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ASUS' Tango-powered ZenFone AR, which will also support Daydream, to hit US as soon as end of June; currently about 50 Tango AR apps run stably on the device — We already knew from Google I/O that ASUS' ZenFone AR, the second-ever Tango phone (and the first to also support Daydream) …
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| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
ASUS launches 13.3-inch Zenbook Flip S convertible with 4K display and 11.5 hours of battery life starting at $1,099, and Zenbook Pro, Zenbook 3 Deluxe laptops — Asus just finished its Computex Taipei 2017 press conference, and in a surprising departure for the Taiwanese company, it was totally straightforward.
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| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
ARM announces next-generation CPUs and GPUs focused on efficient machine learning; ARM Cortex-A75 is new flagship mobile chip, now with 22% better performance — ML plus AI, AR, and VR — ARM is taking on the full set of trendy initialisms — On the eve of Computex …
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VentureBeat, AnandTech, ZDNet, BGR, ZDNet, AnandTech, iPhone in Canada Blog, The Register, Digital Trends, Android Authority, Android Beat, and Engadget
| Daniel Oberhaus / Motherboard: |
Study: after switching exclusively to HTTPS, Wikipedia saw fewer instances of government censorship — Harvard researchers found fewer instances of Wikipedia censorship after the site started encrypting all of its traffic. — “Knowledge is power,” as the old saying goes … | Balaji S. Srinivasan: |
How blockchain-based tokens will transform the financing of technology — Tokens are early today, but will transform technology tomorrow. — In 2014, we wrote that “Bitcoin is more than money, and more than a protocol. It's a model and platform for true crowdfunding—open, distributed, and liquid all the way.”
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| Jon Evans / TechCrunch: |
Despite their disruptive potential for powering infrastructure, it is unlikely that blockchains and cryptocurrencies will gain widespread consumer adoption — Cryptocurrencies are booming beyond belief. Bitcoin is up sevenfold, to $2,500, in the last year.| Alex Heath / Business Insider: |
Giphy, which has raised $150M and has 150M+ users watching 4M+ hours of GIFs every day, weighs various revenue models — Plenty of tech startups dream of building a new consumer brand that's used and recognized by hundreds of millions of people every day. — Few of them get as close as Giphy …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
NYSE seeks SEC approval to change rules regarding direct listings that will allow unicorns like Spotify to go public without raising money — The New York Stock Exchange is seeking to change its listing standards as it vies for Spotify AB and other hot startups that are considering an unusual tactic called a direct listing.| Chris Kirkham / Wall Street Journal: |
Major hotel chains launch marketing campaigns to woo customers away from travel-booking sites, which take commissions of up to 30% for each reservation — Marriott, Hilton and InterContinental Hotels are using extensive marketing campaigns to claw back business from Expedia and Priceline … | Nicholas Megaw / Financial Times: |
Alfa, a UK-based financial software provider, closed up 30% on its first day of trading Friday, after raising £254M in what was UK's biggest tech IPO since 2015 — Stock market capitalisation of financial software group rises to more than £1bn — Read next| Allison Schiff / AdExchanger: |
Demandbase raises $65M Series H to boost AI capabilities of its targeted B2B marketing cloud service — Businesses spend around $40 billion a year on digital content marketing, and Demandbase, which announced a $65 million financing round on Thursday, is looking to cut itself a slice of the pie.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: DirecTV Now lost 3K customers in February while growth in March was roughly flat — New subscribers to web-TV service have slowed in early 2017 — AT&T CEO: We've ‘pulled back’ on marketing after fast start — AT&T Inc.'s live online video service, DirecTV Now … Sponsor Posts
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