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Apple Has Acquired Faceshift, Maker Of Motion Capture Tech Used In Star Wars — As the market for virtual reality technology continues to grow, Apple has made an interesting acquisition that could further its role in the space. TechCrunch has confirmed that Apple has snapped up Faceshift …
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Google expects to launch Accelerated Mobile Pages, its version of Facebook's Instant Articles, early next year — Google says its version of Facebook's instant articles will arrive early next year — Last month Google introduced Accelerated Mobile Pages, its open-source program designed … | Google: |
Google lists top 10 domains with right to be forgotten requests, says Facebook, YouTube, Twitter most impacted — European privacy requests for search removals — In a May 2014 ruling, Google Spain v AEPD and Mario Costeja González, the Court of Justice of the European Union found … | David Pierce / Wired: |
Fossil Q Founder Android Wear smartwatch available November 25 for $275, favors fashion over tech — Fossil's New Smartwatches Favor Fashion Over Tech — The designers at Fossil have been making watches and jewelry for decades. When they set out to make their first smartwatch, though, they had to re-learn a few things.| David Dayen / Salon: |
While under FTC scrutiny, Google donated $762K to George Mason University as it published favorable studies; GMU professor later became FTC commissioner — Google's insidious shadow lobbying: How the Internet giant is bankrolling friendly academics—and skirting federal investigations| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Tor launches its first crowdfunding campaign as it seeks to be less reliant on US government funds — With US government as top donor, Tor Project looks to crowdfunding — Following up on goals set earlier this year, the Tor Project launched its first crowdfunding project today to expand …
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Jet.com lands $350M in funding led by Fidelity and says it has verbal agreements for another $150M, at a $1B pre-money valuation — Jet.com Lands $350 Million in Funding, With $150 Million More Coming — Jet.com has closed $350 million in new funding, and says it has verbal agreements for another $150 million.
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| Roger Fingas / AppleInsider: |
Amazon Video, Microsoft OneDrive, and Google Drive for iOS update with 3D Touch support — Amazon Video, Microsoft OneDrive & Google Drive for iOS update with 3D Touch [u] — Amazon, Google, and Microsoft on Tuesday updated key iOS apps with support for 3D Touch on the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus …
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| Ed Bott / ZDNet: |
Microsoft reverses course: its media creation tool now installs latest Windows 10 version — Microsoft reverses course, restores downloads of Windows 10 November Update — Last weekend, Microsoft suddenly pulled its online tool for downloading the latest Windows 10 installation files.
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| Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
IBM makes its System ML machine learning software freely available to share and modify through the Apache Software Foundation — IBM Turns Up Heat Under Competition in Artificial Intelligence — Programmers of artificial intelligence software got a new tool to work with Monday …
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Bing Maps update adds road conditions from more than 35K cameras in 11 countries — Traffic Cameras in Bing Maps — Seeing is believing. Here at Bing Maps we know the value of traffic information, however, there is something to be said about being able to see the current road conditions.
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Profile of Gery Shalon, the man who prosecutors allege masterminded the JP Morgan hack — Accused Mastermind of J.P. Morgan Hack a Product of Israel's Internet Underbelly — Gery Shalon is alleged to have run a ‘criminal conglomerate’ that reaped hundreds of millions of dollars in illegal profits| Reuters: |
Sources: EMC to retain majority stake in Virtustream, VMware to assume a minority stake — Exclusive: EMC to keep majority stake in Virtustream - sources — EMC Corp (EMC.N) plans to keep a majority stake in cloud services provider Virtustream, abandoning earlier plans to place …
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