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Oculus Touch will be available on December 6th for $199; pre-orders open on October 10 — The Oculus Touch will be available for the Rift on December 6th for $199, the company announced today. Oculus's Input API works with three different devices, including Touch, so developers can create …
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Oculus demos augmented social virtual reality with facial expressions — Today on stage at Oculus' Connect conference, Mark Zuckerberg demonstrated a new facial tracking social VR experience that overlays VR avatars of friends who are elsewhere on top of your vision.
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Sources: Disney will not bid for Twitter, leaving Salesforce as the last potential bidder — Which leaves Salesforce, for now. — Cross another potential Twitter buyer off the list: Disney isn't pursuing a bid for the social platform, either. — Sources familiar with Disney …
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Sources: Google will not make a Twitter bid and Apple is also an unlikely suitor; Twitter stock falls around 20% after the news — Amid speculation, the tech giants have other aims — According to sources close to the situation, Google does not currently plan to make a bid for Twitter.
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See also Mediagazer| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
LinkedIn now lets users privately signal to recruiters when they are looking for a new job; feature initially available in US, Canada, UK, and Australia — One of the hallmarks of any social network is how it pushes people to share their experiences with others, but increasingly we've seen …
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| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
Report: Snap Inc., formerly Snapchat, is planning a $25B IPO for March 2017 — The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Snap — the now-parent company of Snapchat — is working on an initial public offering for as early as March that could value the company at $25 billion or higher.| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple to move services teams, including Maps, Siri and iCloud, from separate campuses to One Infinite Loop in attempt to improve services — @markgurman , More stories by Mark Gurman — Cue to move cloud service engineering teams to single campus — Company continues shifting services to its own infrastructure
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Samsung acquires Viv, a next-gen AI assistant built by the creators of Apple's Siri — Samsung has agreed to acquire Viv, an AI and assistant system co-founded by Dag Kittlaus, Adam Cheyer and Chris Brigham — who created Siri, which was acquired by Apple in 2010.
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Netflix signs deal with theater chain iPic Entertainment to screen its original movies, which will debut on the streaming service simultaneously — Next year, some of Netflix's original movies will have a debut home on the big screen. The streaming service just signed a deal …
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Marc Andreessen on why AI can spawn a new generation of big, important technology companies — Recent breakthroughs in artificial intelligence and machine learning are enabling computers to understand the world and respond intelligently to it. Google is already embracing these technologies for Android …
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Sources: Facebook in talks with US government and wireless carriers to launch Free Basics-like service in the US, for low-income and rural Americans — Facebook has been in talks for months with U.S. government officials and wireless carriers with an eye toward unveiling an American version …
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Q&A with Didi CEO Cheng Wei on his journey from obscurity to China business hero, the Kuaidi merger, battle with Uber, self-driving cars, and Didi's future — Photographs by Ka Xiaoxi — At the Beijing offices of the ride-hailing startup Didi, many employees refer to Cheng Wei … | Mat Honan / BuzzFeed: |
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