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September 7, 2015, 3:15 PM

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Julia Love / Reuters:

Apple ramps up hiring of artificial intelligence experts specializing in machine learning — Exclusive: Apple ups hiring, but faces obstacles to making phones smarter — Apple has ramped up its hiring of artificial intelligence experts, recruiting from PhD programs …

More: BGR, The Verge, International Business Times, Gizmodo, MacRumors, AppleInsider, TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, iMore, Patently Apple, iDownloadBlog.com, The Tech Portal, iPhone in Canada Blog and TodaysiPhone.com

Startup L. Jackson / Startups and S**t:

Twitter's core product is fine for current users, but company is overvalued and has to show investors it can grow with projects like Vine, Periscope — Twitter's Product is F**king Fine — It seems all the range to write thought pieces on Twitter's product problems.

More: Dustin Curtis. Tweets: @craigmod, @markymark, @om, @anildash, @joshelman, @davemcclure and @tomaxwell

Eugene Wei / Remains of the Day:

Twitter should remove arbitrary 140 character limit and other legacy restrictions to appeal to mainstream users, recognize its true strength is its network

More: PC Magazine. Tweets: @carnage4life, @jeffweiner, @eugenewei, @erickschonfeld, @dseetharaman and @ow

Gerald Lynch / Gizmodo UK:

Netflix says offline viewing would add too much complexity to the service, will not be popular despite many users asking for it — The Real Reason Netflix Won't Offer Offline Downloads — Offline downloads are perhaps the most often requested, “holy grail” feature of TV and movie streaming services …

More: BGR, Business Insider, 9to5Mac, Neowin and iDownloadBlog.com

Steve Lohr / New York Times:

FDA-approved Eko Core stethoscope attachment records and sends heart audio wave images to an iPhone app; abnormality-detecting algorithm is in clinical trials — Take a Deep Breath, Then Check Your Smartphone — The stethoscope, that iconic tool of doctors, has been upgraded several times since it was invented two centuries ago.

More: Berkeley News, University of California, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Engadget and Yahoo Tech

Vlad Savov / The Verge:

Huawei is the new Samsung: ascendant Chinese smartphone maker adeptly copies competitors' features and designs — Huawei is the new Samsung — Samsung's meteoric rise as a smartphone maker began with the Galaxy S, a 2010 Android handset with some high specs and more than a passing resemblance to the iPhone.

Cade Metz / Wired:

Why Facebook chose Haskell, a functional programming language that ranks 23rd in overall popularity on Github, to build its complex anti-spam system — Facebook's New Spam-Killer Hints at the Future of Coding — Louis Brandy pauses before answering, needing some extra time to choose his words.

The Tech Block:

Base iPad Pro will have 64GB of storage and “monster” 12.9-inch display that can run 2 full-sized apps side by side; top model prices close to latest MacBooks — iPad Pro: ‘Monster screen’ runs full-sized side-by-side apps, LTE models, keyboard + stylus separate

More: Business Insider and Gizmodo

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Uber Confirms It's Raised $1.2B More In China Led By Baidu As Rival Didi Kuaidi Gets $3B — Uber — the app-based, on-demand transportation service — has been on has been on a fundraising tear as it expands globally in the face of major competition. China is the company's latest battleground.

More: Bloomberg Business, Reuters, The Tech Portal, Tech in Asia, Tnooz, VentureBeat, Reuters and Fortune

Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed:

Pagefair's estimate that publishers will lose $21.8B due to ad blocking ignores law of supply and demand, so is likely overstated — Widely Cited Ad Blocking Study Finding $21.8 Billion Loss Is Incorrect — Supply and demand were purposefully overlooked, leading to larger number.

More: VentureBeat, TeleRead, Business Insider and Wired

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