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Twilio stock closes at $28.53, jumping more than 90% in first day of trading — Twilio (TWLO) ended its first day as a public company with a bang. Shares in the cloud communication company rose more than 90 percent to close at $28.53, a feat that beat analyst expectations and comes …
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Apple announces it will discontinue Thunderbolt Display amid speculation that it will soon launch a 4K or 5K version — Apple today announced that it is discontinuing its Thunderbolt Display, the large external display many use to connect to MacBooks or other Macs for extra screen real estate.
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| Andrew J . Hawkins / The Verge: |
Uber starts showing upfront fares for uberX instead of multipliers but keeps dynamic pricing — Surge pricing has long been Uber's Achilles' heel: during periods of excessive demand, when there are more riders than drivers, Uber increases its normal prices to encourage drivers to flood the zone.| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
YouTube announces live streaming is coming to its mobile app, available now for select creators, rolling out more broadly soon — YouTube announced that it is adding the capability to broadcast live video right from its mobile app. This capability is said to be rolling out to select creators first …
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| Steven Levy / Backchannel: |
Inside Google's “ML Ninja” program for teaching its coders AI techniques as it looks to apply machine learning across the company's products — Carson Holgate is training to become a ninja. — Not in the martial arts—she's already done that. Holgate, 26, holds a second degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do.
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Google's RankBrain machine learning system is now used to process every search query, up from processing less than 15% of the queries last year — Google is now using its RankBrain machine learning system to process every query that the search engine handles, and the system is changing the rankings of lots of queries.| Fitz Tepper / TechCrunch: |
Facebook announces future updates to Live at VidCon: ability to go live with face filters from MSQRD, add a friend's stream to a broadcast, and schedule streams — Today at VidCon Facebook pre-announced three new big product updates for Facebook Live, their live-streaming platform built into Facebook.| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
FTC fines InMobi, a Singapore-based mobile ad firm, $950K for collecting location data of users without consent — InMobi ad network, which reaches more than 1 billion devices, settles FTC charges. — A mobile advertising company that tracked the locations of hundreds of millions … | Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Instagram will start recommending video channels in Explore section — Next time you're looking for something to watch on Instagram, you might have better luck: Instagram is rolling out an update to its Explore section so that it'll start recommending video collections it thinks you'll be interested in.
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| Nathan Ingraham / Engadget: |
BitTorrent Now ad-supported music and video streaming service launches on Android, with iOS and Apple TV apps coming soon — Chances are, most people still think of BitTorrent as a tool to pirate the latest Game of Thrones episode — but for several years now, the company has been using …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Twitter starts rolling-out Foursquare-powered location-tagged tweet feeds on iOS — Finally Twitter will let you see tweets from a specific place, like a business, sports stadium, or music festival. After a reader tipped us off, Twitter confirmed to TechCrunch it's now rolling out this big … | Wikimedia blog: |
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