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03:00 20.08.2016

Is big data in big trouble?

We recently saw two critical developments in the big data and analytics space. Tableau released earnings and missed their forecast by $0.05; their stock dropped 5 percent. Then Hortonworks announced a revenue miss that sent the stock into a downward spiral. What’s going on with the business intelligence and Hadoop space? Read More... →

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02:20 20.08.2016

Lyft pauses Carpool service

Well, that was fast. Less than five months ago, Lyft launched a Carpool feature for people commuting outside of San Francisco city limits. The idea was that people would pick up passengers on their way to work and make anywhere from $4 to $10 per ride. The service, which was only available in the San Francisco Bay Area, has since shut down because not enough drivers were interested in… Read More... →

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02:19 20.08.2016

InsiteVR grabs $1.5M in seed funding to bring 3D models to life in VR

Most of the companies raising funding in the VR space right now are focused on entertaining potential consumers. What’s perhaps getting less attention are the companies jockeying to provide cool solutions for the enterprise. InsiteVR just raised a $1.5 million seed round to tap into the architecture and construction markets and make early visions of projects more accessible to these… Read More... →

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02:00 20.08.2016

Nova Credit launching from Y Combinator to give immigrants access to U.S. credit

Access to credit and establishing a credit history aren’t a luxury for people living in the US, they’re a necessity. A credit score is required to rent most apartments, get credit cards, and essentially make a way in the modern American world But for millions of immigrants (roughly 15 million) landing on U.S. shores — even ones who had successful jobs abroad —… Read More... →

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02:00 20.08.2016

Snowden docs link NSA to Equation Group hackers

A group calling itself the Shadow Brokers dumped data online last weekend that it claimed to have stolen from a hacking team widely believed to be linked to the NSA. The data contained vulnerabilities affecting major firewall products and ignited speculation that the NSA had been hacked. Expert analysis of the data suggested that the NSA and the Equation Group are one and the same, but… Read More... →

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01:30 20.08.2016

Making earphones customized for hearing ability, Even tunes up $2 million

MeQ Inc., the company behind Even earphones, the tunable earbuds that adjust to users’ unique hearing abilities, has raised $2 million as it looks to expand its business. Financing came from individual investors like Ilan Shiloah, an Israeli businessman and former chief executive of the Israeli arm of the advertising firm McCann Erickson and the chairman of McCann Worldwide… Read More... →

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01:10 20.08.2016

Facebook’s new teens-only app Lifestage turns bios into video profiles

“What if I figured out a way to take Facebook from 2004 and bring it to 2016? What if every field in your profile was a full video” asks Facebook’s 19-year old product prodigy Michael Sayman. The answer is Lifestage, a standalone iOS app for people 21 and under Facebook is launching today. It asks for your happy face, sad face, likes, dislikes, best friend, the way you dance,… Read More... →

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01:01 20.08.2016

Trans women and non-binary femme tech entrepreneurs have a new legal resource

Transgender and gender non-conforming people are at risk of injustice and discrimination in education, housing, health care, public accommodations and employment. As a result of such widespread discrimination against trans and gender non-conforming people, they can be subject to exclusion from spaces that offer tools and resources around entrepreneurship and business development. Through… Read More... →

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01:00 20.08.2016

Facebook’s new teens-only app Lightstage turns bios into video profiles

“What if I figured out a way to take Facebook from 2004 and bring it to 2016? What if every field in your profile was a full video” asks Facebook’s 19-year old product prodigy Michael Sayman. The answer is Lightstage, a standalone iOS app for people 21 and under Facebook is launching today. It asks for your happy face, sad face, likes, dislikes, best friend, the way you… Read More... →

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00:44 20.08.2016

Google will phase out Chrome apps for Windows, Mac, and Linux

First, if you’re using Chrome apps on Windows, Mac or Linux, I’m sorry for your loss. Second, please take some solace in the fact that you really were one of a kind. As Google noted in a blog post today, active usage numbers were pretty low for the offering. Today, approximately 1% of users on Windows, Mac and Linux actively use Chrome packaged apps, and most hosted apps are… Read More... →

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23:48 19.08.2016

Gillmor Gang LIVE 08.19.16

Gillmor Gang – Robert Scoble, Frank Radice, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording session starting at 1pmPT today, August 19, 2016. Our live chat stream during the show broadcast Gillmor Gang’s Facebook page HERE G3’s archive on ustream G3’s Facebook page HERE Read More... →

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23:12 19.08.2016

Daily Search Forum Recap: August 19, 2016

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web...... →

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23:00 19.08.2016

Amazon’s latest original pilots now streaming, including ‘The Tick’

Want to sit in judgement of original content and decide its fate? Now’s your chance – Amazon’s latest slate of original TV show pilots is available for streaming, and it includes I Love Dick, a Kevin Bacon-starrer adapted from the novel by Chris Kraus; The Tick, yet another incarnation of the comic character who first graced TV in a much-beloved three season animated series… Read More... →

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22:53 19.08.2016

Steve Jobs enters the International Photography Hall of fame alongside Annie Leibowitz and Ken Burns

It’s the 50th anniversary of the International Photography Hall of Fame, a museum and foundation in St Louis, and among the inductees this year are some real whoppers. Annie Leibowitz, Ernest Haas, Ken Burns… and Steve Jobs. Read More... →

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22:00 19.08.2016

Reimagining the ecosystem for identity verification

What’s in a name? When it comes in the form of a password, everything. The password has long been the safeguard — and in many cases, the only one — to protect our online identity. At one point, passwords seemed like the most obvious way to verify account ownership. But, over time, and with the increasing complexity and diversity of internet usage, we can all agree on one… Read More... →

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21:52 19.08.2016

Mimo’s new app teaches you how to code on your iPhone

Apple’s new iPad app Swift Playgrounds is popularizing the idea of learning to code on mobile devices, not desktop computers. But its focus is only on teaching kids to code in Swift. A new application called Mimo goes beyond that, with mini-lessons for not only Swift, but also HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python, SQL and more. The idea with Mimo is to break down computer science lessons… Read More... →

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21:14 19.08.2016

There’s an Apple-1 up for auction

Yeah, you could pick up TekServe’s 35-piece Mac museum (now $29k), but can you really call yourself an Apple fan if you don’t own an Apple-1? That earliest of Apple paraphernalia is about as rare as they come, but if act fast (and drop a boatload of money), you can snap one up now. Fundraising site Charitybuzz has one of the super, special, extra limited edition early computers up… Read More... →

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20:59 19.08.2016

Microsoft будет платить пользователям за работу с браузером Edge и поисковиком Bing

Обновленная бонусная программа Microsoft Rewards теперь будет предусматривает выплаты пользователям за отказ от Google Chrome в пользу нового браузера Edge — при условии, что поисковик Bing будет установлен в нём по умолчанию. Об этом сообщает издание The Guardian.... →

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20:34 19.08.2016

More new Pokémon revealed for Sun and Moon, and one is a pile of sand

The Pokémon Company, what is going on right now. How is it possible that one of the new pocketable monsters you created for Pokémon Sun/Moon is actually a pile of sand?? Look: What are you doing to me? Do you think this is okay? Here’s what the sand blob evolves into when hit with a water attack: THAT’S A DAMN SANDCASTLE, POKÉMON! Get it together. Meanwhile, there are other… Read More... →

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20:17 19.08.2016

Принадлежащий РБК сервис знакомств LovePlanet выпустил аналог Secret с чатами

Принадлежащий РБК сервис знакомств LovePlanet объявил о запуске нового приложения — геолокационного чата Scandal, предназначенного для анонимного общения. Сервис доступен для платформ iOS и Android по всему миру, рассказали vc.ru в компании.... →

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