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Google announces it has bought Kaggle, a platform with ~500K data scientists, which hosts data science and machine learning competitions and has raised $12.75M — Google today said it is acquiring Kaggle, an online service that hosts data science and machine learning competitions …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google debuts Cloud Video Intelligence API, letting developers analyze and catalog the contents of video — At its Cloud Next conference in San Francisco, Google today announced the launch of a new machine learning API for automatically recognizing objects in videos and making them searchable.
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| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Google debuts Engineering Support for cloud services, charging a flat fee based on response time; plans start at $100/user per month for 4-8 hour response time — Google is famous in the tech industry for the effectiveness of its reliability engineers who keep its search and other products running smoothly.
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Thanks:@alexrkonrad| Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: |
Google announces several new high-profile Google Cloud clients, including Verizon, eBay, HSBC, and Colgate-Palmolive; source says Verizon moved from Microsoft — Search giant announces new clients, partners at cloud event — Google touts security, AI as it chases market-leader Amazon
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Nest is working on a cheaper sub-$200 thermostat with individual room control, a home security alarm system, and a digital doorbell — Nest, the pioneer of the iPhone-like digital thermostat, is readying several new products in its quest to modernize the home. — by
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Microsoft partners with Qualcomm and Cavium to develop Windows for servers using ARM processors, has been testing it in Azure for search, storage, more — The software maker seeks to cut costs in its Azure cloud business by developing new hardware — Microsoft Corp. is committing … | Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Pinterest acquires Q&A service Jelly, which pivoted and unpivoted over its 4-year life, and whose co-founder Biz Stone is a Pinterest angel investor — Jelly rolls — Pinterest said today that it has acquired Jelly, a bad 4-year-old search engine, for an undisclosed sum.
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| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Facebook launches Facebook 360, a hub for 360-degree photos and videos available only on Samsung Gear VR — Facebook has devoted major resources and billions of dollars to virtual reality, but there has been a pretty clear line between what happens in the main Facebook app and what happens on the Oculus Rift and Gear VR.
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Thanks:@lucas_matney. | Arlene Gabriana Murillo / Facebook Code: |
Facebook refreshes server line, with design specs available on Open Compute, debuting Big Basin, a GPU server that can train ML models 30% larger than before — With people watching more than 100 million hours of video every day on Facebook, 95-plus million photos and videos being posted … | Ellen Huet / Bloomberg: |
Instacart raises $400M, valuing the firm at $3.4B, led by Sequoia Capital with participation from a16z, Khosla Ventures, Thrive Capital, KPCB, more — The online grocery delivery startup is looking to pinch pennies, starting with bottle deposit fees. — by — Apoorva Mehta is thinking a lot about bottle deposits.
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| Steve Ranger / ZDNet: |
Mozilla debuts Firefox 52 with WebAssembly, a new standard that lets web apps run in a browser at “near-native” speeds, disables all NPAPI plugins except Flash — New version of Firefox should run complex apps much faster in the browser, but dropping support for some plug-ins could be an issue for Google Hangout fans.
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Google launches first original podcast City Soundtracks, a guide to the musical highlights of different cities, available on Play Music and iTunes — Google Play Music has today launched its first original podcast, City Soundtracks. Available on Google's streaming service (and on iTunes! …
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