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Google debuts YouTube Go app for Android with offline viewing, expands free Wi-Fi program Google Station beyond public transport sites in India — At an event in New Delhi, India, Google laid out plans to better serve users in the country. These efforts broadly focus on two areas: data usage and language support.
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Google Translate now converts Chinese into English with neural machine translation — Google today is announcing that web and mobile versions of Google Translate are now using a new neural machine translation system for all translations from Chinese into English — and the app conducts those translations about 18 million times a day.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Source: Facebook is ready to launch Facebook at Work, its enterprise collaboration network, in the next few weeks; companies will be charged per user — Facebook is ready to make work as addictive as socializing. The company plans to launch its enterprise communication and collaboration network Facebook …
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| Mark Scott / New York Times: |
Facebook ordered to stop collecting data on WhatsApp users in Germany and to delete info already forwarded to Facebook from roughly 35M German WhatsApp users — When WhatsApp, the internet messaging app, announced last month that it was starting to share some of its users' online information with Facebook …
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Facebook brings osquery, its open source SQL-powered detection tool for monitoring OS processes and networks, to Windows — Facebook successfully ported its SQL-powered detection tool, osquery, to Windows this week, giving users a free and open source method to monitor networks and diagnose problems.
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| Ben Popper / The Verge: |
DJI's Mavic Pro drone is extremely small and portable, packing high-end features, 40MPH speed, 27 mins of battery, starts at $749, less than GoPro Karma at $800 — The unit is extremely small and portable, but still packs all the high end features DJI drones are known for
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| Kellogg Brengel / WinBeta: |
Bank of America and Microsoft partner to create blockchain applications for trade finance — Today, Microsoft announced a collaboration with Bank of America to develop blockchain technologies for their trade finance transacting. The companies are developing a proof of concept using Microsoft's Azure-based Blockchain-as-a-Service.
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| Andy / TorrentFreak: |
Major music labels, RIAA, others sue stream-ripping site YouTube-MP3 for copyright infringement — Two weeks ago, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry published research which claimed that half of 16 to 24-year-olds use stream-ripping tools to copy music from sites like YouTube.
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| Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
Source: Walmart in advanced talks to invest $1B in India's largest online retailer Flipkart, recently valued at about $16B — The deal would help the companies battle Amazon.com in India — Investors most recently valued Flipkart at about $16 billion — Wal-Mart Stores Inc …
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| Ian Hamilton / UploadVR: |
Occipital unveils $500 VR headset dev kit with room-scale tracking for phones, including iPhones — The first time I actually put my money into VR was summer 2014, when I received a Rift DK2 after putting together my first PC from parts purchased on Amazon and elsewhere.
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AppleInsider, SlashGear, Wareable, SiliconANGLE, TechCrunch and Tom's Guide
| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Report: Amazon is teaming up with smartlock company August and garage-access startup Garageio to provide in-home package deliveries — Amazon's delivery prowess is impressive; just today, it announced free Prime same-day delivery for my home city of Toronto, and the speed and consistency …
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The Information, CNET, SlashGear, TechnoBuffalo, Ubergizmo and Engadget
| Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: |
2K-person BloomReach survey: 55% of online US shoppers start their product searches on Amazon, up from 44% last year; Google is down from 34% to 28% — Web retailer dominates over search engines, big-box stores — Website is reference point for online consumers, survey finds
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