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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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| Kurt Schlosser / GeekWire: |
Amazon has been selling pre-packaged ‘Meal Kits’ to select Amazon Fresh customers, sending Blue Apron's stock down — Amazon's newly-discovered desire to begin offering pre-packaged ingredients for home-cooked meals is already a real thing as a selection of Amazon Meal Kits are available on the company's website.
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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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How Uber's hard-charging corporate culture left employees drained, according to interviews with over two dozen sources — After a highly publicized corporate meltdown this spring, Uber is working to repair a culture employees and observers say is aggressive, cutthroat, and demanding.
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| Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: |
Alphabet's Access CEO Gregory McCray is stepping down after five months as Larry Page reiterates commitment to Google Fiber — McCray had replaced Barratt, who stepped down in October 2016 — Alphabet Inc.'s high-speed internet business is undergoing another shake-up as its leader, Gregory McCray, is stepping down.
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Twitter removes 90K accounts after ZeroFOX researchers found botnet, dubbed SIREN, that had pushed out 8.5M posts with links to dating services — Last week, Twitter's security team purged nearly 90,000 fake accounts after outside researchers discovered a massive botnet peddling links to fake “dating” and “romance” services.| Kif Leswing / Business Insider: |
Mira, which raised $1.5M in seed funding from Sequoia, unveils Prism, a mobile AR headset that reflects your iPhone screen onto a lens, ships this fall for $99 — Bottom left: COO Matt Stern. Top Left: CPO Montana Reed. Top Right: CEO Ben Taft. Bottom Right: CTO Evan Bovie.
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McKinsey: US firms' AI investments in '16 made up 66% of global total, with China next at 17%; tech firms spent $20B-$30B on AI: 90% on R&D, 10% on acquisitions — - Tech giants including Baidu and Google spent between $20B to $30B on AI in 2016, with 90% of this spent on R&D and deployment, and 10% on AI acquisitions.
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Zeta Global acquires Boomtrain, a martech firm that uses machine learning to send personalized notifications to consumers; sources say deal valued at $35M-$40M — Zeta Interactive Corp. today said it's buying Boomtrain Inc., a marketing tech startup marketing that uses machine learning …
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| Caroline Cakebread / Business Insider: |
Myspace's account recovery form, which had a flaw that let anyone who knew a user's email, full name, birthday, and username gain access, has now been removed — You may not have thought much about your Myspace page in a long time, but you might want to give it some thought now.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google announces Transfer Appliance, a new hardware appliance and service for moving up to 480TB from corporate data centers to Google Cloud Platform via FedEx — Google today announced the launch of its Transfer Appliance, a new hardware appliance and service for moving large amounts of data …
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| Eva Dou / Wall Street Journal: |
China's censors ramp up filtering of photo and video messages, disrupting apps like WhatsApp and WeChat following the death of political dissident Liu Xiaobo — Internet police step up their ability to filter photos — BEIJING—China's already formidable internet censors have demonstrated a new strength …
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Jide discontinues Android-based Remix OS for PCs and promises refunds to Kickstarter backers of its Remix IO/IO+ device — There have been plenty of attempts to make Android a desktop operating system, with most of them not being very good. Jide Technology burst onto the scene … Sponsor Posts
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