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A history of deep learning and how it's being used in more tech products than ever — Decades-old discoveries are now electrifying the computing industry and will soon transform corporate America. — Over the past four years, readers have doubtlessly noticed quantum leaps in the quality of a wide range of everyday technologies.| Jessi Hempel / Backchannel: |
Q&A with Melinda Gates on her new initiative to promote women in tech — Philanthropy's first lady returns to her roots to tackle gender inequality in computer science. — Melinda Gates has spent the past 16 years seeding social change through the world's largest private philanthropy, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
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| Adam Howell: |
Apple threatens to pull top-grossing iMessage sticker pack Phoneys, which overwrites your friends' messages — Wednesday night of this week, John Gruber wrote, “This is very clever, and I can see how it could be damn funny, but I wouldn't be surprised if Phoneys gets pulled from the App Store.”| Brian Benchoff / Hackaday: |
Arduino.cc and Arduino.org settle trademark dispute, announce Arduino Holding for product distribution, and Arduino Foundation for managing IDE and community — For the last two years, Arduino LLC (the arduino.cc, Massimo one) and Arduino SRL (the arduino.org, Musto one) … | Todd C. Frankel / Washington Post: |
How cobalt sourced from dangerous mines in DR Congo ends up inside Li-ion batteries powering gadgets made by Apple, Samsung, and other tech companies — Photos by Michael Robinson Chavez … The sun was rising over one of the richest mineral deposits on Earth, in one of the poorest countries, as Sidiki Mayamba got ready for work.| Catalin Cimpanu / Softpedia News: |
To cut costs, Mozilla begins testing alternative plugins like Chrome's PDFium in Firefox to replace its own internal implementations — Mozilla testing PDFium and Pepper Flash integration — Mozilla announced today Project Mortar, an initiative to explore the possibility …
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| Dave Lee / BBC: |
ICANN gains full oversight of Domain Name System as its contract with US NTIA expires on October 1 — A judge in Texas has put the kibosh on a last-minute legal attempt to block the controversial decision for the US to give up control of one of the key systems that powers the internet.| Sean McLain / Wall Street Journal: |
Uber launches UberEats in Tokyo and looks to work around strict regulation in Japan by linking customers with taxi drivers instead of private car owners — Uber's Japan arm is running pilot ride-hailing programs to expand beyond food delivery — TOKYO—Uber plans to ramp up its business in Japan … | Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Source code behind IoT device botnet Mirai, responsible for DDoS of KrebsOnSecurity, publicly released by Hackforums user — The source code that powers the “Internet of Things” (IoT) botnet responsible for launching the historically large distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) …
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| Bloomberg: |
Buggy, obsolete, costly electronic voting machines often cause more problems than they solve — Remember when everyone hated hanging chads and wanted computerized voting? Seemed like a good idea at the time. — Photographs by Julian Berman — Six days after Memphis voters went …
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| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
45K developers are using Microsoft Bot Framework to make bots for Skype and other chat platforms, while 34K developers are making bots for Facebook Messenger — More than 45,000 developers are now using the Microsoft Bot Framework, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said Monday.| Business Day Live: |
WeChat testing new feature called “little program” that lets service providers build apps within the messaging app, instead of linking to webpages as before — TENCENT Holdings built a hugely successful messaging platform with its WeChat app. Now an experimental new service …
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