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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.
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Big Data Startup Snowflake Raises $45 Million, Launches First Product — Snowflake, a big data startup led by longtime Microsoft executive Bob Muglia, has landed a $45 million funding round led by Altimeter Capital, and also announced the general availability of its product for analyzing business data in the cloud.
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Verizon Completes Its Acquisition of AOL For $4.4B — Well, that was fast: Verizon has just announced that it has completed its acquisition of AOL, owner of TechCrunch, purchasing all outstanding shares for $50 per share in cash for a total price of $4.4 billion. The sale was originally announced just over a month ago.| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
Sources: Grand Rounds Is Raising At Around A $750M Valuation — Sources are telling TechCrunch that Grand Rounds, which sells companies a service that gives employees access to healthcare advice and treatment from experienced professionals around the United States regardless of where they live … | Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Amazon Echo is now open for pre-orders to anyone in the U.S. for $180, ships July 14 — Got email marketing? We've got best practices from LivingSocial and estate sale guru Everything But The House in our next Insight webinar. — Amazon has announced that its voice-activated “Echo” …
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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. … | SuperSite for Windows: |
Windows 10 Upgrade and Installation Frequently Asked Questions — We have had plenty of time to pick apart and interpret Microsoft's recent blog post about the Windows Insider Program as well as the free upgrade offer to Windows 10 for Windows 7 and 8.1 users.
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| Alexander Martin / Wall Street Journal: |
SoftBank sells entire stock of 1,000 humanoid Pepper robots within a minute of it going on sale, company expects to produce 1,000/month — SoftBank Robot Pepper Sells Out in a Minute — There was no problem finding a home for the first batch of humanoid robots known as Pepper.| 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 …
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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 …
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Alibaba and its affiliate Ant to invest nearly $1B in Chinese local services startup Koubei — Alibaba, Ant to pour nearly $1 billion into local services startup — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd and its affiliate Ant Financial will invest nearly $1 billion in a joint venture that they hope …
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| Vikram Dodd / Guardian: |
New Europol unit hunting Isis social media accounts starts July 1 with help from social media firms; aims to take down accounts within two hours of detection — Europol web unit to hunt extremists behind Isis social media propaganda — Europe-wide police team aims to find key figures …
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