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Sources: Amazon lays off dozens of Fire engineers, scales back and reorganizes its hardware-development center Lab126 — Amazon Curtails Development of Consumer Devices — Amazon is scaling back its efforts to develop consumer devices, laying off dozens of engineers …
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| Jessi Hempel / Wired: |
Facebook testing M, an AI-based, human supervised virtual assistant inside Messenger that can complete tasks such as purchasing on your behalf — Facebook Launches M, Its Bold Answer to Siri and Cortana — Today, a few hundred Bay Area Facebook users will open their Messenger apps to discover M, a new virtual assistant.
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| Cade Metz / Wired: |
How Facebook's M virtual assistant's artificial intelligence works — Facebook's Human-Powered Assistant May Just Supercharge AI — Face it: Siri sucks. So often, she has no clue what you're saying. And when she does, there's a pretty good chance she'll respond with nothing more than a page filled with Internet links.
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Tweets: @dannysullivan and @mappingbabel
| Roberto Baldwin / Engadget: |
Ex-Apple CEO John Sculley unveils two sub-$200 Android Obi smartphones for Asia, Africa, and Middle East markets, will be available October — Former Apple CEO John Sculley launches a line of stylish smartphones — Like most consumer items, the lower the price point of a phone, the less exciting the design.| Annalee Newitz / Gizmodo: |
Ashley Madison had approximately 31M male members, 5.5M female members, but likely only 12K women actively used the site — Almost None of the Women in the Ashley Madison Database Ever Used the Site — When hacker group Impact Team released the Ashley Madison data, they asserted that “thousands” of the women's profiles were fake.
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| Sam Altman / Y Combinator Posthaven: |
Y Combinator has funded over 940 companies so far, eight of which have a valuation over $1B — YC stats — We get asked (a lot) for statistics on the YC portfolio about valuation and fundraising. Although these are very imperfect indicators of success, here they are.
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Leaked images reveal Microsoft's 5.2-inch Lumia 950 and 5.7-inch 950XL, to launch in October — Leaked images reveal Microsoft's new flagship Lumia phones — Microsoft is preparing to launch two new Lumia flagship devices at an event in October. While we've seen some images emerge along …
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Tweets: @evleaks, @tomwarren and @zpower
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google's Container Engine For Running Docker Containers On Its Cloud Platform Is Now Generally Available — Google's Container Engine, its service for running and managing Docker containers on its cloud platform using its open source Kubernetes system, is now out of beta and generally available.
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| Yoree Koh / Wall Street Journal: |
Mobile video combined with autoplay and social media's reach bring unexpected horror to users' feeds — Twitter, Facebook Users Unwittingly Shown Video of Virginia Shooting — Soon after Vester Lee Flanagan allegedly gunned down two TV reporters while they were on air Wednesday morning …
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Germany's domestic intelligence agency BfV got XKeyscore software from NSA in exchange for German surveillance data — A Dubious Deal with the NSA — Internal documents show that Germany's domestic intelligence agency, the BfV, received the coveted software program XKeyscore from the NSA - and promised data from Germany in return.| Mark Bergen / Re/code: |
Google confirms it triggers recruiting tool when people search for specific programming terms — ‘Puzzles Are Fun. Search On’: Google Cops to Secret Recruiting Tool Baked Inside Search — How does the world's best search engine recruit programming whizzes? Through search, naturally.
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The Hustle, The Memo, Android Authority, Inc.com, Ubergizmo, Engadget and BGR
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IDC: In Q2, Apple Watch shipped 3.6M units with 19.9% market share, just behind Fitbit with 4.4M units for 24.3% market share — Apple Debuts at the Number Two Spot as the Worldwide Wearables Market Grows 223.2% in 2Q15, Says IDC — In its first appearance in the wearables market …
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The Verge, VentureBeat, 9to5Mac, Business Wire and Virtual-Strategy Magazine
| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Yahoo Announces New Tumblr Sharing Tools And Native Video Ads For Developers — Simon Khalaf, Yahoo's senior vice president of publisher products, today outlined some big shifts in the mobile ecosystem and unveiled some new tools for mobile developers. He made the announcements on-stage … | Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Agora, the Dark Web's biggest marketplace for drugs, pauses operations over Tor vulnerability that could expose IP addresses of servers — Agora, the Dark Web's Biggest Drug Market, Is Going Offline — The Dark Web's biggest marketplace for drugs seems to have learned a lesson from the downfall … | Leena Rao / Fortune: |
Qasar Younis, former Y Combinator graduate and creator of Talkbin which was acquired by Google in 2011, named Y Combinator COO — Meet Y Combinator's New COO — To appreciate the rapid growth at Silicon Valley incubator Y Combinator, consider this: In 2009, it shepherded 42 startups through its boot camp.Sponsor Posts
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