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June 23, 2015, 10:45 AM
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Aviva Rutkin / New Scientist:
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.
Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code:
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.
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
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” …
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.
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
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 …
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 …
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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Kayla Cobb / The Wrap:
AMC Global Media reports Q2 net revenue down 8.8% YoY to $547M, streaming revenue up 6% to $180M due to price hikes, and domestic ad revenue down 11% to $109M

Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
SiriusXM reports Q2 revenue up 1% YoY to $2.16B, net income up 17% YoY to $239M, and net gain of 22K paid subscribers for a total of 33M; SIRI falls 12%+

Etan Vlessing / The Hollywood Reporter:
Sony's Crunchyroll partners with Starz for a streaming bundle offered through Prime Video for $16.99/month, a 23% discount to subscribing to both separately

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Ryan Whitwam / ExtremeTech:
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New York Times:
Privacy group EPIC asks FTC to prevent Uber from updating its privacy policy to allow background location data collection
Wiktor Szary / Reuters:
Attack on computer system for Polish airline LOT grounded 1,400 passengers on Sunday; CEO says all airlines are vulnerable
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
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