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Instagram says Stories has 200M daily active users, passing 161M DAUs Snapchat reported in S1; update today brings selfie stickers, pinning stickers to videos — Instagram is seeing continued growth in the number of people using its Snapchat Stories-like feature.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google adds “Style Ideas” feature in Image Search for mobile web and Android to show more fashion possibilities, using algorithms and authoritative sites — Google is not taking Pinterest's search ambitions lying down. The company recently launched a “Similar Items” …
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
FCC's 600MHz spectrum band auction results: T-Mobile will pay $7.99B for what it says is 31MHz of spectrum nationwide, Dish to pay $6.2B, Comcast to pay $1.7B — Dish, Comcast, and US Cellular also bought plenty of 600MHz spectrum. — T-Mobile USA was the biggest winner in an auction …
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| Hayley Tsukayama / Washington Post: |
Uber now allows riders who want extra privacy to input an intersection instead of an address as a drop-off or pickup location — Uber changed its app Thursday to allow riders to enter an intersection instead of an address as a drop-off or pickup location. That way, customers can give …
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| Napier Lopez / The Next Web: |
Slack now lets you change your status to a custom message with an emoji — Sometimes you need to step away from Slack, whether to pick up a phone call, head to a meeting, or you just need a break. Unfortunately, that will often lead to your coworkers frantically trying to find you …
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| Christina Farr / CNBC: |
Sources: Apple has been conducting feasibility trials at clinical sites across the Bay Area for noninvasive and continuous blood sugar level monitoring tech — - Apple has a secret group of biomedical engineers developing sensors to monitor blood sugar levels, sources tell CNBC
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| Kara Swisher / Recode: |
Susan Fowler, the Stripe employee who exposed harassment at Uber, is named editor-in-chief of Increment, Stripe's new quarterly magazine for software engineers — The techie who became famous for her blog about the sorry state of Uber will run Increment. — Susan Fowler …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Sources: Hulu's live TV service will likely cost $39.99 per month, with cloud DVR add-on costing less than $20 per month — The pricing for Hulu's live TV service, a competitor with cable television - as well as a host of other streaming TV services like Sling TV, PlayStation Vue, DirecTV NOW …
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Google has taught a neural network to sketch like humans, understand the concept of what it's drawing, and complete images started by someone else — Remember last year when Google released an AI-powered web tool that played Pictionary with your doodles? Well, surprise!
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| Jose Otero / IGN: |
Nintendo discontinues the NES Classic Edition, which launched to high demand in November 2016 — After terrible supply issues, Nintendo's plug and play NES gets a shorter than expected run at retailers. — Nintendo will discontinue the Nintendo Entertainment System …
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| Nat Levy / GeekWire: |
Amazon opens up Alexa's 7-Mic voice processing technology to hardware makers for free on an invite-only basis — Amazon's digital assistant Alexa might show up in a lot of new devices soon. — That's because the online retail giant has decided to open up what amounts to Alexa's ears … | Emily Price / Fast Company: |
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