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Facebook Messenger begins testing opt-in end-to-end encryption; encrypted chats only visible on one device on each end, can self-destruct after pre-set time — Just a few years ago, end-to-end encryption was a nerdy niche: a tiny collection of obscure software let you encrypt communication …
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| Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed: |
Facebook Heavily Promotes Live Video But Struggles To Deal With Its Visceral Aftermath — Last night, at 10:06 P.M., a woman by the name of Diamond “Lavish” Reynolds went live on Facebook for roughly ten minutes. During that time, she chronicled the last conscious moments of her boyfriend …
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EU-US Privacy Shield data pact gets approval from European governments, paving the way for the formal adoption early next week — A revised pact governing EU-US data flows has been approved by European governments. — The Privacy Shield agreement replaces the previous accord …
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Microsoft's Project Malmo platform for testing AI algorithms in Minecraft, formerly known as Project AIX, goes open source and is now available on GitHub — The system, now available to all, uses Minecraft to test artificial intelligence protocols. — Microsoft has released artificial …
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| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Yahoo brings its news, weather, monkey, and finance bots to Facebook Messenger — This summer, Yahoo brought its news, weather, and virtual pet services to the Kik messaging app in the form of chatbots. At the time, the company hoped that these bots would help it learn how people might use …
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Google tests a type of encryption in Chrome called Ring-LWE that could be immune to attacks from quantum computers — For anyone who cares about Internet security and encryption, the advent of practical quantum computing looms like the Y2K bug in the 1990s: a countdown to an unpredictable event that might just break everything.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Siris Capital to buy Polycom for $2B in cash, Polycom cancels its $1.96B Mitel merger — Here's an interesting twist in one of the bigger enterprise acquisition stories of 2016. After Mitel earlier this year announced that it would acquire Polycom for $1.96 billion and consolidate …
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| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft makes its Power BI web publishing feature available to all users for free — Microsoft today is announcing that it's making the “publish to web” feature in its Power BI cloud-based business intelligence tool generally available at no additional cost for both free and pro users.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google acquires Anvato, a platform used by broadcasters for encoding, editing, publishing and distributing video; the team will join Google's Cloud Platform — Google is getting deeper into the tech side of the video and broadcasting business. The company today announced that it has acquired Anvato …
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| Kara Swisher / Recode: |
Yahoo's Firefox search deal includes a clause allowing Mozilla to walk away from a new buyer and still be paid $375M per year through 2019 — The contract clause — personally struck by the CEO — is a “hairy” one for bidders. — Under terms of a contract that has been seen by Recode …
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| Amir Efrati / The Information: |
Source: ESPN plans to offer live programming packages directly to consumers on the web, won't include pro football or basketball — Walt Disney's ESPN sports network plans to unveil a package of live programming it will offer directly to consumers on the Web, said a person with knowledge of the plans.
| Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
Source: Uber raises $1.15B from its first leveraged loan, to pay a yield of about 5% — Ride-hailing company will pay a yield of about 5%, source says — Uber Technologies Inc. has raised $1.15 billion from a new high-yield loan, according to a person familiar with the matter … Sponsor Posts
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