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Twitter acquires Magic Pony Technology, a London-based company that uses machine learning to identify features in and enhance imagery; sources: deal worth $150M — Twitter today is taking another step to build up its machine learning muscle, and also potentially to improve how it delivers photos …
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Thanks:@ingridlunden| Madhumita Murgia / Telegraph: |
Spotify says it has 100M+ monthly active users, adding 1.8M monthly, with 30% as paying subscribers — Spotify has confirmed that it has more than 100m monthly active users on its music streaming service today. — 30pc of these users are paying subscribers, leading to an almost doubling …
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Engadget, PCWorld, MacRumors, SlashGear, TechSpot, iPhone in Canada Blog, iPhone Hacks, The Verge, Pocketnow and VentureBeat. Tweets: @gsharma. Thanks:@ravichandrans25
| Tony Romm / Politico: |
Apple CEO Tim Cook will host a fundraiser for House Speaker Paul Ryan next week in the wake of Apple pulling support for the GOP convention over Trump — Apple CEO Tim Cook will host a fundraiser with House Speaker Paul Ryan next week as the iPhone maker tries to strengthen its relationships …
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eWeek, The Verge, MacRumors, Business Insider, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, Recode, Daring Fireball, Cult of Mac and New Republic
Tweets: @tonyromm, @johnpaczkowski and @trevordmoretz
Thanks:@tonyromm| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Dell sells software unit to Francisco Partners and Elliott Management for undisclosed sum — TechCrunch has confirmed that Francisco Partners and Elliott Management have agreed to acquire Dell's software division. — Elliott Management, Francisco Partners and Dell issued …
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Reuters, Francisco Partners, The Register, eWeek, SiliconANGLE, Fortune, New York Times, ZDNet, Data Center Knowledge, Wall Street Journal, Talkin' Cloud, The Register, Light Reading and silicontap.com
Tweets: @bradcasemore and @ejaxon
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Tumblr to launch live video on Tuesday, will introduce a series of live broadcasts as well as a user-facing feature that could compete with Facebook Live — Twitter has Periscope. Amazon has Twitch. Google has YouTube's live streaming. And Facebook has Facebook Live.
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SiliconANGLE, Engadget, Fortune, The Verge, The Next Web, Light Reading, TechnoBuffalo, Tubefilter, Pocket-lint, New York Magazine and SlashGear. Tweets: @gamoid. See also Mediagazer
| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft kicks off campaign touting battery savings of Windows 10's Edge browser — Microsoft is going on the browser offensive with new test results showing Windows 10 Edge bests Google, Opera and Firefox on battery life. — Microsoft is kicking off a campaign touting the power-saving capabilities …
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Windows Blog, Windows Blog, BetaNews, BGR, The Verge, Computerworld, Business Insider, The Next Web, Refinery29, Laptop Mag, TechSpot, 9to5Google, PCWorld, Ars Technica UK, Engadget, WinBeta, INSIDER, Neowin, CNET, gHacks Technology News, The Drum, VentureBeat, Windows Central, The Fire Hose and MSPoweruser
Tweets: @gauravseth and @brandonlive
| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
All of Facebook's board of directors, including Peter Thiel, are re-elected, and shareholders vote to issue non-voting Class C shares — Facebook today held its annual shareholder meeting, and the group approved the formation of a new class of voting shares that will keep CEO Mark Zuckerberg …
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TechCrunch, SiliconBeat, The Verge, Gizmodo and Recode
Tweets: @jguynn, @mikeisaac, @eringriffith, @jguynn, @eringriffith, @jguynn and @jguynn
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China has 167 machines in Top500 list of fastest supercomputers, edging out 165 for US, and China's new Sunway TaihuLight computer is 2x as fast as any machine — For first time, China places more machines than the U.S. on Top500 list — China has bolstered its claim to leadership …
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TOP500 Supercomputer Sites, The Verge and Forbes
| Reuters: |
Sources: Craig Wright, who claimed to be Satoshi Nakamoto, has filed more than 50 patent applications in UK, focusing on cryptocurrency tech — Craig Wright, the Australian who claimed to be the inventor of bitcoin, is attempting to build a large patent portfolio around the digital currency …
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Finance Magnates, Blockchain News, NEWSBTC, CoinDesk and London Review of Books
| Jamie McGee / Tennessean.com: |
Chattanooga mayor credits municipal gigabit broadband for driving city's economic revival over the past few years — When Chattanooga Mayor Andy Berke describes his city's economic renewal, he points to the city's fiber network as a significant source of its new vibrancy.| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
Huawei's Surface competitor, the MateBook, is headed to the US on July 11 starting at $699 — Huawei's Surface competitor, the Matebook, is headed to the US on July 11th starting at $699. Announced back at Mobile World Congress, it's a 12-inch laptop/tablet hybrid that weighs in at a mere 1.4 pounds and 6.9 millimeters thin.
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TechCrunch, PR Newswire, Laptop Mag, TechSpot, Digital Trends, WinBeta, The Verge, Pocketnow, Design & Trend, WCCFtech and MSPoweruser
| Mark Harris / IEEE Spectrum: |
Nexar AI dashcam app raises $10.5M, has profiled driving behavior of over 7M cars — If you've been out on the streets of Silicon Valley or New York City in the past nine months, there's a good chance that your bad driving habits have already been profiled by Nexar.Sponsor Posts
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