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VR: VR’s Grand Challenge: Michael Abrash on the Future of Human Interaction,
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Uber rolls out a Spotlight button that gives riders a colored screen, pre-written messages, and guaranteed pickup windows to users in US and Canada today (Josh Constine/TechCrunch)
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Roku unveils Roku TV Wireless Speakers that use company's Roku Connect platform to link-up with Roku-powered smart TVs over WiFi, coming in October for ~$200 (Chaim Gartenberg/The Verge)
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SoftBank's stake in Alibaba is worth $132B or about 40% more than SoftBank's market cap; Tiger Global takes $1B stake in SoftBank (Michael J. de la Merced/New York Times)
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[Home & Garden] Ring Video Doorbell Pro review
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Some of the biggest meme accounts on Instagram have gone private in recent months as their owners say it's a new way to gain followers on a crowded platform (Taylor Lorenz/The Atlantic)
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Facebook's diversity efforts fall short as just six African-American and ten Hispanic women serve as senior managers in the US, out of 769 such jobs (Jessica Guynn/USA Today)
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Weekly /r/Gadgets Advice Superthread!
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An attempt to describe Web3 stack, the many component parts of crypto ecosystem being built by hundreds of teams all over the world (Kyle Samani/Multicoin Capital)
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Sources describe a dysfunctional culture at Meitu, a Chinese selfie app maker with 400M+ MAUs, with public shamings of staff, seemingly arbitrary firings, more (Rob Price/INSIDER)
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Profile of UK Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham, who gave Facebook a £500K fine over Cambridge Analytica and is investigating data misuse during Brexit (Carole Cadwalladr/The Guardian)
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Headout, a mobile travel app for booking last-minute tours, activities, and tickets to local events, raises $10M Series A to grow from 21 to 100 cities globally (Catherine Shu/TechCrunch)
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Smule rebrands its Sing! Karaoke app, which lets users record music videos solo or as duets with other users or artists, to Smule, says the app has 50M MAUs (Joan E. Solsman/CNET)
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The company that designs Ferraris is making a $2 million electric hypercar
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Online game creation platform Roblox, which is reportedly raising at a $2.4B valuation, says it's on track to more than double developer payouts to $70M in 2018 (Matt Weinberger/Business Insider)
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Lancaster University's Litcraft uses Minecraft to create accurate scale models of places from books like Treasure Island to promote reading among school kids (The Guardian)
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As mobile payments in China proliferate, Peoples Bank of China warns businesses not to refuse cash payments from customers (Amanda Lee/South China Morning Post)
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Germany's highest court rules that the parents of a teenager who died in 2012 should inherit access to her Facebook account, including private messages (Hanna Kozlowska/Quartz)
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How Twitter Became Home to the Teen Status Update (Taylor Lorenz/The Atlantic)
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This Nintendo Switch adapter promises Bluetooth audio support
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Your $1,000 Phone Is Really a Bargain
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CUDA is a jetpack that propels you underwater
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Is Your Smartphone Spying on You? The House of Representatives Wants to Find Out
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The 15th anniversary infobar is a beautiful Japanese Android feature phone
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Nvidia Shield TV levels up to full-featured PC gaming with free GeForce Now beta. The best media streamer for geeks gets even stronger.
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These are the Galaxy S9's five worst features
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Oscar the A.I. trash can sorts your garbage and recyclables
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[Wearables] Mobvoi Ticwatch Pro Review
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Xbox one is getting Dolby Vision support
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Apple updated its Touch-Bar MacBook Pros for 2018, including True Tone, 32GB DDR4 RAM, 8th-gen Intel chips, Core i9, “Hey Siri”, and the T2 chip.
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This sun-chasing robot looks after the plant on its head
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VR Headsets That Will Transport You, Wherever the Destination
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Magic Leap is shipping its first headset this summer
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Why you should let a robot cook your next meal
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This Body Heat-Powered Smartwatch Gets One Thing Very Right - Gizmodo
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Apple is reportedly upgrading most of its Mac lineup this fall
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[Mobile phones] LG Fortune 2 review
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Xiaomi Mi Home Security Camera - Full Review and Benchmarks
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Court victory legalizes 3D-printable gun blueprints
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Fans petition Microsoft to save the Surface Phone from cancellation
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Apple's iOS passcode cracking defense can be bypasssed using a USB accessory. Certain Apple accessories will reset the 1 hour counter for USB restricted mode.
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Dell XPS 15 2-in-1 review: jack of all trades
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NLP word representations and the Wittgenstein philosophy of language
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PyTorch – Internal Architecture Tour
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Privacy-preserving sentence semantic similarity using InferSent embeddings and secure two-party computation
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New prime on the block
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The effective receptive field on CNNs
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Benford’s law – Index
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The same old historicism, now on AI
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Introduction to Word Embeddings
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Nanopipe: connecting the modern babel
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