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Inside the inaugural test flight of Facebook's first internet drone, Aquila — Inside the test flight of Facebook's first internet drone — At 2AM, in the dark morning hours of June 28th, Mark Zuckerberg woke up and got on a plane. He was traveling to an aviation testing facility in Yuma …
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Mark Zuckerberg discusses Facebook's 10-year plans to improve internet access, the importance of AI, plans for VR, and the challenges of AR — Mark Zuckerberg on his plan to bring the internet to every human on earth — By nearly any measure, Facebook has had a remarkable year.
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EFF sues US over Digital Millennium Copyright Act clause that restricts tinkering with systems that protect copyrighted materials like films, audio, and code — The Electronic Frontier Foundation filed a lawsuit Thursday against the U.S. Government over a provision within … | Kara Swisher / Recode: |
Profile of Peter Thiel, the eccentric investor who is unlike anyone else in tech, as he endorses Trump with a speech at the RNC — The eccentric investor is not like anyone else in tech. — Okay, I will just say what pretty much everyone in tech thinks, even if they never seem to be able …
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Google Play Books debuts Bubble Zoom, which uses machine learning to detect and expand speech bubbles in comic books, starting with some Marvel and DC volumes — Whether it's reading up on the origins of Justice League or enjoying a reboot like Invincible Iron Man, we all love our heroes …
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
IDC: Smartwatch shipments fall for the first time; Apple only company in top 5 to decline — The smartwatch market has hit its first bump, and it's all Apple's fault. Vendors shipped a total of 3.5 million smartwatches worldwide last quarter. This Q2 2016 figure is down 32 percent …
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Tinder launches Tinder Social, a feature that lets groups plan nights out and “match” with other nearby groups that are also going out — Get ready to roll. Your night just got better. — Tinder has always been about getting you out of the house to meet someone new.| Lisa Beilfuss / Wall Street Journal: |
AT&T reports Q2 revenues of $40.52B, up 23% YoY, profit of $3.41B, up from $3.08B a year ago; adds 2.1M wireless customers but loses 49K video customers in US — Revenue for the telecom giant still falls short of Wall Street expectations — AT&T Inc. logged 23% sales growth …
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Seeking broader acceptance of in the world of venture captial, 500 Startups reveals detailed return fund performance data as it raises its fourth fund — When entrepreneur-investor Dave McClure launched his seed fund and accelerator 500 Startups in 2010, he was perhaps best known for his colorful … | Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Moto Z review: huge price increase, no 3.5mm headphone jack, slow OS updates, and lame modules make it hard to recommend — The first Moto flagship under Lenovo's rule isn't a compelling one. — Under Google, Motorola was one of our favorite OEMs. The company delivered bang-for-your-buck hardware …
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| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
Salesforce acquires data center analytics startup Coolan — Coolan, a startup that developed software for analyzing data about data center hardware, today announced that it has been acquired by Salesforce. Terms of the deal weren't disclosed. — It was not long ago that Coolan launched.
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| Mike Gikas / Consumer Reports: |
Samsung corrects manufacturing defect in Galaxy S7 Active to fix water resistance problem — The company says it found a manufacturing problem, will replace any phone under warranty that sustains water damage — Samsung says it has fixed a manufacturing problem that caused …
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Google Cloud Platform debuts 2 machine learning APIs in beta: a natural language API that lets devs perform sentiment & syntax analysis, and a Cloud Speech API — The Natural Language API enables sentiment and syntax analysis, as well as entity recognition.| Brad Sams / Petri: |
Microsoft says demand for its Surface Hub, which costs up to $22K, has exceeded forecasts; device has shipped to over 500 customers worldwide to date — When Microsoft announced its Surface Hub last year, there were quite a few people who raised concern that the device was too expensive … | Katie Roof / TechCrunch: |
PayPal narrowly beats quarterly revenue expectations with $2.65B as it partners with Visa — PayPal reported earnings after the bell on Thursday, showing $2.65 billion in revenue for the quarter, when analysts were expecting $2.6 billion. Adjusted earnings per share was also in line with Wall Street estimates at 36 cents.
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