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Google announces $45 AIY Vision Kit for Raspberry Pi, touting it as a cheap and simple computer vision system that doesn't require access to cloud processing — Google is offering a new way for Raspberry Pi tinkerers to use its AI tools. It just announced the AIY Vision Kit …
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| Emily Chang / Bloomberg: |
Five women accuse Shervin Pishevar, Uber investor and prominent defender of Travis Kalanick, of sexual misconduct when meeting with him in professional contexts — Five women tell Bloomberg the venture capitalist used his position of power to pursue romantic relationships and unwanted sexual encounters.
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| Gummi Hafsteinsson / The Keyword: |
Google rolling out Assistant update in US that connects users with local home services, with prescreened providers in many cities — No matter what questions you're asking—whether about local traffic or a local business—your Google Assistant should be able to help.| Taylor Martin / CNET: |
| Evelyn Cheng / CNBC: |
Futures exchanges CME, CBOE, and Cantor complete self-certification with Commodity Futures Trading Commission; CME will launch bitcoin futures on December 18 — - The world's largest futures exchange, CME, announces it has completed self-certification with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission …
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| Blair Hanley Frank / VentureBeat: |
Amazon launches AWS Cloud9, a collaborative browser-based IDE that comes pre-packaged with popular programming languages, a year after acquiring Cloud9 — Amazon Web Services launched a new service today that's designed to provide developers with a full development environment running in its cloud.| Katie Roof / TechCrunch: |
Twitter Lite rolling out to 24 countries across Africa, Asia, Europe, Middle East, Latin America, after Philippines test showed a 50% increase in tweets — Twitter is rolling out its “Lite” version, after a successful trial in the Philippines.The Android app will become available …
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Google's new Play Store policy bans all non-lockscreen Android apps from placing ads on the lockscreen — Ads are just a fact of life in mobile apps. You can't completely avoid them, but there are some ad implementations that are so annoying that Google has explicitly disallowed them from the Play Store.| Reuters: |
BlackBerry ordered to pay Nokia $137M in patent-related contract dispute; BlackBerry to continue to pursue separate patent infringement claims filed in February — Canadian software maker BlackBerry Ltd said on Friday that it would pay Nokia Corp $137 million, according to a ruling by the International Court of Arbitration.
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Sources: Tencent Music and Spotify are in talks to swap stakes of up to 10% in each other's businesses ahead of their expected public listings next year — Companies would own up to 10% in each other's businesses — The music group of Chinese internet giant Tencent Holdings Ltd … | Alnoor Peermohamed / Business Standard: |
India's ride-hailing startup Ola launches bicycle-sharing service Pedal for short trips, focusing on college campuses, residential townships, and tech parks — Will use Aadhaar integrated solution for users to unlock bicycle with fingerprint — After cabs, autorickshaws, motorcycles and buses …
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| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Mozilla reports $520M in 2016 revenues, up 24% YoY — Well, now we know what paid for all those programmers cranking out the overhauled Firefox Quantum browser: a major infusion of new money. — Mozilla, the nonprofit behind the open-source web browser, saw its 2016 revenue increase 24 percent …
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| Sean Silcoff / Globe and Mail: |
Vancouver-based connected car startup Mojio raises $30M Series B at a pre-money valuation of $100M+ led by Toronto's Kensington Capital — A Vancouver startup hoping to emerge as a leader in the connected-car business has scored a $30-million venture investment led by Toronto's Kensington Capital …
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