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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Google's search app on Android and iOS gets an algorithmic news feed of articles, videos, and other links; feed allows topic follows and other customizations — Searching for relevance — Google today is rolling out its take on the news feed, a personalized stream of articles, videos, and other content.
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| Bloomberg: |
Apple appoints Isabel Ge Mahe, currently VP of wireless technologies, as company's first managing director for Greater China — Wireless technology VP will become MD of greater China unit — China is a major market and also production base for Apple — Apple Inc. has appointed …
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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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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
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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| 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| 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.| 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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| Pranav Dixit / BuzzFeed: |
Sources: Uber and Ola are considering using India's Aadhaar biometric system to screen drivers, while Airbnb is exploring using it to authenticate Indian hosts — Using the system would let the companies easily validate the identities of drivers and users.
Tweets: @mat
| Susan Carpenter / 89.3 KPCC: |
Interview with California Department of Transportation Director Malcolm Dougherty on how the state is preparing its roads for self-driving cars — 7 MIN 22 SEC — Self-driving cars are a lot closer to reality than most people think. Auto makers are promising cars that won't need …
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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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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google rolls out new security warnings for G Suite and Apps Script following May's Google Docs phishing attacks — Google today started rolling out new warnings for G Suite and Apps Script to inform users about the potential dangers of new web apps. The company also plans to expand …
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| 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
| 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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Business Wire, Bluetooth Blog, 9to5Mac, ReadWrite, GeekWire, MacRumors, Engadget, Android Authority, ZDNet, EE Times, and Inquirer. Tweets: @kevinctofel
| Johana Bhuiyan / Recode: |
Driverless-car tech startup Nauto raises $159M Series B led by Greylock Partners and SoftBank — Greylock's Reid Hoffman and SoftBank's Shu Nyatta will join Nauto's board as part of the investment. — Greylock Partners and SoftBank are leading a $159 series B round into auto-tech startup Nauto.
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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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