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Instagram clones Snapchat's Stories feature, rolling out globally on iOS and Android — People only post the highlights of their life on Instagram, so today the app adds its own version of “Stories” to poach goofy, off-the-cuff, everyday content from Snapchat.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Salesforce buys word processing app Quip, sources say for $750M — Salesforce is continuing its buying spree to expand the services that it offers to its customers. The company has just announced that it is acquiring Quip, the cloud-based word processing app that was co-founded by Bret Taylor, formerly CTO of Facebook.| Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed: |
Less than 6 months after joining, Twitter VP of communications Natalie Kerris is leaving the company — Natalie Kerris, who joined Twitter as its VP of communications in February, is leaving the company, BuzzFeed News has learned. Leslie Berland, Twitter's chief marketing officer … | Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
IDC: global tablet market down 12.3% YoY to 38.7M units; Apple marketshare increases to 25.8% despite iPad sales declining 9.2% YoY — According to the latest data from IDC out today, Apple continued its lead of the worldwide tablet market in Q2 despite a decline in overall sales.| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Washington state sues Comcast for $100M+, saying customers paid $73M for “near-worthless” protection plan over 5 years, had their credit unnecessarily checked — Comcast is being sued for more than $100 million by Washington state, which claims that the cable giant illegally deceived customers … | Adnan F. / SamMobile: |
Samsung's Gear S3 smartwatch will have an altimeter, barometer, and integrated GPS with new speedometer feature — We have already reported exclusively that the Gear S3 is going to be round like its predecessor and that it's going to be unveiled at IFA 2016 in September.| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
New York's correctional dept., at Gov. Cuomo's behest, makes playing online games a parole violation for sex offenders, spurred by report on Pokémon Go usage — At the direction of Governor Andrew Cuomo, New York's correctional department has made playing online games a violation … | Wall Street Journal: |
Didi's acquisition of Uber China and $1B investment in Uber leaves the future of Lyft's alliance with Didi in doubt — Lyft sees ally Didi team with its biggest rival, which is now no longer burdened by China — Uber Technologies Inc.'s retreat from China creates ripples in its second-biggest market … | Didi Chuxing: |
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Philips launches a health app, number of smart health devices: $250 watch, $100 scale, $60 ear thermometer, $100 upper arm and $90 wrist blood pressure monitors — Philips is no stranger to health. In fact, Philips Healthcare (nee Philips Medical Systems) comprises a big chunk … | Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
TP-Link settles with FCC over Wi-Fi rules violations, will pay $200K fine, work with open source community and chipset makers to allow third-party firmware — TP-Link settles with FCC after blocking open source and violating power rules. — Networking hardware vendor TP-Link today admitted … | Sean Hollister / CNET: |
Niantic updates Pokémon Go to remove a notoriously glitchy Pokémon proximity tracking feature, angering many fans that it wasn't simply fixed — Some players are even asking for refunds — and getting them. — César Salza / CNET — It seemed like Pokemon Go's Friday update … | Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Glowforge raises $22M in new funding from Foundry Group and True Ventures to scale up production of 3D laser printers — Glowforge, the Seattle-based startup which makes 3D laser printers, today announced a $22 million investment round. — Previous investors Foundry Group …
Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens.
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