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Group of big Silicon Valley firms, including Facebook, Google, Dell, HP, and eBay, filed amicus brief siding with Samsung in Apple patent case — Silicon Valley's Biggest Companies Take Samsung's Side in Apple Patent Fight — A group of Silicon Valley's biggest companies including Facebook … | David Pierce / Wired: |
Inside Spotify's Hunt for the Perfect Playlist — What kind of music do you listen to? Your answer is probably something like, “Oh, a little bit of everything.” Or maybe, “Anything but country and metal.” (And polka. Everybody hates polka.) The honest truth is, you probably don't know.| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
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GoPro introduces stock video licensing service, starting with 600 videos priced at $1K each and up — Brands Are About to Find Out How Powerful GoPro Videos Can Be — Spellbinding scenes captured by adventure seekers and even wildlife made GoPro the hottest video camera around.| Wall Street Journal: |
Apple hires former Fiat Chrysler SVP Doug Betts who led global quality — Apple Hires Auto Industry Manufacturing Veteran — Hiring of Doug Betts may be signal that efforts to develop electric car may be gaining ground — Apple Inc. has hired one of the auto industry's veteran manufacturing executives … | Anthony Clark / Local News from The Gainesville Sun: |
Grooveshark co-founder Josh Greenberg, 28, found dead at home; no evidence of foul play, injuries or drugs found — Grooveshark co-founder, 28, found dead in home — Grooveshark co-founder Josh Greenberg, a pioneer in Gainesville's student startup movement, was found dead in his bed Sunday … | Wall Street Journal: |
Qualcomm to Conduct Strategic Review, May Consider Breakup — Chip maker may also look at returning more cash to shareholders after activist investor presses for change — Qualcomm Inc. is expected to conduct a sweeping strategic review that will look at the possibility of a breakup … | Bloomberg Business: |
Toshiba Executives Resign Over $1.2 Billion Accounting Scandal … Toshiba Corp. President Hisao Tanaka and two other executives quit to take responsibility for a $1.2 billion accounting scandal that caused the company to restate earnings for more than six years.| Ben Bajarin / Tech.pinions: |
97% of Apple Watch users are satisfied, according to a survey of 1000+ owners; satisfaction was 92% for first generation iPhone and 91% for iPad — Apple Watch Satisfaction — A lot has been written about the Apple Watch. A lot will continue to be written about the Apple Watch.| New York Times: |
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YouTube signs most of its partners for paid service but no shows from major TV networks yet — Google's YouTube Signs Up Everyone But TV for New Paid Service … Google Inc.'s YouTube, which has signed up partners for a new paid video service, may find out by early next year whether … | Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code: |
Evernote hires former Google Glass executive Chris O'Neill as new CEO, Phil Libin to remain as executive chairman — Evernote Taps Former Google Glass Executive Chris O'Neill as New CEO — Signaling what it hopes will mark the start of a new phase of growth, Evernote … | Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
Microsoft releases emergency patch for Windows Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, RT, Server 2008 and later; vulnerability also affects Windows 10 Preview — Microsoft releases emergency patch for all versions of Windows — The flaw, affecting Windows Vista, 7, 8, and 8.1, can allow a hacker to take over a machine.| Tom Maxwell / 9to5Google: |
Google+ Photos being discontinued August 1st following standalone Photos service debut — Au revoir, Google+ Photos. In a post to Google+, ironically enough, Google has (unsurprisingly) announced that starting on August 1st, it will be sunsetting its Google+ Photos app in favor of the recently launched Google Photos.| CNN: |
Drones interfere with wildfire-fighting efforts in Los Angeles — California wildfires 11 photos — Smoke from a wildfire rises above Interstate 15 on the Cajon Pass, on July 15 near San Bernardino. — Hide Caption 7 of 11 — The scorched remains of a truck destroyed by the North Fire … | Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal: |
YouTube stars post only one-fifth of their videos on Facebook, which lacks an established ad revenue sharing model — YouTube Stars Keep Facebook at Arm's Length For Now — Nearly a year ago, Facebook started reaching out to YouTube stars and multichannel networks, encouraging …
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.
Stop vibe coding analytics — Equals AI turns questions about your business into auditable spreadsheet models and dashboards. Build once, iterate for years.
Run payroll in batches using Pay Groups, now with Zoho Payroll — Learn how Pay Groups in Zoho Payroll lets you process, approve, and run multiple pay runs independently for different employee groups within the same pay period.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
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