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Amazon launches Spark on iOS in US, a feed customized by users who then browse and shop from product images and stories posted by Prime members and sponsors — Amazon today is launching Amazon Spark, a new feature aimed at improving product discovery, which is seemingly inspired by Instagram and its use of shoppable photos.
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Samsung's Bixby voice assistant is rolling out to all Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus users in the US today — The voice component of Samsung's Bixby assistant has been a long time in coming. The company was quick to boast about its AI helper at the Galaxy S8 launch, but revealed that the signature voice feature …
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| Steven Levy / Wired: |
Google announces Glass Enterprise Edition, which can be used with prescription lenses, has a faster processor and WiFi, an 8MP camera, and better security — Don't call Heather Erickson a glasshole. — Yes, that's Google Glass on her frames. But she's not using it to check her Facebook …
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| Madeline Purdue / USA Today: |
Spurred by Code.org efforts, the number of female students taking AP CS exams grew by over 2X in past year; the number of black and Latino students grew over 3x — Female, black and Latino student participation in Advanced Placement computer science exams has more than doubled in the past year …
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| Camila Russo / Bloomberg: |
Ethereum cofounder Charles Hoskinson says “over-tokenization of things” makes ICOs a “ticking time bomb”; Ripple CEO says ICOs operate in “Wild West of finance” — Startups have raised $1.3 billion through digital coin sales — Regulation is biggest threat to digital tokens, Hoskinson says| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Bluetooth SIG releases the specification for Bluetooth Mesh, which allows Bluetooth 4 and 5 devices to communicate in a mesh network — Yay, another smart home standard — There's a long-running fight between wireless standards to be the one and only to connect all the smart devices in your home.
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| Ginny Marvin / Marketing Land: |
Google Analytics users can now ask natural-language questions about their data — With natural language, users can quickly get data without having to dig for it from both desktop and Google Analytics' mobile apps. — A little over a year ago, Google teased using natural language to get data from Google Analytics just by asking.
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| Leon Lazaroff / TheStreet: |
Facebook says it will start testing a subscription service with publishers in October, offering 10 articles free before prompting users to buy subscriptions — Facebook Inc's (FB) Campbell Brown says the world's largest social media platform has heard the cries of news publishers, and it's taking action.| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Snap is now selling its Spectacles on Amazon, at the same $129.99 price — Remember when people waited in long lines for them? — After introducing them to the world with buzzy, pop-up vending machine drops and then eventually expanding to direct web orders, Snap has begun selling its Spectacles camera glasses through Amazon.
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Tweets: @mekosoff and @mariosundar
| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Snapchat adds ability to record multiple 10 second Snaps back-to-back, coming first to iOS, as well as Tint Brush for coloring specific objects in Snaps — Snapchat has a couple of new features rolling out Tuesday, including the ability to record multiple 10 second Snaps continuously …
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Tweets: @joshconstine and @ws
| Michael del Castillo / CoinDesk: |
Enterprise Ethereum Alliance announces new members: Mastercard, Cisco, the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, Scotiabank, others — The Enterprise Ethereum Alliance is revealing its newest members. — As with previous announcements, entrants are divided between legacy institutions and startups building on the ethereum blockchain.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Online art discovery platform Artsy raises $50M Series D, to double down on auctions after partnering with the three leading brick-and-mortar auction houses — The market for buying, selling and learning about visual art online is getting a significant boost today.
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Google publicly launches Hire, a tool to help small and medium-sized businesses manage the job application process, for G Suite users in the US — Google is today lifting the lid on a new app designed to help small and medium-sized businesses find and recruit employees more effectively.
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
IBM reports Q2 revenue of $19.29B, down 5% YoY, vs. $19.46B estimated, and gives stronger than expected full-year guidance — IBM stock was down 2 percent on Tuesday after it disclosed earnings for the second quarter of the year, falling short of revenue estimates but beating earnings estimates.
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