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Twitter ramps up proactive measures against abusive accounts and now lets users mute specific words from their timelines and mute accounts without profile pics — Most importantly, Twitter is speeding up its pace of taking action against harassment. — Twitter is announcing a few new anti-harassment features today:
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Sources: Snap has worked on a drone, but it is unclear if or when the product would be available to consumers — Snap has long been known as the maker of Snapchat, an app that sends disappearing messages, photographs and videos. But over the past few years, the company has repositioned itself as a modern-day camera company.
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Facebook brings suicide prevention tools to Live video and Messenger, begins using AI to spot suicidal users — Facebook has begun using artificial intelligence to identify members that may be at risk of killing themselves. — The social network has developed algorithms that spot warning signs …
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| Blair Hanley Frank / PCWorld: |
Microsoft says the Acer Mixed Reality Development Edition tethered headset will ship to devs this month; retail version slated to cost $299 — Microsoft unveiled the first Windows Mixed Reality headset Wednesday, and an early look at a prototype version of the hardware shows promise, along with room for improvement.| Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: |
Nintendo Switch review: amazing portable experience with a great display, but lacks big-name games, has weak software support and lingering hardware issues — Hybrid system merges an amazing portable experience with a middling TV console. — Since the release of the Game Boy in 1989 …
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Sources: Spotify is preparing to launch a lossless version of its streaming service called Spotify Hi-Fi; screenshots show it could be $5 to $10 extra per month — The company is A/B testing its pricing strategy on some users — Spotify is preparing to launch a lossless audio version …
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YouTube debuts YouTube TV, a $35/month service including broadcast networks, about 30 cable channels, cloud DVR with unlimited storage, personal recommendations — Meet YouTube TV. — YouTube used to be the place you could watch almost anything you wanted, for free.
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Oculus drops price of Rift headset and Touch wireless controllers by $100 each, together now $598 — Facebook has a new strategy to get people interested in virtual reality: cutting the price. — The company's VR subsidiary, Oculus, announced Wednesday that it's lowering the cost …
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Nvidia unveils its top of the line GTX 1080 Ti, available next week for $699, with 11GB of GDDR5X memory, claims it is faster than the $1,200 Titan X — Last year we called NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 1080 “the upgrade you've been waiting for,” and now PC gamers have another high-end graphics card to drool over.
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| Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab: |
Amazon cuts affiliate revenue in some categories and eliminates volume pricing in favor of a flat rate of commission — Amazon is a powerful partner, but as book publishers have learned, it can also be a fickle one. — When digital advertising rates are falling and e-commerce is rising …
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Yelp acquires restaurant waiting list tech startup Nowait in a $40M all-cash deal; Pittsburgh-based Nowait had raised around $22M in total — Yelp has acquired restaurant technology startup Nowait in an all-cash deal valued at $40 million. — Founded out of Pittsburgh in 2010 … | Kerry Flynn / Mashable: |
Foursquare debuts Pilgrim SDK to license its location data to mobile app devs and improve notifications; pricing will be tiered based on app's number of users — Foursquare's transformation from fun consumer app into serious behind-the-scenes business is taking another step forward.
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Google is developing tools to help mobile carriers build better networks, announces partnerships with India's Bharti Airtel and South Korea's SK Telecom — If you didn't think that Google was into everything before, wait until it's providing the infrastructure for your mobile network.
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Uber CEO Travis Kalanick says he's seeking “leadership help” in note apologizing for how he treated a driver in leaked video — Kalanick responded to a video that surfaced today of him yelling at an Uber driver. — Uber CEO Travis Kalanick has issued yet another apology …
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| Cromwell Schubarth / Silicon Valley Business Journal: |
Palo Alto Networks misses expectations with Q2 revenue of $423M and a loss of $60.6M, up from $57.3M last year; stock down about 18% after hours — A disappointing second quarter report sent shares of Palo Alto Networks down by as much as 18 percent Tuesday in after-hours trading.Sponsor Posts
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