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Apple Watch customers in China no longer able to sign up for cellular connection service, analysts say likely due to government concerns over tracking users — BEIJING— Apple Inc. AAPL -0.44% has another headache in China: this time with its latest watch.| James Vincent / The Verge: |
DeepMind's new Go-playing AI wins 90% of time against version of AlphaGo that beat world champ, trained solely by reinforcement learning without human input — The company's latest AlphaGo AI learned superhuman skills by playing itself over and over — Google's AI subsidiary DeepMind …
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Nielsen announces it is providing Netflix viewer data to clients, based on audio recognition in 44K homes in US; Netflix disputes accuracy — In the five years since Netflix started streaming original series like the Emmy-winning “House of Cards” and “Master of None,” the shows …
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Tony Fadell, co-founder and ex-CEO of Nest, launches Future Shape, an investment and advisory firm for startups in agriculture, robotics, transportation, more — The “iPod godfather” has quietly formed an early stage venture capital firm.| TechCrunch: |
Swedish lock giant Assa Abloy, which owns Yale and other brands, acquires smart lock maker August Home, which had raised around $75M — Oct 19, 2017, 11:26 amOct 19, 2017, 12:20 pm — The smart home market continues to heat up, and the legacy giants do not want to get locked out: quite literally.
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White House says Trump will nominate Joe Simons, a longtime antitrust lawyer, as head of FTC; nomination must still be confirmed by Senate — Joe Simons has represented companies like Microsoft, and may be the country's privacy, competition and consumer protection cop.| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
MongoDB prices IPO above range at $24, may raise up to $220.8M at a valuation of about $1.2B — MongoDB has finished up what is essentially the final step in going public, pricing its IPO at $24and raising $192 million in the process. — The company will debut on the public markets tomorrow …
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Samsung unveils 360 Round, a disc-shaped device with 17 2MP cameras and six microphones that can stream 4K VR at 30 FPS — Samsung already has a virtual reality camera in the form of the Gear 360, but it's not really for pros — it's for everyday users who want to record a 360-degree video on the street.
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Facebook officially starts rolling out its discovery-focused “Explore Feed” on desktop and mobile — Facebook's tests of an alternative News Feed dubbed the “Explore” feed have progressed to a full rollout, the company now confirms. Previously available on mobile devices … | Anita Balakrishnan / CNBC: |
Verizon's Q3 earnings match estimates, with revenue of $31.72B and net addition of 603K postpaid customers — - Adjusted EPS: 98 cents a share, excluding items vs. 98 cents per share expected by a Thomson Reuters consensus estimate — Net adds: 603,000 (486,000 smartphones) …
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China's on-demand local services firm Meituan-Dianping raises $4B Series C at a $30B valuation led by Tencent, forms strategic partnership with Priceline Group — China's Tencent Holdings Ltd. has led a US$4 billion new funding round in Meituan-Dianping, one of the largest on-demand local services platforms in China.
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Senators Warner and Klobuchar to introduce bill, cosponsored by McCain, to increase online political ad transparency, bring rules to parity with TV and radio — Sen. John McCain has become the first Republican to sign on to a draft bill from Democrats Amy Klobuchar and Mark Warner …
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