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23:41 19.07.2016

Facebook wants to use fluorescence to make its laser drones work better

A team of physicists and electrical engineers at Facebook published a new idea for using luminescence to improve signal detection in free-space optical communication today. Facebook, in a partnership with Internet.org, has been developing drones to deliver basic internet access to remote locations around the globe. Last year, the company came out with a plan, codenamed Project Aquila, to… Read More... →

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23:21 19.07.2016

Facebook throws shade at Snapchat’s anti-creepy business

“They’re going to hit some challenges and marketers are gonna start to ask questions when they get out of the experimental budget phase”, Facebook’s head of ad tech said about Snapchat today. While Facebook tries to collect as much data about users as possible to prove its ads work, Snapchat has tried to avoid being creepy despite that hindering its potential monetization. Read More... →

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23:10 19.07.2016

Reco thinks books are better when they’re recommended by people you trust

I still love books, and I still have a fair amount of trouble finding new ones to read that I’ll actually enjoy. Helping with discovery is the idea behind Reco, a new mobile app from Canadian bookseller and retailer Indigo, which provides users with a social network based around books, and people’s love thereof. “We have a kind of obsessive focus on who our customers are,… Read More... →

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23:09 19.07.2016

Microsoft’s Q4 earnings beat with $22.6B in revenue, $0.69 EPS

Microsoft today reported earnings for its fourth fiscal quarter of 2016, its first earnings report after announcing its proposed acquisition of LinkedIn. The company’s earnings came in at a non-GAAP revenue of $22.6 billion and $0.69 of adjusted per-share profit. Wall Street expected the company to report earnings per share of $0.58 on revenue of $22.14B. In the year-ago-quarter… Read More... →

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23:08 19.07.2016

Google introduces speedier ads to its Accelerated Mobile Pages program

Google has been working to create a faster news reading experience through its Accelerated Mobile Pages project. Now it’s bringing something similar to online ads. AMP is an open framework for creating articles that load more quickly, particularly on mobile. (They can also be sped up by loading from Google’s cache.) At the time the program was announced, Google said that it… Read More... →

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23:03 19.07.2016

Daily Search Forum Recap: July 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 19.07.2016

How international students are keeping US colleges afloat and powering the tech industry

Think back on your college experience and you may recall the presence of an on-campus residence set aside for international students. The fact that there was likely only one house for all the students probably made you think your school didn’t have a large international contingent. Now consider the fact that nearly 1 million foreign students attend colleges and universities across the U.S. Read More... →

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22:51 19.07.2016

Hyperloop One files $250 million countersuit accusing BamBrogan of a “malicious smear campaign”

Hyperloop One filed a countersuit against co-founder and former CTO Brogan BamBrogan today, claiming he was part of a group of four employees engaged in misconduct and abusive behavior. The transportation startup developing a high-speed shuttle is suing the plaintiffs for at least $250 million in the Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County. Hyperloop One’s countersuit says… Read More... →

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22:51 19.07.2016

Attention nerds: Chrysler announces bug bounty program

If you like poking, prodding, and proving big corporations wrong, has FCA US got a challenge for you. FCA US is the umbrella company for Fiat, Chrysler, Jeep, Dodge, and Ram, and it wants you to find potential vulnerabilities in their vehicles’ cybersecurity systems. And they’ll give you money for it. FCA US put its bounty program up on Bugcrowd, a community of cybersecurity… Read More... →

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22:49 19.07.2016

Павел Дуров назвал «трояном» удивившую СМИ систему «перехвата Telegram»

19 июля несколько российских СМИ сообщили о появлении системы «перехвата Telegram», которая якобы позволяет «прослушивать» чужие сообщения в мессенджере. В частности, об этой разработке петербургской компании Falcongaze написали Life.ru, The Runet, Business FM и другие издания.Основатель Telegram Павел Дуров назвал сервис «трояном».... →

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22:46 19.07.2016

For my daughter

My daughter is almost eight. She likes princesses and Harry Potter and doll houses and making videos to Taylor Swift songs and she has a few very clear influences and/or heroes. Mal from the Descendents. Hermione. My wife. Me. Her great grandmother Sadie. And now I want her to be influenced by the Ghostbusters. The new Ghostbusters, not the version with Murray and Ackroyd. I want her to love… Read More... →

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22:42 19.07.2016

Legalist is making it easier for lawyers to find state court records

Imagine a lawyer with a client who lives in one county and works in another. Or even a lawyer who litigates in multiple states. Both common occurrences, but situations that make it very hard to keep track of legal documents. Essentially, it should be easy to keep track of court records from multiple counties and states – but it’s not. In fact, it’s pretty awful. Most are… Read More... →

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22:26 19.07.2016

Scorocode — платформа для разработки мобильных, десктопных и веб-приложений

Сегодня в рубрике «Стартапы» — «облачная» платформа Scorocode для ускорения разработки бэкенда приложений, на которую можно перейти с сервиса Parse. Передаем микрофон.... →

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22:04 19.07.2016

Volkswagen aims for more electric cars by 2020 amid ongoing emissions scandal

Volkswagen is trying to mash the dash into the future, but its ongoing emissions scandal remains its biggest roadblock. And it doesn’t look like the trudge from the crisis will be sliding into the rearview mirror anytime soon. On Tuesday, the embattled automaker confirmed with the Wall Street Journal that it plans to build electric vehicles in North America by 2020 in an attempt to… Read More... →

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21:55 19.07.2016

Ex-Theranos customer files a lawsuit claiming faulty blood tests contributed to his heart attack

Theranos is now steeped in an avalanche of legal woes, including a suit filed Monday, July 19 by an ex-customer alleging the company’s faulty blood tests caused him to have a heart attack. The lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court in Arizona, and first reported in Ars Technica, is now one of at least nine civil suits Theranos faces after an onslaught of investigations into the… Read More... →

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21:48 19.07.2016

Airfordable lets you pay for travel over time

Flying is expensive. So Airfordable is launching from Y Combinator’s Summer ’16 batch to let you book flights and pay over time before you take off. Here’s how it works: Travelers find their preferred flight online (using any travel site they want) and upload a screenshot with their flight details. Once you are approved, the startup calculates a payment plan (up to 3… Read More... →

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21:37 19.07.2016

Twitter представил онлайн-форму для верификации аккаунтов

Компания Twitter представила онлайн-процедуру для верификации аккаунтов в сервисе микроблогов. Об этом говорится в сообщении проекта, подробнее о новом сервисе рассказал представитель Twitter и Periscope в России Алексей Шелестенко.... →

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21:31 19.07.2016

Will photo art phenom Prisma raise or get bought?

Prisma morphs your photos into fine art like Picasso or Mondrian, and it’s blowing up the iOS app charts. Today it came out in unofficial APK beta on Android. But what will be the fate of this red-hot social product? We’ve heard Prisma is in talks with investors about raising funding, but it might make more sense as an acquisition for Facebook/Instagram, Twitter, or Snapchat. When… Read More... →

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21:19 19.07.2016

WhatsApp blocked in Brazil again

Brazil’s battle with Facebook over its encrypted messaging app, WhatsApp, continues to rage. A Brazilian judge ordered telephone companies to cut off access to WhatsApp in the country after Facebook declined to provide chat logs related to a criminal investigation, Globo reports. Because WhatsApp messages are end-to-end encrypted, Facebook cannot access users’ messages and… Read More... →

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21:13 19.07.2016

Anyone can now apply to be verified on Twitter

It may have just become a little easier to get the blue check mark on Twitter. The company has just announced that they are opening applications to apply for verification on the platform. As a refresher, being verified gives users a blue check mark on their profile to “let people know that an account of public interest is authentic”. Typically, this means celebrities,… Read More... →

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