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Apple loses patent retrial to the litigious VirnetX, ordered to pay $302.4M
Here’s yet more evidence that the US patent system needs over-hauling. Back in February we reported that Apple had been ordered to pay $625 million to notorious litigator VirnetX after a U.S. court judged that the iPhone-maker had infringed on patents held by VirnetX in its iMessage and FaceTime services. (VirnetX often described as a patent troll because it makes almost all of its… Read More
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How deep learning allowed computers to see
One of the biggest challenges of the 21st century is to make computers more similar to the human brain. We want them to speak, understand and solve problems — and now we want them to see and recognize images. For a long time, our smartest computers were blind. Now, they can see. This is a revolution made possible by deep learning. Read More
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Gillmor Gang LIVE 10.01.16
This was a LIVE recording session of The Gillmor Gang – today with: Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Today’s LIVE recording has concluded. 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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SurveyMonkey CEO Zander Lurie: IPO, yes; 2017, not likely
On Thursday night, at a StrictlyVC event at SurveyMonkey in Palo Alto, this editor sat down with CEO Zander Lurie to learn more about the direction of the 17-year-old company, known for the roughly 90 million surveys that the outfit and its customers create for their various constituents each month (and whose average order volume is $300, says Lurie). I was particularly interested… Read More
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Crunch Network
You might be surprised to learn who’s collecting your data
Most people understand that in order for digital services to work properly or stay free they may need to allow the services to track some of their data. It’s time to demand that all third parties hold themselves to a higher standard and disclose what they do with consumers’ data. Those that resist the urge to collect, share and sell data not vital to their service will ultimately… Read More
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Crunch Network
Learned helplessness and the languages of DAO
Everything is terrible. Most software, even critical system software, is insecure Swiss cheese held together with duct tape, bubble wrap, and bobby pins. See eg this week’s darkly funny post “How to Crash Systemd in One Tweet.” But it’s not just systemd, not just Linux, not just software; the whole industry is at fault. We have taught ourselves, wrongly, that there is… Read More
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Crunch Network
Argentina’s startup scene is primed, but not yet firing on all cylinders
Over the last decade, Argentina’s public profile has been far from flattering. With a steady feed of headlines that have included, “Inflation”, “Corruption”, and “Political Instability”, the country has been shut off from most international tech investment since the “dot com” bubble. Since then, Argentina has had to overcome severe… Read More
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Crunch Report | Facebook Snapchat Clone in Poland
Facebook is testing a Snapchat clone in Poland, PewDiePie’s Tuber Simulator hits the top of the charts, Marc Andreessen talks about quitting Twitter, Yahoo open sources porn-detecting software, Nutanix is up 131% on its first day of trading on the Nasdaq. All this on Crunch Report. Read More
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Crunch Network
The Cancer Moonshot needs a heavy dose of computational infrastructure
Top cancer researchers recently reported their findings and recommendations to President Obama and Vice President Biden’s Cancer Moonshot task force. All 10 recommendations in the report heavily concentrate on enabling computational infrastructure, and included these key words: sharing data, engaging patients, precision medicine, genetic understanding, interdisciplinary, ecosystem… Read More
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Honest Co. is reformulating its soaps after ingredients controversy
The consumer products startup founded by Jessica Alba, The Honest Co., on Friday told The Wall Street Journal that it plans to reformulate its dish soap, laundry detergent and other cleaners after an earlier controversy over their ingredients. The Honest Co. markets its products as gentler, healthier and more environmentally sustainable than those of mainstream brands in the U.S. However… Read More
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Meerkat, star app of 2015, is officially dead
Remember Meerkat? It came out of nowhere in early 2015 — a star of SXSW, in particular — and was on everyone’s tongue for weeks. Then came Periscope, a strikingly similar competitor built mostly in stealth mode, and word that Twitter had acquired it for nearly $100 million dollars before much of the world even knew it existed. Suddenly, interest in Meerkat fizzled. A year and… Read More
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Twitch announces Twitch Prime, Loyalty Badges and video uploads
Twitch, the video game live-streaming service acquired by Amazon for nearly a billion dollars back in 2014, kicked off its annual TwitchCon conference this afternoon with a keynote. With keynotes generally come a bit of news… and sure enough, here’s what’s new: Twitch Prime: As we scooped right before the Keynote, Twitch officially confirmed Twitch Prime. Included for free… Read More
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Rosetta goes out in a blaze of glory — and science
Let’s all take a moment and pour one out metaphorically for Rosetta, the pioneering spacecraft that gave our newly spacefaring race its first comet landing. The orbiter performed its final task early this morning, making a controlled crash into the comet’s surface, destroying itself in the process but gathering valuable data down to the last minute. Read More
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Weekly Roundup: Snapchat’s new Specs, Beyoncé is a tech investor and SpaceX’s plans to colonize Mars
This week, Elon Musk revealed SpaceX’s plan for humans to inhabit Mars, Google rebranded its cloud services and rumors swirled about a Twitter bid. These are the top stories of the week, and you can also receive them in your inbox. Read More
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Apple is screwing up HomeKit; here’s how they can fix it
The real magic of the Internet of Things happens when devices work together. It will be magic when Siri, on your iPhone, can adjust your thermostat or confirm you locked the back door; when your door lock can tell your sound system you’re home and start the music. That’s not the reality we live in, because most devices can’t talk to each other. Without a common language… Read More
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Nutanix up 131% on first day of trading
Nutanix made its stock market debut with a bang. After pricing shares at $16, the enterprise data storage company saw 131 percent gains on its first day of trading. With clients like Toyota and Best Buy, Nutanix aims to make it easier for businesses to manage their data centers. Its cloud offerings are making infrastructure “invisible, so the businesses can focus on applications and… Read More
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Twitch appears to be getting its own version of Amazon Prime, called “Twitch Prime”
It appears that Twitch-integrated games are not the only thing Amazon has been working on with the live-streaming site it owns. A small number of Twitch users are now reporting seeing a new section called “Twitch Prime” pop up in their profiles. According to a banner ad spotted by one user, Twitch Prime will include perks like “free loot every month,” as well as… Read More
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Nintendo shows off some highly nerdy features of the NES Mini
Nintendo has further taken the wraps off the must-have gaming gadget of the holidays — which is to say, the one we’re all buying ourselves as soon as it’s available. An aggressively retro-themed video released today visually demonstrates three of the the NES Mini’s features. Brace yourself, it’s about to get real nerdy in here. Read More
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