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Facebook moves entire translation backend to neural networks, built on Caffe2, to handle 4.5B+ translations per day, says it's seen ~11% increase in accuracy — Facebook announced today that it has started using neural network systems to carry out more than 4.5 billion translations …
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How the omnipresence of smartphones, tablets, and internet have affected those born from mid-1990s to mid-2000s: high rates of depression, changing norms, more — One day last summer, around noon, I called Athena, a 13-year-old who lives in Houston, Texas.
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A preliminary legal analysis of the six counts in the Kronos indictment shows that the government's theory of the case will lead to significant legal challenges — The Justice Department has indicted Marcus Hutchins, a security researcher, for allegedly creating and selling malware. The Verge explains:
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Marcus Hutchins, who helped stop WannaCry, arrested by FBI after Def Con; DoJ indictment accuses him of helping spread Kronos banking trojan in 2014-2015 — Marcus Hutchins arrested over his alleged role in creating Kronos malware targeting banks — Marcus Hutchins, the 23-year-old British …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Sources: Spotify app for Xbox One is coming soon, and is currently being tested internally — Spotify is planning to release an Xbox One app soon. Pictures of Microsoft's Larry Hryb (Major Nelson) testing a Spotify app for Xbox One were spotted on Reddit earlier this week …
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| Stan Higgins / CoinDesk: |
Blockchain-based data storage network Filecoin sold $52M worth of tokens to accredited investors including USV and Sequoia in a pre-sale ahead of ICO next week — San Francisco-based startup Protocol Labs has sold $52 million in a token pre-sale ahead of an initial coin offering launch next week.| Becky Peterson / Business Insider: |
Coinbase reverses course after August 1 hard fork, says it will begin supporting Bitcoin Cash by January 1, 2018 — The cryptocurrency online exchange Coinbase has decided to support the new bitcoin cash, days after a user exodus temporarily brought its website to a halt.
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| Joe Maring / 9to5Google: |
LastPass unveils family plan pricing at $48/year, doubles price of premium tier to $24/year, removes unlimited sharing, more from free version — Last month, LastPass announced that it would soon be introducing a new “Families” plan for sharing passwords, bank account info, and other sensitive data among family members.
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| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Valve says Steam now has 67M monthly active players, 33M daily active players, and averages 14M concurrent users per day at peak, which is up from 8.4M in 2015 — The world's most powerful PC game distribution platform continues to expand its reach and grow its user base.| Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
German HR management and recruiting platform Personio raises $12M Series A — Personio, a German startup that offers a HR management and recruiting platform, has closed $12 million in Series A funding. European VC Northzone led the round, with participation from existing investors … | Patience Haggin / Wall Street Journal: |
TrackR, which helps users find lost items using its Bluetooth devices, raises $50M Series B led by Revolution Growth with participation from Amazon's Alexa Fund — Revolution leads Series B funding to help startup hone its indoor-location tech — Where's that missing set of keys? TrackR can tell you.| Anya George Tharakan / Reuters: |
Activision Blizzard announces Q2 profit of $243M on $1.42B revenue, says it has delivered $1B of in-game revenues — (Reuters) - Activision Blizzard Inc raised its full-year adjusted revenue and profit forecasts for the second time on Thursday, as the videogame publisher benefits …
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