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Amazon today announced a massive new instance type for its AWS EC2 compute service. The new X1 instances will feature 2 terabytes of memory. That’s a huge increase from what was previously EC2’s largest instance type, which “only” featured 200 gigabytes of memory. As Amazon CTO Werner Vogels noted in today’s keynote, this will make it easier for AWS users to do… Read More... →

Amazon Web Services (AWS) today announced the launch of Kinesis Analytics, a new service to do time-series analytics over data that’s streaming in. The tool lets developers execute pre-built SQL statements as well as run their own custom queries. The service, which works with Kinesis Streams and the new Kinesis Firehose, will become available next […]... →

As some noticed when Roku this week announced its upgraded 4K-ready streaming media player, the Roku 4, the product packaging featured a highly-anticipated addition to Roku’s channel lineup: HBO NOW. The premium network’s over-the-top offering has been one glaring omission from an otherwise robust lineup of programming options on Roku’s platform, which today includes more… Read More... →

Google обновил поисковое приложение для iOS до версии 9.0. В числе основных нововведений – поддержка анимированных GIF-изображений в результатах поиска картинок (Image Search). Проигрывание будет начато после нажатия на выбранный файл. Кроме того, теперь пользователи приложения также смогут добавить фото или отзыв к местным заведениям, а при поиске адреса получить результат на карте прямо внутри приложения. Напомним, что в июне Facebook внедрил поддержку анимированных GIF-изображений в новостной ленте.... →

Сервис для поиска, продажи и сдачи жилья в аренду «Яндекс.Недвижимость» убрал возможность перехода на сайты партнеров, размещающих объявления в Москве, Петербурге, Московской и Ленинградской областях. Теперь объекты вторичного рынка можно посмотреть только на странице сервиса, сообщили vc.ru представители компании.... →

Дэвид Снэддон, Google, и Дирк Хенке, Criteo, рассказали, почему нельзя игнорировать мобильных пользователей... →

Команды, которые по итогам хакатонов станут участниками конкурса Imagine Cup, будут приняты в преакселератор ФРИИ... →

After nearly two years, Sony is slashing the price of its latest gaming console by $50 just in time for the holidays. The PlayStation 4 now costs $349 in the U.S. In November. The console already received a price cut in Japan to 35,000 yen (approximately $290). European gamers should expect a price cut pretty soon as well. Read More... →

GPS device maker TomTom has moved beyond turn-by-turn directions into smart watches and embedded car software that could be used for self-driving vehicles. The portable mapping device maker announced in September the release of 24,000 km (roughly 15,000 miles) of highly automated driving (HAD) maps covering Germany’s entire highway network. HAD maps are a highly accurate type of 3D… Read More... →

SwiftKey has launched a new experimental version of its popular mobile keyboard app, one that could significantly improve the accuracy of predictive typing. The SwiftKey Neural Alpha app is an Android-only affair for now and, as its name suggests, it’s still an early stage product so may be prone to bugs. But it’s for this […]... →

Mino Games had a rare hit in the Mino Monsters free-to-play mobile game with 7 million downloads and $10 million in revenue to date. And that’s why it has been able raise new funding and move on to Mino Monsters 2: Evolution. The San Francisco company is announcing it has raised $2.2 million in funding […]... →

If you’ve watched the trailers for the soon-to-be-released movie “Steve Jobs,” you might remember hearing snatches of a heated conversation between Steve Wozniak and Jobs. Now Universal Pictures has released a clip showing the full exchange, as Wozniak (played by Seth Rogen) demands to know what Jobs (Michael Fassbender) has done to earn his reputation as a genius. Read More... →

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The TechCrunch Meetup + Pitch-off is disrupting New Orleans tonight, which means there is no better time for you to register for tickets than right now. What is a TC Meetup + Pitch-off, you ask? Excellent question! More than a handful of ore-selected companies will have exactly sixty seconds to pitch their product to a panel of esteemed judges. Those judges will hold a quick Q&A after… Read More... →

Facebook users have wanted a “dislike button” for years, and today the company announced it would be testing reaction emojis, although starting just in Ireland and Spain. At the same time, the company has shared how these new Reactions, as Facebook calls them, will impact a post’s ranking and reach. Unlike other social networks, Facebook […]... →

Building what amounts to a neural network inside a platform has long been one of the goals of computing and many a startup, but in the main they remain the preserve of university computing labs. They also tend to need a lot of computing power usually distributed via the Internet. ‘Smart keyboard’ startup Swiftkey hopes to change that today with the release of a new Alpha version of… Read More... →

Агрегация видео с партнёрских онлайн-кинотеартов будет новым методом заработка Яндекса.... →

The second day of Pubcon Las Vegas was a wake up call to fact that marketers should be doing more to please people with their digital strategies. The post #Pubcon Day 2: Optimization Strategies for Humans and Algorithms by @mattsouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal .... →

Новая версия «Кинопоиска» с рекомендациями и агрегатором онлайн-кинотеатров начнет работать вечером 8 октября. Об этом сообщили представители «Яндекса» на мероприятии для прессы в Москве.... →

On-demand food delivery startup Munchery just hired Pascal Rigo, the founder of upscale bakery La Boulange, which Starbucks bought for $100 million in 2012. As part of the deal, Rigo spent three years at Starbucks as its SVP of food to help the coffee giant roll out all of La Boulange’s products in the US. and Canada. They had six years to do all of that, but they finished it in three,… Read More... →