology Crossover Ventures — Dollar Shave Club Is Valued at $615 Million — Lots of videos go viral. Few prove as lucrative as Michael Dubin's. — Three years ago the Dollar Shave Club founder launched his company …
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| Grant Gross / PCWorld: |
Supreme Court declines to review Street View patent case that Google lost in appeals court — Supreme Court rejects Google request in Street View patent case — The U.S. Supreme Court has declined a request by Google to hear a patent case involving the company's Street View service …
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| Steve Grove / The Official Google Blog: |
Google launches News Lab to help journalists use its tools and data sets “to help build the future of media”, partners with several media organzations — Introducing the News Lab — It's hard to think of a more important source of information in the world than quality journalism.
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| Peter Bright / Ars Technica: |
Microsoft Windows 10 upgrade: free for users with valid Windows 7 or 8 license, all Insider program members will continue to receive preview releases — Microsoft clarification kinda clears up free Windows 10 license confusion — It's free if you upgrade from Windows 7 or 8—or stay forever in preview.
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| Sarah Frier / Bloomberg Business: |
Facebook to open entire suite of its ad targeting tools to Instagram in the next few months — Facebook Pushes Advertisers to Employ User Data More Effectively — Facebook Inc. is pushing advertisers to be more strategic with the vast data the social website has on its 1.4 billion users.
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| Alistair Barr / Wall Street Journal: |
Getty Images added as “interested third person” to EU antitrust case against Google — Getty Joins EU's Google Complaint — Photo agency added as ‘interested third person’ in case against search giant. — Getty Images Inc., the world's largest photo agency … | Brad Stone / Bloomberg Business: |
Instacart converting large part of its contractor workforce into part-time employees, starting in Boston and Chicago — Instacart Reclassifies Part of Its Workforce Amid Regulatory Pressure on Uber — The grocery delivery startup makes a big change that regulators have been pressuring Uber and other companies to make
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Alibaba folds its US-based Amazon competitor 11 Main, other US holdings Into OpenSky — Alibaba Rethinks Its US E-Commerce Strategy, Folds 11 Main, Other U.S. Holdings Into OpenSky — China's e-commerce powerhouse Alibaba has been clear about its ambitions to grow its presence in the U.S. …
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