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Microsoft Q4: $30.1B in revenue, up 17% YoY; operating income up 35% YoY to $10.4B; Intelligent Cloud revenue up 23% YoY to $9.6B and Azure revenue up 89% YoY — Microsoft Cloud Drives Record Fourth Quarter Results — REDMOND, Wash. — July 19, 2018 — Microsoft Corp. today announced …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources give more details on Google's Fuchsia OS, which now has 100+ engineers working on it and aims to underpin all Google's gadgets from IoT to Pixel — - More than 100 engineers are working on skunkworks Fuchsia OS — New software could replace current systems in next five years
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Sources: Mark Zuckerberg called Trump to congratulate him after his election victory; Facebook has privately praised Trump campaign's use of its platform — In the days following Donald Trump's election victory over Hillary Clinton, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg placed a secret …
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Leaked internal Apple document confirms that the 2018 MacBook Pro keyboard includes a membrane to prevent debris from entering butterfly key mechanism — In an internal document distributed to Apple Authorized Service Providers, obtained by MacRumors from multiple reliable sources …
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| Eugene Kim / CNBC: |
Internal documents show Amazon's struggles to fix Prime Day outages as an internal system broke down and engineers scrambled to scavenge hardware — - Amazon wasn't able to handle the traffic surge and failed to secure enough servers to meet the demand on Prime Day, according to expert review of internal documents obtained by CNBC.
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Study: up to 95M Instagram users may be bots, or 9.5% of its total user base, up from 7.9% in 2015 — Up to 95 million Instagram users may be bots, according to a new study conducted by research firm Ghost Data for The Information. … Ghost Data reached their conclusion after buying 20,000 bots to analyze their behavior.| Drew Harwell / Washington Post: |
Investigation shows Google Home and Alexa struggle to understand Indian, Chinese, and Spanish accents compared to accents from across America — THE ACCENT GAP — We tested Amazon's Alexa and Google's Home to see how people with accents are getting left behind in the smart-speaker revolution.
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| Bloomberg: |
Best Buy, expected to succumb to competition from Amazon, is instead thriving because of in-home consultations and “personal chief technology officers” — The big-box retailer doesn't just want to sell you electronics. It wants its in-home consultants to be “personal chief technology officers.”| Louise Matsakis / Wired: |
Closed Facebook group for sexual assault survivors with 15K+ members changed admins, was invaded by trolls, and was deleted after members reported the group — LAST YEAR, AS thousands of women shared their stories of sexual assault and harassment with the hashtag #MeToo, Amanda …
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Source: GV has for years been using an algorithm, dubbed The Machine, to help make investment decisions — When most venture capitalists want approval to make a new investment, they go to their partners. When venture capitalists at GV do it, they go to something called “The Machine.”| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Instagram adds a green status indicator next to online users on Direct inbox and share menus — The green ‘online’ dot comes to Instagram — Instagram is adding a new feature that's ripped right out of AOL Instant Messenger — a helpful green dot next to your friend's profile pictures …
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| Alex Davies / Wired: |
Alphabet's Loon signs its first commercial agreement to work with Telkom Kenya to provide internet in central Kenya starting next year — IT'S BEEN A big week for Loon. Just eight days ago, it was one of Alphabet's moonshot projects, launching antennas attached to giant balloons into the stratosphere to beam internet down to Earth.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon quietly rolls out “Part Finder”, which uses computer vision to let users identify screws, nuts, bolts, and more, for iOS users — Got an odd screw, nut, bolt, washer or fastener you need to buy more of, but have no idea to how to find the right one? Amazon's “Part Finder” can help.| Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: |
Uber partners with Cargo, which makes boxes of items such as gum, phone chargers, and snacks, to help drivers sell goods to their passengers — Uber has teamed up with Cargo, a startup that makes it easy for ride-share drivers to sell goods to their passengers.
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| Felix Salmon / Wired: |
Amazon has built its empire by playing freely with new ideas; besides book-selling, there isn't any market where Amazon has really disrupted the incumbents — AMAZON IS ONE of the largest and most formidable companies in the world. It's run with brutal efficiency, a keen focus on keeping … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook says it will begin proactively locking accounts of those under 13 on Instagram and Facebook, after report showed relaxed attitude by moderators — Facebook and Instagram will more proactively lock the accounts of users its moderators suspect are below the age of 13.
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