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| Google Research Blog: |
TensorFlow - Google's latest machine learning system, open sourced for everyone — Deep Learning has had a huge impact on computer science, making it possible explore new frontiers of research and to develop amazingly useful products that millions of people use every day.
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| Apple: |
Apple will start selling iPad Pro online Wednesday, November 11, and at retail stores, select carriers, and Apple Authorized Resellers later this week — Epic 12.9-inch iPad Pro Available to Order Online Wednesday & Arrives in Stores Later This Week — iPad Pro Arrives in Over 40 Countries Including the US, UK, China & Japan
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| Bloomberg Business: |
TAG Heuer unveils $1,500 Connected Watch with Android Wear, Intel CPU, available from Nov. 9 with $1,500 trade-in offer after 2 years for a traditional Carrera — The Vallée de Joux meets Silicon Valley. — The Swiss are now officially making a smartwatch.
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft buys another Israeli security company, Secure Islands, for an alleged $77.5 million — Microsoft has purchased a third Israeli security firm with its purchase of data-security firm Secure Islands. — Recent rumors about Microsoft picking up a third Israeli security company were correct.
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| Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
Sources: Yahoo hires McKinsey to help with reorg; Mayer's demand for a commitment to stay for 3 to 5 years was a reason for several recent exec departures — Yahoo Hires McKinsey to Mull Reorg, as Mayer Demands Exec Pledge to Stay — According to several people close to the situation …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Enterprise Software Co Atlassian Files IPO On Sales Of $320M, Net Income Of $6.8M In 2015 — Another software company has filed to go public: Atlassian, the company behind enterprise-focused social products like Slack competitor HipChat, JIRA, and Confluence, has filed an F-1 form with the SEC …
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| Steve Ragan / CSO: |
Comcast resets nearly 200,000 passwords after customer list goes on sale — Dark Web market ad offering Comcast accounts in bulk — Over the weekend, a reader (@flanvel) directed Salted Hash to a post on a Dark Web marketplace selling a number of questionable, if not outright illegal goods.
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| Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed: |
Facebook Messenger tests Photo Magic in Australia, scanning faces in your camera roll and prompting you to send pictures to friends — Facebook Messenger Brings Facial Recognition To Your Camera Roll — When you take a picture of your friends, you'll get a notification to send it to them through Messenger.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Report: WordPress powers 25% of all websites, 58.7% of sites with an identifiable CMS — WordPress now powers 25% of the Web — One in four websites is now powered by WordPress. — Today is a big day for the free and open-source content management system (CMS).
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Marketing Land, Matt Mullenweg, The Tech Portal, Tech Times, ITProPortal and Ubergizmo
| Kurt Wagner / Re/code: |
Sources: several Twitter board members likely to depart, including the “three Peters”, perhaps as late as next year, as Dorsey seeks to add more diversity — Twitter Plans to Turn Over Its Board, Add More Diversity — Twitter's board won't look like Twitter's board for long.| Benedict Evans: |
‘Mobile’ isn't about screen size, but about ease-of-use, a better security model, improved power consumption over PCs, and scale of the device ecosystem — Mobile, ecosystems and the death of PCs — One of the ways that tech progresses is in generational changes in scale.
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Tweets: @cdixon, @kevinweil and @benedictevans
| Yoree Koh / Wall Street Journal: |
Pinterest says it's introducing a new visual search tool on Monday with an index of roughly 1B images — Pinterest Sharpens Its Visual-Search Skills — New technology will let users scour site for objects like those they highlight in photos — Photo-sharing site Pinterest Inc …
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