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A history of Facebook Messenger as it reaches 1B monthly users five years after its debut; 17B photos are now sent through the service each month — Facebook's gamble of forcing users to download Messenger has paid off. Despite the backlash, Messenger has doubled its user count in 20 months …
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Thanks:@joshconstine| Dan Primack / Fortune: |
Unilever acquires Dollar Shave Club, sources say for $1B; DSC founder and CEO Michael Dubin to continue running the company — Unilever announced on Tuesday evening that it is getting into the razor business, by agreeing to acquire Dollar Shave Club. — No financial terms were disclosed …
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Airbnb hires former Attorney General Eric Holder to help “craft a world-class anti-discrimination policy” — Airbnb has hired former Attorney General Eric Holder. — CEO Brian Chesky announced the hire in a blog post on Airbnb's website. Holder will help “craft …
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Microsoft debuts Bookings, a new Office 365 service for online appointment scheduling — Microsoft this morning announced an expansion to its Office 365 suite with the debut of a new service called Bookings, which will allow customers to schedule appointments with a business using online software.
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Twitter permanently suspends Breitbart tech editor Milo Yiannopoulos for repeated violation of rules regarding targeted abuse of users — After years of provocation, Twitter has permanently banned Milo Yiannopoulos from its service. — After years of provocation, Twitter has permanently banned Milo Yiannopoulos from its service.
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Google says DeepMind-powered AI has improved its datacenters' power usage efficiency by 15% — Game-playing AI coordinates data center tasks like cooling — DeepMind efficiencies cover part of cost of 2014 acquisition — Google just paid for part of its acquisition of DeepMind in a surprising way.
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SwiftKey debuts its first product since Microsoft acquisition, emoji prediction keyboard Swiftmoji — Keyboard app maker Swiftkey, which was acquired by Microsoft for $250 million in February, has officially launched its first product since that acquisition — and it's an emoji-predicting keyboard app, called Swiftmoji.
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| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Alleged owner of biggest torrent site, KickassTorrents, arrested in Poland for copyright infringement and money laundering, as US seizes KAT domains — With millions of unique visitors per day KickassTorrents (KAT) has become the most-used torrent site on the Internet, beating even The Pirate Bay.
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eBay slightly beats Q2 estimates on revenues of $2.2B and earnings of $437M, announces $2.5B share buyback — eBay said its board approved an additional $2.5 billion share repurchase program, which likely helped its shares pop around six percent in after market trading.
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Mining is underway for a new Ethereum blockchain, following a hard fork that refunds ether to original investors of the hacked DAO — Ethereum, a virtual currency and coding platform, passed one of the most important and potentially dangerous milestones for any piece of software on Wednesday …
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Seagate unveils three 10TB, helium-based 7200 RPM hard drives for the consumer market, with prices starting at $460 — Our recent interview with Seagate's CTO, Mark Re, gave us an idea about of the future of the hard drive market. As late as Q1 2016, Seagate had considered helium-based drives suitable for high-end applications only.| Benjamin Smedberg / Future Releases: |
Firefox will block non-essential, invisible Flash content starting in August — Browser plugins, especially Flash, have enabled some of our favorite experiences on the Web, including videos and interactive content. But plugins often introduce stability, performance, and security issues for browsers.
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