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Nokia says it will stop work on future versions of its Ozo VR camera and cut up to 310, or about 30%, of staff in its Nokia Technologies unit — In an abrupt about-face, Nokia said Tuesday it will halt work on future versions of its Ozo virtual reality camera and cut up to 30 percent of the staff in its Nokia Technologies unit.
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| Harry McCracken / Fast Company: |
Flipboard launches self-service program for publishers, will now highlight mobile friendly sites with a lightning bolt icon — New self-serve tools let smaller publishers find readers on Flipboard-and give content creators an incentive to present their work in the best available light.
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| Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed: |
Twitter is working on a bookmarking tool allowing users to save tweets to a dedicated section of the product — A “save for later” option is coming to Twitter. — The company is working on a bookmarking tool that will allow you to save Tweets and return to them in a dedicated section the product …
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Nvidia unveils Pegasus computing platform for level 5 fully autonomous cars, delivering over 320 trillion operations per second, over 10 times it's predecessor — No steering wheels, no pedals, no mirrors — Nvidia, one of the world's best known manufacturers of computer graphics cards …
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Sony announces it will launch a new dog-like Aibo robot for the home next spring, 12+ years after abandoning its robot business — Company reassembling former Aibo team to focus initial efforts on home-use device — TOKYO — Twelve years after abandoning its robot business …
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| Shira Ovide / Bloomberg: |
In the last year Google has paid partners, including Apple and Android device manufacturers, $7.2B to be the default search, over 3x what it paid in 2012 — Traffic acquisition costs raise concern about pressure on margins. — There's a $19 billion black box inside Google.| Melanie Ehrenkranz / Gizmodo: |
In the wake of Las Vegas shooting, YouTube has blocked some videos showing how to modify guns to fire more rapidly and updated its guidelines — Fifty-eight people were killed in the Las Vegas massacre last week, the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history.| Tim Higgins / Wall Street Journal: |
Mapping and location search startup Mapbox raises $164M led by SoftBank's Vision Fund, says it provides mapping technology to 900K+ developers — Technology is key to self-driving vehicles — As auto makers and tech giants rush to develop autonomous vehicles, SoftBank Group Corp. 9984 3.15% …
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| Bloomberg: |
Chinese Airbnb rival Tujia raises $300M round at $1.5B valuation led by online travel giant Ctrip.com and All-Stars Investment — Tujia.com gains a valuation of more than $1.5 billion — The Beijing startup is taking its fight with Airbnb global — Airbnb's biggest rival in China …
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Axios, TechCrunch, China Money Network, Financial Times, Reuters, Tech in Asia, and TechNode
| Jeff Benjamin / 9to5Mac: |
Hands-on video: iOS 11.1 beta 2 brings back 3D Touch Multitasking with improved animation, hundreds of new Unicode 10 emoji's — iOS 11.1 beta 2 was released earlier today, and we've taken some time to talk about the new features and changes found in the beta release.| New York Times: |
How Disney accelerated plans to invest in BAMTech to power two planned streaming services — For two days in late June, Disney's board of directors gathered at Walt Disney World in Florida to wrestle with one topic: how technology was disrupting the company's traditional movie … | Julie Bort / Business Insider: |
SEC filing shows MongoDB plans to price IPO at $18-$20/share, would raise ~$152M at ~$930M valuation mid price, less that its $1.6B valuation as a private firm — Unicorn startup MongoDB has taken another step toward its IPO by offering a price range for its shares.Sponsor Posts
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