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Facebook launches Messenger Lite on Android for slower internet speeds, initially in Kenya, Tunisia, Malaysia, Sri Lanka and Venezuela — By Tom Mulcahy, Engineering Manager for Messenger Lite — Furthering our goal to empower people all over the world to stay connected … | Roger Parloff / Fortune: |
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.| Priya Anand / BuzzFeed: |
Uber will get subsidies from Summit, NJ, for residents' rides to and from the local train station in a pilot program starting Monday — Summit, New Jersey, a bedroom community to New York City, will begin subsidizing Uber rides for residents traveling to and from the local train station starting Monday … | 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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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.”| Barb Darrow / Fortune: |
Salesforce rebrands Demandware e-commerce offering as Salesforce Commerce Cloud, adds Apple Pay support and some Einstein AI capabilities — Three months after completing its $2.8 billion acquisition of Demandware, Salesforce is officially bringing that company's e-commerce software in-house … | Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
What to expect at Google's Oct. 4 event: two new flagship devices without Nexus branding, more details about Home, Google Wi-Fi, Android-Chrome OS hybrid, more — So. Much. Hardware. — PIN — Now that Apple has had its big fall phone event, it's Google's turn to show off its goods.| Todd C. Frankel / Washington Post: |
How cobalt sourced from dangerous mines in DR Congo ends up inside Lithium-ion batteries powering devices made by Apple, Samsung, Tesla, and other tech firms — Photos by Michael Robinson Chavez … The sun was rising over one of the richest mineral deposits on Earth, in one of the poorest countries …
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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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| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Hong Kong's Tink Labs raises $125M from Foxconn's FIH Mobile, Sinovation Ventures, and Meitu's chairman for its free-to-use smartphone service for hotel guests — If you travel a lot, or even just a little, you'll be sick of roaming bills, or frustrated by the inconvenience of the cheaper alternative …
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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.| 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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