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Exclusive: Nike fires majority of FuelBand team, will stop making wearable hardware — The sportswear company has decided that only software has a future in the company's technology vision. That means cutting the FuelBand, and those who helped make it.
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Thanks:@coopeydoop| Kim Zetter / Wired: |
Certificate Revocation Lists increase sharply in size in the wake of Heartbleed, hogging bandwidth — Heartbleed Bug Sends Bandwidth Costs Skyrocketing — The exposure of the Heartbleed vulnerability last week had a number of repercussions, one of which was to set off a mad scramble … | Daniel Cid / Sucuri Blog: |
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Beats Bites the Bullet, and Starts Selling Subscriptions From Apple's App — Apple has a crazily powerful digital store, used by hundreds of millions of customers. But if you want to sell something there it will cost you: In almost every case, Apple keeps 30 percent of the purchase price on whatever its users buy.| Mike Beasley / 9to5Mac: |
Apple reaching out to developers who didn't win WWDC lottery, offering chance to buy unclaimed tickets — If you didn't get a chance to buy a WWDC ticket in the lottery last week, you might just get another chance soon. Developers who won were given until April 14 to buy a slot at the conference …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Airbnb closes TPG-led $450M-500M funding round valuing company at $10B — Airbnb Has Closed Its $500M Round Of Funding At A $10B Valuation, Led By TPG — TechCrunch has learned that Airbnb, the fast-growing site that lets people become hoteliers by renting out sofas, rooms or entire private homes …
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| Sam Altman: |
YC's new president suggests several solutions to key issues in employee stock compensation — Employee Equity — Startup employees often do not get treated very well when it comes to stock compensation. New ideas float around occasionally, but lawyers are usually averse to trying new things …
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| Carla Marinucci / SFGate: |
Sam Altman and Marissa Mayer co-hosting Obama fundraiser for DNC at Y Combinator HQ on May 8 — New! Obama to hit Y Combinator headquarters in Mt. View on May 8 — President Obama will hit the Mt. View headquarters of Y Combinator, the hot Silicon Valley start-up funder and incubator …
| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
Hands-on with Ubuntu Touch 14.04: Coming along, but miles to go — We install it so you don't have to. Seriously, you probably shouldn't. — The last time we installed Ubuntu Touch on anything was about a year ago, shortly after the release of Ubuntu 13.04.| Rod Boshart / Quad City Times: |
Microsoft brings $1.13 billion data center to Iowa — DES MOINES — Central Iowa is emerging as an economic magnet for high-tech data centers, state and local leaders declared Friday after plans were unveiled for global computer giant Microsoft to phase in a $1.13 billion regional data center over the next four to five years.
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| Les Shu / Digital Trends: |
Toshiba's U3 MicroSD cards are fast enough to handle 4K video, still tiny and easy to lose — MicroSD cards have become so ubiquitous that even some digital cameras are now using it. That's fine and dandy if speed isn't a concern, but if you're snapping lots of photos and you need your camera to keep up …
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| Issie Lapowsky / Wired: |
How carriers' greed for additional revenue streams almost sabotaged the smartphone kill switch — How Greed Almost Sabotaged the Smartphone Kill Switch — About one third of robberies in major cities across the country involve the theft of a mobile phone, according to the Federal Communications Commission.| Cotton Delo / AdAge: |
Facebook courts advertisers to target likely World Cup viewers, a first for a TV event — Facebook to Sell Huge Audience of World Cup Fans to Advertisers — Test Could Be Extended to Other TV Events Like the Super Bowl — How Advertising Performs in a Social Media WorldSponsor Posts
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What you need to know about fine-tuning LLMs — Success with generative AI hinges on honing a pretrained LLM to be a specialist at your intended domain or application. Learn how to fine-tune for four key characteristics.
Intel:
Intel Delivers powerful CPUs for AI and Networking — With the onset of AI, businesses demand powerful and efficient CPUs. Explore new Intel Xeon 6 processors, for the broadest set of workloads with leadership performance and lower TCO.
Intel Delivers powerful CPUs for AI and Networking — With the onset of AI, businesses demand powerful and efficient CPUs. Explore new Intel Xeon 6 processors, for the broadest set of workloads with leadership performance and lower TCO.
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The final word on Zoho Desk and Zoho Analytics: Everything you need to know — Bringing it all togetherIn the last few months, we've explored how Zoho Desk and Zoho Analytics work hand in hand to transform customer support data into actionable insights.
The final word on Zoho Desk and Zoho Analytics: Everything you need to know — Bringing it all togetherIn the last few months, we've explored how Zoho Desk and Zoho Analytics work hand in hand to transform customer support data into actionable insights.
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