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| Mishaal Rahman / xda-developers: |
How the shutdown of Cyanogen services and the forking of CyanogenMod to Lineage OS will affect one of Android's most stable custom distributions — The King is Dead, Long Live the King! — Cyanogen Inc. has finally delivered a bullet to the brain - of CyanogenMod.
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| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
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| Martin Brinkmann / gHacks Technology News: |
HandBrake 1.0.0, an open source cross-platform video transcoder, released after 13+ years of development — HandBrake 1.0.0, a new version of the popular open source cross-platform video converter, was released on December 24, 2016. — I reviewed HandBrake for the first time in the year 2007 …
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| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Report: Snap acquired four-year-old Israeli AR startup Cimagine Media for $30M to $40M — Snap has reportedly made an investment in augmented reality, purchasing Israeli-based startup Cimagine Media in a deal that's said to be worth between $30 million and $40 million.
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| Aaron Tilley / Forbes: |
Apple publishes an artificial intelligence paper for the first time, after recently promising to open up its AI research — Earlier this month, Apple made a splash when it told the artificial intelligence research community that the secretive company would start publishing AI papers of its own.
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arXiv.org, MacRumors, SlashGear, WebProNews, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, iMore, TechCrunch, Tech Times, Engadget, iPhone Hacks, SiliconANGLE, iDownloadBlog.com, CNET, International Business Times, and iPhone in Canada Blog. Tweets: @reza_zadeh. Thanks:@aatilley
| David Streitfeld / New York Times: |
Inside Snopes' increasingly prominent fact-checking operation, which added 12 staffers a couple years ago and saw a record ~2.5M uniques the day after election — SAN DIEGO — The last line of defense against the torrent of half-truths, untruths and outright fakery that make up so much of the modern internet …
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| Bloomberg: |
Canon Tokki has near monopoly on machines making OLED screens and a 2-year order backlog, raising questions over supply of OLED screens for next year's iPhones — Apple Inc.'s quest to adopt advanced displays for its next-generation iPhone hinges on a single supplier in the Japanese countryside.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
World's largest hedge fund, Bridgewater, is building an algorithmic model to recreate founder's staff-management style, led by ex-IBM Watson's David Ferrucci — Bridgewater wants day-to-day management—hiring, firing, decision-making—to be guided by software that doles out instructions
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SiliconANGLE and Fortune. Tweets: @awealthofcs, @matt_levine, @gerardtbaker, @jyarow, @mathbabedotorg, @eiaine, and @willmenaker
| Natt Garun / The Verge: |
Facebook's Safety Check in Bangkok, Thailand falsely triggered by fake news reports about a bomb explosion, was deactivated after about an hour — There was no bomb scare in Thailand — Facebook got fooled by its own algorithm. Today, the social network falsely activated its Safety Check feature …
Tweets: @saksithcna, @thedextriarchy, @jonrussell, and @jerometaylor
| Bloomberg: |
Despite efforts, the diversity of Wikipedia's overwhelmingly white and male editorial pool has been slow to improve — The ubiquitous reference site tries to expand its editor ranks beyond the Comic Con set. — by — Subscribe Reprints — Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi is a 53-year-old British … | Reuters: |
Tencent, Chinese mapping firm NavInfo, and Singapore's sovereign wealth fund GIC buy 10% stake in digital maps company HERE — Chinese mapping firm NavInfo (002405.SZ), internet group Tencent (0700.HK) and Singapore's sovereign wealth fund GIC are buying a 10 percent stake in digital maps company HERE …
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VentureBeat, HERE 360, Channel NewsAsia, and Tech.eu
| Lulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg: |
China's “Uber for trucks” Huochebang raises $115M at $1B valuation from Tencent, others — Tencent-backed Huochebang raised $115 million for expansion — IFC, All-Stars Investment co-led the new funding round — Truck Alliance Inc., an Uber-type service for trucks known …
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Investopedia, CHINAdaily, and China Money Network
| Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land: |
Google algorithm change appears to be moving Holocaust-denial and other controversial sites down in search results — Several days after Google put a search ranking change into place, the first page of results for “did the holocaust happen” now appears to be entirely free of denial sites.Sponsor Posts
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