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Google unexpectedly launched the Android N Developer Preview today. And to make things even easier for developers — and adventurous users — the preview is available as an over-the-air update. The expectation was that Google wouldn’t start talking about Android N until its I/O developer conference in May. Instead, it decided on a very different approach. Read More... →

Google today launched the first Android N developer preview, available for download now at developer.android.com/preview. At the same time, the company also debuted the Android Beta Program, which lets you get early Android builds via over-their-air updates on select devices. In the past, Google has unveiled the next Android version and released the accompanying developer […]... →

Twitter Moments, the feature that’s meant to highlight the best of Twitter in a more magazine-like format, has so far failed to incite further user growth, as was initially hoped. But the company is continuing to develop and improve the experience, which offers collections of tweets and associated media content in a separate tab in Twitter’s application both on the web and mobile. Read More... →

С февраля по 8 марта число "коротких позиций" на депозитарные расписки MRG изменилось от среднего по рынку до вдвое большего значения.... →

Интернет-магазин Amazon договорился об аренде 20 грузовых самолётов Boeing 767. Об этом сообщает Reuters со ссылкой на заявление лизинговой компании ATSG.... →

Xbox Live has had a lot of problems in the first few months of 2016, and fans are starting to get fed up. This finally prompted one of Microsoft’s most consumer-facing personalities to address those concerns. Earlier this week, fans on the Xbox One forum on the community site Reddit started a thread asking if Microsoft […]... →

Webpage bloat is a growing problem. So no surprise techniques to speed page load times have often focused on data compression to try to shrink the number of milliseconds it takes for a website to heave into view. Read More... →

Santa Monica-based Mucker Capital has raised $45 million for its third fund, Mucker III. The Silicon Beach firm said that it will continue to invest in software and services startups and continue to focus on the greater Los Angeles area. In addition it will invest in seed and pre-seed stage companies through MuckerLab, a new accelerator program. “We are founders, just like the… Read More... →

Google подтвердил удаление Toolbar PageRank, сообщает Search Engine Land. В ближайшие недели эти данные перестанут отображаться в браузерах и других инструментах, используемых для получения этой информации. В Google пояснили, что компания продолжит использовать данные PageRank в алгоритме ранжирования. Однако в Toolbar эта информация показываться больше не будет. Напомним, в феврале 2015 года представитель поиска Джон Мюллер (John Mueller) заявил, что Google больше не будет обновлять тулбарный PageRank. Т... →

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Lightspeed Venture Partners, the 16-year-old, Menlo Park, Ca.-based early-stage venture firm, has raised two new funds totaling $1.2 billion, according to two new SEC filings. One filing, for the firm’s 11th fund, shows a close of $715 million. Lightspeed has also raised $500 million for its second “Select” fund for later-stage companies. The capital come two years after… Read More... →

Soothe, the on-demand massage service, just closed a $35 million Series B round from its pre-existing investors. This brings its total funding to $47.7 million. This puts Soothe even further ahead of its main competitor, Zeel, which has raised $3.2 million to date. In September, Soothe snatched up its other competitor, Unwind Me, for an undisclosed amount. Soothe says the funding is for… Read More... →

It seems everything is being funneled into virtual reality, and music festivals are no exception. The Coachella music festival has announced that it will ship a cardboard virtual reality viewer and a VR app for mobile devices to those who purchase tickets for the 2016 show. The viewer will let you watch live acts from a […]... →

When LiveList launched in December, it offered a listing of available musical performances livestreamed, but with only a bit of curation. Today the company unveiled Channels, a playlist that is aimed at providing a “even more immersive experience.” It takes a look at music festivals, starting with South by Southwest and the Ultra Music Festival, […]... →

It seems like I talk about connected cars and V2X and autonomous vehicles like it’s my job. Probably because it is. But like a lot of people, I do not yet own a car that’s connected at all, in any way. There are a lot of new companies that want to rectify this situation for us by using the OBD-II port to bring Wi-Fi and connected apps to the cars we already drive. If… Read More... →

ANALYSIS: Facebook has acquired Masquerade, a selfie app that lets you record silly video animations of yourself and share them across social media. Available for Android and iOS, Masquerade is the latest selfie filter app to be snapped up by a bigger social network — back in September Snapchat bought Looksery to power its new Lenses […]... →

Старая команда онлайн-библиотеки «ЛитМир», сайт которой был заблокирован Роскомнадзором по требованию издательства «Литсовет», заново открыла её под другим названием — «ЛитЛайф». По данным «Газеты.ru», её владельцем является основатель «ЛитМира» Степан Енцов, осуждённый на два года условно за нарушение авторских прав.... →

Facebook приобрел MSQRD, мобильное приложение, изменяющее человеческую внешность во время видеочатов в режиме реального времени. Предприниматель Ниолай Давыдов, занимающий пост советника в MSQRD, подтвердил Roem.ru факт сделки и отказался от дальнейших комментариев. Сервис создал житель Минска Евгений Невгень, среди сооснователей также специалист по видерендеренингу Сергей Гончар и Евгений Затепякин, эксперт в сфере компьютерного зрения.... →

Snapchat bought Looksery to supercharge its animated selfie filters, and now Facebook has made an image filtering acquisition of its own to keep up the messaging pace. Today, the company confirmed that it has bought Masquerade, another app that adds fantastical filters to your smartphone-generated images, but this time focused on video. The startup (written usually as MSQRD) confirmed the… Read More... →

Команда Google AdWords сообщила о запуске новой функции автоматического обновления данных по расписанию – «Запланированные загрузки» (Scheduled Uploads). Обновление может выполняться ежедневно, еженедельно или первого числа каждого месяца. Чтобы активировать эту функцию, нужно: Войти в аккаунт AdWords. На панели слева выберите Общая библиотека > Коммерческие данные. Перейдите на вкладку Запланированные загрузки. Нажмите кнопку +РАСПИСАНИЕ. Выберите периодичность загрузки данных в меню Частота. Выберите ф... →