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A look at how creatives, software developers, and third-party applications could take advantage of the new iMac Pro, which goes on sale today — How will creatives and pros put those specs to good use? — Apple's goal with professional hardware has always been to inspire creatives and developers to produce new things.
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Apple's Final Cut Pro X now supports 360-degree VR and HDR video editing, advanced color grading tools, and more — Apple isn't just making the iMac Pro available to order — it's also updating the creative software you'll likely run on that iMac. A new upgrade to Final Cut Pro X adds support … | New York State Attorney General: |
NY AG asks for delay in net neutrality vote at FCC because public comment process was corrupted with up to 2M comments that had used stolen identities — - Today, New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman released new details of his office's investigation into fake comments submitted during …
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| Margaret Harding McGill / Politico: |
Sources: FCC CTO Eric Burger, appointed by Ajit Pai, emailed FCC commissioners' offices to express concerns about the consequences of repealing net neutrality — The warning challenges the FCC's official line on the planned repeal of the net neutrality rules, set for a vote Thursday.
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| Kirk Koenigsbauer / Office Blogs: |
Microsoft adds more AI to Office 365, including highlighting patterns in Excel, sharing acronym definitions in Word, bringing real time traffic info to Outlook — Today's post was written by Kirk Koenigsbauer, corporate vice president for the Office team. — Earlier today in San Francisco … | Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft updates Bing with improved conversational search, Intelligent Image Search, ability to better surface different viewpoints, Reddit partnership, more — At a special AI-focused event today in San Francisco, Microsoft announced a number of feature updates to Bing that it hopes …
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Google Brain founder Andrew Ng unveils Landing.ai to bring AI to the manufacturing industry, starting with Foxconn as its first strategic partner — After helping Google and Baidu kickstart their artificial intelligence efforts, Andrew Ng wants to see AI transform more than just tech companies.
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Snap launches Lens Studio, a Mac and Windows app that lets users build their own AR lenses — Let a thousand hot dogs bloom — Snap's second official app is a tool that lets you design and build augmented reality lenses for Snapchat. The company today announced Lens Studio, a design app for Mac and Windows desktop computers.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Facebook launches a new Click-to-WhatsApp ad unit that enables calls or messages via WhatsApp, gradually rolling out worldwide except in Europe — WhatsApp has always said that it has no plans to put ads into its own app, but this is not stopping Facebook, which now owns WhatsApp … | AFP: |
Nine European press agencies call for internet giants including Facebook, Google, and Twitter to be forced to pay copyright for using their news content — Nine European press agencies, including AFP, called Wednesday on internet giants to be forced to pay copyright for using news content on which they make vast profits.| Michael Liedtke / Associated Press: |
Federal judge unseals letter confirming that the Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation connected to Uber/Waymo allegations — SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A recent letter from the U.S. Attorney's office confirms that the Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation connected …
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| Anjali Athavaley / Reuters: |
AT&T has started trials in Georgia state to deliver high-speed internet over power lines, says it has no timeline for commercial deployment — NEW YORK (Reuters) - AT&T Inc has started trials in Georgia state and a non-U.S. location to deliver high-speed internet over power lines …
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| Gerrit De Vynck / Bloomberg: |
Source: General Atlantic to invest $200M in Squarespace, to be used for stock buybacks, at a $1.7B valuation; CEO says firm has $300M annual revenue, up 50% YoY — $200 million will mostly go toward cashing out early backers — Website builder generated $300 million in revenue this yearThanks:@tsgiles
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