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YouTube debuts YouTube TV, a $35/month service including broadcast networks, about 30 cable channels, cloud DVR with unlimited storage, personal recommendations — Meet YouTube TV. — YouTube used to be the place you could watch almost anything you wanted, for free.
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Nvidia unveils its top of the line GTX 1080 Ti, available next week for $699, with 11GB of GDDR5X memory, claims it is faster than the $1,200 Titan X — Last year we called NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 1080 “the upgrade you've been waiting for,” and now PC gamers have another high-end graphics card to drool over.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google quietly launches Meet, a new video conferencing tool designed for HD video meetings — Google has quietly launched a new video conferencing application called Meet by Google Hangouts, which is designed for HD video meetings. The web and mobile application appears to be the latest addition …
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Uber CEO Travis Kalanick says he's seeking “leadership help” in note apologizing for how he treated a driver in leaked video — Kalanick responded to a video that surfaced today of him yelling at an Uber driver. — Uber CEO Travis Kalanick has issued yet another apology …
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Facebook brings suicide prevention tools to Live video and Messenger, begins using AI to spot suicidal users — Facebook has begun using artificial intelligence to identify members that may be at risk of killing themselves. — The social network has developed algorithms that spot warning signs …
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Amazon says AWS S3 servers in Northern Virginia are now operating normally after earlier outage, which impaired sites including Quora, Trello, IFTTT, and Imgur — This is a developing story. We will update it as more information becomes available. — UPDATE: 2:15 p.m. …
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| Daniel Cooper / Engadget: |
Google is developing tools to help mobile carriers build better networks, announces partnerships with India's Bharti Airtel and South Korea's SK Telecom — If you didn't think that Google was into everything before, wait until it's providing the infrastructure for your mobile network.
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Google adds its Keep note taking app to the G Suite portfolio of services and integrates it into Docs' interface via a side panel — Google today is announcing the addition of the Google Keep notetaking app to its G Suite portfolio of cloud services for organizations.
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| Cromwell Schubarth / Silicon Valley Business Journal: |
Palo Alto Networks misses expectations with Q2 revenue of $423M and a loss of $60.6M, up from $57.3M last year; stock down about 18% after hours — A disappointing second quarter report sent shares of Palo Alto Networks down by as much as 18 percent Tuesday in after-hours trading.| Mark Scott / New York Times: |
Berlin-based ResearchGate, a social network for scientists with 12M users, raises $52.6M from Goldman Sachs, Bill Gates, Benchmark Capital, and others — Calvin Coffey, a professor of surgery at the University of Limerick in Ireland, has a world of gadgetry, scientific equipment and medical tests at his disposal.
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Nearly three years after debuting, GMail's end-to-end encryption project gets handed over to open source devs and may never formally launch as a Google product — Nearly three years have passed since Google announced it would offer an end-to-end encryption add-on for Gmail … | Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft, Intel, JP Morgan, Reuters, UBS, and others form the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance to integrate Ethereum blockchain into enterprise products — Microsoft is expanding on its Azure Blockchain-as-a-Service work by joining the new Enterprise Ethereum Alliance, along with Intel and a number of leading banks.| Alexandria Sage / Reuters: |
Tyto Lidar, a firm specializing in sensor tech acquired by Otto in 2016 along with a Lidar scanner patent, could be a factor in Uber's defense in Waymo battle — A company now owned by Uber last year quietly bought a small firm specializing in sensor technology used in autonomous vehicles … Thanks:@ravichandrans25
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