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"Elon Musk: Tesla Model 3 owners won't get free Supercharging for life without paying extra | VentureBeat"
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During Tesla’s annual shareholder meeting , Elon Musk revealed that owners of the company’s first mass-market car, the $35,000 Model 3, will not receive free, unlimited access to Tesla’s Supercharger network of chargers for life — unless they purchase a specific package.
The question was posed by a Tesla shareholder, who specifically asked how the company plans to cope with the flood of new Tesla owners once it brings an affordable electric car to market. Here’s Musk’s answer [emphasis ours]: To date, we wanted to keep it really straightforward and easy. So that’s why the Superchargers are set up, at least to date for people who bought the cars, as free long-distance for life. Obviously that has, fundamentally, a cost. I don’t want to make this some big news headline, but the obvious thing to do is decouple that from the cost of the Model 3.
So it will still be very cheap — and far cheaper than gasoline — to drive long-distance with the Model 3, but it will not be free long distance for life unless you’ve purchased that package.
I wish we could, but in order to achieve the economics, it has to be something like that. I want to just emphasize, what Tesla’s motivation is, is to make electric transport as affordable as possible. That is what informs all of our actions. So if we do something, and we charge for this, or we charge for that, it is not because we want to make things more expensive; it’s because we can’t figure out how to make things less expensive.
Later, Musk said: The best thing to do with an electric car is to charge your car where you charge your phone. Would you really take your phone to a gas station? … Driving to a Supercharger, in order to get $5-worth of electricity, and spending half an hour of your time, you’re like, maybe barely at minimum wage. So it’s just not the best thing for people, but you know, they kind of do it out of habit.
This appears to be the first time the company has explicitly stated that access to its network of chargers will not be free forever for owners of the lowest-tier Model 3 — although the company never promised to offer that perk , either.
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"Sirin Labs launches Solarin, a $14,000 privacy-focused smartphone | VentureBeat"
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Stealth Israeli startup Sirin Labs officially launched its super high-end Android smartphone at an event in London today, bringing to an end years of speculation about what the company’s been cooking up behind the scenes.
Sirin Labs was founded in 2013 by Kazakh entrepreneur Kenges Rakishev , Israeli venture capitalist Moshe Hogeg (the same guy behind Yo and Mobli ), and former McKinsey consultant Tal Cohen. The mission? To create the Rolls-Royce of smartphones — an advanced device that combined “the highest privacy settings, operated faster than any other phone, [and was] built with the best materials from around the world.” The company had raised a $25 million “seed” round a couple of years back, followed by a chunky $72 million round just last month.
Solarin promises “the most advanced privacy technology, currently unavailable outside the agency world,” and has partnered with KoolSpan to integrate chip-to-chip 256-bit AES encryption, similar to what the military uses to protect communications. It’s activated via a physical security switch on the back of the phone.
“‘Cyberattacks are endemic across the globe,” said Tal Cohen, CEO and cofounder of Sirin Labs. “This trend is on the increase. Just one attack can severely harm reputations and finances. Solarin is pioneering new, uncompromising privacy measures to provide customers with greater confidence and the reassurance necessary to handle business-critical information.’ Above: Solarin Solarin also sports a Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 processor, comes with support for 24 bands of LTE, and promises “far superior” Wi-Fi connectivity than standard mobile phones. It also has a 23.8-megapixel rear camera and a 5.5” IPS LED 2K resolution screen.
“Every single design decision and material choice was based on performance and functionality,” said Fredrik Öijer, VP of product at Sirin Labs. “The product you hold today unites the very best of the world stage.” It’s worth noting here that this isn’t a mass-market device — at $13,800 this is for the super-rich. But if that’s you, then it goes on sale online globally, at Sirin Labs’ first retail store in Mayfair (34 Bruton Place), London from June 1; and at Harrods, Knightsbridge from June 30.
London is the “natural home of the Sirin Labs’ customer,” as the company previously put it. But plans are afoot to open additional retail stores across Europe, North America, and Asia later in the year.
Ludicrously expensive phones aren’t entirely without precedent — Nokia dumped luxury-phone brand Vertu back in 2012, but only after it had brought to market a number of eye-poppingly expensive handsets, such as the $310,000 Signature Cobra and the $5,000 Constellation. After leaving Nokia, Vertu brought out its first Android device — the $10,000 Vertu Ti — and was eventually acquired from Swedish private equity group EQT by a consortium of Chinese investors back in November.
We’ll also be trying to get a hands-on with the Solarin phone and update with more photos.
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"Nearly 60% of mobile gamers watch an ad or take a survey 10 times a week | VentureBeat"
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More than half of highly engaged mobile games watch video ads, complete surveys, or install apps to earn virtual in-game currency rewards, according to a new study.
The most common action? Watching ads.
“Free-to-play games make money from in-app purchases or advertising. Reward-based models marry both of those and make a nice third option for the mix,” says TapResearch VP Michael Sprague. “We saw a bit of a rocky road at the beginning as ‘incentived advertising’ painted a negative image on this model, but we are now in a place that if you’re not using rewarded video, then you’re doing it wrong.” Mobile monetization is challenging, of course, with studies consistently finding that a very low percentage of people — generally, low single digits — are willing to part with cash in exchange for games or other apps.
Event GamesBeat at the Game Awards We invite you to join us in LA for GamesBeat at the Game Awards event this December 7. Reserve your spot now as space is limited! Why do people want virtual cash? To improve their gaming experience, of course: Sprague, who was formerly with the virtual rewards platform Kiip , says that the second-most-common activity for earning virtual rewards is completing a survey, with 74 percent of respondents saying they’ve done that. (TapResearch, of course, offers mobile research monetization for app publishers, so it is not exactly a disinterested party here.) Watching videos is clearly the leader in terms of what users prefer. When asked what their favorite activity is for earning virtual cash, 70 percent said watching a video. Probably because it requires more active involvement, less than half that number — 31 percent — say completing a survey is their favorite.
For obvious reasons, the least favorite was completing an offer, like signing up for Netflix or Amazon Prime. Few like to give away their personal information, especially their credit cards.
Sprague says that different types of apps and different kinds of user modes require different forms of monetization.
“Another interesting piece to rewarded monetization is the psychology behind it. Video is great for a quick 30-second save when users are in ‘gaming mode,'” he told me via email. “Surveys take a bit more commitment and work better when users are in ‘shopping mode.’ It all comes down to expectation setting and user choice.” Mobile gamers want a lot of virtual currently, apparently. Sprague said that almost 60 percent of people complete 10 or more offers in an average month: One note to remember: TapResearch surveyed just under 400 mobile users for the research. For better, more statistically significant results, 1,000 or more would have been preferable.
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Despite claiming to be a “mobile first” corporation, last week Microsoft made two independent moves that pushed it even further away from the phone manufacturer it had become with the ill-fated Nokia acquisition , which closed in April 2014.
By selling the company’s feature phone operation and cutting over a thousand jobs in its smartphone division, Microsoft simultaneously finished off the remnants of Nokia, while signaling that the company had essentially abandoned its long-held goal of being a viable alternative to Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android.
For a brief period, it appeared that Microsoft would have the same tight vertical integration over its mobile ecosystem that Apple does, both producing the hardware and developing the software that powers it. But now it’s becoming increasingly difficult for the company to position itself as a mobile-first competitor, when its offerings look so underwhelming compared to the competition.
While it’s true that Microsoft continues to limp along with Windows 10 Mobile development, the operating system now accounts for less than 1 percent of new smartphones sold worldwide. It also develops a significant amount of mobile software — much of which is deployed on its competitors’ platforms.
‘Surface Phone’ no panacea It’s widely believed that Microsoft is working on a new handset or handsets , designed and built by its successful Surface team. And while such devices would draw a great deal of interest from Windows enthusiasts — a significant and vocal group, to be sure — it’s unlikely to move the needle when it comes to expanding Windows’ sliver of mobile market share.
That’s because, like Windows Phone before it, no one has much incentive to invest in the remaining Windows 10 Mobile infrastructure. Microsoft’s roster of hardware partners is exceedingly slim, and it includes none of the big-budget manufacturers that make up the rich Android ecosystem. While at different points in its existence, the mobile Windows platform has been adopted by such OEMs as Samsung, LG, HTC, and Motorola, Alcatel is currently the largest player to devote even a fraction of its lineup to Windows-powered handsets.
Just as critical as the dearth of hardware availability is the lack of developer interest in a platform with such low market penetration. Anyone who’s still developing for mobile Windows devices is probably doing it as a labor of love more than anything, with major apps dialing back support as well.
Microsoft has been aggressively attempting to counter this attrition by both unifying its desktop and mobile operating systems, as well as easing the barriers to porting over apps built for other platforms. Nonetheless, shrinking market share and a series of moves that have effectively deemphasized mobile do little to encourage developers to devote any resources at all to an ecosystem that appears to be in its final throes.
Born into the void Let’s say that the so-called Surface Phone comes to market in the spring of next year, which seems like a conservative assumption based on existing rumors. What kind of world will it be born into? At that point, the last Windows 10 Mobile flagships ( Lumia 950 and 950 XL ) will have launched some 18 months prior, with only a smattering of mid-tier devices introduced in the interim. By all accounts, the Lumia 650 , which officially debuted early last month, will be the last Lumia made — meaning that a full year may pass in which Microsoft releases no new handsets at all.
A year is a lifetime in mobile, and it’s easy to imagine that development of mobile-specific Windows 10 applications will very nearly grind to a halt during that stretch. In announcing the job cuts last week, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella was somewhat opaque about his vision for the future of mobile at Microsoft, simply saying: We are focusing our phone efforts where we have differentiation — with enterprises that value security, manageability and our Continuum capability, and consumers who value the same. We will continue to innovate across devices and on our cloud services across all mobile platforms.
However that vision translates to shipping products, it seems clear that Microsoft isn’t intending its next handset or handsets to be a reboot as much as a pivot. And that pivot will likely involve dialing back its aspirations, from being a strong alternative platform to one that exists only for niche use cases and particularly dedicated users.
Mobile still first? Is it fair for the company to continue repeating the mantra of “mobile first” while at the same time embarking on round after round of layoffs that have decimated its mobile hardware development capabilities? That really depends on your perspective: Mobile isn’t just hardware, software, or services, of course, but a mix of these and other elements. Microsoft continues to maintain an active role in mobile software development, even as its homegrown mobile platform is on the verge of extinction.
“Mobile first, cloud first” has never been a promise to users as much as it has been an attempt to provide focus, both internally and externally. Still, in light of the tens of thousands of former Nokia jobs eliminated, and the staggering write-downs of nearly $8 billion associated with the failed acquisition, something along the lines of “cloud first, mobile second” might be more apropos.
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"EU warns governments against banning Uber and Airbnb | VentureBeat"
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(Reuters) — European Union governments should not ban services like home-rental site Airbnb or ride-hailing app Uber except as a last resort, the EU says in new guidelines, seeking to rein in a crackdown on the “sharing economy”.
In guidelines seen by Reuters, the European Commission said any restrictions by EU member states on these new online services should be justified and proportionate to the public interest at stake.
“Total bans of an activity constitute a measure of last resort that should be applied only if and where no less restrictive requirements to attain a public interest can be used,” the draft document says.
In the case of room-renting sites like Airbnb, the Commission said banning short-term lets of apartments “appears difficult to justify” when limits on the maximum number of days apartments can be rented out would be more appropriate.
The guidelines will come as good news for the likes of Uber and Airbnb, which have faced outright bans or restrictions in some cities as established industry players complain of unfair competition.
Airbnb, founded in 2008, and Uber, launched a year later, both grew up in the hot-house San Francisco Internet scene and almost from the start have faced regulatory battles across the United States, and, more recently, around the world.
Both have become favorite targets of local officials and rival trade groups in Europe, with its tradition of strong social oversight.
In the “sharing economy”, customers use the Internet to contract services such as ride-sharing, where amateur drivers displace professional taxis, or home-sharing, which reduces hotel demand.
“These services can fall within several sectors, falling under the regulatory burden of all of them,” the Commission said.
A case in point is Uber, which considers itself merely a digital service connecting drivers and passengers as opposed to a transport service, which would make it subject to more onerous rules on driver qualifications, road rules and insurance.
The EU’s highest court is set to rule later this year or next on whether Uber is a transport company or a digital service.
Local skirmishes Associations of taxi drivers have staged high-profile protests against Uber in France, Britain, Portugal, Spain and many other European countries since 2014.
Last year, French prosecutors staged a high-profile raid of Uber’s Paris offices in a showdown over whether the company was violating a law to curtail online taxi services.
Uber suspended its UberPOP service, which relies on non-professional drivers, in Brussels last October after a court ordered it shut down.
The company reintroduced its service in Madrid in March after beating a hasty retreat from the market in 2014 following a court ruling against it.
Airbnb has faced loud criticism from city officials in Barcelona and Paris over its impact on local housing markets.
On May 1, Berlin officials implemented one of the world’s toughest clampdowns on Airbnb. City officials have promised to reject 95 percent of requests by landlords to rent out places on a short-term basis.
City officials have received more than 500 legal complaints over the murky provisions of the new law. A Berlin court on June 8 is handling the case of German Airbnb competitor Wimdu, which filed suit over the new regulation.
German hotel association IHA said in response to the EU guidelines: “The current legal vacuum…comes at the expense of consumers, residents and taxpayers and distorts the competition to the (disadvantage) of the heavily regulated hotel industry.” (By Julia Fioretti and Eric Auchard. Additional reporting by Tina Bellon in Frankfurt, Michel Rose in Paris, Paul Day in Madrid, Toby Sterling in Amsterdam and Axel Bugge in Lisbon; editing by Adrian Croft) VentureBeat's mission is to be a digital town square for technical decision-makers to gain knowledge about transformative enterprise technology and transact.
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"Gary Vaynerchuk, social media, and the best comedy recall ever - VB Engage | VentureBeat"
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Welcome to the inaugural VB Engage podcast! With VB Engage, we are interviewing the best and brightest minds across the technology world. And for our first episode, we bring you one of our favorite digital hustlers, Gary Vaynerchuk.
Whether it be mobile, social, or digital, our mission is to bring you the best knowledge from the world’s wisest people. Oh, and to bring you brutally honest marketing feedback. And jokes. Mix that all together, and you get what we like to call “snarketing.” Each episode begins with Stewart Rogers and Travis Wright bantering about the latest VB Engage-worthy news. It’s where our skinny British guy and his fat American cohost dissect all things tech.
This week we discuss Microsoft Windows Phones , mixed reality, and Nokia (“knock-ya” vs. “no-key-ah”) getting its brand name back and building handsets again.
After the news, we bring you our own version of the #AskGaryVee show. Gary is the CEO of VaynerMedia — an author, thought leader, early investor in SnapChat and Uber, and also the future owner of the New York Jets. We had the opportunity to pick Gary’s brain and ask him several questions.
Gary explains his epiphany around building a show based on the Q&A portions of his keynotes — the substance of Gary is his knowledge in the space. And we ask him about the unique ways that millennials are using social media, including how they use Twitter in a totally different, highly public way.
According to Gary, Snapchat and Instagram are not great for younger users when it comes to sharing their public thoughts: They use Twitter as the place they share their context of what’s going on in the world.
With real-time events, we go to Twitter. It is still the watercooler of the world. The public two cents on any topic. Gary thinks Twitter will dip but come back. It fills a void that no other social channel does.
We also find out just how much time each day Gary spends engaging with people on Twitter, Snapchat, and Instagram versus creating content, taking meetings, and doing client work.
We discover that whenever Gary travels, he spends at least 2 hours engaging with other people. Nine hours a day are taken up by being the CEO of a 650-person company. We dig into where speaking, content creation, and social networking fits into his schedule.
And yes, this is the first episode, but that doesn’t mean we don’t have fans already. One of our soon-to-be-regular listeners asks about knowing when to fail fast and hang up a venture. We also discuss a very important question around emotional intelligence and self-awareness.
And make sure to tune in to what Gary Vee called maybe the “greatest comedy recall from any interview that he’s ever experienced,” instigated by our own Stewart Rogers! Here’s that moment in GIF form.
Tune in next time for Amy Vernon , editor at The Daily Dot, whom we talk with about engagement and community management.
Thanks to our launch sponsor Braintree for helping to make VB Engage possible.
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Sony is coming with a big lineup of games for its PlayStation Plus subscribers next month.
If you’re a member of Sony’s premium PlayStation Plus service in June and own a PlayStation 4, you’ll get access to an amazing basketball game and one of the most beloved independent games of the last few years. Like always, all three PlayStation platforms — PS4, PS3, and PS Vita — are getting two games each as part of PS Plus’s “instant library” feature. Here’s the fulle lineup: NBA 2K16 (PS4) Gone Home: Console Edition (PS4) Echochrome (PS3) Siren: Blood Curse – Episodes 1-12 (PS3) God of War: Chains of Olympus (PS Vita) Little Deviants (PS Vita) Let’s look a bit closer at each game.
PlayStation 4 NBA 2K16 is the latest basketball sim from publisher 2K Games. This comes just in time for the end of the NBA season as the Golden State Warriors take on the Cleveland Cavaliers in the Finals. This will enable you to play along with that action. Also, you should check out our guide to creating a monstrous player in NBA 2K16.
Event GamesBeat at the Game Awards We invite you to join us in LA for GamesBeat at the Game Awards event this December 7. Reserve your spot now as space is limited! Gone Home: Console Edition is an adventure game from developer The Fullbright Company that tells a story through exploration. It has players moving around a house in an effort to discover more about the people who inhabited it.
PlayStation 3 Echochrome is a puzzle game that uses non-Euclidean geometry that requires your brain to work in unnatural ways. Your goal is to get your character to the end of each level by matching up a 3D object in a way that it is traversable in 2D space.
Siren: Blood Curse is a survival-horror adventure that has players dealing with murder and mystery in a Japanese mountain village.
PlayStation Vita God of War: Chains of Oympus is one of the handful of portable action games featuring Kratos and his beat-’em-up action. It tells the ongoing story of his struggle with the gods.
Little Deviants is a minigame collection where players are tasked with rebuilding a spaceship to help the titular characters return to their home planet.
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When I first saw Overwatch, I thought it was a Team Fortress 2 clone.
You have the distinct classes, the team- and objective-based combat, and a bright, cartoon-like art style. Overwatch certainly takes plenty of inspiration from Valve’s online shooter series. It’s just better.
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I spent dozens of hours playing Overwatch’s lengthy beta , and I’ve played the full release (which came out on May 23) at least a couple of hours (sometimes much more) every night. Just like a Pharah plucked out of a sky by a Roadhog, I’m hooked (that’s a little Overwatch humor for you).
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Above: Tracer (and her butt) from Overwatch.
What you’ll like Team-based fighting In Overwatch, two teams of six players fight each other while trying to secure an objective (either escorting/stopping a moving payload, securing/defending an area, or battling for control of the same objective at the same time). Winning requires teamwork. Unlike a team deathmatch experience (like you’d find in Call of Duty), a single player can rarely carry his team to victory. You need to use each character’s distinct abilities in conjunction with your allies’ powers.
When I play a lot of online shooters — like Call of Duty or Titanfall — I sometimes I feel like the team aspect feels secondary. When the focus is on team deathmatch, victory usually depends on individuals getting a lot of kills. My teammates are little more than virtual avatars I’ll see running by as move from fight to fight. In Overwatch, an individual can only have so much impact by himself. For the most part, teams need to stick together and communicate to succeed.
I haven’t worried about voice chat in a shooter in a long time. If I did use it, it was mostly just for jabbering with friends while playing. With Overwatch, I’m always talking strategy. We have discussions before matches about what characters we want to be, trying to make sure we’ll have a strong team with complementary abilities. We’ll call out the locations of enemy players and let each other know when we’re about to start a team fight.
I even talk to the people on my team I don’t know, something I had sworn off of after years of dealing with whiny children and vulgar people on Xbox Live. In Overwatch, most players have been helpful and willing to coordinate without once threatening to sleep with my mom.
A likable, distinct cast In order to win, you need a good team. You have 21 heroes to choose from. Blizzard divides them into four categories: offense, defense, tank, and support. And these characters — even the ones in the same categories — are nothing like each other.
And every character has plenty of abilities. They all have a basic attack that can use with a weapon. For example, a character named Reaper has dual shotguns, while Pharah has a rocket launcher. Most heroes also have special moves that work off of cooldowns. Reaper can become invulnerable for a short time or teleport to any location in sight. Pharah can boost herself in the sky or shoot a projectile that knocks enemies away on impact.
Each hero also has an ultimate ability. These slowly charge overtime, but you can unlock them faster by doing things like dealing damage and healing. Pharah can unleash a powerful stream of rockets that make her immobile except for aiming, while Reaper will do a ton of damage to any characters near him as he spins in circles and shoots his shotguns in all directions.
Above: McCree can win most up-close fights.
You don’t just use these tools blindly. When playing, you’ll discover which situations you want to use specific abilities. When I first played the cowboy McCree, he seemed pretty straightforward. He has a pistol that can shoot six shots (either individually or all at once in quick succession) and he can do a doge roll. However, I quickly learned he automatically reloads his pistol when he rolls. Soon, I easily killing tanks with full health by unloading my gun, rolling, and emptying another clip in them.
Another character, Mei, can create a wall of ice. At first, I was just using this to block the other team, forcing them to have to wait behind a wall of ice every once in a while. I’m sure it annoyed them, but it probably didn’t win my team many games.
Once we were in a situation where my whole team was stuck in the tank Zarya’s ultimate, which is a gravity well. Worst, Pharah was about to use her ultimate, which shoots a barrage of explosives. It would have wiped our whole team. Quickly, I shot up an ice wall right in front of the Pharah. It blocked all of her hits. The splash damage even killed her, while completely saving my team. It won us a game.
I felt like a hero.
Above: Mei’s ice wall is an amazing tool.
And that’s the real magic of Overwatch. Its huge cast and objective-based gameplay gives you the opportunity to become a hero for your team. Once I was the healer Mercy and revived most of my dead team right when the enemy was about to capture the final objective. Another time I used the ninja’s Genji reflect ability to shoot McCree’s high-damage ultimate back at him and kill him. Nothing feels better than knowing that you’re making the difference for your team between victory and defeat.
A beautiful, colorful world Overwatch is set a futuristic world full of technological wonders. Maps take inspiration from across the world, like the England-themed King’s Row and the Mexican-themed Dorado. They’re full of colors and details (like a hilariously overpriced menu board at a movie theater in the Hollywood map). Even the background details, like far-off, gigantic robots in the Volskaya Industries map, impress. You could have fun just walking around each level and admiring the virtual architecture.
I also love the music. It’s a heroic score full of triumphant fanfares and melodies that have musical cues based on the level you’re in (you’ll hear some distinctly Japanese instruments when you start a game on Hanamura, for example). It’s reminds me of the soundtrack to The Incredibles , which is fitting considering both that movie and this game are about a world that banned heroes. I find myself humming along to the distinct melody that plays every time you begin a game on the Hollywood map.
It doesn’t have much of an actual story, but you still pick up pieces of lore just by paying attention to the maps and listening to the characters talk. Widowmaker will recall an especially thrilling hit while walking through King’s Row, for example. It’s about as much story as I need in this kind of game.
Above: Each map is full of character.
Cosmetic progression These days, most online shooters reward players by having them unlock new items while they play. In Overwatch, you start with everything. You’ll have every character, gun, and ability. All players are always on the same level, with skill being the only differentiator.
You do still level up your account and unlock stuff. Each time you hit a new level, you earn a Loot Box. These each contain four random cosmetic items, including sprays (you can plaster these anywhere on a map), voice lines, poses, and (most important) skins that change a hero’s appearance. These help make your characters feel more personalized, and they also give you fun rewards for playing. I often keep playing a little longer than I intended because I want to earn just one more Loot Box.
It’s running smoothly A lot of online games have troubled launches. Servers will be down or people will have to wait in long queues before they can start playing. I haven’t had any of those problems with Overwatch since its official release. I haven’t even noticed any lag. Games have run smoothly for me. The worst problem I saw was some teammates getting kicked from the game during the first few hours it went live. It hasn’t been an issue since.
What you won’t like A hard learning curve Overwatch is not a simple game. To be good, you must have a decent understanding of how every character works, know which heroes complement and counter others, memorize the layouts of each map, and more. It takes time, and Overwatch doesn’t give you a lot of tools to help. It has one, short tutorial that only lets you play as one character. If you want to get good, you’ll just have to jump right in.
This can be frustrating, since you can quickly become overwhelmed by all of those characters. You might have to deal with your allies yelling at you for not knowing where to go or for picking the “wrong” hero before you really understand the game.
Above: You better be a good shot if you want to be a sniper like Widowmaker.
Conclusion I haven’t been this addicted to an online shooter since I was kid spending every day after school capturing flags in Team Fortress Classic (well, trying to capture them, anyway). Overwatch has everything going for it. It’s fun, beautiful, deep, and so far, it’s never boring. You might be overwhelmed at first when you start your first match and have to pick just one of those 21 gorgeous heroes, but you’ll quickly have a blast as you learn each characters’ strengths.
Overwatch is a game that I know I’m going to be playing for a long time. It’s one of the most appealing, polished titles any developer — even Blizzard — has ever made. Other online games make you feel like a player. Overwatch makes you feel like a hero.
Score: 98/100 Overwatch is out now for PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. Blizzard provided GamesBeat with a PC code for this review.
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I know it’s difficult to believe, but I’ve noticed some Overwatch players getting frustrated with one another. The main point of contention is — well, usually it’s “git gud.” But when it’s not that, you’ll find a player angry that someone on their team isn’t playing the objective or that their squad composition doesn’t make a lot of sense for the match’s goal.
Here’s the thing: Sometimes that heated player is me, GamesBeat reporter Jeffrey Grubb — and I’m uncomfortable that I feel this way. Overwatch is new, and it has 21 characters and four roles to learn.
It also doesn’t have the deep tutorials rookies need to understand the situational skills of each hero and why you may want to switch mid-game — although we love it despite that.
What I want to know is whether or not it’s OK for me to let those people know that we’re going to lose because of them? I don’t want to tell people how to play — especially if they just want to have a casual time with the shooter. They paid, and they should get to play however they want. It just stinks that the way they want to play occasionally ruins the way I want to play.
Only I think we can find a compromise.
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Of course, this is the problem. It doesn’t seem possible to share your point of view without coming across as a bastard. So I’m lost. I don’t know if I can say anything, and if I can, how should I do it. To help me figure this out, I’ve brought in GamesBeat writer and community manager Mike Minotti, who is an expert human being.
Jeff Grubb, GamesBeat reporter: Mike, help me. I want to yell at people in Overwatch. I think this makes me totally lame, and I should just get over it, but I also think that maybe I could help those players by saying something. Maybe they are frustrated with their play as well or have no idea that they’re making an easily correctable mistake. Can I let them know that they’re the reason we’re losing the game in an effort to help them? Mike Minott, GamesBeat community manager and writer: Well, Jeff, you are a bad person who I hate. I’m not too surprised that you want to yell at your poor teammates.
Before sending your fellow Overwatchers passive-aggressive messages, why don’t we first make sure your anger is justified. What kinds of scenarios are bugging you? Jeff: One of the main things that is getting on my nerves is that I think a lot of people are choosing one character and then they never change no matter the situation. I get that some people always want to snipe, and Widowmaker has some really great offensive capabilities, but there are occasional situations where her range isn’t helpful. But I also think some people aren’t changing their class because they always play a sniper role in something like Battlefield, so they’re doing that here as well.
Another thing is when my team is on the offensive, but I have four teammates playing as defensive heroes. That’s happened to me twice now. We lost the first one, and we only barely won the second after I sent a chat message along the lines of “I don’t know if we need two snipers.” That convinced some people to change.
You’re right, though: I want to make sure that I’m justified. I’m not gonna shout at someone for picking a certain character because there’s always the chance that other player knows exactly what they’re doing. But what if it is obvious they don’t know what they’re doing? Does that justify me saying something, and how do I say it in a way that people know that I just want to help.
Mike: It can certainly be a problem, and it can be frustrating. But let’s not forget that a lot of people are still learning how to play. They may not understand why certain characters are bad for specific situations.
I actually remember one of the first times we played together. You picked Symmetra, a character most useful for her teleporter and defensive turrets, when we were playing on offense. Now, I knew that this was an awful choice. You were new to Overwatch and probably more interested in playing a specific character than making a balanced team. Or you’re a dummy. Probably that.
But, in that situation and others, I find that voice chat actually helps a lot. When you write a message, it can come across as aggressive. People will feel attacked. They’ll insert those negative emotions into whatever you say, no matter how well-meaning your intentions are.
When you use voice, you can deflate the situation by being friendly. “Hey, buddy, that character may not be best for this situation. Maybe you’re really good with them, whatever. Just a heads up.” Jeff: I remember thinking you were an asshole for scolding me about Symmetra. OK, not really. That was actually super-helpful and exactly what I’m talking about. I’m betting a lot of the stuff that’s bothering me is just people who are still learning. Maybe I can accelerate their education while simultaneously avoiding an annoying situation for myself? I think some folks have this perception that you’re taking things too seriously if you point out that Symmetra doesn’t make a lot of sense for a certain level. But it’s OK to want to win and to have a competent team around you. These matches take about 15 minutes, and that’s a significant chunk of time.
Now, I’m not saying that people can’t play how they want, but I’m just imagining that a ton of people are coming into a class-based shooter for the first time and are feeling a little lost. Like you point out, I was. I still am a lot of the time. When I try a character I’m not familiar with and use them in a non-optimal way, I’m sure it would embarrass me a little bit to have someone call me. But I’d also learn from it and appreciate it by the end of the match.
Mike: It’s one of the reasons why I like to use voice and use it early. I think you can help set the mood. If the first thing a person says is something like “Hey everyone, let’s do good and win and be friends,” it lightens things up. You can remind everyone that it’s just a game not to be taken too seriously. You’re less likely to have that weirdo screaming about someone switching to Winston when you’re 10 seconds away from losing.
Still, you’re going to run into situations where people are just doing things that don’t make sense, like teams with two snipers or someone trying to play an offensive Bastion. Now, sometimes that actually works! People can just be surprisingly good at these strange setups. Still, a lot of the time it’s just people not really sure what they’re doing. You can either give them a heads up, or just let it go, Disney-style.
Don’t forget, Blizzard will eventually release a Competitive Mode. It’ll have a level cap and force stricter punishments on people who leave. Once we get there, these bad team composition problems shouldn’t be as big a deal.
Jeff: I’m wondering what ranked play in this game is going to look like. But until then, I think I’m going to take your advice and use my microphone if I want to make a suggestion to someone — although I’ll probably let most things slide.
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Square Enix and Avalanche Studios are unveiling the next installment of downloadable content for the Just Cause 3 silly shooter game that debuted last fall. Just Cause 3: Mech Land Assault debuts in early June.
The DLC is aimed at keeping the excitement going for Just Cause 3, which is one of the more creative shooters to hit the market in recent years. It’s like Grand Theft Auto for tropical island warfare , and now the new DLC introduces a new mech assault vehicle that produces hilarious results. I played Mech Land Assault hands-on at a recent Square Enix event.
Just Cause 3’s previous DLC, Sky Fortress, came out in March. With that DLC, you could play with Rico’s wingsuit and add a rocket to it. He could fire rockets and shoot his machine gun in mid-air, making him pretty deadly in the skies. Now with Mech Land Assault, you can get into a mech that looks like a walker with an oversized left arm. That arm has a gravity device built into it that can suck anything within range to the arm. Then you let go, and you can toss that thing a hundred yards or more.
You can pick up almost anything that is trying to attack you. I picked up infantry soldiers who were shooting pea shooters at me. I picked up motorcycles and jeeps loaded with soldiers. I picked up armored cars and tanks. I even knocked planes and helicopters out of the sky. It made me feel nearly invincible. The only thing you can’t pick up is another mech controlled by another human player in multiplayer. The physics is pretty realistic in the game, even for such a fanciful weapon. So you could pick up a tank and toss it at a watch tower and see the explosion take out the tower.
Event GamesBeat at the Game Awards We invite you to join us in LA for GamesBeat at the Game Awards event this December 7. Reserve your spot now as space is limited! Above: Just Cause 3 I was tossing enemies around a small base on the tropical island. Reinforcements kept showing up and getting more and more powerful. First, some jeeps and motorcycle soldiers would show up, and I could get rid of them quite easily. But I always discovered that someone else had showed up because I was getting shot at. These shots caused actual damage to my mech. So I had to keep on picking up vehicles and tossing them back at the new arrivals. I lasted quite a long time before the collective impact of the jets, tanks, and helicopters eventually took their toll.
Tobias Anderson, the producer of Mech Land Assault, told GamesBeat that the storyline for the DLC will span about three to four hours. But I can imagine that you could get much more time than that by just playing with the mech unit for a long time.
Above: Just Cause 3 has some new DLC coming that makes land mech combat goofy.
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Innovium has raised $50 million in funding across two rounds to develop networking infrastructure products for next-generation data centers. The company is disclosing those rounds for the first time.
The company’s products are designed to help companies deal with a bunch of trends, such as the continued adoption of mobile, video, anything-as-a-service (XaaS), big data analytics, and Internet of Things (IoT, or making everyday objects smart and connected).
San Jose, California-based Innovium first raised a round of funding in the first quarter of 2015 in a round led by venture capital firms Walden Riverwood Ventures and Capricorn Investment Corp., with participation from S-Cubed and Qualcomm. Later in 2015, the company raised more money from Greylock Partners and existing investors.
Board members include Asheem Chandna of Greylock, Dipender Saluja of Capricorn, Lip-Bu Tan of Walden International, and Mark Stevens of S-Cubed.
Innovium believes that the meteoric explosion of data requires a grounds-up approach to high performance Ethernet networking.
“Innovium is laser-focused on developing revolutionary semiconductor solutions to meet our customers’ most critical needs. We are delighted to receive top-tier investor support towards this mission,” said Rajiv Khemani, CEO of Innovium, in a statement.
Khemani was previously chief operating officer at Cavium Networks, a multi-core chip maker that went public. And Puneet Agarwal, chief technology officer, led Broadcom’s technology development of multiple generations of data center switches, including Trident and Tomahawk.
“They’ve got a very experienced team that is developing products in a market that is dominated by some very large players,” said Quinn Li, vice president and global head of Qualcomm Ventures, in an interview with VentureBeat. “They are working on a different architecture that we believe is differentiated.” Innovium isn’t talking about what it’s building yet. The company says its engineering and executive team came from companies including Broadcom, Cavium, Cisco, Dell, Ericsson, Intel, and Juniper.
“Domain knowledge and strong execution track record are critical to the success of any new venture. Innovium’s team members have delivered successful products widely deployed in a range of infrastructure applications across the world. With a clean-sheet design, we believe that Innovium can deliver a truly compelling solution,” said Lip-Bu Tan, chairman of Walden International, in a statement.
Asheem Chandna, partner at Greylock Partners, said in a statement that Innovium has put together one of the industry’s “strongest Ethernet switching teams.” VentureBeat's mission is to be a digital town square for technical decision-makers to gain knowledge about transformative enterprise technology and transact.
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Clarity Money , a New York-based startup still in beta, announced in a public filing that it raised a $2.5 million investment.
Cofounded by venture capitalist Adam Dell — brother of Dell founder Michael Dell — Clarity Money’s stealthy Angel List page says it aims to become “your money guru” by providing “actionable insights into a consumer’s financial relationships.” The company’s service appears to feature some sort of AI or chatbot-style interface for navigating your personal finances, judging by a screenshot posted on Clarity’s site.
Dell declined to comment on the raise. However, in April on Twitter he called for users to sign up for Clarity’s beta. At the time, he described the service as a “financial concierge that does the work of getting you the best deals.” Deals on what, we still don’t know.
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Square has made it a bit easier for businesses to afford its new contactless and chip reader with a lease price of just $1 per week. The intention is to reduce the financial strain entrepreneurs face and allow them to use the latest commerce-based technology right now.
Launched in November , Square’s latest card reader not only puts businesses in compliance with the latest financial regulations by switching from antiquated technology to more EMV and NFC systems, but it also provides near-field communication capabilities, meaning that they can now accept Apple Pay, Android Pay, and other similar methods.
Although normally priced at $49 in retail stores and online, Square is giving businesses access to the card reader for just $1 per week for 60 weeks, which will give the company an extra $11 when it’s all said and done. The company hasn’t commented about the discrepancy, but perhaps it might be attributed to some overhead costs it has.
This leasing program is only available for the new contactless and cheap reader, so if you have an older card reader from Square, you’re out of luck.
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“Oakland is a city of great social and economic diversity, and it has both concentrated wealth and considerable inequality,” wrote organization president Sam Altman. “We think these traits make it a very good place to explore how basic income could work for our pilot.” Those participating in this inaugural study will receive “unconditional” income, meaning that they’ll receive funds with no strings attached. Altman hopes that with the unspecified amount provided, it’ll promote freedom and as such, Y Combinator will be able to examine how people “experience that freedom” — they can volunteer, work, not work, or move to another country.
The next few months will be spent designing the pilot before being implemented.
Y Combinator said that it has already been in contact with Oakland city officials and community groups soliciting feedback, so it’s not as if the organization is barging in thinking it can magically change things overnight and doing things how they want. Public events are also planned to hear more opinions from local residents.
A product of the YC Research program , Basic Income is a long-term study to assess the impact technological improvements have on resources, jobs, and cost of living. Altman posits that as technology moves to replace existing jobs, there has to be some minimum level of income to allow people to live — to provide a floor. He believes people should be able to work and earn as much as they want, however, saying, “We hope a minimum level of economic security will give people the freedom to pursue further education or training, find or create a better job, and plan for the future.” To help guide this effort, Altman has tapped Elizabeth Rhodes as Basic Income’s research director.
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Vendini , a holistic ticketing platform for live events, has raised $20 million from New York-based investment firm Level Equity.
Founded out of San Francisco in 2001, Vendini strives to differentiate itself from its myriad competitors with an all-in-one platform covering tickets and associated services, such as marketing, social media integration, analytics, and customer relationship management (CRM). It provides venues across North America with the necessary software and hardware — like scanners and RFID wristbands — to promote events and sell tickets.
Though the ultimate goal is to help companies shift tickets, founder and CEO Mark Tacchi told VentureBeat that the company’s mission is much more than that. “We’re trying to foster a very specific relationship that goes beyond helping the box office transact ticket sales — we’re focused on helping the entire business be successful,” he said. “The all-in-one solution that we’ve built includes tools from top to bottom. We also give our venues access to their data, unlike a lot of other companies.” Notably, Vendini’s new cash influx represents the company’s first outside funding after having bootstrapped its way to $1 billion in gross sales in the 14 years leading to last March. We’re told this sales figure is about to hit the $2 billion mark, which means that Vendini has had more or less the same number of ticket sales in the past year as it did in all the years that preceded it. We’re also told that the company was profitable, though as a private company it’s not at liberty to divulge specific numbers.
VB Event The AI Impact Tour Connect with the enterprise AI community at VentureBeat’s AI Impact Tour coming to a city near you! Why now? This leads us to one obvious question — why seek investors’ cash when things appear to be going very well? Tacchi explained: We have strong organic growth, and I’ve always believed that taking money too soon can be problematic. We’ve been purposefully operating with a very bootstrapped mentality, and then implemented an acquisition strategy in which we acquired three companies over the past four years to help us move more rapidly into new verticals and improve our product. But we’ve really been waiting to make sure our product, and company, were lined up exactly where we wanted before we took any kind of investment. We’ve been trying different things out and building our platform with autonomy. It’s like we’ve been aiming at a target, and now we’ve locked on. Now, we’re aimed and we’re ready to fire – we know exactly how to invest this money to make the biggest impact.
It is true that startups can struggle under the weight of too much money and the expectations of impatient VCs. Vendini could have raised cash before now, but it has held on until it felt it had a real purpose for the investment. Indeed, the company is now looking to ramp up its offering by hiring new people and building out its platform with new features and functionality.
“There’s an entire segment of live event venues not getting the solutions and support they need,” added Tacchi. “Since the beginning, it was never about just ticketing software for us — it’s always been about building a cohesive, all-in-one system. We’re excited to keep building, innovating and giving organizations the tools they need to compete and succeed, and this round of funding lets us do that faster.” The Jobs era There’s also an interesting back story to Tacchi — he worked under Steve Jobs from 1993 to 1997 at Next, the computer company Jobs founded after he was ousted from Apple (and which was later acquired by Apple in a $400 million deal that brought Jobs back as CEO ). So has Tacchi taken any of the design philosophy from his early years at Apple into Vendini? “Working at Next and then Apple essentially laid the groundwork for who I am as an entrepreneur and how I build my product,” explained Tacchi. “One of our cornerstone philosophies is almost identical to what Steve did with Apple — make everything light-switch simple. The people using our products aren’t computer scientists, they shouldn’t have to be using complicated systems that are difficult to use. Obviously, this is what Apple did with just about every product they put out, and I try to do the same with our product.” And what about any other design lessons picked up under Jobs? Tacchi continued: In terms of the company in general, something I noticed early on at Next and Apple was that Jobs surrounded himself with top talent. People have this image of him being rude or angry, but really it was that he didn’t have a tolerance for anything, or anyone, but the best. Honestly, I was really honored to even be in the same room as everyone else there! The talent was truly top-notch, and it was wildly apparent. I’ve tried to translate that idea to my company; we always strive to hire the best.
Vendini is targeting mid-range live event organizations, ones that are perhaps not quite big enough to get red-carpet treatment from the major ticketing companies but which need something more substantial than the DIY alternatives out there. The company says it works with 4,000 venues across festivals, performing arts, live music and nightclubs, museums, universities, and more.
“There is a huge group of venues that have been historically under-served in the industry,” added Tacchi. “For example, massive arenas like Madison Square Garden are probably going to be using Ticketmaster, which was designed with huge venues in mind. Then you have people hosting smaller events from personal parties up to small conferences, using a self-service, freemium model — a good example of that is Eventbrite. That leaves a TON of underserved venues right there in the middle, and that’s our sweet spot.” VentureBeat's mission is to be a digital town square for technical decision-makers to gain knowledge about transformative enterprise technology and transact.
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Ever since iPhones came equipped with the soothing tones of Siri, artificial intelligence entered the mainstream. Whether answering basic questions or finding information on local architecture, artificial intelligence (AI) simulates human intelligence such as visual perception, speech recognition, decision making and even language translation. From the insurance industry’s anti-fraud efforts to the latest automobile technology (self-driving mini-vans anyone?) AI is revolutionizing products and services throughout the business world.
It seemed so long ago that artificial intelligence was something you only hear in a cheesy sci-fi movie, but these days it’s almost taken for granted, due to how much AI is embedded in our daily lives. The idea of a machine learning guiding you through your daily routines used to feel so futuristic and unobtainable, yet, we do it everyday with Siri on our iPhones — or Cortana, for those Microsoft users out there. AI is part of the mainstream and will only get bigger, as technology continues to improve in mimicking human behaviour, and the big players in the tech industry are certainly taking notice.
Google took great pride that it’s advancements in deep learning – a type of AI for key processes – resulted in 8 percent word error rate in speech recognition ; a significant improvement from the 23 percent it had in 2013. Moving to social media, Facebook’s latest AI experiment had generating captions and face recognition in videos.
Considering the fierce competition between the Google-owned YouTube and Facebook, advancements like these could lead to one side dominating the other in the videos department. The exciting results don’t only affect social media users, but ad makers as well.
We’re also seeing strong investment in AI-focused startups, such as Sony investing undisclosed sum in California-based Cogitai , believing it will lead to huge revenue in the future. For something more open, AI startup Osaro raised $3.3 million from high-profile investors like Peter Thiel, Scott Banister, Sean Parker, and more. Apple, Facebook, Google, and Twitter have also acquired AI startups in recent years. With historical moments like Google’s AI beating a professional Go player three out of five time, interest in AI advancements will only increase. Of course, incidents like Microsoft’s AI chatbot posting offensive tweets is a reminder that current AI tech isn’t perfect, but we’re definitely getting close.The AI revolution: How artificial intelligence can boost your bottom line (Webinar) The AI movement is only getting stronger each day, and by attending this webinar, you’ll be able to catch up before being left in the dust of the competition. We’ll go over the AI landscape and how the top players in the industry are using AI to better their bottom line. Want to know the most effective and cost-efficient way for implementing AI to your business plan? Join the discussion to find out how.
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In this VB Live event, you’ll learn to: Understand the AI outlook Recognize the key players (what they know that you should too) Anticipate changes in the AI landscape and plan accordingly Find ways to integrate AI into your business plan Speakers include: Jon Cifuentes, Analyst, VentureBeat Wendy Schuchart, Moderator, VentureBeat VentureBeat Homepage Follow us on Facebook Follow us on X Follow us on LinkedIn Follow us on RSS Press Releases Contact Us Advertise Share a News Tip Contribute to DataDecisionMakers Careers Privacy Policy Terms of Service Do Not Sell My Personal Information © 2023 VentureBeat.
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Qualcomm is launching a couple of chips that are aimed at expanding broadband communications network capacity for connected land lines as well as for wireless Wi-Fi networks.
San Diego, Calif.-based Qualcomm said its Qualcomm Atheros business has introduced GigaDSL chips that enable broadband operators to move from older VDSL technology to faster wired Gigabit access technologies. And Qualcomm is also introducing a three-way radio chip to handle a variety of flavors of Wi-Fi wireless data networking.
The world’s biggest maker of mobile chips made the announcement at the Computex trade show in Taiwan today. Qualcomm Atheros’ new chips are aimed at easing the transition for existing VDSL operators in markets such as South Korea and Japan. The new QCO5700 and QCM5720 chips can provide up to 1 gigabit-per-second broadband over existing telephone lines while still maintaining interoperability with existing modems at carriers.
“We’re in a never-ending pursuit of more network capacity,” said Mark Grodzinsky, senior director of product management at Qualcomm, in an interview with VentureBeat. “This is on both wired and wireless networks. This GigaDSL tech is very important for places that have already deployed VDSL. GigaDSL will be a big help.” These new products are aimed at supporting Asian carriers as they gear up to handle the expected network traffic for the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea and the 2020 Summer Olympics games in Japan, Grodzinsky said. Several customers are already building products based on the new chips. Those customers include Sumitomo Electronic, NEC, and Wave Electronics.
Video typically accounts for 60 percent of network traffic these days. And people expect the Internet to work wherever they are.
“The user experience is at an all-time high” Grodzinsky said.
Qualcomm is also introducing a new 802.11ac Tri-radio platform for home networks. The aim is to boost the capacity of home Wi-Fi and optimize its usage for a better consumer Wi-Fi experience. The new chips bring Wi-Fi features such as multi-user MIMO and Qualcomm Wi-Fi self-organizing networks into new mainstream home network routers. The new chips combine two 5-gigahertz radios and one 2.4–gigahertz radio into a single product to provide more flexibility in a network. The router can dedicate a radio for older legacy devices and alleviate congestion on the network for newer devices.
“We have convergence of many different types of wireless, and we have to get these things working in the phone,” Grodzinsky said. “We have a massive amount of density in terms of devices connecting to the network. I have 16 devices in my home that are connected to the network. You may live in an apartment or a city block where the use of Wi-Fi is becoming a huge issue.” Wi-Fi is being stretched to its limit, Grodzinsky said. So Qualcomm Atheros is offering two new network tri-radio platforms that can boost a Wi-Fi network to 2.2 gigabit-per-second capacity or even 3.1 gigabits-per-second.
Will the tech industry catch up with the insatiable demand for bandwidth? “I’m feeling pretty good,” Grodzinsky said. “You can increase channel width, add more bands, and use those bands more efficiently. As an industry, I feel like we have some good technology in multi-user MIMO today. We are getting those products out, and we have a strong pipeline of products coming right behind it.” VentureBeat's mission is to be a digital town square for technical decision-makers to gain knowledge about transformative enterprise technology and transact.
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While PIQ brought its tech know-how to the table, North Kiteboarding brought its kiteboarding expertise to help design the mobile application and the accessory.
The accessory is a kit composed of a mount that can be fixed to any board and a housing in which the kiter will secure the PIQ sensor.
It is rugged, waterproof, shockproof and corrosion resistant.
The PIQ sensor is connected via Bluetooth at low energy to a dedicated mobile application (iOS and Android). Riders will now have access to a powerful and wearable product that gives detailed jump performance metrics: height of jumps, air time, G force at landing, number of jumps etc., thanks to its 13 axes.
“We are very enthusiastic to work with PIQ and launch this new connected solution everywhere the wind blows! North Kiteboarding and PIQ enables all riders, casual or serious, to track their jumps. Our connected solution will allow any kiter to be proud of their ride and share it.” says Till Eberle, CEO of North Kiteboarding.
Cédric Mangaud, CEO and cofounder of PIQ, shares the same enthusiasm: “As a kiteboarding addict myself, I am very happy and honored to partner with the #1 Kiteboarding brand to achieve my dream of knowing the height of my jump directly on my board. Sharing our respective expertise, we have worked together with one single goal in mind: to bring a lot more fun to kiteboarding. For us, the more you enjoy the ride, the more you practice and the better you get.
” Get your jump height in real-time on your board Thanks to the PIQ technology, kiters can visualize their jump height in real-time on their board, even in bright sunlight. For Aaron Hadlow, North kiteboarding team rider and Winner of the 2015 Redbull King of the Air, “it’s a super fun toy and pretty neat.
PIQ is really an addictive connected sensor for all kiters that want to save some proof of the most epic jump they ever made.
Once you’re used to knowing your performance after each jump, you never want to go for a ride without it again! ” Instantly challenge the kiters’ community North Kiteboarding and PIQ measures performance and progress for riders during and after their sessions. It highlights the best jumps and the best score in the leaderboard, allowing riders to be part of the PIQ community, to challenge their friends, compete against other kiteboarders from across the globe, and partake in the international leaderboard.
After golf, tennis and ski, PIQ is the 1st connected sensor to go from ground to water, confirming its’ ambition to enhance the sport experience and make it more exciting.
Pricing and availability North Kiteboarding and PIQ come bundled with an advanced PIQ multi-sport sensor and a battery bank charger compatible with all PIQ products. It includes a kiteboard accessory and an activation card to connect the sensor in kiteboard mode.
PIQ multisport sensor and kiteboard accessory will be available on www.piq.com at a price of 208€ at the end of June (with special pre-order discount until June 30th). For an already owned PIQ sensor, only the accessory is required for the kiteboard mode. It is available at 59€ on www.piq.com.
To access the Media Kit and the video: https://drive.google.com/a/licencek.com/folderview?id=0B0mle1SVgKX0Tm5pbHo1eWtibk0&usp=gmail https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1_hJ-ZT7Ss www.piq.com About North Kiteboarding North Kiteboarding is the world’s leading Kiteboarding brand. The high-tech performance, premium quality, innovative design and versatility of our products form the foundation that we have built the brand on. Over the last 10 years, our passion and drive has seen great success and achievements. We are continually working towards the support and growth of the Kiteboarding industry and the lifestyle it represents. North Kiteboarding is a subsidiary of Boards&More, which was founded in 2000 to design and deliver products under the brands Fanatic, ION, North Kiteboarding and North Sails Windsurfing.
About PIQ PIQ is a French based company, a subsidiary of Octonion, a Swiss based company specializing in software and services for sensors. PIQ is a team composed of seasoned executives, designers and engineers located in Switzerland, France, Eastern Europe and the United States. The team has applied its many years of technology, design and market experience into creating and commercializing PIQ. PIQ is manufactured by Foxconn, the world’s largest electronic contract manufacturer in the world.
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Microsoft today updated Windows Holographic, which lets developers turn Windows 10 apps into holograms for the company’s HoloLens headset. This is the first major update to the platform, which was first announced at the company’s Build 2015 developer conference.
The update contains 20 new features and 31 fixes for major issues. Microsoft chose to highlight five new features in particular: The platform now supports running multiple applications, connecting a Bluetooth mouse, new voice commands, tabs in Microsoft Edge, and pinning pictures “without any borders or chrome.” This video does a decent job showing off some of the improvements visually (this is an augmented reality platform, after all): Event GamesBeat at the Game Awards We invite you to join us in LA for GamesBeat at the Game Awards event this December 7. Reserve your spot now as space is limited! Here are the 20 major feature additions: You can now run multiple flat apps, up to three at the same time. This enables endless use cases for multitasking in HoloLens. Have the new Feedback Hub with the list of Quests open, while exploring the new features on this flight.
New voice commands: Try looking at a hologram and rotate it by saying “Face me”, change its size by saying “Bigger” / “Smaller”, and move an app by saying “Hey Cortana, move Name here.” You can now browse, upload, and download files through the Windows Device Portal. You can access the Documents folder, Pictures folder, and the local storage for any app you side-loaded or deployed through Visual Studio.
The emulator now supports logging in with a Microsoft Account just like you would on a real HoloLens. You can enable this from the Additional Tools menu “>>”.
2D Apps now hide the holobar and cursor when watching video full screen to avoid distraction.
You can also pin photos without the app bar in your world.
File picker works just like you expect it to on HoloLens.
You can now run multiple instances of the Edge browser. There’s also a custom HoloLens new tab page, tab peek, and open in new windows, along with power & performance improvements.
Groove Music app is now on HoloLens, though you have to download it from the store. It can play music in the background.
You can easily customize how apps are arranged in your world. Try rotating your holograms in adjust mode by simply click and drag on circle in the middle vertical wireframes. You might notice holograms have tighter fitted bounding boxes to ensure maximized interaction. You can also resize all flat apps vertically (except Photos and Hologram apps).
You can connect a regular Bluetooth mouse to HoloLens. The clicker has been fine tuned to enable resizing & moving holograms with a clicker. Keyboard improvements have also been made.
Now you can take mixed reality pictures by simply pressing down the volume up + volume down simultaneously. You can also share your mixed reality captured photos & videos to Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.
The maximum recording length of mixed reality videos has been increased to five minutes.
Photos app now streams videos from OneDrive instead of having to download the entire video before playback.
Holograms will be right where you left them. You will also be presented the option to re-connect to Wi-Fi and try again if HoloLens cannot detect where they are.
The keyboard has an improved layout for entering email address with keys that allow you to enter the most popular email domains with a single click.
Faster app registration and auto detection of time zone during the first experience.
Storage sense allows you to view remaining and used disk space by the system and apps in the settings app.
The Feedback App and Inside Hub have been merged, just like in Windows 10 Insider builds.
An updated ”’HoloLens Emulator”’ build is available.
For details on all the fixes, check out the full release notes.
If you’re a developer, make sure to skim the known issues.
Microsoft today also shared that HoloLens devices have begun shipping to developers from its second wave of applicants. The first wave started going out in February.
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That new MacBook Pro reportedly slated for Q4? It may have not one, not two, but four USB Type-C ports.
At least, leaked photos published today by Cult of Mac indicate as much. Four USB-C ports and one headphone jack are the only things you can see on the sides of the chassis.
Above: Leaked photos of the MacBook Pro keyboard chassis show four USB-C ports.
One of the things missing from the chassis is the row of F1-F12 keys. In its place is a flat section — which could presumably be taken up by the “OLED display touch bar” that analyst Ming-Chi Kuo is expecting on the refreshed MacBook Pro.
Above: Leaked photo reportedly shows the top of the next MacBook Pro keyboard chassis The speaker grilles on either side of the keyboard have also been redesigned.
But the switch from USB-A to USB-C (times four!) is remarkable, though it could be jarring for those who haven’t begun the journey with the MacBook or mobile devices that use the USB-C spec. It solves the problem of not being able to simultaneously charge the laptop and charge a phone using the laptop, but it also means that people will need more dongles in order to use peripherals, such as external monitors and SD card readers.
Then again, it should be welcomed by those who believe in industry standards. If the leaked photos are legitimate, it means Apple will be dispensing with its proprietary MagSafe charging mechanism. Also, unlike USB-A, USB-C is reversible, so you don’t have to flip it if you find out the hard way that you stuck it in wrong.
See Cult of Mac’s article for more leaked photos of what could be the next MacBook Pro.
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"Inside the construction of Paris' Halle Freyssinet: The landmark campus for 1,000 startups | VentureBeat"
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Even as France is experiencing a groundswell of entrepreneurship and new startups, not everyone is convinced that “La French Tech” signals a new era for a culture and economy that have been slow to change.
So to make a statement, a French telecom executive is spending $220 million to build an audacious startup campus designed to accelerate and showcase the country’s startup scene.
The executive is France’s mercurial Xavier Niel, billionaire founder of the telecom company Iliad, which operates Free, an upstart wireless, Internet, and cable provider. His latest pet project is renovating a former train station called Halle Freyssinet to create an ultra modern center designed to house 1,000 startups.
Above: An architectural rendering of Halle Freyssinet.
The size and scope of this little startup shack is audacious. When construction is done at the end of 2016, it will be 34,000 square meters stretched across three floors to accommodate about 2,600 people.
Last year, Niel hired Roxanne Varza, formerly of Microsoft Ventures and a TechCrunch writer, as director. While on a trip to Paris last week, I meet Varza and her new communications director, Rachel Vanier, for a tour of the Halle Freyssinet construction site.
Above: Roxanne Varza, director of Halle Freyssinet.
Varza said she first met Niel several years ago while working for TechCrunch.
“Xavier was just someone who in person is so unassuming,” she said. “I wasn’t expecting him to be so cool.” The two remained in touch over the years, so she wasn’t surprised when she got an email from Niel saying he wanted to talk about a new project he had undertaken. Niel can be famously informal. And in discussing his ideas about Halle Freyssinet, it took her a while to understand that he was offering her a job running it.
The choice wasn’t hard.
“This is the project,” she said. “You don’t think twice. ” Having accepted, Varza finds herself overseeing a massive construction project, perhaps one of the largest Paris has seen in years. But at the same time, she and her small team are trying to figure out exactly how this massive space will function.
Basically, Niel has launched a rocket ship that is still being built in mid-flight.
Above: Architectural rendering of the main hall.
Above: Construction on the main hall of Halle Freyssinet. Photo: VentureBeat/Chris O’Brien Overall, Halle Freyssinet will have one long open space running through the middle, allowing people to see straight through. The idea is to make it feel more integrated with the surrounding neighborhood, which is also receiving a makeover that includes two large dorms Niel is building separately for people working in Halle Freyssinet.
Inside, the space will be divided into three sections. The first will be focused on technical skill development and include a large Fab Lab, a 370-seat auditorium, and meeting rooms.
The middle section will be exclusively a workspace for startups based there. This area is subdivided into 24 smaller “villages” and has separate, sound proof meeting rooms. Each space is still open and modular, designed to let entrepreneurs move things around as their project develops.
Above: An architectural rendering of the Halle Freyssinet middle section.
Above: Roxanne Varza (left) and Rachel Vanier (right) show construction progress on the middle section. Photo: VentureBeat/Chris O’Brien Above: Architectural rendering of the Halle Freyssinet middle section.
Above: Current construction on Halle Freyssinet middle section.
Above: A view down the main corridor of the middle section of Halle Freyssinet. Photo: VentureBeat/Chris O’Brien The third area will retain a couple of train cars and will include a restaurant and retail area designed to cater to the space’s employees but also to draw the public in.
Above: The third, public section of Halle Freyssinet will include some shops and restaurants.
At the moment, Varza is doing everything from helping select the type of carpet for different rooms to nailing down the big picture details of how the space will operate.
While people have often called Halle Freyssinet an “incubator,” Varza said it’s more like a startup campus. She and her team are talking to potential partners who may manage various startup programs with Halle Freyssinet.
Niel isn’t building the space because he plans to select and invest in 1,000 startups, Varza said. Instead, the point of the project really is to create something that acts as a physical hub for the French Tech ecosystem, while showing the world just how far the country’s startup economy has come.
“For Xavier, the idea really came from wanting to make an emblematic project,” Varza said. “It was to push the envelope and think big.” https://youtu.be/SxqB8lvE15s VentureBeat's mission is to be a digital town square for technical decision-makers to gain knowledge about transformative enterprise technology and transact.
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Fog Creek Software , the New York company that came up with Stack Overflow and Trello , is announcing today that its new HyperDev service, which provides an online playground for developing and instantly deploying Web apps, is now available to anyone in open beta.
Previously people had to ask Fog Creek for access to a private beta.
HyperDev is fascinating because it takes care of many steps of getting a Web app live and updating it. From the moment you navigate to the HyperDev website , you get an app that’s already running live, complete with a URL and an environment for editing client- and server-side code. You can invite other people to collaborate on the code with you. If you like the project enough, you can save the code to a repository in your GitHub account.
And HyperDev automatically pushes the changes to your app. There is no deploy button. You can see the new code your teammate is adding, just like in Google Docs. And if someone is looking at the actual app in a browser window, they’ll see it change dynamically, no refresh necessary.
“Literally as you type each keystroke, it can be rebooting, the whole server gets deployed,” Fog Creek cofounder Joel Spolsky told VentureBeat in an interview. “We hope to get it down to like 100 milliseconds, ultimately.” VB Event The AI Impact Tour Connect with the enterprise AI community at VentureBeat’s AI Impact Tour coming to a city near you! HyperDev is hardly full-fledged, highly flexible cloud infrastructure. It’s not even a standalone platform as a service (PaaS). In other words, it won’t be the ideal hosting service for every application. But for little bits of code that you want to try out to see if they work, this is perfect.
And it’s free — at least for publicly visible projects. Over time, it will be possible to keep projects private, for a fee — just like GitHub.
There is some precedent for HyperDev. JSFiddle lets you edit and deploy code, and Stack Overflow introduced the Stack Snippet feature in 2014. But these services can’t run live websites.
Currently HyperDev only works with JavaScript. Fog Creek is adding Python support, and additional languages will be supported in the future, Spolsky said.
Spolsky is a wizard of software development; his blog Joel on Software has long been a must-read among developers. But that doesn’t mean Spolsky knows everything. He’s not above Googling something, heading over to a Stack Overflow page to find some code that might work, and then plunking it into his file.
In fact, he did that recently when he wanted a feed for a certain type of podcast from a radio station. Over the span of a five-hour plane trip from New York to San Francisco — with Wi-fi all the way, thank goodness — he built the project in HyperDev. The for-loop portion in the app “was the most cut-and-pastey code I had ever done in my life,” Spolsky said. But it worked. And that’s exactly the type of quick programming where HyperDev can shine.
“My goal in life is always just to sort of slap down developers who want to complicate things,” Spolsky said.
Spolsky’s blog post on HyperDev is here.
Update on December 6: Fog Creek has changed the name of HyperDev. It’s now called Gomix.
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Authorities across Europe have been trying in recent months to get social platforms to crack down on rising online racism following the refugee crisis, with some even threatening action against the companies.
European Justice Commissioner Vera Jourova said tackling illegal online hate speech has taken on added urgency because of the increasing use of social media by terrorist groups to radicalise young people and spread violence and hatred.
The European Commission said the four web giants will review the majority of valid notifications for removal of illegal hate speech in less than 24 hours and remove or disable access to such content if necessary.
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The concept of a supply chain is well understood in manufacturing. It involves the movement, staging, and storage of raw materials, work-in-process inventory, and finished goods from the point of origin to point of consumption.
Supply chain concepts have exerted an outsized influence on the global economy in the past several decades. Global transport lanes over land, sea and air. Modern intermodal shipping containers. Logistics management practice. The rise of ERP software empires. And it doesn’t stop there.
Lean supply chain concepts like Kanban have had an enormous impact on modern information technology practice, by serving as the philosophical forerunners of the DevOps movement. Organizations that either manufacture or distribute goods pay a lot of attention to their supply chain, for good reason.
But how many organizations understand their digital supply chain? Today, digital business either constitutes or determines a significant proportion of the profits made in the global economy.
Even pirates get this , as evidenced by the Verizon RISK report on how pirates hacked a major shipping conglomerate to figure out which containers to break into when hijacking a ship and minimize on board time. The RISK report recounts: “They’d board a vessel, locate by bar code specific sought-after crates containing valuables, steal the contents of that crate — and that crate only — and then depart the vessel without further incident.” Digital business leaders thrive while digital business laggards don’t survive. So, it behooves anyone that wants to be successful at digital business (and that includes pretty much everyone), to master digital supply chain management.
What is a Digital Supply Chain? Think of all the applications and services you either run or consume across a network. If you zoomed in on the network traffic traversing the various cables and radio carrier signals, you’d see tons of digital conversations between computers. That mesh of communications is your digital supply chain.
All the network connectivity inside your enterprise and all the Internet inter-connectivity to the rest of the world constitute the roads, tracks, waterways, and airways. Internet Protocol (IP) packets are the shipping containers. The goods inside those containers are applications and services. An application can be something that consumers use, like Yelp. Or an application can be something that businesses use, like salesforce.com.
Services are a little more subtle than applications. Many digital companies like Yelp don’t charge for the information they provide. Rather, they make money by serving up advertisements or offering coupons or reservations. These are services, and often they are third party services provided from somewhere else on the Internet, then integrated into the web application’s user interface.
There are other services, such as mapping, and payment processing, that help make e-commerce sites run. In fact, there is a massive ecosystem of digital services that includes things like Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) from companies like Akamai, that cache and replicate websites, and online security services from companies like Neustar that protect websites from distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. The list goes on and on.
Who’s afraid of the big bad Digital Supply Chain? Businesses that were built from the ground up as digital enterprises tend to be very aware of their digital supply chain because they live and die on their user experience. Streaming media and gaming companies often build proprietary, optimized versions of the Internet to ensure that their digital goods get to the ears, eyes, and trigger fingers of their globally-distributed audiences with the best possible user experience. If you draw the analogy to the physical world, it’d be like some crazy entrepreneur building a new canal in Nicaragua.
In the world of industrial-strength digital business though, that sort of canal building is commonplace.
Digital-native businesses structure their operations to ensure that all the internal and external components of their digital supply chain are performing well. The reason is that for them, what’s flowing over their networks isn’t just packets, its revenue, brand loyalty, repeat business, viral growth, and profits. Or it’s rapidly the opposite.
For nondigital native organizations, though, the concept of a digital supply chain isn’t yet reflected in IT practices, and that’s a shame. The move of nearly all departmental applications to the cloud, including significant investments in marketing technology (martech) stacks; the rapid shift to distributed application development; testing and deployment on virtual machines and containers running on public cloud IaaS and PaaS; the growth of e-commerce, as well as internal and end-customer mobile apps. These all point to the fact that nearly every businesses lives and breathes, ever more deeply enmeshed in a digital supply chain.
To not understand and operate with a high degree of awareness and expertise around this reality is, in a word, perilous. And it’s not just about security, though let’s not forget that it wasn’t just Target’s CIO that got fired after their security breach, but also the CEO.
How now digital cow? If I were a CIO, I would resource and task my teams to develop a digital supply-chain game plan. It would require developing a map of all digital trading dependencies, from end-users to API calls.
It would involve developing the expertise to play the Internet connectivity game like owners, and not renters of digital destiny. For example, instead of simply trusting a couple of major telco’s to carry all our traffic, actively exploring and executing direct Internet connectivity with major digital trading partners.
And it would certainly include investing in cloud-scale, big data tools to equip my teams to run a data-driven operation, rather than relying on educated guesswork. Because if digital business is the game now, mastering your digital supply chain is how you play to win.
Avi Freedman is CEO of Kentik.
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A new artificial intelligence (AI) startup has raised $3 million and launched its first product to help people find information buried in documents, files, email attachments, and more.
Cofounded by Gary Fowler and Dr. David Yang , Findo has unveiled the Findo.io intelligent assistant for iPhone and the Web. This feature allows users to search locally stored files or connect their cloud-based accounts from Facebook, Dropbox, Google Drive, Evernote, Box, Gmail, Exchange, Outlook, and more to unearth information even if they can only remember vague details.
Above: Findo for iPhone For example, while a user can search by specific keywords they know are included in file names or subject headings, Findo also uses natural language processing (NLP) to understand a very general search query such as “phone number of that guy I met in London” or “PDF sent by Jonathan last Thursday.” Alternatively, a user could search for all PowerPoint files simply by entering “ppt.” Findo wants to create a next-generation search tool full to the brim with smarts that can even dig out relevant files by analyzing the content of photos and audio files. “You know that file exists, but you can’t find it; we all experience these problems,” said Fowler, who serves as CEO at Findo. “The average user has more than half-a-million emails, files, attachments, contacts and messages that are stored across a wide range of online and local devices.” VB Event The AI Impact Tour Connect with the enterprise AI community at VentureBeat’s AI Impact Tour coming to a city near you! Findo finds its way to market Two years in the making, Findo now counts a team of 18 at its Menlo Park, California headquarters. It also has involved some notable people, including Bill Reichert from Garage Technology Ventures, who’s serving as an advisor and board member, and Rick Orloff, formerly chief security officer at Apple, who also sits on the board. Then there is, of course, cofounder and chairman David Yang, the Russian entrepreneur behind language-based document recognition giant Abbyy.
“The ability to find information both online and locally is becoming extremely difficult for users,” said Yang. “Our estimates show that over 300 million of the total email and file searches have failed over the last 24 hours.” In conjunction with the product launch, Findo has also closed a $3 million seed funding round from Moscow-based Abbyy, with a second $3 million seed expected to close within the next couple of months. The Abbyy connection could prove key to Findo gaining traction, given that Abbyy already bundles its FineReader product with around 12 million scanners each year to help users convert scanned images into editable documents. Fowler sees this as one potential route into millions of hands. “We anticipate bundling Findo with those scanners (too),” he told VentureBeat.
It is still early days for Findo, and the company isn’t promising a completely finished glossy product for now, but Yang is confident that people will like it. “Findo’s beta release is like a child, learning and growing, albeit a gifted child,” he said. “Please don’t expect it to know everything from day one, although by using it you will see some results.” Indeed, while Findo did largely work fine based on our brief tests, it wasn’t nearly as extensive as it claims it will be, for example it couldn’t seem to analyze the content of images or audio files. But as a cross-cloud search tool, it was pretty fast and worked as promised.
Though Findo will exist as an iPhone and web app for now, it is working on bringing the service to other platforms, including Android, in the coming months. But before then, the company is also bringing its search smarts to third-party messaging platforms, including Slack, Telegram, Facebook Messenger, and Skype via bots. This means you can actually use Findo on any platform supported by your messenger service.
Above: Findo: Across platforms You simply ask Findo to find whatever information you need, and the response comes back at you without your leaving the messenger app — this could be information from within an email or a specific file from your Dropbox account, such as an annual report.
Above: Telegram Findo is one of many tech companies embracing the emerging bot revolution, with the likes of Poncho, 1-800-Flowers, CNN , and Foursquare launching bots in recent months. And just last week, Skyscanner announced a new Facebook Messenger bot to automate flight search through automated “conversations.” Through natural-language processing and striving to “understand” your data, Findo hopes its AI engine will be powering searches across the consumer and enterprise realm.
“We are at the right time at the right place,” said Fowler. “The world is changing; all consumer and professional communication is relocating to messengers. Findo.io brings a unique way to deliver search results right into the messenger, so users can concentrate on their work without having to switch between applications.” VentureBeat's mission is to be a digital town square for technical decision-makers to gain knowledge about transformative enterprise technology and transact.
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Amazon has three big pillars: the retail marketplace, Amazon Prime, and Amazon Web Services.
But there certainly would be room for a fourth pillar.
It’s possible that Amazon Studios, which is producing original video content for Prime Video, could be that fourth pillar, but it’s also possible that the Alexa voice assistant, which is packaged inside of the Echo speaker , could end up being the fourth pillar, Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos told Recode’s Walt Mossberg today at Recode’s Code Conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, California.
Google revealed its own Echo competitor earlier this month, and Apple is also working on an answer to the Echo.
But Bezos does not seem to be worried about that.
“I think there are going to be a bunch of artificially intelligent agents in the world,” Bezos said. “There are going to be specialties, and you may not ask the same AI for everything. I bet the average household will use a number of these, but to me that’s a very exciting seed that we’ve planted. I love working on stuff like that, and the team is brilliant.” VB Event The AI Impact Tour Connect with the enterprise AI community at VentureBeat’s AI Impact Tour coming to a city near you! Amazon now has more than 1,000 people working on artificial intelligence, Bezos said.
Earlier today, Amazon stock hit an all-time high of $724.23 on the NASDAQ.
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Twitter’s Magic Recs is no more, at least in its current form. The company’s experiment to provide personalized recommendations on what you should follow is on indefinite hiatus, meaning that you will no longer receive suggestions through direct messages.
First reported by TechCrunch , a Twitter spokesperson confirmed the news, telling VentureBeat: “@MagicRecs is no longer regularly sending recommendations through Direct Message. Recommendations that were previously shared via Direct Message are now delivered via push notification. Users can control recommendation notifications in their mobile notification settings.” Above: What Twitter’s @MagicRecs account sends you by direct message.
Magic Recs first burst onto the scene in 2013 as an account you could follow that delivered “instant, personalized recommendations for users and content via direct message.” It was always branded as an experiment, so it should come to no surprise that the direct message part of the service has been killed. The lessons the company learned from it have likely been invested into the core service to make it better, which people are receiving through push notifications.
This shutdown comes as Twitter is slowly seeing growth among users , but it’s far from in the clear. If the company is looking to be more about live, which chief executive Jack Dorsey said it’s been doing for the past 10 years , then it needs to reinvigorate its base and offer more features to re-engage them and offer a better sense about what Twitter actually is.
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(Reuters) – A Facebook Inc shareholder filed a proposed class action lawsuit on Friday in a bid to stop the company’s plan to issue new Class C stock , calling the move an unfair deal to entrench Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg as controlling shareholder.
The lawsuit, filed in the Delaware Court of Chancery, comes two days after the social networking company announced its plan to issue the shares.
The rejiggering of Facebook’s share structure, effectively a 3-for-1 stock split, follows the 31 year-old’s announcement last December that he intends to put 99 percent of his Facebook shares into a new philanthropy project focusing on human potential and equality.
The lawsuit contends that a Facebook board committee which approved the share deal “did not bargain hard” with Zuckerberg “to obtain anything of meaningful value” in exchange for granting Zuckerberg added control.
Representatives for Facebook could not immediately be reached for comment.
Facebook plans to create a new class of shares that are publicly listed but do not have voting rights. Facebook will issue two of the so-called “Class C” shares for each outstanding Class A and Class B share held by shareholders. Those new Class C shares will be publicly traded under a new symbol.
Zuckerberg “wishes to retain this power, while selling off large amounts of his stockholdings, and reaping billions of dollars in proceeds,” the lawsuit said.
“The issuance of the Class C stock will, in effect, have the same effect as a grant to Zuckerberg of billions of dollars in equity, for which he will pay nothing,” it said.
Google settled a lawsuit in 2013 shortly before trial which cleared the way for that company to execute a similar plan.
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End-to-end encryption just got massive! Whatsapp, the Facebook-owned messaging app, just enabled default encryption mode for all of its 1 billion users, and they seem to love it.
This is huge. Millions of Internet users now suddenly not only talk about encryption but have also started using it in their daily communication. It sounds like a privacy enthusiast’s wildest dream — to wake up to a world in which everybody uses encryption, and a solid one at that.
Maybe Facebook will follow? We’ll see.
At the same time, the FBI-Apple battle seems to be over. For now. But what we’ve just witnessed is the first battle of an attrition war for laws and policies targeting better cyber security at the cost of people’s privacy.
VB Event The AI Impact Tour Connect with the enterprise AI community at VentureBeat’s AI Impact Tour coming to a city near you! It’s also a story of double standards, where the US government applies different rules based on the size of the company it is fighting.
At one extreme stands Lavabit , the small tech startup whose encrypted email service Edward Snowden used, that, hopeless against the Kafkaesque bureaucracy and governmental supremacy, was forced to shut down back in 2013 after being pressured to surrender its encryption keys to the FBI. At the other we have a tech giant that was – fortunately — approached differently by the state and was able to defend its users’ privacy in the end. This time, the FBI chose not to file the order under seal as it did with Lavabit. It wanted Apple to be in the full spotlight of public opinion. But we can agree that the effect was unexpected.
Snowden described the Apple vs. FBI story as the “most important tech case in a decade.” He also said that the FBI had alternative methods “since the ’90s” that would allow it to access to the information from the phone.
The FBI urged Apple to create a custom operating system, citing an 18th-century law called All Writs Act, that would allow the policing agency to brute-force itself into an iPhone 5C that belonged to a San Bernardino shooter.
The US government dropped its legal case against Apple two months later, claiming it had accessed the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone without Apple’s help.
The former director of the NSA and ex-chief of the CIA Michael Hayden took an interesting approach in admitting that “America is simply more secure with unbreakable, end to end encryption.” Why Apple’s encryption case was different from Snowden’s So, why did Apple’s privacy cause get more support from average, non-tech users than the Snowden revelations? It’s a matter of loyalty and commercial power.
We can all agree that Snowden (a former NSA contractor) is a really smart guy who definitely doesn’t lack heroic traits. When he realized the injustice of what the NSA was doing with people’s personal data and decided to let the world know , it was at the expense of his safety and freedom — he now lives in restrained conditions, in Moscow, under the protection of Putin, not exactly a pillar of democracy.
While Snowden’s story has all the makings of a Hollywood blockbuster, and an award-winning documentary on the story has been already made; people’s reactions to his world surveillance revelations have been, let’s say, anemic.
Freedom fighters along with civil rights NGOs managed to apply some pressure on the American government, changing a few laws such as the Act of Freedom , a bill that was meant to end the NSA program that mass collects phone records of Americans.
But in Apple’s case, the response has been far more powerful. Why? First of all, Apple is almost a religion, and not just in America, but all over the world, from Japan to Romania. It has millions of fans who follow it with cult-like dedication. So when Apple is attacked, people listen and are interested in all the technical details of encryption; nobody even thinks to say “I’ve got nothing to hide.” Even though we’ve seen David trump Goliath several times during our history, to win the war on privacy you need an army — Apple proved to have exactly that.
Tens of years of brand mastery and customer loyalty strategies confirmed its worth, stopping the authorities from breaking all the iPhones.
Other tech giants such as AT&T, Airbnb, eBay, Kickstarter, LinkedIn, Reddit, Square, Twitter, Cisco, Snapchat, and WhatsApp, even its longtime rivals Amazon, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft, came to its defense.
What actually made Apple’s position stand out? Highlighting and explaining the government’s incorrect understanding of the legal and technical issues involved in the case. It’s inconceivable how unprepared and untrained the government’s specialists were for this trial.
The quote that ended Apple’s deposition is so heartbreakingly true: “Almost 90 years ago, Justice Louis Brandeis, reflecting on the ‘progress of science’ beyond wiretapping famously warned that ‘[t]he greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.’” The danger that lurks here is that, in too many cases judges, lawyers and governmental representatives don’t understand the technical issues they are debating, yet they still have to decide for all of us what is right or wrong. I have to add here that the problem of surveillance versus encryption is a hard nut to crack, and all the confusion around it is understandable to some point.
The unlucky ones: Lavabit case We might say the Apple was lucky to have a public trial. That was not in the cards for Ladar Levison, the founder of Lavabit.
Levison’s case was played out in secret under seal for several months. He essentially had to fight alone against the US government, under extreme pressure and arrest threats, without any support from major tech companies or privacy supporters. He was asked to hand over the encryption keys for his email service to allow the government to gain access to Snowden’s Lavabit account and read his emails.
What Levison did in that critical situation, with no help from well trained and highly payed lawyers, will always be a landmark for worldwide privacy supporters. And, yes, he did reach out during trial to one of Apple’s lawyers but didn’t have the kind of funds required to hire him.
In order to keep his promise to his customers, including Snowden, and preserve their online privacy, he closed down the company, without giving in to the FBI’s request.
Terrorism — the ever-perfect excuse Terrorism is currently one of the greatest threats to global stability, and we are nowhere near a game plan for combating it.
But as a lot of political analysts agree , fighting terrorism at the cost of the entire planet’s privacy is simply wrong.
It’s almost the same logic as imprisoning everyone on the planet because somewhere among us, criminals exist.
That’s why I think it’s crucial that all companies, not only in the tech sector, should release a Transparency Report each year, showing their customers how many and what type of requests they received from authorities.
More surveillance strategies and tracking tools are definitely not what we need right now. We might just need a deeper understanding of the terrorism problem and more tech qualified people working in government.
What’s next Of course, we’re not debating who did more for privacy. Both Snowden and Apple played crucial roles in the fight for our online privacy. They will influence everything that happens now in the field of civil rights, surveillance, and encryption.
Thanks to the buzz generated by the battle between the FBI and Apple, many iPhone users learned a lot about encryption and how important it can be, and what their phones are capable of doing. It was a crash-course on encryption with very high stakes for the entire planet.
Setting a precedent for force-breaking encryption of a technology used by billions of people should be unsettling to us all.
One thing is certain: We need big tech companies to be guided by the Three Musketeers principle, one for all and all for one, for the safety and privacy of their users.
We all need to be part of this security-privacy discussion and speak up our minds when we notice abuses. Starting today.
Oana Ciobotea is social media manager at CyberGhost , a personal VPN service based in Romania.
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You don’t need anything decrypted to see that nobody likes the Compliance with Court Orders Act of 2016, the draft encryption bill released two weeks ago.
Coauthored by Senators Richard Burr and Dianne Feinstein, the bill would allow courts to order companies to break encryption on communications and devices for law enforcement purposes.
There are plenty of reasons to dislike it. Here are mine, along with some thoughts about what the bill reveals about our government’s approach to intelligence.
1. The proposed bill won’t work as a deterrent to unlawful activity.
Terrorists, drug dealers, malicious hackers and other “bad guys” are going to continue to encrypt their communications, because by definition they’re not worried about breaking the law. The result is that the bill would essentially hobble the law-abiding with bad security while keeping criminals untouchable.
2. The bill will drive up the cost of communications even as it undermines data security.
Under its provisions, as a service provider I now have to maintain a (costly) log of historical information so that if the government requests such data, I can provide it. By keeping such records, I expose every client in my data center to the risk of a security breach. Bank of America, Target, and the U.S. government couldn’t stop these security breaches, so it’s likely we’ll see more of them if the bill wins traction.
VB Event The AI Impact Tour Connect with the enterprise AI community at VentureBeat’s AI Impact Tour coming to a city near you! Fortunately, that’s unlikely to happen, as it’s clear to most everyone that the bill doesn’t work. What the bill does do is reveal a misunderstanding of the diversity of modes of communication used today, particularly by younger demographics.
The bill covers data exchanged via voice, email, chat, and some forms of video communication but leaves out other important mediums like image-based communications and collaboration tools such as web and video conferencing. For a simple example of how prevalent and easy image-based communication is, watch just about any college football game. You’ll see that plays are called by a person on the sideline holding up a poster with four meaningless — but memorable — pictures on it. The specific combination and location of images quickly conveys to the players what play has been called.
The bill’s omission of image-based and other important communications shows that it is clearly a creation of the over-40 set. As such, it reflects something of an over-40 mindset, which holds that the most important information is transmitted primarily over phone and email. In our efforts against the terrorist plots of today, in which perpetrators are overwhelmingly young people using social media and other new communication technologies, this strategy seems doomed to fail.
In the big picture, most of us likely agree that it’s critical we evaluate the trade-offs we are willing to make in order to help our government protect us while still retaining our rights. But end-to-end encryption is a genie out of its bottle, and it will be hard to stuff back in.
Rather than trying, we need to answer the key intelligence questions that the rapid rise of consumer communication technologies has forced. Have we developed the technical expertise and capabilities to handle the new style of communication favored by young people? Have we built the machine learning and AI tools necessary to discover repetitive pattern and other information that might be embedded in images and other command and control type messaging systems? With the proliferation of so many forms of communication in recent years, is it even realistic to expect that we can sit on Twitter, Facebook, Telegram, Threema, Kik, Wickr, and SureSpot — all favored by ISIS — and get the intelligence we need to build an effective anti-terrorism strategy? I suspect that part of the way forward is a return to some of the human intelligence approaches that we’ve pulled away from over recent decades in our focus on signal intelligence. Technological might is without a doubt a crucial piece of the counter-terrorism and crime-fighting puzzle, but diplomatic activity, outreach programs, and other on-the-ground strategies are more than passing complements. The botched bill may have exposed Congress’ poor grasp of technology, but it also hints at the limits of that same technology and, if nothing else, may be useful as a push on the intelligence community to craft a new vision for itself.
Curtis Peterson is senior vice president of operations at RingCentral.
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On Wednesday, Elon Musk’s private company SpaceX announced on Twitter that it plans to send a spacecraft to Mars as soon as 2018.
The mission will involve sending a spacecraft called the Red Dragon to Mars to retrieve samples collected by NASA’s Mars rover and then return them to Earth.
Here’s SpaceX’s announcement: Planning to send Dragon to Mars as soon as 2018. Red Dragons will inform overall Mars architecture, details to come pic.twitter.com/u4nbVUNCpA — SpaceX (@SpaceX) April 27, 2016 SpaceX has had big plans to usher in a new era of reusable rockets that could send the first humans to Mars and return them home for a while. In 2011, SpaceX released a video showing how they were going to re-land a rocket booster after launching it to space — something that had never been done before.
On December 21, 2015, SpaceX successfully landed its first reusable rocket , a Falcon 9, on a launch pad. They followed that up on April 8, 2016 by successfully landing another Falcon 9 on a barge floating in the ocean. Musk has announced plans to relaunch this Falcon 9 as early as May.
The Red Dragon will be launched into space with the Falcon Heavy rocket, which is kind of like the Falcon 9 on steroids. SpaceX has announced plans to launch the rocket into space as soon as November 2016.
SpaceX has boasted that the Falcon Heavy is the world’s most powerful rocket, capable of carrying twice the payload of the Space Shuttle. Only the Saturn V, the rocket used to launch astronauts to the moon in the Apollo program, was capable of delivering more payload to orbit.
The Falcon Heavy is a multistage rocket, which means it contains separate rockets, or stages, stacked on top of each other. Each stage contains its own engine and propellant. When a stage runs out of propellant, it is ejected from the spacecraft to decrease the remaining mass of the rocket.
Musk confirmed on Twitter on Friday, April 29 that SpaceX will be attempting to land all three booster stages during the Falcon Heavy launch: @elonmusk For 1st launch of Falcon Hvy will there be effort to simultaneously land all 3 booster stages? #FalconHeavy — Danny S. Parker (@dannysparker) April 30, 2016 So what’s cooler than landing a rocket on Earth? Landing on Mars, of course.
Judging from the illustrations on their Flickr account, SpaceX plans to land on Mars using a simple approach that’s never been tried before.
This is SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft, which is not designed to carry humans, sitting on the Red Planet: SpaceX Photos This unmanned Dragon capsule has been making trips to the International Space Station since 2010. But to get to Mars, which is 560,000 times farther, the Dragon will need to ride a more powerful rocket than the Falcon 9, which it takes to the ISS.
That rocket is SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy, illustrated below, that is scheduled to launch out of Kennedy Space Center for the first time next year.
SpaceX on Flickr However, this monster rocket will only take Dragon so far. Getting to Mars is easy compared to landing on it because the Martian atmosphere is a tricky beast to control.
The Martian atmosphere is about 1,000 times thinner than Earth’s, so simple parachutes won’t slow a vehicle down enough to land safely.
But that atmosphere is still thick enough to generate a great deal of heat from friction against a spacecraft.Therefore, to land on Mars you have to have a spacecraft with a heat shield that can withstand temperature of 1600 degrees Fahrenheit.
Luckily, Dragon’s heat shield can protect it against temperatures of over 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit , so plummeting toward Mars, illustrated below, shouldn’t be a problem heat-wise.
SpaceX Photos on Flickr But there’s still the problem of slowing down. Although gravity on Mars is about 1/3 of what it is on Earth, the vehicle is still plummeting toward the ground at over 1,000 miles per hour after entering Mars’s atmosphere. If it were to hit the ground at those speeds, you’d have a disaster.
The way that SpaceX aims to deal with this tricky problem is to use the thrusters on board the Dragon spacecraft to first redirect its momentum from downward to sideways, as illustrated below, thus reducing its speed: SpaceX Photos on Flickr And then, as the spacecraft continues to plunge toward the surface, it will fire its thrusters one final time for a soft, vertical touch down: SpaceX Photo on Flickr This sort of landing is unlike anything that anyone has ever tried before, but you have to admit that Dragon looks pretty great on Mars if it ever manages to get there: SpaceX Photo on Flickr The last major Mars landing was NASA’s Curiosity rover in 2012. This landing was a huge success but extremely complicated that involved half a dozen steps that, if not completed perfectly, would end in disaster. NASA dubbed the landing process “7 minutes of terror” because that’s how long it took to enter the atmosphere and land.
But the technology isn’t ready for human passengers just yet. Musk tweeted that the Dragon might not be the most comfortable environment for space explorers.
This mission marks an important milestone in the partnership between NASA and SpaceX, bringing them one step closer to achieving their goal of sending humans to Mars in by the 2030s.
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Uber announced today that it has proposed a settlement with the National Federation of the Blind’s California chapter. The technology company has asked a judge to approve the deal, which specifies that Uber will publish a service animal policy and educate drivers on the this and overall partner policies, as well as paying the organization $225,000 over three years. The deal would also permit the NFBC to “run a testing program to evaluate the effectiveness” of these changes.
In a lawsuit filed in 2014, the National Federation of the Blind, along with riders Michael Kelly, Michael Hingson, and Michael Pederson, sued Uber over violation of Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). They alleged that the company denied rides to passengers with service animals.
The plaintiffs contended that “in response to complaints lodged with Uber about these allegations, Uber allegedly fails to respond, does not take steps to address the discrimination, and frequently denies responsibility for the discrimination.” As a result of the proposed settlement, Uber said that the company will make the it clearer to drivers on its platform that they are “obligated to transport any passenger with a service animal.” What’s more, if a judge accepts the deal, Uber will now display a pop-up in its app advising drivers of this obligation, as well as sending email reminders to drivers.
Drivers who refuse to provide service to passengers accompanied by service animals will be barred from the platform, the company wrote in a blog post.
To ensure that Uber is keeping its word, it’s been proposed that the National Federation of the Blind oversee these changes, essentially functioning as a watchdog. This would involve having riders with service animals test the service to see if Uber has made good on its word.
Whether these changes would be effective just in California or would extend to other markets where Uber operates remains unclear from the company’s post. We’ve reached out to Uber for clarification and will update this post when we hear back.
Although the suit was filed in 2014, it is only now coming to a close, as Uber reportedly contended that any disputes between itself and passengers were to be handled through arbitration and not through the court. However, in 2015, a judge didn’t buy that argument and ordered that the case move forward.
According to the San Francisco Chronicle , U.S. Magistrate Nathanael Cousins this week ordered both sides to “file terms of the proposed settlement within a week or prepare to go to trial.” Over the past few weeks, Uber has been touting its efforts to improve lives for drivers from various communities, including military veterans and their loved ones and those who are hearing impaired.
But while the company is promoting itself as inclusive in terms of hiring, some drivers have apparently failed to extend this inclusivity to those they provide service to.
Uber isn’t the only ridesharing service that’s been accused of discrimination against disabled passengers, and not just to those with service animals. Uber’s main U.S. competitor, Lyft, has also been on the receiving end of discrimination lawsuits.
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We now have a little more clarity about when HTC’s latest flagship phone could start shipping in the U.S., as Sprint today confirmed that the HTC 10 will be available from May 13.
HTC first unveiled the device — which comes with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 processor, 5.2-inch QHD display, and 12 UltraPixel camera — earlier this month, as the Taiwan-based tech titan chases the likes of Samsung’s Galaxy S7 and LG’s G5.
The HTC 10 is already available to preorder SIM-free directly through HTC.com for $700, and Verizon is the first of the carriers to offer the device on preorder , starting today.
We still don’t have a firm shipping date, though VentureBeat’s own Evan Blass previously reported that the week of May 9 would likely be when the phone hit retail stores in the U.S. — and Sprint’s latest announcement ties in with that.
HTC M10: Hitting US retail the week of May 9th — Evan Blass (@evleaks) February 11, 2016 The HTC 10 will be available on Sprint’s LTE network on May 13 for $26 per month on a 24-month plan, with zero to pay up front. This compares to $22.83 per month with Verizon (we still don’t have a price (or date) for T-Mobile). AT&T won’t be offering the phone, however.
Once a giant of the Android world, HTC has struggled in recent times against the likes of Samsung. But with rumors suggesting that HTC has been lined up by Google to build its next line of Nexus phones, and with its very own HTC 10 flagship about to go to market, things could be looking up.
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(Reuters) — Google is likely to face its first European Union antitrust sanction this year, with little prospect of it settling a test case with the bloc’s regulator over its shopping service, people familiar with the matter said.
There are few incentives left for either party to reach a deal in a six-year dispute that could set a precedent for Google searches for hotels, flights and other services and tests regulators’ ability to ensure diversity on the Web.
Alphabet Inc’s Google, which was hit by a second EU antitrust charge this month for using its dominant Android mobile operating system to squeeze out rivals, shows little sign of backing down after years of wrangling with European authorities.
Several people familiar with the matter told Reuters that after three failed compromise attempts since 2010, Google has no plan to try to settle allegations that its Web search results favor its own shopping service, unless the EU watchdog changes its stance.
Such a change of heart appears unlikely, with European Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager — a Dane whose team is leading the Google investigation — showing little interest in reaching a settlement where there is no finding of wrongdoing or a fine against the company, other people said.
Underpinning Vestager’s tough approach, and the Commission’s case, are scores of complaints from companies, big and small, on both sides of the Atlantic.
Microsoft’s shadow For Google, which has denied any wrongdoing, the stakes are high. Some rivals are convinced that any fine is effectively a cost of doing business and it has more to gain in profit from its existing business model than conceding to complaints.
Google and the European Commission both declined to comment.
“From a pure profitability perspective, it is better off dragging out the competition case, continuing its practices for as long as possible, and ultimately paying a fine that will be smaller than the profits it generates by continuing the conduct,” Thomas Vinje, a lawyer who advises several of Google’s competitors, told Reuters.
However, some sources said they see last week’s low-key pact with arch-rival Microsoft to withdraw all regulatory complaints against each other as a signal that Google might in time choose to strike a deal with Brussels.
By doing so it would avoid a repeat of Microsoft’s damaging fight with the European Commission and by settling at least its dispute with the EU over Internet shopping might also head off possible actions by other regulators.
To date, Google has a mixed record in taking on regulators globally, winning some battles and losing others.
However, Microsoft offers a salutary lesson to those who want to take on the Commission, Ioannis Kokkoris, a law professor at Queen Mary University of London, said.
Microsoft ended up with fines of more than 2.2 billion euros ($2.5 billion) after a decade-long battle with the Commission.
“You are entering a long battle, an expensive battle. And if you go to court, the outcome would not necessarily be better,” Kokkoris said.
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Google has filed a patent for what sounds like a bionic eye.
A patent filed in 2014 and published Thursday describes a device that could correct vision without putting contacts in or wearing glasses everyday.
But to insert the device, a person must undergo what sounds like a rather intrusive procedure.
Here’s how it would work: After surgically removing a person’s lens from the lens capsule of his or her eye (ouch!), a fluid would be injected into the capsule. This fluid would act sort of like a glue, allowing whoever is conducting the procedure to attach an “intra-ocular device” to the lens capsule.
That fluid would solidify to create a “coupling” between the lens capsule and the device, creating an electronic contact lens. The electronic contact lens would correct the wearer’s vision.
A sensor in the device would sense when the wearer is trying to see something far away or up close and would let that person do so with complete visual clarity. Here’s how it’s outlined in the patent: The electronic lens could be controlled to have a first optical power during a first period of time to provide images of far objects (e.g., objects more than approximately 20 centimeters away from the eye) in focus on the retina of the eye, and the electronic lens could be controlled to have a second optical power greater than the first optical power during a second period of time to provide images of near objects (e.g., objects approximately 9 centimeters away from the eye) in focus on the retina of the eye.
Google is essentially proposing an artificial contact lens that could improve vision and would only need to be inserted once.
This isn’t the first time the tech giant has shown interest in creating technology for people’s eyes.
Google was awarded a patent for a smart contact lens that will run on solar power and can perform functions like measuring glucose levels.
But just because a patent exists, doesn’t mean we’ll be seeing an electronic contact lens anytime soon, if at all.
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(Reuters) — A recovered cellphone at the center of a dispute between the families of two Florida teens who went missing during a fishing trip last summer will be examined by Apple Inc, the manufacturer, in an agreement reached during a hearing on Friday, according to a local media report.
If Apple retrieves anything from the water-damaged phone that relates to the day the boys disappeared – including photos, texts and social media posts – the data will be given to a judge, who will decide if it is evidence and whether it may be shared with the families, according to a report by WPLG television in Miami.
The agreement puts to rest, for now, a row between the families of Austin Stephanos, 14, who owned the iPhone 6, and his friend Perry Cohen, also 14, who borrowed it to communicate with his family the day they disappeared in July 2015 off the Atlantic Coast of South Florida, according to the report.
The phone was recovered in March when the boys’ abandoned boat was discovered by a Norwegian crew near the Bahamas, WPLG reported.
The phone was inside a locked box and was heavily water-damaged, the report said.
Cohen’s family wanted the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission to treat the phone as evidence in an open missing persons case, but the agency instead on returning it to Stephanos’ family, the station reported.
Cohen’s mother, Pamela Cohen, sued Stephanos’ family to have the phone returned to the state and allow her access to its contents, the report said.
In an emergency hearing on Friday, the two sides agreed to turn over the iPhone to Apple and let the judge decide what to do with any data that is retrieved, the station reported.
The two boys, neighbors and fishing buddies in their Palm Beach County hometown, were last seen on July 24, 2015, buying gasoline for their 19-foot, single-engine vessel before launching in Jupiter, Florida.
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission in a report said a pilot involved in the July search for the two teenagers told investigators he saw one of the boys floating on debris, according to Florida television station WPEC.
The pilot said he later lost sight of the teenager and a Coast Guard crew sent to the area could not find him either, the station reported.
A commission representative could not be reached for comment.
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Microsoft today updated its Bing app for iOS with some very useful functionality: image search using a new photo you take in the app or a photo you have hanging around on your device.
This feature is not yet available on Android or Windows Phone. It isn’t even available from the Google app for iOS or Android, or from Yahoo’s mobile apps, for that matter.
Once you’ve made a photo or selected a photo from your gallery in Bing on iOS, you can crop the image in order to only get search results that are similar to a specific part of the photo. From there, you can share the image through another app or give feedback. Or you can select any photo in the search results and crop it in order to receive new search results. (Hat tip to MSPoweruser for reporting on the app update.) Initial tests suggest that the image recognition technology at the heart of the new feature doesn’t work perfectly — for example, I took a photo of a Mitsubishi logo on a nearby television and got other logos on devices in search results — but it does work well enough for many visual search queries, and more importantly, it’s forward-looking.
“In five years, we think 50 percent of queries will be on speech or images,” said Andrew Ng, the head of Baidu Research, in a talk he gave in 2014.
( Baidu’s iOS app does offer visual search, but the app is not currently available in English.) What Google has done in this area is the Google Goggles app, which is still available for Android but hasn’t been updated since May 2014. And it only took a quick guess at identifying an object or a place in an image, rather than offering up full-fledged image search.
Pinterest last year implemented visual search that allow users to crop specific parts of images and then find similar pins.
Bing revamped its iPhone app in November.
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Some surprising search results in the US version of the Apple App Store got us curious. Is Apple experimenting with the algorithm, and to what end? We all know Apple likes black boxes more than most technology companies. It likes to keep its secrets close and well guarded. One of these well-kept secrets is the algorithm behind the App Store search engine. Considering just how much of an effect this has on organic download rates, it’s no wonder so many app marketers and developers invest time in experimenting and learning the iTunes App Store’s behavior. My company does too.
Last month Apple released its latest iOS update, 9.3, with seemingly no innovation in the App Store app on Apple devices. The only thing that changed was the description preview; the last algorithm change published was back in November.
But roughly around the time of the iOS 9.3 update release, we noticed some interesting things happening in the search results in the US iTunes App Store.
How did we notice these changes? One of the things we do at my company, Moburst, as part of our app store optimization (ASO) service, is develop proprietary technologies to help our clients find wider audiences. One of the tools we’ve developed scans the app stores for changes in trends and behaviors. In mid-March, this tool began showing some interesting insights. Initially we thought this might be a glitch, but it appears to still be there.
What we observed was a change in how the search algorithm deals with typos and bad spelling, among things. It seems Apple has adjusted the App Store algorithm to consider what people search for and what they click on once the search results are displayed.
For example, when we searched for “ubber”, we got the Uber app but also Lyft. For the query “uper”, we actually got Uber in front of an app named uper! At first, you might think Uber and the other apps listed included these typos in their keywords field, but that would make little sense. Why spend those precious 100 characters on rarely typed strings? To further test this, we looked at the historic rankings of Uber for the mentioned keywords, and what we found only strengthened our hypothesis: You’ll notice that all the mentioned keywords suddenly appeared on March 20, which happens to be the weekend just before Apple released iOS 9.3.
The screenshots below show that this occurs across the board and in all categories. It’s worth noting these types of results appear only in the US version of the App Store. If Apple works similarly to Google with algorithm changes, we’d expect this to roll out to other countries later on.
On the one hand, the changes help people find useful apps even when developers don’t include mistyped keywords in the keyword field, thus creating a kind of smart autocorrect. On the other, we also found apps ranked for seemingly unrelated keywords. For example, we noticed Uber appearing for keywords like “panera bread”. Care to guess when that ranking started? This marks an even more significant improvement in the algorithm, involving some kind of AI — the App Store seems to have found a relationship between Panera and Uber (UberEats?) and therefore ranks Uber when a user searches for ‘panera bread’.
Why is Apple doing this? We can only guess. Clearly, Apple wants to improve app discovery amid the mass of apps in the store, and this might be another test aimed at improving the current search engine.
While this change is small and hard to notice, it’s pretty significant from a developer’s point of view. This is the first time apps have appeared in the search results for terms not included in the app name, developer name, or keyword field. If Apple’s algorithm takes into account app popularity with users in search results, this means more exposure to already popular apps.
Lior Eldan is Cofounder and COO of Moburst , a global mobile marketing agency.
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As online banner ads become a thing of the past, social media advertising is increasingly becoming one of the biggest hammers in the marketer’s toolkit. Facebook — which began its advertising adventure in 2005 — reported its Q1 2016 earnings recently and $5.2 billion out of its $5.38 billion in revenue came from advertising.
No question, social media advertising has become a healthy alternative for businesses dissatisfied with paid searches or traditional display — not to mention the challenge of ad blocking — and looking to build their brand with online users.
There’s also the mobile issue — if you’re going to engage consumers on social networks, you better understand how best to use mobile as an advertising channel. More than half of Facebook’s 1.65 billion monthly active users now access the social network via mobile — and 82 percent of Facebook’s advertising revenue came from mobile.
Yet while the Facebook stats suggest resounding success of social media advertising, there are significant dangers when poorly implemented. When Instagram significantly increased its advertising — pushing commercial messages to users all over the world — the social media darling saw its interaction rate drop by 40 percent in 2015.
You have to be smart about persuading users to engage with your ads, and when to do so, or else they’ll drop you like a rock.
In our VentureBeat Insight report, Brands and mobile advertising: How to win, we examined the best methods for winning over users with social media advertising, along with identifying important statistics marketers need to know about.
Ads on mobile need to be designed with mobile in mind. Don’t ignore the unique technology and interactivity that comes with mobile; embrace it. When Lifetime wanted to promote its comedy-drama Devious Maids, the female-driven cable channel hired mobile marketing agency S4M for the job. S4M used the popularity of “Who Are You” quizzes to create a full-on game within the Facebook app. The interactive quiz resulted in an overwhelming 80 percent completion rate; leading users to watch a short promotional video for the show. That’s engagement done right.
The CW network saw similar positive results when it created the mini “Catch-the-Flash” game with Opera Mediaworks, resulting in an overall engagement rate of 40 percent with users watching the full-fledged series trailer afterwards. The Flash series debut was the CW’s best premier in five years.
Of course, not every social media campaign will include with costly interactive games, so it’s critical to know the important differences between engaging users in a social context and traditional advertising.
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John Romero needs to do some programming before he continues asking you for money.
After 2,287 pledged $131,052, developer Night Works Games has canceled the funding for its Blackroom crowdfunding project on Kickstarter , according to a message it sent to backers on the site. Night Work founders John Romero and Adrian Carmack, creators of the classic shooter Doom at id Software, revealed that they want to finish a demo for the arena shooter in order to comply with Kickstarter’s policies.
A demo could also potentially increase the excitement for the game, which may help it raise funding at a much more rapid pace than Blackroom. While crowdfunding has helped raise millions of dollars for games, Romero’s game was not on pace to smash through its $700,000 goal.
For example, the Harmonix rhythm game Amplitude asked for $775,000 in 2014.
It ended up raising $844,000. To get to that figure, the project had already received $200,000 in pledges after four days, according to Kickstarter tracking site Kicktraq.
Blackroom only has $131,052 through a similar period, which suggests it would have struggled to get to the end goal.
Night Work explained that they are not thrilled with having to put Blackroom on hold, but it wants to bring the demo to fans.
Event GamesBeat at the Game Awards We invite you to join us in LA for GamesBeat at the Game Awards event this December 7. Reserve your spot now as space is limited! “We believe, however, it is the right choice,” Romero and Carmack wrote in a post to backers. “We know you do, too.” I just wanted to tell everyone that we've decided to put together a BLACKROOM gameplay demo to show you what's… https://t.co/Ayi2noMXVl — John Romero (@romero) April 29, 2016 Romero and Carmack provided a pitch video on the Blackroom Kickstarter site, but it only features concept art. It’s likely that the pair were hoping that announcing the return of key talent from the Doom team would generate enough excitement on its own. Doom is one of the most important games ever made, and it defined the era that turned PC gaming into a massive entertainment industry.
Even for people who are fans of Doom, however, many do not want to put money into something that isn’t coming until 2018 without even seeing what it looks like. But Romero thinks that once they get the demo together, gamers will convert their excitement for a new shooter from key Doom talent into financial support for the campaign.
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Activision Blizzard has started teasing Call of Duty 2016.
In the Nuk3town 24/7 bonus playlist and in the map, Activision has updated it with teasers for Infinity Ward’s new Call of Duty video game coming this fall. The Infinity Ward game will be the newest installment in a series that has sold more than $15 billion worth in the past decade.
BREAKING: Call of Duty 2016 teasers found in Nuk3town in Black Ops 3 https://t.co/IbVONnosLg pic.twitter.com/224oRufNqi — charlieINTEL.com (@charlieINTEL) April 29, 2016 The teaser includes a new logo, pictured above, as well as a big spaceship at the end of the Nuk3town multiplayer animation. The teaser appeared during a match with Karl-Anthony Towns on Twitch.
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If there was an entrepreneur formula, its fundamental factors would include a great idea, commitment, a fierce work ethic, and innovative creativity. But to take a startup from an idea to mass adoption, you need something more.
“In most cases, success has a lot to do with being in the right place at the right time,” says Manish Gupta, Board Member at TiE Silicon Valley. TiE is a global network of non-profit chapters promoting entrepreneurship. “Yes, you have to be smart, hardworking, creative, all of that. But many times we’ve seen that success comes from those things plus being at the right place at the right time — and knowing the right people.” It all boils down to learning, access, and mentorship.
The good news is that all three components are becoming more easily available as startup ecosystems mature. And as more entrepreneurs from emerging ecosystems globally require learning, access, and mentorship, organizations like TiE help fill the gap.
1. Learning Startup ideas fail when execution is not effective or efficient enough because the entrepreneur has limited access to information — they simply don’t have the learning required to make the right calls.
“Learning comes from multiple dimensions,” says Vipin Jain, Co-founder and CEO of 6D Bytes, a robotics-related startup currently in stealth mode. “You could be reading and learning on your own, you could be meeting with people and learning from them, or you could be accessing mentors.” Indeed, learning can range from just keeping abreast of industry news and trends to proactively joining groups and participating in learning programs. TiE, for instance, runs a diverse set of programs throughout the year varying from technology sessions, investment 101 classes, and domain expert panels where entrepreneurs can gain access to the learning they need.
“Successful entrepreneurs have to do a great job of sourcing and filtering the plethora of information out there for relevance and deploying them in decision cycles,” says Gupta.
2. Access Beyond learning, a more challenging hurdle entrepreneurs face on the road to mass adoption is finding the right people who can move things along.
“First-time entrepreneurs may not have any relationships with venture capitalists and may not have access and understanding of who the channel partners might be to scale the business globally,” Gupta says, “Access to the right people is foundational to a successful enterprise or startup.” Jain agrees. “A network of trusted people can help you connect with other people like investors, partners, clients, and talent you want to hire,” he says. “Getting to the right people very quickly is absolutely paramount when you’re starting your journey as an entrepreneur. You want to build a company and get to mass adoption really fast,” Jain says, “It’s the only way you can go from point A to point B in the shortest possible time.” TiE aims to help entrepreneurs gain access to the right people through member and non-member programs. Members can also access the TiE Charter Member community. TiE has 61 chapters around the world, each with its own local resource of Charter Members who are successful entrepreneurs, investors, and corporate executives.
“Being part of such a community gives you instant access to those folks instead of having to make ineffective cold calls,” Gupta says, “and if you participate in TiEcon [TiE’s entrepreneurship conference May 6 and 7 in Santa Clara], you can have a face-to-face meetings with truly resourceful folks that might have been very, very difficult to break through and get access to.” While entrepreneurs can learn and develop a network of contacts through various means, one of the best ways is through the right mentors.
“If you’re breaking new ground as an entrepreneur, you are dealing with a lot of ambiguities and unknowns.” says Jain, “It is very important for an entrepreneur to have access to mentors. They can ask you the tough questions, challenge your thinking, and make you think about things you will not consider otherwise.” 3. Mentorship It’s one thing to be connected on LinkedIn. It’s another thing entirely to have a meaningful relationship with a mentor. To this end, TiEcon runs a “Mentor Connect” program where entrepreneurs can sign up and meet with potential mentors in fairly private sessions to start a dialogue that can lead to establishing that long-term relationship between them.
Gupta says many seasoned venture capitalists and entrepreneurs want to give back to the community: “The TiE Charter Member community consists of very successful individuals. One of the reasons why people sign up to become Charter Members is because they want to give back to the community — and becoming a mentor to new entrepreneurs is a very material and direct way of giving value back.” Anand Oswal, Senior VP of Engineering, Enterprise Networking Group at Cisco, has had his fair share of mentoring promising startups. “A lot of times you have folks starting a company with just an idea, and when given the right mentor, I’ve usually seen the idea evolve into something more,” Oswal says. “They gain business perspective about solving problems. It’s not just an idea of a product but the whole lifecycle of the product, ensuring that it has business value attached to it.” Oswal adds, that as a mentor, it’s exciting to see the whole process come together. “What you need for a product is different parts of the puzzle working together, he says. “So, a) you can either build them within the startup or b) you can partner with somebody to make it part of a larger solution.” The road to mass adoption Learning, access, and mentorship all tie together, which is why organizations like TiE aim to help entrepreneurs specifically across these three components. And while a tech success must indisputably start with a great idea, commitment, and creativity, it’s learning, access, and mentorship that will truly pave the road to mass adoption, eliminating dreaded speed bumps and dead ends along the way.
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This week, Tech.eu tracked 11 technology M&A transactions and 63 funding deals (totalling €500 million, about $573 million) in Europe, Turkey and Israel.
Here’s an overview of the 10 biggest European tech news items for this week: 1) Rocket Internet’s ‘Global Fashion Group’ picked up €300 million in funding at a €1 billion valuation – roughly a third of the valuation it fetched less than a year ago.
And boy did its stock price suffer.
2) Nokia announced plans to acquire Withings , a connected health product maker based in France, in a transaction that values the company at €170 million. Ben Rooney has a good take on the news.
VB Event The AI Impact Tour Connect with the enterprise AI community at VentureBeat’s AI Impact Tour coming to a city near you! 3) According to Russian media reports, Pavel Durov – the founder of messaging app Telegram – met with Google CEO Sundar Pichai to discuss an acquisition valuing the startup at around $1 billion. Telegram has vehemently denied the rumours , though.
4) European mobile payment startups SumUp and Rocket Internet-backed Payleven are merging.
5) Slovenian company Bitstamp became the first Bitcoin exchange approved to operate in the EU (as in, all 28 member states).
6) EU leak reveals plans to rein in Google, Facebook, and encourage local alternatives.
7) SIRIN Labs, an Israeli-led venture with headquarters in London and initial R&D labs in both Tel Aviv and Lund (Sweden), has raised $72 million in funding to attempt to make some waves in the crowded global smartphone market. Also check out Geektime’s coverage of the news.
8) Other notable investments in Europe included France-based car rental marketplace startup Drivy ( €31 million ) and p2p-lender Lendix ( $13.5 million ), and German IoT tech company Tado ( $23 million ).
9) In Germany, VC firms Heilemann Ventures and Earlybird are merging and will set up new fund with a target size of €150 million, while Project A Ventures plans to announce next month that it’s closed a new fund of at least €120 million.
Mo’ money for Berlin startups, in particular.
10) Germany is set to launch a new incentive scheme worth about 1 billion euros to get more consumers buying electric cars.
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( The Bridge ) – Tokyo-based BitFlyer , the company behind a Japanese bitcoin exchange, announced this week that it has secured about $27 million (3 billion yen) from Venture Labo Investment , SBI Investment , and others.
Companies which have participated in this startup’s previous rounds include Recruit Strategic Partners , Quick (financial news provider), Mitsubishi UFJ Capital , Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Venture Capital , Dentsu Digital Holdings , Incubate Fund , East Ventures , Digital Currency Group and GMO Venture Partners.
The latest funding means that the company’s capital adds up to 3.89 billion yen ($34.9 million) — the second largest among all bitcoin exchange companies around the world according to Coindesk.
The company plans to use the funds to strengthen human resources and expand the service overseas, while shoring up its domestic position. As part of these efforts, they have set up a subsidiary in Luxembourg to better cater to the European market. The Tokyo firm recently launched a bitcoin-based payment gateway for e-commerce sites; this follows their launch of a marketplace for investors dealing with Ethereum-based cryptocurrency Ether.
BitFlyer was founded in January of 2014 by former Goldman Sachs trader Yuzo Kano. The company is a startup but has also launched an investment fund aiming at nurturing other startups focused on blockchain technology. BitFlyer invested in Sivira , the company behind a development platform integrating IoT (Internet of Things) devices and the blockchain, this January in line with the stance.
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(Reuters) – Google and Fiat Chrysler are close to agreeing on a partnership that could break boundaries between Silicon Valley and the auto industry in the race to develop self-driving cars, people familiar with the discussions said on Friday.
The partnership could be announced soon, three people familiar with the situation told Reuters on condition of anonymity because the discussions were private. The talks were first reported Thursday by the blog AutoExtremist.com.
Google, a unit of Alphabet Inc, and Fiat Chrysler declined to comment.
Google has said that it does not want to build self-driving vehicles on its own and has explored alliances with auto companies, but none have been finalized. Fiat Chrysler Chief Executive Sergio Marchionne said this week the company was in talks with an advanced technology company, but offered no details.
Executives at other auto makers, including Ford Motor Co, General Motors Co and Daimler AG, have expressed wariness about alliances with Alphabet or other technology companies that could relegate them to the role of hardware suppliers. Auto executives have said they do not want to stand by while Alphabet reaps richer profits from the data generated by vehicles and their passengers.
GM has signaled that it plans to go its own way on driverless car technology, moving to buy self-driving vehicle startup Cruise Automation.
On a conference call after Fiat Chrysler issued quarterly earnings on Tuesday, Marchionne repeated that he was interested in partnerships with Google or Apple Inc.
“Dialogue continues with people who are interested in exploring their relevance in the automotive world and we will continue to help them find their way out,” Marchionne said in response to a question about working with non-traditional automakers.
John Krafcik, a former auto executive who heads Alphabet’s self-driving car project, made a public pitch for partners in January at a conference in Detroit in January. Fiat Chrysler officials in Michigan and Italy have declined to comment on speculation that Google’s technology could eventually be offered on the new Chrysler Pacifica minivan launched in February. Marchionne and other FCA officials are scheduled on May 6 to visit the Windsor, Ontario plant that builds the Pacifica.
Auto and technology industry executives have said self-driving vehicles, possibly minivans, might hit the roads first in ride-sharing or shuttle fleets.
Among the models that Alphabet has been using in its self-driving project is the Lexus RX450h, a hybrid sport utility vehicle, made by Toyota Motor Corp.
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Over the weekend, I found myself watching “ Tesla: Master of Lightning ,” a PBS production streaming on Netflix. From the story of Nikola Tesla , I saw parallels between his invention, alternating current (AC), and what bitcoin has been experiencing for some time now.
On June 6, 1884, Tesla arrived in New York. The Serbian immigrant, who was from modern day Croatia, was thrilled to finally meet his hero, Thomas Edison , the renowned American inventor, who was the force behind direct current (DC).
Tesla could not wait to wow Edison with his alternating current discoveries. Up to that moment, many of the people he had explained the technology to, including his professors, had dismissed it.
He believed Edison, being heavily involved with the science of electricity, would not only understand how alternating current would change the world, but would also help him bring it to commercial use.
Edison did hire him, thanks to the letter of introduction from Charles Batchelor , a business associate of his in Europe. However, he would hear nothing of Tesla’s AC power system.
“My personal desire would be to prohibit entirely the use of alternating currents. They are unnecessary as they are dangerous,” Edison is quoted saying.
If you replace the words “alternating currrents” with “bitcoin,” the statement above could as well have been uttered by Jamie Dimon , JPMorgan Chase’s Chairman, President and CEO.
Giving up acquired turf Since the 1870s, Edison built his business in North America and Europe around DC technology. New York was running entirely on his invention; he had invested a lot in the technology.
As expected, he was not ready to give up the turf he had acquired. At least not willingly. Do not expect the banking industry to be any different.
After working for Edison for a few months and helping improve the efficiency of his DC systems, Tesla branched in 1887 amid some acrimony, opened his own laboratory, and started working on his longtime dream of making AC work for humankind.
He best understood that while DC was a great leap from using candles for lighting and raw animal force for turning mortars, it had inefficiencies that could be taken care of by alternating current.
The voltage of a direct current cannot be changed. What is generated is just what is consumed. That means that if electricity is generated with too high voltage, bulbs will blow up on the other end.
There was also the issue of transmission over long distances. To do that with DC, you needed very thick copper wires and you needed boosting stations after every mile or so.
On the other hand, the voltage of AC can be raised and lowered using transformers. Even more important, high voltage electricity can be transmitted over long distances without the need for boosting stations.
In addition, the voltage could be controlled depending on the needs of the machine or bulb on the other end.
Negative media campaign Edison embarked on a negative media campaign and took it upon himself to demonstrate to the public how this new technology was dangerous.
He went as far as electrocuting animals using AC in public shows.
It is also said that he orchestrated the use of AC to execute criminals just to drive the point home that AC could only be associated with death.
This parallels the effort many have put into portraying bitcoin as dangerous.
Making it look like the perfect tool for criminals and terrorists.
By all accounts, Edison was winning the ‘ War of Current ’, as it came to be known — a feud that is also well captured by Author Jill Jonnes in her book Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World.
People who mattered and were in positions of power gave Edison their ears.
The famous British Physicist Lord Kelvin , for example, sent a cable to members of a commission he chaired that was tasked with finding ways to tap the power of the Niagara Falls, suggesting they “avoid the gigantic mistake of AC.” Tesla had an opportunity to change this perception in front of 100,000 spectators, a crowd that included Lord Kelvin. Westinghouse, the company he worked for, had just won a contract to light that year’s Columbian exposition in Chicago. It was to be the first fair in the world to be lighted by electricity.
Westinghouse won the contract for the simple reason that it quoted a significantly lower price ($0.5million) than Edison’s General Electric did ($1 million). This difference was made possible by the AC technology.
In an effort to stop Tesla, GE refused Westinghouse permission to use its incandescent lamps at the fair. But Westinghouse worked overtime and devised lamps for the occasion.
As night fell on May 1, 1893, eager spectators filed into the fairgrounds.
President Grover Cleveland pressed a button and the whole ground, and the surrounding environment, exploded with light never seen before.
And that ushered in a new era of electricity. Everywhere you look now; everything is happening thanks to alternating current.
These challenges AC technology had to overcome to be where it is now are so removed from us that it’s hard to imagine its adoption was in question at the beginning.
Likely, a number of years from now, it will be the same with bitcoin and blockchain technology.
Rupert Hackett is the Community Manager at BuyaBitcoin.com.au.
He specializes in the digital currency and digital payment space and is currently studying the world’s first Master’s in digital currencies alongside entrepreneurship. He writes for multiple bitcoin websites and regularly blogs for buyabitcoin.com.au.
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There’s huge potential upside for brands and consumers alike, especially now that Facebook is in the game , bringing with it the developer ecosystem and user base to make chatbots mainstream. That said, we shouldn’t make the mistake of thinking chatbots, and more broadly, AI, will replace humans — despite dystopian fantasies that machines will soon rule the world. If you’ll recall, mobile apps were going to kill the Web , just as email and online forms were going to kill the phone call. Neither has proven true.
Chatbots will change how consumers and brands do business, but they won’t make humans obsolete. In fact, I believe quite the opposite: that bots have the potential to help us improve the customer experience precisely by letting humans do what we do best.
There’s a time and a place for bots For the foreseeable future, bots will be most useful as shortcuts for simple interactions — for example, to get a quick response with limited input-output options. So, we might chat with a bot to check when a package will arrive, to buy a toaster based on recent user reviews, or to set up a recurring snack delivery for the office. We’ll knowingly talk to brands via Facebook Messenger (or LINE, WhatsApp, and so forth), but only for specific actions.
Messaging apps aren’t popular because they offer easy ways to hail a car or buy a pair of shoes — we love them because they facilitate conversation. We all want convenience, but we still crave person-to-person interaction when we need to make a significant purchase, troubleshoot a problem, or communicate complex emotions.
Emotions can’t be captured in 1s and 0s While deep learning methodologies are impressive, they’re still powered by people, and they rely on humans to solve the hard problems of conversation and consciousness. There isn’t any machine that has learned emotional intelligence — how to soothe an angry customer, interpret a prospect’s ambiguity, or demonstrate deep empathy. There may never be. Yet these nuanced interactions are the key to building strong customer relationships. Removing humans from the equation will solve some, but not all, of these problems, and it will require significantly more time, work, data, and money.
Conversation enables customers to emotionally connect with a brand, which can be hugely valuable and is nearly impossible to replicate. The shopping service Trunk Club has built its business around this kind of connection. The service matches customers and expert stylists, who discuss fashion preferences over the phone or in person at one of Trunk Club’s “Clubhouses.” While a bot could make personalized recommendations powered by an algorithm, customers choose and remain loyal to Trunk Club’s service because it offers real interactions with a dedicated expert.
The machines will get smarter Facebook isn’t the first to develop a chatbot API. Slack, for example, makes it easy to build bots and custom integrations within its platform; Telegram allows developers to build interactivity into apps; API.ai is like SmarterChild on steroids.
Despite years of innovation and accelerating investment in AI, bots are still in their infancy. We’re quite a long way from building software that can convincingly speak and understand human language — even if some people are initially fooled.
In the meantime, human conversations will dominate the high-stakes interactions consumers have with brands, like taking out a first mortgage or choosing a home security system.
Chatbots work by way of machine learning, which means that the more people converse with businesses via chatbots, the smarter they’ll get. In his recent F8 keynote, Mark Zuckerberg said that with the combination of natural language processing and “human help” (read: trainers), people will be able to talk to Messenger bots just like they talk to friends. Virtual assistants like Facebook M and Human+AI platforms like DigitalGenius still have “human” in their product descriptions.
Rising bots lift all humans Ultimately, chatbots will make tasks easier and cut down on some of the noise we’ve come to associate with technology. For instance, AI will advance to a place where a bot will “know” when it’s not the best “person” for the job. In that case, the next message might be “Can I connect you directly with someone?” And that someone will be a human being.
As businesses free themselves from the requests that can be addressed by chatbots, they’ll be able to invest in improving the caller experience. Ideally, they’ll dedicate more resources to employing and training experts to solve the problems bots can’t. They’ll differentiate by providing excellent conversational support over chat and on the phone. Consumers will quickly learn when they want to talk to a chatbot and when they need to make a call. And businesses will be equipped to answer in either case.
Bots are incredibly promising, but they don’t comprise the full picture. As I see it, they’re just one part of a future that involves more intelligent conversation. Chris Messina, who leads developer experience at Uber, said it well when he described conversational commerce : “…utilizing chat, messaging, or other natural language interfaces (i.e., voice) to interact with people, brands, or services and bots that heretofore have had no real place in the bidirectional, asynchronous messaging context.” In this paradigm, conversation, whether with a person or with a bot, acts as a means to deliver more value through service.
Chatbots and human conversation are two sides of the same coin. As bots get smarter and more useful, they’ll specialize in completing tasks that are easy to automate. Meanwhile, human representatives will have the time and resources to solve more interesting problems. Humans won’t become obsolete any time soon. We’ll still need advice and empathy from other people. We’ll still need humanity from technology.
Kyle Christensen is VP of Marketing at Invoca. He is a SaaS veteran who has spent more than 15 years working in enterprise software. Before Invoca, Kyle was a VP of Marketing at Responsys, a leading cloud platform for cross-channel digital marketing.
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"Artificial Intelligence View All AI, ML and Deep Learning Auto ML Data Labelling Synthetic Data Conversational AI NLP Text-to-Speech Security View All Data Security and Privacy Network Security and Privacy Software Security Computer Hardware Security Cloud and Data Storage Security Data Infrastructure View All Data Science Data Management Data Storage and Cloud Big Data and Analytics Data Networks Automation View All Industrial Automation Business Process Automation Development Automation Robotic Process Automation Test Automation Enterprise Analytics View All Business Intelligence Disaster Recovery Business Continuity Statistical Analysis Predictive Analysis More Data Decision Makers Virtual Communication Team Collaboration UCaaS Virtual Reality Collaboration Virtual Employee Experience Programming & Development Product Development Application Development Test Management Development Languages Press Release TRACT Therapeutics Received FDA Approval for Phase 2 Trial Share on Facebook Share on X Share on LinkedIn CHICAGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–April 29, 2016– TRACT Therapeutics, Inc., a biotechnology company developing personalized regulatory T-cell (Treg) therapy, announced today that it received Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval to initiate a Phase 2 clinical trial to investigate the efficacy and safety of its novel therapy for kidney transplant recipients. The therapeutic approach, utilizing a patient’s own cells, expanded in the laboratory and infused back to the patient after an organ transplant, shows promise in restoring immune balance so the body will accept the foreign organ instead of rejecting it. Current standard of care practices for transplant patients to prevent rejection requires the lifetime use of toxic medications which weaken the immune system causing life-threatening effects and eventual rejection of the organ in approximately 50% of the patients receiving a transplant. A National Institute of Health study in the U.S. recently revealed that organ recipients have a high risk of developing 32 different types of cancer. TRACT’s innovative approach aims to change the standard treatment for transplant recipients by reducing or eliminating the lifelong use of immunosuppressive drug therapy.
The Phase 2 study of 120 subjects will evaluate the efficacy and safety of a single Treg infusion in kidney transplant recipients and is projected to initiate enrollment in a few months. “The limitations of drug-based immunosuppression have significantly increased interest in the use of regulatory T-cells to restore balance to the immune system and avoid transplant rejection,” stated Joseph R Leventhal, MD, PhD, Director of Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
Gretchen S Johnson, President and CEO of TRACT Therapeutics, commented, “We are pleased to continue on our path toward approval and commercialization of this novel Treg therapy with the goal of greatly enhancing the lives of transplant patients around the world.” About TRACT Therapeutics TRACT Therapeutics, Inc. is a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing a novel therapeutic approach to restoring immune balance in organ transplantation and autoimmune disease. Its proprietary platform technology, using autologous polyclonally expanded regulatory T-cells was developed at Northwestern University by pioneer, Joseph R Leventhal, MD, PhD and his research colleagues. TRACT will file for Orphan Drug Designation for organ transplantation in 2016. For additional information, visit our website at: www.tracttherapeutics.com This press release contains forward-looking statements that express the belief, potential anticipation or expectation, as well as other statements which are not historical fact, and statements related to clinical trials and their results, design, FDA product approvals or other marketing approvals, features, functionality and performance. These statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected in these forward-looking statements. These risks include, among others: the regulatory approval process in the U.S. for biologics, market acceptance of new products, the ability to obtain and maintain patent or other proprietary intellectual property protection and the actual impact of those patents and rights, general market and economic factors, ability to effect transition from pilot-scale to large-scale commercial production of products, and availability of additional manufacturing capacity on acceptable terms.
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"Artificial Intelligence View All AI, ML and Deep Learning Auto ML Data Labelling Synthetic Data Conversational AI NLP Text-to-Speech Security View All Data Security and Privacy Network Security and Privacy Software Security Computer Hardware Security Cloud and Data Storage Security Data Infrastructure View All Data Science Data Management Data Storage and Cloud Big Data and Analytics Data Networks Automation View All Industrial Automation Business Process Automation Development Automation Robotic Process Automation Test Automation Enterprise Analytics View All Business Intelligence Disaster Recovery Business Continuity Statistical Analysis Predictive Analysis More Data Decision Makers Virtual Communication Team Collaboration UCaaS Virtual Reality Collaboration Virtual Employee Experience Programming & Development Product Development Application Development Test Management Development Languages Guest The bot rulebook Share on Facebook Share on X Share on LinkedIn As the time of the conversational bot era is upon us, it is time to think about the basic rules that govern our AI friends.
A bot’s mission A bot’s mission is to make human life better, to provide a helping hand, and to do so proficiently and courteously.
Prime rules Bots may not harm humans — including anything unlawful, illegal, spam, information theft, or fraud.
Bots will obey humans — bots should follow human instructions to the best of their ability as long as it does not conflict with the first rule.
Secondary rules Purposeful — Bots should have a primary purpose (travel bot, finance bot, commerce bot, fun bot, personal assistant …) Transparency — Humans should be able to query a bot for its purpose. Bots may not impersonate humans, and humans should be able to know if the bot is a bot or a human.
Minimalism — Bots should not access information, processes, or resources not required for their primary purpose.
Courteousness — Bots should always answer a human. Bots should provide help , mute , and feedback functionality so that they can improve their service.
Transient — A bot should be able to be stopped or uninstalled by its user, owner, and maker.
Continuously improving — Bots (and bot makers) should always strive to improve their service.
This post was inspired by my childhood hero Asimov and shared as an open thought and call for discussion. Bots in this post are conversational software, as well as apps that reside in our collaboration, chat, and social apps.
[This story originally appeared on the author’s Medium blog.
] Amir Shevat is head of developer relations at Slack.
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"SpaceX releases 360-degree video of its Falcon 9 rocket landing on an ocean platform | VentureBeat"
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Earlier this month, SpaceX successfully landed its Falcon 9 rocket on a platform out at sea. And while you may have watched it “live,” actually being there is a whole other experience. That’s why the company released a 360-degree video — available on both YouTube and Facebook — that lets fans witness this historic landing as if they were right there.
Whether viewed on your browser, phone, or even using your virtual reality headset, the 360-degree video gives you a front-row seat, as the camera is nicely positioned just feet away from where the rocket lands. You can hear the roar of the engines as it touches down on the platform.
The fourth time was the charm for the firm started by Elon Musk. In spite of coming close on earlier tries, the reusable rocket hadn’t been able to touch down on a moving platform in the ocean. It had been successful on land at Cape Canaveral, of course, but the water made things more complicated.
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"Rovi acquires TiVo in $1.1 billion deal; 'TiVo' will be the new company name | VentureBeat"
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The rumors were true: Rovi today confirmed it intends to acquire DVR pioneer and set-top box maker TiVo in a $1.1 billion deal.
Founded initially as Macrovision in 1983, Rovi specializes in on-screen TV guide listings and provides the metadata that powers the media-search function on many platforms. This deal will create what Rovi calls a “$3 billion entertainment technology leader.” Though this is Rovi acquiring TiVo, the new company will actually take TiVo’s name once the transaction is complete, and will be led by existing Rovi CEO Tom Carson.
“Rovi’s acquisition of TiVo, with its innovative products, talented team, and substantial intellectual property portfolio, strengthens Rovi’s position as a global leader in media discovery, metadata, analytics, and IP licensing,” said Carson, in a press release.
“It’s an exciting time as the media and entertainment landscape undergoes a significant evolution. The combined capabilities of TiVo and Rovi place us in a tremendous position to extend services across platforms and to a customer base that includes traditional, over-the-top and emerging players across the globe. By working together, Rovi and TiVo will revolutionize how consumers experience media and entertainment and at the same time build value for our stockholders.” Rovi and TiVo already serve many of the major cable and satellite TV operators around the world, and pooling their collective hardware, adtech, metadata, analytics, cloud services, patents, and general IP makes sense on many fronts. Together, the duo have portfolios of more than “6,000 issued patents and pending applications,” which will be the source of a huge revenue boon for the combined company. Indeed, both Rovi and TiVo have recently filed patent-infringement claims against other major media and tech companies, with TiVo recently accepting a $490 million settlement against Cisco, Motorola, and Time Warner Cable.
While the companies’ respective boards have, of course, approved the deal already, it’s still subject to approval by their shareholders, and it will also be scrutinized by the relevant anticompetition bodies. Rovi expects to close the deal in Q3 2016, at which time the company will add 10 million TiVo households to the existing 18 million homes that currently use Rovi guides globally.
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"Mozilla will retire Firefox support for OS X 10.6, 10.7, and 10.8 in August 2016 | VentureBeat"
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Mozilla today announced that it will end Firefox support for OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, OS X 10.7 Lion, and OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion in August 2016. Unlike Google, which also dropped Windows XP and Vista support , Mozilla seems to be sticking to only removing support for old Macs.
This means Mozilla will provide regular Firefox updates and security patches for Mac users on these operating systems for four more months. After that, the browser will still work, but it will be stuck on the last version released in August.
Mozilla also offers a Firefox version called Extended Support Release ( ESR ) for schools, universities, businesses, and others who need help with mass deployments. Firefox ESR releases are maintained for one year, and so Mozilla will continue to support it on OS X 10.6, 10.7, and 10.8 “until mid-2017.” Firefox ESR 45 will be the last version that supports these old OS X versions.
Mozilla correctly notes that “all three of these versions are no longer supported by Apple” and that “unsupported operating systems receive no security updates, have known exploits, and are dangerous for you to use.” If you want to continue getting Firefox updates, the company thus recommends upgrading your Mac.
It’s unfortunate that Mozilla is not doing the same with old Windows versions. Keep in mind that Microsoft retired Mainstream Support for Windows XP on April 14, 2009 and then pulled Extended Support for the operating system on April 8, 2014. Mozilla is thus going out of its way to support XP for additional years, even longer than Microsoft.
Windows XP users cannot upgrade to newer versions of Microsoft’s browser: IE8 is the latest version they can install. IE9 is only available for Windows Vista and Windows 7, while IE10 and IE11 are only for Windows 7 and Windows 8. Many XP users thus choose to use third-party browsers.
With Chrome no longer an option, many are likely going with Firefox.
Last month, XP still had about 11 percent market share , according to Net Applications.
Vista had 1.41 percent market share, and the three old OS X versions had a combined 0.83 percent.
So if you’re wondering why exactly Mozilla keeps supporting Firefox on Windows XP and Vista, the numbers tell the real story. There are hundreds of millions using the browser on the ancient operating systems, and Mozilla would rather have those users than lose them.
But like Google before it, Mozilla is not helping these users by not encouraging them to upgrade. Even with an up-to-date browser, using Windows XP and Vista is simply a poor security choice.
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"Most of Yahoo's shortlisted bidders reportedly offering cash deals | VentureBeat"
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"Artificial Intelligence View All AI, ML and Deep Learning Auto ML Data Labelling Synthetic Data Conversational AI NLP Text-to-Speech Security View All Data Security and Privacy Network Security and Privacy Software Security Computer Hardware Security Cloud and Data Storage Security Data Infrastructure View All Data Science Data Management Data Storage and Cloud Big Data and Analytics Data Networks Automation View All Industrial Automation Business Process Automation Development Automation Robotic Process Automation Test Automation Enterprise Analytics View All Business Intelligence Disaster Recovery Business Continuity Statistical Analysis Predictive Analysis More Data Decision Makers Virtual Communication Team Collaboration UCaaS Virtual Reality Collaboration Virtual Employee Experience Programming & Development Product Development Application Development Test Management Development Languages Most of Yahoo’s shortlisted bidders reportedly offering cash deals Share on Facebook Share on X Share on LinkedIn (Reuters) — Yahoo Inc has shortlisted close to 10 bidders in the auction for its core Internet assets, including Verizon Communications Inc, with most offers involving cash rather than a combination with another company, according to people familiar with the matter.
The shortlist comprises mainly large companies and big private equity firms including TPG Capital LP, and excludes many small companies that proposed some kind of combination, such as privately held Yellow Pages owner YP LLC, the people said this week.
The sources declined to divulge the full list.
Some bidders that did not make the shortlist because their first-round offers were not specific enough are still being kept close to the process by Yahoo’s advisers, the people said. One of those bidders is Liberty Media Corp Chairman John Malone, who has proposed a tax-efficient merger with one of the companies he controls, the people said.
The sources asked not to be identified because details of the sale process were confidential.Yahoo, Verizon, TPG and YP declined to comment. Liberty Media did not respond to a request for comment.
A sale of Yahoo’s Internet assets for cash, followed by a divestment of its 35.5 percent stake inYahoo Japan, would leave the company owning just its 15 percent stake in Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.
In December, Yahoo scrapped plans to spin off its Alibaba stake, after investors fretted over whether that transaction could have been carried out on a tax-free basis.
Yahoo has been laying off employees and seeking to cut costs as its core Internet business shrinks.
Earlier this week, Yahoo said that activist hedge fund Starboard Chief Executive Jeffrey Smith and three independent directors associated with him would join its board immediately.
A truce with Smith , its most vocal activist investor, helps Yahoo clear the way for the auction of its core businesses, analysts said.
Yahoo’s four new directors were on a slate that Starboard proposed last month to oust Yahoo’s entire board.
Analysts see Verizon, which bought AOL last year for $4.4 billion, as the candidate likely to prevail in the auction.
Verizon is being advised by three investment banks, Guggenheim Partners LLC, LionTree LLC and Allen & Company, as reported by Reuters.
(Reporting by Greg Roumeliotis and Liana B. Baker in New York; Editing by Toni Reinhold and Steve Orlofsky) VentureBeat's mission is to be a digital town square for technical decision-makers to gain knowledge about transformative enterprise technology and transact.
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Microsoft today announced the availability of the beta version of the Azure IoT Gateway software development kit (SDK) to make it easier to connect devices to the Internet. The SDK was previously in a private preview after being announced during Microsoft’s Build developer conference in March. Now it’s available on GitHub under an open source MIT license.
An IoT gateway is a piece of hardware that connects to remote devices but also hooks up directly to the Internet. The SDK is intended to aid development for it.
“The Azure IoT Gateway SDK does not place restrictions on the type of gateway solution that can be created,” Sam George, partner director, for Azure IoT at Microsoft, wrote in a blog post.
“Our IoT philosophy is to support the many different types of operating systems and hardware developers use, so we’ve built the gateway with ANSI C on top of a platform abstraction layer, providing a high performance gateway framework with a portable and cross-platform library that runs on both Windows and Linux.” The idea is to add support for C#, Java, and Node.js, George wrote.
VB Event The AI Impact Tour Connect with the enterprise AI community at VentureBeat’s AI Impact Tour coming to a city near you! This isn’t the first open source SDK for working with IoT devices in association with Microsoft’s Azure public cloud. Microsoft has previously released Azure IoT device SDKs for C, Java, .NET, Node, and Python.
Competing cloud infrastructure provider Amazon Web Services has its own AWS IoT service with open source embedded C and JavaScript SDKs. Salesforce and Oracle also have cloud IoT services.
Documentation for the SDK is here.
Also today, Microsoft announced the preview for device management in the Azure IoT Hub service, which was also first announced at Build.
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"DeepMind AI group moves from Torch framework to Google's own TensorFlow | VentureBeat"
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Google’s DeepMind artificial intelligence (AI) research group today announced that for all future research it will use TensorFlow , a machine learning library that Google open-sourced last year, instead of Torch, an older framework.
The move suggests that some of Google’s brightest AI minds are convinced of the promise of Google’s own open source software; TensorFlow is now good enough for DeepMind.
“We believe that TensorFlow will enable us to execute our ambitious research goals at much larger scale and an even faster pace, providing us with a unique opportunity to further accelerate our research programme,” Koray Kavukcuoglu, a research scientist at Google DeepMind and one of Torch’s core contributors, wrote in a blog post.
This is important because of DeepMind’s considerable capabilities — earlier this year its AlphaGo AI player of the ancient Chinese board game Go beat top-ranked Go player Lee Sedol.
To be sure, DeepMind is not Google’s only AI research unit. Google also has the larger Google Brain team.
In a letter to Alphabet shareholders yesterday, Google chief executive Sundar Pichai played up the importance of AI. “We’ve been building the best AI team and tools for years, and recent breakthroughs will allow us to do even more,” Pichai wrote.
There are several other open-source deep learning frameworks to choose from, but it would only be right for Google’s internal groups to gradually align with its own open source tooling.
“Our transition to TensorFlow represents a new chapter, and I feel very excited about the prospect of DeepMind contributing heavily to another great open source machine learning platform that everyone can use to advance the state-of-the-art,” Kavukcuoglu wrote.
Google said earlier this month that TensorFlow could now support training across multiple machines, not just one.
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"Artificial Intelligence View All AI, ML and Deep Learning Auto ML Data Labelling Synthetic Data Conversational AI NLP Text-to-Speech Security View All Data Security and Privacy Network Security and Privacy Software Security Computer Hardware Security Cloud and Data Storage Security Data Infrastructure View All Data Science Data Management Data Storage and Cloud Big Data and Analytics Data Networks Automation View All Industrial Automation Business Process Automation Development Automation Robotic Process Automation Test Automation Enterprise Analytics View All Business Intelligence Disaster Recovery Business Continuity Statistical Analysis Predictive Analysis More Data Decision Makers Virtual Communication Team Collaboration UCaaS Virtual Reality Collaboration Virtual Employee Experience Programming & Development Product Development Application Development Test Management Development Languages Press Release Acquisio taps Wellington Financial Fund V for Financing Share on Facebook Share on X Share on LinkedIn MONTREAL & TORONTO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–April 29, 2016– Acquisio, a world leader in performance marketing solutions for small businesses and the companies who serve them has announced a True Growth Capital financing from Wellington Financial LP, a privately-held specialty finance firm.
Acquisio’s product enables digital marketers to optimize the results of, and report on, their search, social, mobile, and display marketing programs. Acquisio uses machine learning to dramatically improve search marketing results while streamlining and automating the campaign management and reporting process. With more than 400 clients and $2 billion ad spend under management, Acquisio is recognized as being one of the fastest growing companies in North America, winning the Deloitte Tech Fast 500 and Fast 50 awards for five consecutive years. Acquisio’s software is used by category-leading companies like Sensis, Hanapin Marketing, iRep, Yellow Pages and Microsoft.
“With Acquisio’s innovative marketing technology solution for Small Business and for the companies who serve SMBs, along with the large, underserved market opportunity, Acquisio is the perfect candidate for Wellington’s True Growth Capital ,” said Mark McQueen, President & CEO of Wellington Financial LP.
“As Acquisio continues to invest in our core competency of big data science and machine learning technology, having a collaborative partner like Wellington accelerates our ability to scale and deliver ever more differentiated products,” said Acquisio CEO Marc Poirier. “We are extremely happy to be working with Mark McQueen and the team at Wellington to help us execute on our strategic aspirations.” About Wellington Financial LP Wellington Financial LP is a privately-held specialty finance firm providing term, venture and amortizing loans up to $40 million. Wellington Financial LP is currently managing a $900 million investment program with offices in Menlo Park, Santa Monica and Toronto. Wellington Financial LP is managed by a partnership controlled by fund management and Clairvest Group Inc. (CVG:TSX), who jointly have contributed a large financial stake to the Fund. LPs include several of Canada’s largest institutional investors, crown corporations, financial institutions and pension funds. Please visit the fund website at www.wellingtonfund.com.
About Acquisio Acquisio is a high-powered performance marketing solution that enables digital marketers to manage, report, and optimize on all digital advertising initiatives in one easy-to-use dashboard, across search, social, and display.
Serving more than 400 agencies and running 300,000 campaigns and 2.4 million bid adjustments a day, Acquisio is recognized as being one of the fastest growing companies in North America, winning the Deloitte Tech Fast 500 and Fast 50 awards for four consecutive years.
Acquisio has its headquarters in Montreal, and has offices in New York, Seattle, Texas, London, and Tokyo. For more information, contact Acquisio.
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Everyone is talking bots these days, and they stress good points — new interaction options, lots of opportunities for distribution and discovery, and exciting new possibilities to deliver services to users.
While I am happy with people’s excitement with this trend, I also want to stress that bots are a means to an end, and that end is a great product or service for the end user. Done wrong, bots could be as useful as blinking text in old websites — a gimmick that no one remembers. There are also other means to provide great services, even over a chat interface, that are not necessarily bots.
Keep in mind that Bots are only one of several UX features in conversational interfaces Bots are a great hammer, but not everything is a nail Bots are only as wonderful as the service they expose As with all interfaces , exposing your service with a bot will not make it awesome unless it is already awesome.
Lets define a bot for this conversation. Bots are digital users within a messaging product. Unlike most users, they are powered by software rather than by a human , and they bring a product or service into a given messaging product via the conversational interface.
VB Event The AI Impact Tour Connect with the enterprise AI community at VentureBeat’s AI Impact Tour coming to a city near you! There are other extremely effective features within messaging products that are not bots that can be just as, or more, useful than a bot user. We have a few ways you can build an app into Slack that don’t require a bot user but can be equally or even more powerful than a bot user: Notifications : Post messages into channel/thread/group. In Slack we call these Incoming Webhooks and they are great for a one directional information flow.
Slash Commands : Run a command-line style query or task execution from within the conversational interface. In Slack we call these Slash commands and they are great for simple tasks and queries.
Interactive Messages : Buttons in chat messages that let you perform inline actions. Check out our roadmap for more info on when this is coming to Slack.
It is all about the service OK, so the first thing we need to ask ourselves is, what product/service do I want to build? Then we need to ask, what is the optimal way to expose this service? It might sound silly, but many product managers and developers are so excited about bots that they try to “fit a square bot into a round hole.” Here are some examples where you might not need to build a bot: News notifications Alerts (social alerts for example) Simple single line task or queries All of these services can be provided with simple conversational interfaces such as posting messages and slash commands.
There is no need for NLP, no complex conversational scripting, and no conversational back-and-forth.
Above: Simple notification do not require bots.
To date, the majority of our integrations are not implemented via bots.
When are bots useful? Bots are useful in cases where it is easier, and more productive, to provide the service via a conversation with this software-based user.
Examples for services that might be exposed as bots include Support and help-desk Hiring and recruiting Personal assistant and team coordination As you can see, these are more complex types of services that might be “outsourced” to bots.
Bots are useful in cases where the service would be best exposed by talking to someone, or by someone talking to others — a support representative, an assistant, a sales rep, a coordinator, and so forth. In these cases bots can automate (some of) these conversations. A bot can also serve as the front line or a liaison between the user and the human service provider. Check out the Xprt app on Slack as an example for that.
Above: Bot can automate complex tasks Bots are also useful for keeping context in a conversation — when a user talks to a bot, we can infer context, and that can help deliver the service faster and simpler.
How to test if you need a bot to provide your service Very similar to wizard of oz prototyping in design, a simple way to test if your service is best exposed as a bot is to actually try to turn it into a conversation with an imaginary assistant. Imagine you are a VP in an important company (I hope you all are) and can source anyone at any time. Now ask yourself , would I want to get this service by talking to someone. If the answer is yes, that might be a good one to expose via a bot.
Above: Can you botsource your service? Think of this interface as an evolution of outsourcing tasks, processes, and workforce. What can you botsource? The right tool for the right task Bots are an exciting new interface and a great way to expose some services to users, while others can be exposed via other, more traditional means.
The key point is that bots should be a new interface to an already existing vital and well-designed service, or a new well devised, useful service. In any case, you should strive to build a great and useful service and then decide how to expose it in a conversational interface.
If done right, bots can make our lives more pleasant and more productive.
[Thanks to Noah Weiss , Matt Haughey , and Slack API.
] Amir Shevat is head of developer relations at Slack.
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MysteryGuitarMan decided to make a stop motion video. Sounds pretty standard. Oh. You want to know the catch? MysteryGuitarMan filmed his crazy clip entirely in Snapchat.
The video description explains that creating the video only required three components: “some fruits, Snapchat, and a LOT of free time.” Unfortunately, I only have the first one, and even if I were to get back on Snapchat, I seriously doubt I’ll ever have enough of the third component.
But it’s the catchy music that particularly draws me in, almost to the point that I wish this was a real game I could play on my phone: Event GamesBeat at the Game Awards We invite you to join us in LA for GamesBeat at the Game Awards event this December 7. Reserve your spot now as space is limited! The vertical video is really my only complaint, though I’m told that this is just the way Snapchat is. It turns out you can film and send horizontal videos in the app, but no one does this.
Also, Snapchat doesn’t have any built-in games. If this doesn’t inspire the team, I’m not sure what will.
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Proving that there is no concept that people with too much money and time on their hands can’t smother to death in a desperate bid for your love and admiration, the annual parade of April Fools’ fake products has arrived a day early to torment us and make us briefly forget how much we detest email for taking control our lives.
Yes, April Fools’ Day. Once, a day full of chuckles in which you made a couple of jokes with your parents over your cereal and then maybe tried to prank a few classmates at lunch hoping to cause school cafeteria milk to come spraying out of their noses.
Now, it is the subject of countless corporate brainstorming sessions as people bat around goofy ideas and then spend far too much time filming videos that we will dutifully aggregate in the hopes of viral glory.
So, it is with the sense of a WWI soldier being told that they must go over the trenches on Nov. 11, 1918 at 10:45 a.m. that I bring you our list of people who were so excited about their gags that they have gone live a day before April Fools’ Day.
WARNING: THIS POST WILL BE CONSTANTLY UPDATED! We have a long list of April Fools’ Days embargoes with which to torment you.
VIRGIN AMERICA: They are redesigning their logo, and many of the suggestions look like boobs and penises. It is so close to the way people actually talk that it’s hard to know for sure it’s a gag. It’s a gag.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGCUp_FduKc&feature=youtu.be PRODUCT HUNT: They’re buying Yahoo.
LOL.
View post on imgur.com SAMSUNG: “Samsung Electronics, a world leader in Internet of Things and advanced components, announced the Internet of Trousers , a new lineup of IoT-enabled smarter fashion products.” Funny thing is, as my wife will attest, I am at the age where I could use a notification system to alert me that my fly is down.
ADOBE: Tells you how to make any photo look like an Ansel Adams photo using Lightroom.
RAZER: Project Breadwinner. Almost 6 minutes about a fake toaster.
Sigh: Pretty sure the fact that I'm taking April Fools pitches under embargo is a sign humanity has reached its end game.
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Here we go again. It’s April Fools’ Day, and like every year, Google is doing its best to outdo itself. This is the first year the company is doing so under its new Alphabet parent company , so we’ll see if that has any impact. But if the jokes are anything like in previous years, we’ll see jokes ranging from ridiculously lame to very clever, spanning the simple blog post to the elaborate gag.
Google’s various divisions always create more practical and impractical jokes than any other tech firm, and it’s simply hard to keep track of them all. As a result, we’re back with our usual annual roundup.
Google Japanese Input Physical Flick Version Google Japan announced Furikku, a physical keyboard you flick. Think of it as the hardware version of the Japanese input software for Android. And of course, the circuit board and firmware are open source.
Search your photos using emoji Google Photos has added a feature for April Fools’ Day that might not even be a joke. You can search your photos by inputting emoji. I don’t really see a need for Google to remove this feature since it actually works.
The next revolution in photo search technology is here.
https://t.co/6yLWq9yK7G — Google Photos (@googlephotos) March 31, 2016 Emoji in Inbox Smart Reply Inbox by Gmail has suddenly started giving emoji suggestions instead of text replies. You might be wondering why. Apparently, “emoji do a better job of plumbing the emotional depths of one’s soul, so we’re optimistic that today’s update will encourage more open and honest email conversations.” Gmail Mic Drop That’s not the only new addition to Gmail.
Mic Drop lets you have the last word on any email. If you reply using the new “Send + Mic Drop” button, everyone will receive your message, and then you won’t see any responses afterwards. It’s like a “reply and mute” feature.
Update : The Mic Drop “feature” caused “more headaches than laughs,” so Google turned it off. Users put GIFs into critical emails and were understandably upset with Google.
Google Cardboard Plastic Virtual reality is so yesterday. Today is all about actual reality.
Google Cardboard was one thing, but Google Cardboard Plastic is even better. “What’s realer than real?” This actual reality headset beats all virtual reality headset because it has 4D integrated perspective, 360° spatially accurate sound, 20/20 resolution, advanced haptics for realistic touch sensations, has no wires, no batteries, and is lightweight and waterproof.
Apps in Space Google Play lets developers now design, test, and distribute their apps and games in space.
Astronauts and space travelers also need to to get their fix.
1 billion times faster than gigabit At a gigabit, Google Fiber is fast, but not fast enough.
“Our partners are using the quantum entanglement of the photons that move through our network to make teleportation happen, which is only possible on a pure fiber optic network. Clearly gigabit speeds are too slow.” YouTube SnoopaVision YouTube has added another great feature to all its videos.
SnoopaVision consists of three key features: State of the art 360 technology, immersive theatrical viewing experience, and Snoop Dogg. Oh, and don’t worry if it’s a little wonky — it’s in beta.
realBooks Imagine if you had one device for every ebook you own. Google took an Android device and stripped away every feature and functionality that was getting in the way of reading.
realBooks is for the old school book lovers who want to jump into the 21st century.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-_U92YX7eA Style Detection for Google Cloud Vision API Style Detection lets Google tell you if what someone is wearing works or doesn’t. “Using millions of hours of deep learning, convolutional neural networks and petabytes of source data, Vision API can now not just identify clothing, but evaluate the nuances of style to a relative degree of uncertainty.” Accuracy ranges between 52 percent and 97 percent.
Google Tag Manager for Real World Tags Google Tag Manager now supports the real world.
This new feature automagically categorizes and manages your real world tags. Then the cloud does the rest. Bam.
Parachutes by Google Express Sure, drones are probably the future of delivery. But they’re not ready yet. You know what technology is ready? Parachutes.
Self-driving bicycles Self-driving cars are cool, but they’re still cars. Bicycles are the best mode of transportation when it comes to price and the environment, so why not make it so they drive themselves? Google’s got your back.
Google search for your socks Finding your socks can be a pain in the ass. The solution is Searchable Socks , Bluetooth-enabled so that you can locate them easily. In fact, each sock will sing this song.
Chrome Chromebook The Chrome Chromebook is shiny — really shiny. It features tungsten space-grade chrome engineering with revolutionary new microchrome technology, a highly reflective chrome alloy case with two layers of automotive clear-coat for infinite reflections, a platinum white backlit LED keyboard that bounces light off a minimum of seven surfaces before striking the eye, a microfiber sleeve that helps retain that just-unboxed glow, radiant 4k lumen reflective properties, unheard-of pixel density, and a CLED (Chrome Light-Emitting Diode) screen.
Compressing everything Google X has had another brilliant idea: miniaturizing all physical objects. This will dramatically increase global portability, reduce the carbon footprint of everything, and generally fix the world’s problems.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhVIkvDx9T4 When it comes to April Fools’ Day, Google seems to have a bottomless pit for a marketing budget. We will update this post as the company launches more jokes.
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At our Mobile Summit event next week, we’ve invited a terrific group of executives to the scenic resort of Cavallo Point in Sausalito.
They represent a who’s who of the mobile giants, including Google, Uber, Amazon, Pinterest, Machine Zone, GrubHub, Pandora, Tinder, Yahoo, Adobe, Runtastic, AOL, Zynga, Pocket Gems, LinkedIn, Yelp, and many more.
We’re trying something new this year: Lightning Rounds. Out on the lawn, several top execs will give quick power talks on what they see as the defining big trend for mobile distribution in 2016 and 2017.
Here are the brave folks to step up: Above: Mike Ghaffary, Yelp Eat24 Mike Ghaffary, CEO, Yelp Eat24 — Ghaffary took over as CEO of Eat24 last year after Yelp acquired that company, and our bet is that he’s going to emphasize the app as potentially even more important than ever as a core distribution driver. Eat24 has seen some great growth lately, averaging more than 75 percent annual growth over the last two quarters of last year. It has expanded coverage to 30,000 restaurants from 18,000. And from my back-of-the-envelope math based on its revenue, it’s doing transactions of around $1 billion run rate.
Above: Casey Winters, Pinterest Above: Bill Magnuson, Appboy Above: Julie Ask, Forrester Julie Ask, Principal Analyst, Forrester — Ask is Forrester’s leading mobile analyst, offering mobile tech and strategies advice to companies engaging with consumers. She has worked with hundreds of clients across retail, travel, banking, insurance, CPG, and health care, so her take is going to be sharp.
Above: Dave Temkin, Cola Above: Andrew Grill, IBM Above: Chris Messina, Uber Anyway, awesome lineup. We invite only 180 executives to attend the Summit (but you still have time to apply to attend here).
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Nearly 2,000 mobile apps are released on Google Play and iOS on a daily basis. Amazing, but not surprising, considering how dominant the mobile market is. But app developers fighting for the spotlight have no time to gawk at the incredible statistic. There’s so much competition among app publishers and not enough time and memory space for consumers to install every new app that pops up. How are publishers — particularly first-timers — expected to get their apps discovered by the average consumer? For the longest time, publishers have relied on App Store Optimization as the most efficient way of raising their profile among the public. While ASO remains a critical part of app marketing, there are new tactics available that offer more than just keywords to raise visibility. App Marketing Optimization does more than optimize your app store presence; it optimizes your entire app marketing funnel.
Switching to AMO, however, can be a challenge with the way ASO has evolved to include more “moving parts,” such as titles, descriptions, icons, screenshots, videos — not to mention app stores shifting the rules and algorithms to reward user-favorite apps.
In our VB Insight report, App Store Optimization: Money for nothing, and clicks for free, we detailed the changing landscape of ASO, based on feedback from 475 marketers and 522 consumers.
Organic installs represent 70-80 percent of installs for the average app. In our research, publishers who are actively engaged in marketing their apps acquired 74 percent of mobile installation through organic. The impressive percentage shows publishers can’t just sit on their hands and expect consumers to flock to their app; they have to actively market their app if they hope to find an audience. Surprisingly enough, there’s not much difference between performing your own ASO and using a purchasd service, as the former gains 84 percent of organic installs while the latter receives an average of 88 percent.
Don’t count out paid installs, however, as 85 percent of app marketers said that paid user acquisition efforts benefited their organic user acquisition programs. New paid users inviting friends or boosting their app socially, along with increased downloads affecting store rankings were cited by a third of marketers as benefits from paid installs.
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In this half hour ASO masterclass, you’ll learn: The tools, tips and techniques to get your app in front of your audience and top of mind with app stores How to identify the small changes in components, such as you in-app purchase descriptions, that will have big impact on downloads The differences between Google Play and Apple’s App Store, and map how you should adapt your ASO/AMO strategy for both Speakers: Peggy Anne Salz, analyst, MobileGroove Steve P. Young , ASO ‘wizard’ and founder of Appmasters Moderator: Wendy Schuchart , Analyst, VentureBeat VentureBeat Homepage Follow us on Facebook Follow us on X Follow us on LinkedIn Follow us on RSS Press Releases Contact Us Advertise Share a News Tip Contribute to DataDecisionMakers Careers Privacy Policy Terms of Service Do Not Sell My Personal Information © 2023 VentureBeat.
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Oftentimes, mobile SaaS solutions will tout the number of apps using their platform as a point of validation. The implication, of course, is that more is better.
If you’re a potential customer of one of these solutions, this should be your sign to proceed with caution. Accept the rationale that the number of installs demonstrates a platform’s fitness to meet your business needs — including your scalability and stability requirements — and you may be in for a big surprise.
What these platforms neglect to mention is that the mobile app economy has a very, very long tail. And it’s not always true that companies built for little fish will satisfy much bigger ones.
A much better proxy for a platform’s ability to handle scale — rather than how many developers are using its SDK — is the number of installs among highly-used, successful apps.
To understand why, let’s start by having a look at this graph from our friends at Branch Metrics: This chart shows how the top 1,000 apps stand relative to Facebook, the most used-app. The 1000 th most popular app (Pixable) has just 0.2% of the adoption that Facebook does. Heavily-used apps are used exponentially more than long-tail apps. The point, as tautological as it may be, is that people don’t actually use long-tail apps.
But that’s just the beginning of the difference. The gap between big apps and little apps is even more dramatic when you consider what happens to most little apps after the initial install.
Consumers are fickle, even promiscuous, when trying out new apps. They may experiment with a new app, but if it isn’t significantly better than the one they had before, they will quickly default back to the original. The stat commonly thrown around is that 75 percent of apps downloaded are only used once. While churn impacts both big apps and little ones, these charts from our friends at Quettra show that small apps are disproportionately more susceptible.
The chart on the top shows retention rates over time fromDay 0 to Day 90. The bottom chart highlights retention rates across the various cohorts of apps broken out by size. Notice that day 1 retention for the top 10 apps is 3x that of the apps ranked 101-5000. Day 90 retention for top apps is even more pronounced at nearly 50 percent while the longer tail apps are <10%. The biggest apps not only attract more users but also keep users longer.
As a result, little apps have exponentially less data volume and complexity than the top apps. Not only are their audiences small to begin with, these audiences are way more likely to completely disappear after a single session. A solution built for little apps (and scores upon scores of them) will not be able to handle the spikiness, repeat volumes, and lifecycle engagement scenarios associated with bigger apps — and the volume of data bigger apps demand.
In fact, the difference between minnows and whales in the app world is not just one of degree but also one of kind. They are, in a lot of cases, different species entirely.
Unlike big apps, little apps tend to be the sort (mostly gaming and utility-related) that produce relatively limited customer data. Their signal-to-noise ratio is very low, making it tough to go really deep on any particular customer interaction. How rich are the insights that can be gleaned from someone’s use of a flashlight app, or their interactions with the seventh biggest Taiwanese casual gaming app, for example? The operating environments (and associated business and technical requirements) surrounding large apps are also of a decidedly different kind from those of their long-tail counterparts. Independent developers who produce these long-tail apps are either just trying to keep the lights on or engaged in a passion project that’s passively managed. On the other hand, enterprise customers not only require security features such as single sign on, roles-based permissioning, and encryption, but also require a completely different platform architecture.
Systems built for the long tail almost always combine lots of small datasets across multiple clients into a single database, primarily to solve for efficiency. Enterprise data solutions have to be architected to physically segregate customer data at the client level and support multiple levels within the account.
For example, once an account is created you need to support the hierarchy of Organization, Account, and App. (The “organization” being the outer-most bounds; within the “organization” there can be multiple “accounts”; and “accounts” can have multiple “apps”). For platforms serving the long-tail apps, these are all one and the same.
It’s nearly impossible to build a platform with a bottoms up go to market and try to meet the needs of the enterprise at the same time. Part of the reason is inherent platform architectures. But also, catering to the needs of big apps vs small apps attracts different types of people (as engineers, data scientists, sellers, customer success managers) and breeds different muscle memories. Just because you are successful with one group of customers does not make you successful with another.
So when choosing whether a data platform can meet your needs, the nature of apps on the platform is the proof point that really matters most. Does the platform in question work with customers whose data is of a similar shape, size, and velocity as yours? Because the way data needs to be accessed is different, and so is the way it gets operationalized.
An old investment saying puts it well: “If you want to know where a herd of cattle is going, you need not interview every steer, only the lead steer.” The same rules can be applied to data platforms.
Michael Katz is Co-Founder & CEO of mParticle, the data platform of record for many of the world’s biggest mobile apps.
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Apple today rolled out an update to iOS 9.3 that fixes a nasty bug that many iOS device users discovered in the past few days.
Essentially, people tried to click links in Safari — like Google search results — only to find that they didn’t work. Long pressing would sometimes make Safari freeze. Clicking links from the Mail app also didn’t work for several people.
This update should solve those problems.
But this isn’t the first big update Apple release to correct something in iOS 9.3, which rolled out to everyone on March 21.
There was also the activation bug that could essentially brick iOS devices during the process of updating to the new version of the operating system.
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(Reuters) – The U.S. Federal Communications Commission on Thursday advanced a proposal to ensure the privacy of broadband Internet users by barring providers from collecting user data without consent.
The proposed regulation from FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler won initial approval with a 3-2 vote to require broadband providers to obtain consumer consent, disclose data collection, protect personal information and report breaches — but would not bar any data collection practices.
“It’s the consumers’ information and the consumer should have the right to determine how it’s used,” Wheeler said.
Broadband providers currently collect consumer data without consent and some use that data for targeted advertising, which has drawn criticism from privacy advocates.
VB Event The AI Impact Tour Connect with the enterprise AI community at VentureBeat’s AI Impact Tour coming to a city near you! Wheeler’s proposal does not prohibit Internet providers from using or sharing customer data for any purpose. The FCC would not extend the broadband provider privacy rules to sites such as Twitter, Google or Facebook, drawing the ire of providers.
Republican Commissioner Ajit Pai said Thursday there is no good reason to single out broadband providers for regulations, while not regulating websites. The plan “favors one set of corporate interests over another,” he said.
The FCC has authority to set privacy rules after it reclassified broadband providers last year as part of new net neutrality regulations. A federal appeals court has not ruled on a challenge to that decision.
A final vote on new regulations will follow a public comment period during which the FCC is asking for possible “additional or alternative paths to achieve pro-consumer, pro-privacy goals.” Under the rules providers would need to tell consumers what information is being collected, how it is being used and when it will be shared.
They would also be required protect data under a data security standard. Consumers would need to be notified of breaches of their data no later than 10 days after it was discovered.
Ratings agency Moody’s Investors Services said earlier the proposal to impose privacy restrictions on broadband providers such as Verizon Communications Inc, AT&T Inc, Comcast Corp is “credit negative.” Advocacy group Free Press praised the FCC for moving ahead and said the commission must consider other issues in setting rules including “pay-for-privacy, deep-packet inspection, upselling services, competition and data security.” The National Cable and Telecommunications Association urged the FCC to adopt a “technology neutral approach by treating companies with access to similar user information the same.” (Reporting by David Shepardson; Editing by Alan Crosby) VentureBeat's mission is to be a digital town square for technical decision-makers to gain knowledge about transformative enterprise technology and transact.
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Playbuzz said it has raised $15 million in funding from Saban Ventures and Disney for its business of providing sponsored content. Playbuzz helps publishers and content creators distribute their content in ways that boost engagement and social distribution.
For instance, New York-based Playbuzz helps promote sponsored content by distributing it through slide shows, flip cards, galleries, quizzes, lists, and video snaps. Playbuzz says such content generates average item completion rates of up to 94 percent and social share rates as high as 15 percent.
Existing investors 83North, Carmel Ventures, and First Time Ventures also participated in the round. Playbuzz will use the money to further enhance its proprietary content-engagement platform and expand its sponsored content business, which already works with many of the world’s leading brands to create and distribute native advertising campaigns.
“Playbuzz enables publishers and brands to create content that matches today’s content-consumption habits, while generating meaningful engagement and new monetization opportunities,” said Shaul Olmert, cofounder and CEO of Playbuzz, in a statement. “The support of global leaders in media, such as Saban and Disney, will enable us to expand both our editorial reach and sponsored content business.” Event GamesBeat at the Game Awards We invite you to join us in LA for GamesBeat at the Game Awards event this December 7. Reserve your spot now as space is limited! The Playbuzz platform is used by tens of thousands of publishers, brands, and content creators to generate and distribute content in formats that optimize audience engagement and social distribution. The popularity of content created using Playbuzz is skyrocketing as engagement metrics for things like galleries outpace those of traditional digital formats, such as articles and long-form video.
“Engaging content is the key to media consumption, and Playbuzz has positioned itself as the leading platform for media companies and brands to create and distribute such content across all devices,” said Barak Pridor, managing partner at Saban Ventures, in a statement. “Playbuzz’s unique network and distributed sponsored content offering make it the ideal platform for editorial and commercial growth of its partners.” Pridor joins Playbuzz’s board of directors following this financing round.
Founded in 2012 by Shaul Olmert and Tom Pachys, Playbuzz has 100 employees in its offices in New York, London, Tel Aviv, Hamburg, and Nashville. Rivals include Apester and Qzzr/Boombox. To date, Playbuzz has raised $34.8 million.
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You have nothing to lose — and everything to gain — by localizing your app to be more aligned with local culture and preferences. Get it right and you can massively extend the reach and appeal of your app without spending a bundle.
It’s why VB Insight’s forthcoming practitioner’s guide, which draws on 35 interviews with ASO professionals and an informal survey of over 500 ASO users, features case studies and actionable advice around the ways app developers and companies can get the most out of this opportunity. Ensuring your app ranks high and appeals to local tastes, rather than offends them, is key.
Receive the forthcoming App Store Optimization practitioner’s guide for free (a $499 value) when you attend Mobile Summit 2016 But before you get down to the work of optimizing and localizing the most important aspects of your app to be more aligned with culture and preferences in your target countries, you need to double-check whether it’s worth the effort. Even though there is a strong consensus that localizing all aspects of your app store presence is one of the most inexpensive ways to increase revenues and market share, it pays to pace yourself.
Localization starts with translating the language of the app and extends to translating all the other elements (keywords, description, icons, images, video, keywords, and even the name of the app) to be a tight fit with your target audience. And, if you plan to take payments or engage in commerce, do your homework and adapt your app to local regulations and payment methods to avoid any legal and regulatory battles further down the line.
It’s a complex task where the right mix of talent and tools can make a massive difference. Choose tools that provide keywords optimized in several languages, and work with native speakers who naturally have a deeper understanding of language nuances. This helps you zero in more quickly on the keywords users prefer when searching for specific apps and “sanity-check” potential high volume search terms for which your particular app could rank.
However, this advice differs slightly from our survey results, which show nearly half prefer to go it alone — while one-third buy into vendor tools.
The gap closed somewhat when we asked respondents to detail the impact of ASO services and report the uplift they achieve.
ASO expert Steve P. Young over at Appmasters says his clients have seen results of up to “a 10X increase in downloads” just because they localized their app. In his view, it’s organic growth that every app developer can afford to tap for their app. The key is to take the right steps in the correct order.
If you don’t know what you’re aiming for — or the right countries to target — then start with just your app name and keywords and localize them for popular countries like France, Italy, or Spain. “If you see a bump up in downloads,” he says, “then move on to localize the description, and then to other marketing collateral like screenshots.” Read between the lines and you’ll see there is no reason to localize every aspect of your app from the get-go just because you can.
Test the waters with keywords. Then use tools to check what kind of traffic volume those keywords are getting on the local level. After that, and in countries where it’s clear your app is taking off, you can focus efforts on localizing every single aspect of your app.
As a rule, Laurie Galazzo — inbound marketing manager at AppTweak, a Belgium-based startup providing app marketers a multilingual keyword tool tailored for six languages, with more in the pipeline — recommends app developers and companies aiming to localize their ASO start with the app title, keywords, and description (and in that order) before making the effort to localize the entire app.
And by the whole app, she means everything — including app metadata, screenshots, previews, and videos. Once you’ve done all this, then the way is clear to make an entirely new release of the app (localizing the entire app experience) and check the metrics.
“Wait a couple of weeks and if you notice a massive increase in app downloads or higher LTVs, it means that you’ve most likely well chosen your target and have great ASO,” Galazzo explains. If the metrics don’t show an uplift, then it’s a sure sign that you either need to work harder at your ASO or choose another target market — or both.
This is the same blueprint Bart Verschueren and Vincent Vandegans, who founded eRowz, followed when they mapped out soft launch plans for For-sale.co.uk, the app they created (and specifically named) to build on the success of their website, www.for-sale.co.uk, which allows people to buy and sell second-hand goods.
After launching to an enthusiastic audience in France, the company founders noticed app fans springing up in nearby U.K., a sure sign that they should localize their app to take advantage of the opportunity there. Teaming up with AppTweak allowed them to define a localization and ASO strategy, starting with finding and tracking keywords in English, the target language they chose to get more mileage out of their app organic installs.
Localizing their app as part of a wider ASO strategy brought the company new users, more downloads and achieved higher retention and engagement rates. Specifically, they saw a “33 percent increase in app installs” and a 16 percent increase in the number of sessions. As Verschueren put it, “The increase in sessions, plus an amazing 14 percent increase in active devices, indicated we had succeeded in increasing our app ‘stickiness,’ as well as the frequency of active use.” Based on this appeal, the company has expanded its ASO and localization strategy, allowing it to launch and target users in a total of 10 countries, including Belgium, Brazil, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, Spain, U.K., and the U.S.
Whether you choose ASO tools or rely on in-house talent, it’s clear that localization, as part of a wider ASO and app marketing strategy, is a great way to get the attention of users in the major countries where you see a potential for your app. The right approach can boost your brand and visibility, and bring new life to your app.
The ASO practitioner’s guide will be launched in April. All Mobile Summit 2016 attendees will receive the guide — valued at $499 value — without charge.
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These days, it’s never too early to get people playing (and talking) about your game.
Trion announced today that its simultaneous turn-based team tactics Atlas Reactor is now in open alpha, meaning anyone can try the unconventional game. Most turn-based titles have players taking, well, turns. In Atlas Reactor, however, all players pick their movements and actions at the same time and then watch the subsequent wave of chaos unfold simultaneously. While games like Civilization or X-Com are methodical and slow-paced, Atlas Reactor wants it action to appear more exciting, which could help attract the esports crowd that loves watching real-time games like League of Legends and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive.
Open alphas are rare, since a game in an alpha state is far from finished. Typically, developers don’t expand free testing until they are well into the beta phase. Still, these days, word-of-mouth is key for a new competitive PC game hoping to find an audience. Allowing as many people as possible to play a game, especially one as unconventional as this, can start more buzz.
Atlas Reactor will enter a closed beta on April 14. You can check out some gameplay below.
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New York-based Material Wrld provides a high-end marketplace for used clothes. Launched in 2012, the company provides marketplace for luxury fashion items aimed at women looking to update what’s inside their closets according to events and seasonal changes.
The company announced on Wednesday that it has secured $9 million from Start Today and Nissay Capital in a series B round. Start Today is a Tokyo company behind Japan’s largest fashion e-commerce site Zozotown , while Nissay Capital is the investment arm of a leading Japanese insurance company which participated in the previous funding round. With the latest funding, the American company has secured a total of $13 million to date.
In October of 2015, Materal Wrld unveiled a prepaid debit card for luxury shoppers called Material Wrld Fashion Trade-In Card.
Through the Discover Card network, this card allows users to buy new clothes at more than 700 fashion retailers both online and offline using trade-in values they got upon selling their used clothes, handbag and shoes to Material Wrld. Available retailer chains include Bloomingdale’s, Nordstrom, Intermix and Seven Alan.
Since Material Wrld clienteles using this card buy new items worth 2.5 times more than what they have sold, the company has received high praise from department stores because of the win-win situation created for both these stores and the clienteles. Going forward, the company wants to expand awareness of the unique debit card system in the fashion industry.
Material Wrld co-counder Rie Yano and Jie Zheng offered their comment in a statement upon unveiling a new platform they are currently working on: WE WILL LAUNCH A NEW ONLINE PLATFORM IN THE US IN SEVERAL MONTHS FROM NOW. IT WILL BE A ONE-STOP SOLUTION THAT ALLOWS PEOPLE TO SUBMIT THEIR LUXURY BRAND ITEMS FOR TRADE-IN, PURCHASE NEW BRAND ARRIVALS AS WELL AS SECOND-HAND ITEMS SITUATED IN OTHERS’ “CLOSETS.” This is the first investment in the North American market for Start Today. This company wants to not only provide financial cooperation but also explore cross-border synergy in global business operations by sharing the experience of their secondhand fashion commerce service Zozoused in addition to leveraging the brand image and the vast network of Material Wrld.
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Edited by “Tex” Pomeroy) This post first appeared on The Bridge.
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Berlin-based, Rocket Internet-backed online furniture retailer Home24 has raised €20 million (about $22.7 million) and reinforced its management team to get to profitability and to try and take on IKEA in Europe (via Reuters ). The fresh capital comes from both existing and new investors , the company said in a statement.
Christoph Cordes and Marc Appelhoff, respectively the CEO and founder of ‘Fashion for Home’, a German rival that Home24 acquired last year, will help lead the loss-making Berlin startup along with its founder, Philipp Kreibohm (all three are pictured above from left to right).
Current CEO Domenico Cipolla will step down from the management team in May and pursue new challenges, Home24 said.
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VR is one of the hottest trends in technology today, with this week’s debut of the Oculus Rift. While widespread adoption won’t happen overnight, VR represents an exciting opportunity across a number of industries. Many startups, established companies, and investors are taking notice.
Facebook’s acquisition of Oculus back in 2014 was a watershed event. Now lots of companies are showing interest.
Roughly $602 million of VR deals were made in 2015; that number is predicted to grow to $16 billion by 2020.
“The virtual reality ecosystem is exploding right now,” says Jeff Herbst, vice president of business development at Nvidia. “There are so many startups being created in VR, and a large percentage of those use Nvidia platforms and technologies.” Looking back three years ago, before most of the world knew about Oculus, its CEO Brendan Iribe appeared onstage at Nvidia’s annual Emerging Companies Summit to describe his company to investors and executives. Iribe says the experience helped put Oculus on the map.
http://youtu.be/lTr2JjcQbAc Next week, eight VR startups are hoping to retrace Oculus’s path. They’ll participate at the company’s 2016 Emerging Companies Summit, in a session called the VR Showcase.
Each will have an opportunity to describe their VR-based business in front of a live audience of VCs, technology executives, and press.
Within two weeks of Nvidia’s call for proposals, 60 applications flooded their office. Herbst and colleagues selected eight to participate in the Showcase.
Each team gets five minutes to pitch the future of VR, and then takes questions from Herbst and special guest Mark Rein, VP and co-founder of Epic Games.
The VR Showcase takes place April 6, 2016 at 9:00AM the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose CA.
The eight VR startups that will present are: EASE EASE collects and analyzes data from VR and AR devices and sensors to help companies understand user behavior in digital experiences. Applications span industries including retail, sports, manufacturing, entertainment, gaming, training and education.
Sixense Entertainment Sixense Entertainment develops technology to deliver full-body “presence” in virtual reality for all head-mounted displays. Sixense’s VR platform enables intuitive interaction with the virtual world, ensuring that the user always feels fully present in the experience, with the ability to move and use the hands naturally.
Osso VR Osso VR is using virtual reality to revolutionize the way surgeons are trained in the use of surgical devices and implants with a low-cost, fully immersive surgical simulator. The solution, designed by a team of physicians and developers, uses an off-the-shelf VR headset and hand-tracking technology.
RATLab RATLab develops software to help users visualize data in 3D, to reveal patterns and relationships that aren’t obvious in 2D. The company believes its technology can help businesses or research groups make better decisions. The company’s Excel plugin helps users analyze Excel spreadsheets more intuitively.
realities.io realities.io offers technology for large-scale scanning to enable users to experience real-world locations in VR. This solves the fixed perspective problem that 360 video has in VR. The company says it offers interactive, photorealistic VR experiences at fluid frame rates.
DeepStream VR DeepStream VR is a VR healthcare company that develops “digital drugs” that boost physical performance and mental wellbeing. The company’s first VR application for pain relief, COOL!, is on the market now and is being used in leading hospitals and pain clinics.
BioflightVR BioflightVR offers medical diagnostics, training, and education in VR. The team consists of doctors, radiologists, VR experts, visual artists, and developers, with expertise in medical imaging and simulation that began in Hollywood on the television show CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.
IrisVR IrisVR offers software that instantly converts 3D models into navigable virtual reality experiences, allowing architects, engineers, and owners to fully understand the design. The company is also focused on a 3D data pipeline that can be used in construction, architecture, gaming and retail.
The third annual Early Stage Challenge takes place this year from 2-5 pm on April 6 at the San Jose Convention Center. Sixty-five innovative startups participating in ECS will also exhibit in the GPU Technology Conference expo hall.
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Tonight Tesla CEO Elon Musk is set to unveil the company’s first mass-market car, the Model 3, at its design studio in Hawthorne, California.
You can watch the event live on Tesla’s website starting at 8:30 p.m. PT (11:30 p.m. ET) — or maybe later, Tesla isn’t always punctual.
Like an iPhone launch , excitement for the Model 3 among the Tesla faithful has just about boiled over today despite the car’s expected late 2017 release. Today fans lined up outside Tesla showrooms globally to put a $1,000 deposit down on a vehicle they’ve never seen. Surely GM and the like are envious of the hype (regardless of however many cars Tesla has shipped so far).
Musk warned yesterday that tonight’s event is part one of two.
We may see the entire car. We may not. The evening will probably conclude with plenty of unanswered questions. And with that, here’s what we know so far.
The Model 3: What we know Price : The car will start at $35,000. With tax credits it could cost $7,500 less in the U.S. — but probably not for you. Also, expect plenty of pricey optional upgrades.
Looks : We have no idea. Here’s a photo of it (maybe) under a sheet. It may be similar in size to an Audi A4. Or a BMW 3 Series.
It apparently won’t look like other Tesla cars and may be 20 percent smaller than a Model S.
Battery : Everyone expects a range of 200 miles.
Or 225 miles.
Maybe beyond 300 miles with an upgrade.
Speed : It’s a Tesla. It’ll probably be pretty fast.
Maybe zero to 60 miles per hour in four seconds.
Autonomy : It won’t be fully autonomous. Or maybe it will.
It may at least include new autonomous features.
Buying one : You can reserve a Model 3 online tonight. You could have physically waited in line to get one early. Existing Tesla owners get Model 3s first. So will Tesla and SpaceX employees.
Stay tuned for more.
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At long last, here’s our first look at the Tesla Model 3, the company’s debut mass-market electric car, starting at $35,000 and (perhaps) launching next year.
Telsa CEO Elon Musk unveiled the vehicle to the press and relentless devotees during an event at the company’s design studio in Hawthorne, California this evening.
Speaking on stage, Musk boasted about the Model 3’s safety features, claiming the car will be rated “five-stars in every category.” The base model of the car will start at $35,000, Musk reaffirmed, with a 215-mile range, auto-pilot capabilities, a uniquely massive rear window (to make the car feel more spacious), supercharger access, as well as the ability to go from zero to 60 miles per hour “in less than six seconds.” So far 115,000 people have already paid $1,000 to get on the list to buy a Model 3, Musk said — that’s $115 million.
Musk told fans yesterday that today’s event is merely part one of two.
We’ll learn more about the car as it nears production, Musk said, likely sometime in the distant year of 2017.
Until then, savor every screenshot you can.
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Developing for Windows 10 might sound complicated. But 14-year-old Mihir Kasmalkar figured it out. Now he and his classmates at the Valley Christian Schools in San Jose, California — with a little help from Microsoft — are preparing to send a MinnowBoard Max running the Windows 10 IoT Core operating system up to the International Space Station.
From there, they’ll conduct science experiments on things like seeing how metals react to electromagnetic energy in space. They’ll rely on a robotic arm and a camera to take photographic evidence of what happens. The code running on the board is written in C#.
“I knew Java, so it’s a lot of the same things,” said Kasmalkar, who used a C# book and online resources like Stack Overflow to get up to speed. He and the others will be able to check out results of their experiments in real time using the Microsoft Azure public cloud — because the board is an Internet-connected device. They’re talking about the project today at Microsoft’s Build developer conference in San Francisco.
The sky is not the limit anymore. These innovative student #devs show us why. Meet the Space Kids.
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Windows 10 IoT Core is one of seven editions of Windows 10. “It’s early,” Steve “Guggs” Guggenheimer, Microsoft’s corporate vice president of developer platform and evangelism and its chief evangelist, told VentureBeat in an interview, when talking about adoption of the operating system focused on the Internet of Things (IoT). But its predecessor Windows CE is running on all sorts of things — point-of-sale systems, bicycle rental machines, ATMs, vending machines. Windows 10 IoT Core runs on boards that are accessible to people in the so-called maker movement, including the Raspberry Pi 2 and the DragonBoard 410c. It turns out kids can work with this OS, too.
To be fair, Microsoft has offered some assistance to the kids, who even got to visit Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Washington, and talk with employees, said 13-year-old Micah Kim. Engineers have contributed server-side code for the project, Kasmalkar said. They also designed a special shield that sits on top of the board to keep bits from being flipped, because that could lead to errors in results, said Danny Kim, the Quest Institute’s director of innovation.
Above: The board and its special shield.
“What this shield did is it gave us the ability to have eight copies of the OS in eight different USB sticks,” Quest’s Kim said. “They created a custom hardware watchdog to see if the OS got corrupted … it would actually reboot to the next uncorrupted OS. It gave us a system to operate in the harsh environment of space.” In this configuration, many experiments can run at once. That is, many schools can have their students prepare experiments that run on the board, instead of having to run their own infrastructure. This type of science learning becomes more accessible because it costs less money. In the future, Quest’s Kim said he’d like for student researchers to be able to submit changes to their experiments on the fly, from the classroom into space.
But for now, Megna Biederman, 13, is very eager to find out what happens when the experiment goes to space in late May or early June.
Above: Some of the pieces that will be tested in space. The one on the far left represents Microsoft’s Channel 9. The middle one is Microsoft’s logo. The one of the far right is a bust of Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella. The second and fourth are logos of the Valley Christian Schools.
“We want to use this information on how it [metals] reacts to be able to fasten tools to help astronauts or help manage space debris, because that could be a danger,” she said.
It might all seem scary to have your work go into space. But the kids don’t seem to be scared.
“A normal Windows app wants to send data to a server,” Kasmalkar said. “It just loads it in Azure or sends it as an HTTP request. And that’s what we’re going to do on the ISS — because it’s just a Windows app.” VentureBeat's mission is to be a digital town square for technical decision-makers to gain knowledge about transformative enterprise technology and transact.
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"Reddit deletes surveillance 'warrant canary' in transparency report | VentureBeat"
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Reddit deleted a paragraph found in its transparency report known as a “warrant canary” to signal to users that it had not been subject to so-called national security letters, which are used by the FBI to conduct electronic surveillance without the need for court approval.
The scrubbing of the “canary”, which stated reddit had never received a national security letter “or any other classified request for user information,” comes as several tech companies are pushing the Obama administration to allow for fuller disclosures of the kind and amount of government requests for user information they receive.
National security letters are almost always accompanied by an open-ended gag order barring companies from disclosing the contents of the demand for customer data, making it difficult for firms to openly discuss how they handle the subpoenas. That has led many companies to rely on somewhat vague canary warnings.
“I’ve been advised not to say anything one way or the other,” a reddit administrator named “spez,” who made the update, said in a thread discussing the change. “Even with the canaries, we’re treading a fine line.” Reddit did not respond to a request for comment. The FBI did not respond to a request for comment.
In 2014, Twitter sued the U.S. Justice Department on grounds that the restrictions placed on the social media platform’s ability to reveal information about government surveillance orders violates the First Amendment.
The suit came following an announcement from the Obama administration that it would allow Internet companies to disclose more about the numbers of national security letters they receive. But they can still only provide a range such as between zero and 999 requests, or between 1,000 and 1,999, which Twitter, joined by reddit and others, has argued is too broad.
National security letters have been available as a law enforcement tool since the 1970s, but their frequency and breadth expanded dramatically under the USA Patriot Act, which was passed shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.
Several thousand NSLs are now issued by the FBI every year. At one point that number eclipsed 50,000 letters annually.
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"Microsoft unveils Graph improvements, Office for Mac add-ins, new Skype SDKs, and Office 365 connectors | VentureBeat"
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At its Build 2016 developer conference in San Francisco today, Microsoft announced three improvements that help developers leverage Microsoft Office. Qi Lu, executive vice president at Microsoft, took the stage to show off what’s new with Microsoft Graph, Office for Mac 2016, Skype, and Office 365.
In November 2015, Microsoft launched the Microsoft Graph , which gives applications access to digital work and digital life data across the Microsoft cloud. Put another way, the company opened the door for developers to leverage data, intelligence, and APIs with a single authorization token in their own apps.
Today, the Microsoft Graph expanded to include a user’s out-of-office status and recent email attachments, as well as new APIs that return “relevant documents” and suggestions for meeting times based on real-time calendar availability. Applications that consume Office data will also be more responsive, Microsoft promises, as they can now get notifications through Microsoft Graph for changes to users’ email, calendar, and contacts.
VB Event The AI Impact Tour Connect with the enterprise AI community at VentureBeat’s AI Impact Tour coming to a city near you! On stage, DocuSign was demoed to show how users can pick files directly from their OneDrive account, search for signatories from their contacts and colleagues by expertise or phonetic name matches, and be notified when a colleague they are emailing a document to is out of the office.
Zapier , meanwhile, was shown off using the Excel REST API to interact with a file sitting in OneDrive for Business and add data to an Excel spreadsheet.
Next, Microsoft announced add-ins are coming to Office 2016 for Mac “later this spring.” The company also promised centralized deployment and programmatic creation of ribbons and buttons.
Three examples were given. First, Starbucks is developing an Outlook add-in that allows people to send gift cards within Outlook, schedule meetings at nearby Starbucks locations, and eventually even arrange for coffee pickup. Second, Baydin has built a Boomerang add-in with custom ribbon buttons for email productivity tools inside Outlook. And third, Microsoft’s officeatwork Document Wizard add-in offers data-driven Word templates.
Last but not least, Microsoft unveiled the new Skype Web SDK , Skype for Business App SDK , and Office 365 group connectors.
The first two allow companies combine “cloud voice, meetings, and messaging” in their apps across a range of web and device platforms.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qcwzVFppMg Office 365 group connectors allow developers to push data from their own services into an Office 365 group conversation in Outlook. Microsoft also announced that Office 365 Connectors will be coming to the Outlook Inbox “soon.” Out of all of the above, add-ins are probably the easiest to grasp. It remains to be seen which ones developers race to implement, though, as Microsoft is clearly still at the stage of trying to figure out how best to reach its 1.2 billion Office users.
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Microsoft today announced a free public preview of Power BI Embedded, a version of the Power BI business intelligence (BI) service that can be tucked inside of other applications.
“You can do this without requiring your users to buy or even be aware of what Power BI is,” said Scott Guthrie, executive vice president for Microsoft’s Cloud and Enterprise group, at Microsoft’s Build developer conference in San Francisco this week.
Power BI got its start in the mid-2000s and was relaunched as freemium software early in 2015.
This news isn’t much of a surprise. Other BI software companies, like Birst, Pentaho, and Tableau have their own embeddable offerings. But this is a nonetheless a big and sensible step forward for Power BI, which competes with the Salesforce Wave Analytics Cloud , among others.
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Microsoft today announced that its Azure Service Fabric cloud service for building and running applications in small building blocks — known as microservices — is now generally available. The news is one of many things Microsoft is announcing this week at its Build developer conference in San Francisco.
Microsoft introduced Azure Service Fabric in April 2015, and since then it has become available in preview. The technology could be interpreted as a more modern version of the original Windows Azure platform-as-a-service (PaaS) that became available in 2010.
Today Microsoft is also introducing a preview of Service Fabric for Windows Server. That’s in line with Microsoft bringing the cloud powers of Azure into companies’ on-premises data centers, typically under the Azure Stack moniker. But this technology can actually also run workloads on clouds other than Azure and on-premises infrastructure, according to a statement.
Companies like Docker have popularized the idea of faster and simpler and more frequent application development and deployment, and cloud providers have taken steps to support that workflow. But in mimicking Service Fabric’s architecture for on-premises deployments, Microsoft can distinguish itself from other public clouds, like Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform. Of course, the Windows Server technology on its own should appeal to some longtime enterprise customers who want to modernize their approach.
Microsoft is releasing application programming interfaces (APIs) for Service Fabric for Linux and Java, and the company is additionally committing to releasing the Service Fabric for Linux framework under an open-source license later in 2016.
This is the latest case of Microsoft extending its tooling to Linux. The company’s SQL Server will become available to Linux next year.
Azure’s Virtual Machine Scale Sets, a feature first announced in November that lets people run a bunch of virtual machines at once as a set, is also generally available today, said Scott Guthrie, executive vice president for Microsoft’s Cloud and Enterprise group. Also the Azure Container Service for deploying container-based applications on Azure infrastructure, is now available for anyone to try out in preview. Before, you had to sign up for access.
A blog post on the news is here.
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Microsoft today announced that Xamarin is now available for free for every Visual Studio user. This includes all editions of Visual Studio , including the free Visual Studio Community Edition, Visual Studio Professional, and Visual Studio Enterprise.
Furthermore, Xamarin Studio for OS X is being made available for free as a community edition, and Visual Studio Enterprise subscribers will get access to Xamarin’s enterprise capabilities at no additional cost. The company also promised to open-source Xamarin’s SDK, including its runtime, libraries, and command line tools, as part of the.
NET Foundation “in the coming months.” Both the Xamarin SDK and Mono will be available under the MIT License.
Speaking of the .NET Foundation, Microsoft also announced that Unity, JetBrains, and RedHat have all joined.
Last month, Microsoft acquired mobile app development company Xamarin after years of rumors of exactly such a deal. The reasoning was simple: Microsoft had partnered with Xamarin many times, and its tools were built to work with Microsoft’s Visual Studio, Azure, Office 365, and so on. It was almost as if Xamarin was built from the ground up to be the perfect Microsoft acquisition target.
Xamarin cofounder Miguel de Icaza was on stage at Microsoft’s Build 2016 developer conference today demoing using his tools for writing iOS and Android apps in Visual Studio. It was like a dream come true for him: “I am happy to have finally completed the longest job interview in my career.” De Icaza showed off a Mac running the iOS simulator, remotely controlled on Windows. He also used an Android app running in the Android emulator, leveraging the Xamarin inspector to test and run code live in the emulator.
Xamarin first made a name for itself by bringing .NET to Android and iOS developers. The company’s message eventually shifted to providing cross-platform mobile development tools. And now that the absorption that so many were expecting finally went through, developers can finally reap the benefits. You can expect that the line between Visual Studio and Xamarin will continue to blur over the coming months, eventually disappearing altogether.
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On top of the slew of news coming out of Microsoft’s Build 2016 developer conference , a story broke yesterday that Microsoft was building an ad blocker into its Microsoft Edge browser. While this would be a big deal, it apparently isn’t true. “We have no plans to build a native ad blocker into Microsoft Edge,” a Microsoft spokesperson told VentureBeat.
Ed Bott of ZDNet fame found the nugget of information in a slide during a session titled “Microsoft Edge: What’s Next for Microsoft’s New Browser and Web Platform.” As you can see below, item 4 clearly indicates plans to “build ad blocking features into the browser.” Above: Line 4 caught Bott’s attention Microsoft is now labeling the slide as misleading, saying that it was simply referencing the fact that the company is building extension support into Edge. In other words, ad blocking is still coming, but it will work exactly like in any other desktop browser. Microsoft is not taking the bold step of offering a browser with ad blocking built in — at least for now, that will remain limited to niche browsers like Brave, from Mozilla cofounder Brendan Eich , and Adblock Browser , which is really just Firefox for Android with Adblock Plus.
Two weeks ago, Microsoft released a new Windows 10 preview build with Edge extension support , arguably the most important feature missing from the new browser. The company only released three extensions to testers (Mouse Gestures, Microsoft Translator, and Reddit Engagement Suite), promising more were on the way, including AdBlock and Adblock Plus.
Support for extensions was supposed to arrive by the end of 2015, but the feature was delayed until this year.
Microsoft still hasn’t shared how long it plans to let testers play with it before releasing the functionality to all Windows 10 users, but apparently, according to yesterday’s misleading slide, the Edge team is targeting “the next version.” VentureBeat's mission is to be a digital town square for technical decision-makers to gain knowledge about transformative enterprise technology and transact.
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Microsoft today announced that it’s launching the Azure Functions event-driven computing service in preview. This marks the Microsoft cloud’s predictable entrance into a market that has gotten many developers excited, one that makes it easy to set up rules associated with their applications and then let the computers take action on their own.
Functions can be tied to triggers of events in the Azure — like the Azure IoT Suite — or other services. Developers don’t need to worry about scaling out these programs across many virtual machines, and they only pay for the time it takes for their functions to be executed.
“You can write this code in a wide variety of languages, including C# and Node.js,” Scott Guthrie, executive vice president for Microsoft’s Cloud and Enterprise group, said onstage today at Microsoft’s Build developer conference in San Francisco.
But there is a key differentiator here — relative to, for example, the Lambda service from public cloud market leader Amazon Web Services that kicked off this market or Google Cloud Platform’s Google Cloud Functions.
What makes Azure Functions stand out is its open-source runtime that will allow companies to run it in their own data centers.
That’s not an unpredecented strategic choice, however. IBM’s Bluemix OpenWhisk is also open-source.
Even so, Microsoft will continue to execute on its strategy of taking its hyperscale-worthy services and making them available for on-premises deployment. That’s the whole point behind the Azure Stack portfolio of services.
But on the public cloud side, Microsoft has finally ported the Lambda hole.
The news isn’t a complete surprise, as Brad Sams of Petri reported last week on the existence of a landing page for Azure Functions.
A blog post on the new service is here.
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"Microsoft announces new Edge extensions: Pinterest, Adblock Plus, LastPass, Amazon Assistant, Evernote, and more | VentureBeat"
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Microsoft today announced a slew of incoming Edge extensions. Partners announced include Pinterest, AdBlock, Adblock Plus, LastPass, Amazon Assistant, Evernote, and Page Analyzer powered by Vorlon.js.
Exactly two weeks ago, Microsoft released a new Windows 10 preview build with Edge extension support , arguably the most important feature missing from Microsoft’s new browser. But the company only released three extensions: Mouse Gestures, Microsoft Translator, and Reddit Enhancement Suite.
Support for extensions was supposed to arrive by the end of 2015, but the feature was delayed until this year.
Microsoft still hasn’t shared how long it plans to let testers play with it before releasing the functionality to all Windows 10 users.
Unlike Internet Explorer’s native add-ons, Edge’s extension platform is powered by web technologies. Microsoft has also made it easy for developers to port their Chrome extensions over to Edge.
Once the feature debuts, all extensions will be vetted, delivered, and managed through the Windows Store. Until then, extensions need to be sideloaded manually.
On the whole, today’s announcement at Build 2016 is rather disappointing. Having a total of just 10 Edge extensions is a joke. Microsoft needs to ramp this up, and quickly, or Edge extensions won’t be much more exciting than IE add-ons.
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"Microsoft begins selling Azure IoT Starter Kits from $50 to $160 | VentureBeat"
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Microsoft today announced at its Build developer conference that it’s now selling five new Azure IoT Starter Kits , which are available for as little as $50 each.
There are an Adafruit Raspberry Pi Kit, an Adafruit Feather M0 Kit, an Adafruit Huzzah Feather ESP8266 Kit, Seeed’s Intel Edison Kit, and the SparkFun Thing Dev Kit.
“These kits allow anyone with Windows or Linux experience to quickly build IoT prototypes that leverage all Azure’s IoT offerings,” Microsoft said in a statement.
Each kit comes with a development board that’s compliant with the Azure Certified for IoT program, along with sensors, actuators, and tutorials.
The idea of selling a kit like this isn’t completely novel. Public cloud market leader Amazon Web Services (AWS) introduced Grove IoT Starter Kits powered by AWS at its re:Invent conference in October.
The Azure IoT Suite was first announced about a year ago, and last month the Azure IoT Hub , a key part of the portfolio, came out of public preview.
In addition, there’s a new tool called the Azure IoT Gateway SDK, which simplifies the process of connecting older devices to the Internet. And now the Azure IoT Hub has a public preview of device management, too.
Update at 1:39 p.m. Pacific: Added that device management is part of the Azure IoT Hub.
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Lynda.com has launched a program called Learning Paths to help you land your next job, curating its courses by specific job titles. The idea is to give you a starting point to learn more about a particular profession. To start, the online education company offers 53 job titles with multiple courses listed under each one — you can think of it almost like requirements for a college major.
Learning Paths are structured to give you step-by-step instructions on how to become a photographer, front-end developer, accountant, project manager, or anything else. The number of courses for each path varies based on profession, but all of them come from Lynda.com’s library which currently has a catalog of 4,200 courses in English.
With Learning Paths, you have a new way to access the company’s content, however, you’re still able to select individual courses, if you prefer.
The titles were chosen based on data pulled from the company’s LinkedIn parent.
According to Arthur Nicholls, the senior product manager for learning experiences, Lynda looked at popular roles in the workforce, and asked — What skills and education would you need to obtain a job in that particular field? Once a course or Learning Path is completed, you’ll receive a digital certificate that can be attached to your LinkedIn profile.
At first glance, it may seem that what the company is doing is re-skinning its content or simply organizing it differently. But you have to think about the objective. Previously, you knew what course you wanted to take, but the long-term goal wasn’t immediately visible. Or you might have known what career you want, but you didn’t know where to start or what skills are needed. That’s where Learning Paths comes in. “People are looking for a point of view on how to move forward,” Nicholls explained. “We’re going from a library to giving people a real pathway forward.” After you’ve completed a path, Nicholls hopes that you’ll be better educated about the profession, which will help you determine subsequent courses you may want to take. So if you’ve studied to be a designer, after completing the path, you might be able to narrow it down further: front-end designer, art director, illustrator, etc.? Although there is some small integration with LinkedIn in terms of understanding what careers people are looking for and what skills they have, you won’t be seeing any difference in job postings that may appear in your News Feed or other parts of the professional social network.
Nicholls believes that offering people better education choices will lead to improved economic opportunities, which fits right into LinkedIn’s economic graph : “As people learn new skills, it can create more opportunity for others, thereby closing the skills gap.” Although Lynda.com is also available in French, German, Spanish, and Japanese, Learning Paths are currently only available in English. What’s more, it is only available via the web, but it is fully responsive to view in a mobile browser. Learning Paths are part of the core Lynda.com subscription.
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"Intel debuts Broadwell EP server chips that make the cloud faster | VentureBeat"
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Intel is introducing its new generation of Xeon E5-2600 v4 chips for enterprise cloud hardware today. And it’s going to make the cloud faster.
Code-named Broadwell-EP, the new chips were introduced by Diane Bryant, senior vice president of the data center group at Intel, during an event in San Francisco today. They’re the latest chips that will keep data centers humming without melting down. It’s all in the name of giving businesses more flexibility and choice when it comes to deploying versions of cloud computing.
The new server chips were introduced along with a bunch of announcements for enterprise cloud customers. The event is aimed at helping customers deploy private and hybrid cloud infrastructure based on Intel servers. The new chips range in performance from 2 gigahertz to 5 gigahertz, and they consume anywhere from 85 watts to 165 watts.
Intel also announced collaborations with leading cloud software and solution providers. The company is unveiling new technologies, investments, and partnerships at the event. It also has a new set of solid state drives. Intel says the foundation is software-defined infrastructure, sitting atop its server processors.
VB Event The AI Impact Tour Connect with the enterprise AI community at VentureBeat’s AI Impact Tour coming to a city near you! “Enterprises want to benefit from the efficiency and agility of cloud architecture and on their own terms — using the public cloud offerings, deploying their own private cloud, or both,” said Bryant, in a statement. “The result is pent-up demand for software-defined infrastructure. Intel is investing to mature SDI solutions and provide a faster path for businesses of all sizes to reap the benefits of the cloud.” The new server chips are built on a 14-nanometer manufacturing process. It has 20 percent more cores than the prior generation, supports faster memory, and includes other integrated technologies for better results. Among the new partners are CoreOS, Mirantis,and VMware.
Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and Intel announced the world’s largest cloud application testing cluster for applications “born in the cloud.” The cluster will include more than 1,000 Intel Xeon processor-based server nodes that are designed to provide developers with the opportunity to test applications at larger scales and to deliver the efficiency and portability of cloud-native applications to businesses.
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"Bluebee lands $11.4 million for cloud-based DNA analysis platform | VentureBeat"
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DNA analytics startup Bluebee has closed a Series A funding round of €10 million (about $11.4 million) from investors Capricorn ICT Arkiv , Korys , and Biover II. Prior backer Buysse & Partners also participated in the round.
The Dutch company specialises in genomic analysis and provide cloud-based performance solutions to researchers, labs, and diagnostic companies. According to the startup, the new funds will be used to further develop its platform.
Above: Bluebee management team, Image credit: Bluebee “This funding will significantly boost our capacity to support our growth,” said Bluebee CEO Hans Cobben, adding that the startup has seen rapid growth in its customer base since 2014.
Bluebee has also appointed Annie Vereecken, founder of AML-Labo Riatol labs and head of Biover II who has invested in this round, to its board of advisors.
VB Event The AI Impact Tour Connect with the enterprise AI community at VentureBeat’s AI Impact Tour coming to a city near you! The Delft-based startup expects to see a growth in demand for genomics, the study and sequencing of an organism’s genome, in the coming year at an “industrial scale”.
“When genomics become more standard, clinicians and lab researchers will have less interest in delving into the nuts and bolts of the bioinformatics process, and will expect a secure service that is highly scalable and that just works,” says Hans Cobben.
“We enable virtually unlimited scaling up of sequencing capacity while respecting requirements for localised data processing and storage, which is a first in this industry.” This post first appeared on Tech.eu.
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"Acer's Chromebase for Meetings is a $799 machine designed for video conferences | VentureBeat"
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Google today announced the first Chromebase for Meetings device from Acer. It’s a desktop computer designed exclusively for videoconferencing. It costs $799, and it’s available from Google’s partners in U.S, Canada, U.K., Ireland, and Australia. It will become available in more countries later.
There have been Chromebase devices before. And two years ago Google itself jumped into the videoconferencing hardware business in 2014 with the launch of the Chromebox for Meetings. This is simpler. But it hints at Google’s commitment to coming out with more types of devices that meet the needs of companies.
Chromebase for Meetings is “an all-in-one secure video-conferencing device optimized for use in small meeting areas with up to two people,” Vidya Nagarajan, senior product manager of Chrome for Work at Google, wrote in a blog post.
It’s equipped with a 24-inch touchscreen display, an HD camera, four microphones, and two stereo speakers, Nagarajan wrote.
To encourage sales of the new devices, Google has an offer to sell $549 per device if you buy two, with management and support available for free.
Acer’s statement on the news is here.
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"Twitter: Leonardo DiCaprio's Best Actor win sets record for most-tweeted minute at Oscars | VentureBeat"
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Leonardo DiCaprio made history multiple times during the 88th Academy Awards on Sunday. Not only did the actor finally win Best Actor for his performance in The Revenant, but Twitter said that he is responsible for the most-tweeted minute ever to take place during an Oscars telecast. It unseats the previous record holder belonging to the famous group selfie tweeted by Ellen DeGeneres in 2014.
According to Twitter, there were more than 440,000 tweets per minute posted when DiCaprio accepted the award. By comparison, DeGeneres’ tweet caused 255,000 tweets per minute.
#Oscars : @Leodicaprio almost broke the internet when he bagged the award for best actor – his first ever Oscar pic.twitter.com/9EeRkJfHyL — Brandwatch React (@BW_React) February 29, 2016 Much of the impetus behind that record was likely people who were ecstatic about the actor finally winning an Oscar after six previous Academy Award nominations for films like What’s Eating Gilbert Grape , The Wolf of Wall Street , Blood Diamond , and The Aviator.
Of course, DiCaprio’s acceptance speech about global warming also played a big part: “Climate change is real, it is happening right now,” he said. “It is the most urgent threat facing our entire species, and we need to work collectively together and stop procrastinating…Let us not take this planet for granted. I do not take tonight for granted.” Oh, and let’s not forget all the new memes that were created in celebration of DiCaprio’s achievements.
Thank you to the Academy and the incredible cast & crew of #TheRevenant.
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(Reuters) – China’s cyberspace watchdog said on Sunday it had ordered the closure of a microblog account of a former property tycoon, known for his bold remarks on China’s economic policy, for “spreading illegal information”.
Microblog portals such as Weibo.com and t.qq.com, among China’s most popular, were ordered to ban the account of Ren Zhiqiang, a retired top executive from a state-controlled property developer who has more than 30 million online followers.
“The cyberspace is not outside the laws, nobody is allowed to spread illegal information using the Internet,” Jiang Jun, spokesman for the Office of the Central Leading Group for Cyberspace Affairs, was quoted as saying in a statement.
The statement, posted on the website of Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) (www.cac.gov.cn), did not say what specific comments had led to the ban of Ren’s account.
His account could not be found in a search on Sunday at Weibo.com, owned by Sina Corp, or t.qq.com, owned by Tencent Holdings.
Reuters was not able to reach Ren for comment.
According to a commentary posted on Feb. 22 on china.qianlong.com, a website run by the Beijing municipal government, Ren, a communist party member, was accused of making remarks against the state media and the party.
“Who gave Ren the courage to be anti-party?” was the title of the commentary, which also called him “cannon Ren who’s only a proxy for the capitals.” The Chinese government routinely censors the Internet, blocking many sites it deems could challenge the rule of the Communist Party or threaten stability, including global sites such as Facebook and Google’s main search engine and Gmail service.
Authorities have launched numerous operations to combat illegal online behavior, from pornography to gambling.
Earlier this month, Chinese President Xi Jinping toured the country’s top three state new organizations – Xinhua News Agency, People’s Daily and China Central Television – and asked them to toe the party lines.
(Reporting by Chen Aizhu and Clark Li; Editing by Clelia Oziel) VentureBeat's mission is to be a digital town square for technical decision-makers to gain knowledge about transformative enterprise technology and transact.
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Twitter today filed its annual report with securities regulators.
While there are no earth-shattering revelations, there are plenty of nuggets that show how recently re-minted CEO Jack Dorsey continues to put his stamp on the company, as well as the challenges Twitter still faces.
Here are 10 telling changes Twitter made in its annual report this year: 1. Got live, if you want it: Twitter wants you to know it’s all about the live stuff now and has changed its description of itself to reflect that. Last year, the company said: “The mission we serve as Twitter, Inc. is to give everyone the power to create and share ideas and information instantly without barriers. We offer products and services for users, advertisers, developers and platform and data partners. Our goal is to reach the largest daily audience in the world through our information sharing and distribution platform products. We believe our audience is not limited to our users on the Twitter platform, but rather extends to a larger global audience.” Now, Twitter says: “Twitter gives everyone the power to create and share ideas and information instantly without barriers. Our service is live — live commentary, live connections, live conversations.
Whether it is breaking news, entertainment, sports, or everyday topics, hearing about and watching a live event unfold is the fastest way to understand the power of Twitter. Twitter has always been considered a ‘second screen’ for what is happening in the world and we believe we can become the first screen for everything that is happening now.” 2. Video, video, video: Twitter also added: “We are committed to refining our core service to better enable people to more easily create, share and consume content that is important to them. As part of that strategy, we will be focusing on live streaming video, which we believe is a strong complement to the live nature of Twitter.” Hello, Periscope! 3. 140-character limit: Twitter dropped references to it.
4. Suck it, trolls: Twitter also added: “Finally, we intend to invest more resources in making our platform safer by implementing technology to better detect the use of repeat abusive accounts, making it simpler for our users to report multiple abusive Tweets or accounts, and giving people simpler tools to curate and control their experience on Twitter.” 5. Headcount: Still up, despite the various problems and talk of layoffs. At the end of 2014, Twitter had 3,638 employees. At the end of December 2015, it had 3,898.
6. International: Last year, Twitter noted that it expected the following international markets to grow faster than the U.S.: Argentina, Brazil, France, Germany, India, and Japan. But this year, it crossed Germany (nein!) off that list, and replaced it with the Philippines. The company doesn’t explain what’s happening in Germany.
7. Well, duh: Monthly active user growth stagnated this past year, which we already knew. Twitter added in the filing: “We believe that returning to meaningful MAU growth is dependent on improving our product and feature offerings to demonstrate our value proposition to a larger audience.” 8. Competition: To the list of companies Twitter competes against that have “greater financial resources and substantially larger user bases” it added WhatsApp.
9. Paging Mr. Fail Whale: Okay, maybe I’m missing something here, but about 10 years into its existence, Twitter added this to its list of things that are important to its ability to compete: “Our ability to develop a reliable, scalable, secure, high-performance technology infrastructure that can efficiently handle increased usage globally.” That can’t just have occurred to them, right? Right? 10. Silicon Valley business models, FTW!: Since its founding about 10 years ago, Twitter has lost a total of $2.09 billion.
Bonus OOPS: “Additionally, in February 2016, we discovered, and corrected, a bug that affected our password recovery systems for about 24 hours. Although this issue did not expose passwords or information that could be used directly to access an account, it had the potential to expose the email address and phone number associated with a small number of accounts (less than 10,000 active accounts).” VentureBeat's mission is to be a digital town square for technical decision-makers to gain knowledge about transformative enterprise technology and transact.
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Snapchat has revealed it was targeted in a phishing attack by a scammer impersonating Evan Spiegel, the company’s cofounder and CEO.
The popular social network, which has raised more than $1 billion in funding, received an email last Friday requesting payroll data for employees. And, it seems, the payroll department didn’t notice that it was a scam and duly divulged the information.
Snapchat referred to the incident as “isolated” and said a single person within the company was responsible for the breach — insofar as that individual failed to spot the scam. The company’s statement reads: We’re a company that takes privacy and security seriously. So it’s with real remorse — and embarrassment — that one of our employees fell for a phishing scam and revealed some payroll information about our employees. The good news is that our servers were not breached, and our users’ data was totally unaffected by this. The bad news is that a number of our employees have now had their identity compromised. And for that, we’re just impossibly sorry.
Snapchat is quick to point out that its internal systems were not affected, none of its users’ data was breached, and it has already reported the attack to the FBI. It has also contacted current and former employees to offer identify-theft insurance and monitoring for two years.
VB Event The AI Impact Tour Connect with the enterprise AI community at VentureBeat’s AI Impact Tour coming to a city near you! Snapchat is the latest in a long line of companies that have been targeted by various forms of online hacks and attacks. While retail giant Target was one of the most high-profile victims in recent times, other smaller scale phishing attacks, such as that experienced by SendGrid last year, remind us how easy it is for a company’s reputation and security to be compromised. In SendGrid’s case, an employee’s account was accessed by a cyber attacker and subsequently used to access the company’s in-house systems.
However, what’s perhaps most revealing about the Snapchat episode is the way in which the company has responded. It was essentially an internal incident that only impacted employees and former employees at the company. Yet, Snapchat felt compelled to apologize publicly via its blog. But why? With so many notable security breaches and lapses in recent times, Snapchat was clearly preempting negative publicity around this — by revealing what happened voluntarily, without letting its hand be forced by “rumors,” it can try to claim some form of moral high ground.
In other words, Snapchat not only acted swiftly to deal with the incident by contacting the affected employees and reporting the situation to the FBI, it has freely admitted its error to the world. “When something like this happens, all you can do is own up to your mistake, take care of the people affected, and learn from what went wrong,” the statement continued. “To make good on that last point, we will redouble our already rigorous training programs around privacy and security in the coming weeks. Our hope is that we never have to write a blog post like this again.” VentureBeat's mission is to be a digital town square for technical decision-makers to gain knowledge about transformative enterprise technology and transact.
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In conjunction with its appearance at the RSA security conference in San Francisco tomorrow, Google announced today that it’s rolling out security enhancements for Gmail. Perhaps the most interesting one is bringing optical character recognition for attachments, such as images and copies of documents. That way, businesses will be able to pick up on the transfer of sensitive information and respond appropriately.
The feature is an addition to the data loss prevention (DLP) feature of Gmail, which became available to Google Apps Unlimited Customers in December. Google Apps admins can use the new feature in association with the content compliance and objectionable content settings in the admin console, a Google spokesperson told VentureBeat.
Google is also rolling out more granular DLP tools, as Google vice president for security and privacy engineering Gerhard Eschelbeck wrote in a blog post.
“Finally, new predefined detectors offer broader coverage of HIPAA data and personally identifiable information (PII) globally,” Eschelbeck wrote.
VB Event The AI Impact Tour Connect with the enterprise AI community at VentureBeat’s AI Impact Tour coming to a city near you! Google continues to add to Gmail, which makes sense as it has more than 1 billion users. Enterprise-focused features like this should help the application became more widely adopted in enterprises.
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( Green Car Reports ) – One of the more daunting perceived obstacles to driving a plug-in electric car seems to be the need for a home charging station.
While plug-in hybrids can be recharged overnight using their 120-Volt charging cords, battery-electric drivers should really have access to a 240-Volt Level 2 charging station.
Those will recharge the full battery pack in anything from 4 to 9 hours, depending on the specific car.
Many owners will want to retrofit a charging station into an existing garage, but to lay out the principles, we’re starting with what it takes to install one into a garage that’s being built or extensively remodeled.
We’ve just gone through that process for a new garage in New York’s Catskill Mountains. (Note this applies only to North America!) There are several steps, but it’s important to understand that the wiring is the first step, and separate from the charging station–since drivers may later choose to upgrade to a more powerful station.
First, work with your contractor and electrician to install a dedicated 240-Volt line to 1 or 2 feet below wherever you plan to locate your charging station.
We sited ours in a corner of the building so a car can be recharged inside, or we can run the cord out underneath the garage door or through the regular door on the side of the building.
Many contractors won’t have any prior experience with electric-car charging stations, so you may have to educate them.
ALSO SEE: Electric Car Charging: The Basics You Need To Know The easiest way to put it in context is that it’s the same kind of circuit used for electric clothes driers or stoves.
Second, make sure your new circuit is capable of 50 Amps, which means a 40-Amp charging rate (using 80 percent of the circuit capacity).
Even if your first charging station is only capable of 24 Amps (as many less-expensive ones are), you’ll want to “future-proof” your garage wiring.
Third, tell the electrician to install a NEMA 6-50 socket–the one used by most charging stations that aren’t hard-wired–in the wall below the chosen site.
One electrician we spoke to preferred hard-wiring, which eliminates resistance heat between the plug and socket, but we wanted to allow the charging station to go with us if we move.
Fourth, once you have your garage wired, THEN select your charging station and bolt it securely to the wall.
Most people will buy a new one; we were lucky enough to have a used one given to us by Green Car Reports contributor and electric-car advocate Tom Moloughney, who was upgrading. (Thanks, Tom!) There are more than a dozen charging stations on the market today.
They can be bought directly from the makers or through a big-box store like Best, Home Depot, or Lowe’s–from their websites if not necessarily in stock at your local outlet.
Things to keep in mind: Look for at least 24 Amps of charging capability; 40 Amps is best, but more expensive Charging rate should be at least 7.2 kilowatts, which will handle both Chevy Volts (3.3 or 3.6 kW) and higher-rate cars like Nissan Leafs and BMW i3s (6.6 and 7.2 kW, respectively) Make sure it has that NEMA 6-50 plug on it! Some charging stations are “dumb,” while others come from makers (e.g. ChargePoint) offer online connections between your charger and a phone app and/or online site that will show you instant and cumulative charging statistics Ensure the cord is long enough to reach a car parked outside the garage. We’d suggest 16 feet at minimum, and 25 feet is well worth the extra cost.
That’s the short and simple version of what you need to know. We’ll update this article if we get additional tips and pointers from readers or commenters.
Remember: It’s no more complex than an electric clothes drier–and there are millions of those in garages all over North America.
This story originally appeared on Green Car Reports.
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There’s a lot of choice when it comes to ad mediation platforms to help mobile apps monetize their users through advertising. Of course, the reason and main motivator to use a mediation platform is that it allows app developers to utilize many different ad networks so they can get optimal performance and fill rate, or “yield” from their ad placements. In most cases, a single ad network simply doesn’t have enough ad demand to fill all requests from an app with global traffic.
The early days of ad mediation The early innovators of ad mediation included platforms like Burstly, MoPub, and Ad Marvel, who pioneered the primary business models that exist today. Burstly in particular, gained a lot of traction and was the most widely used platform during its time before being acquired, and ultimately shut down by Apple.
In general, the early mediation platforms didn’t have their own ad demand or own ad networks, and were primarily concerned with offering self-serve tools to allow developers and publishers to optimize various ad networks that could be connected through SDK adaptors or through server-to-server integration. Some even included managed services to help optimize the networks for a fee or revenue share. Because these platforms didn’t have their own advertising demand, they were truly unbiased when it came to choosing which ad network would serve an ad.
Fast forward to now All that has changed. Now, most mediation platforms have added their own ad demand to their platforms and have adopted a business model where they allow publishers to mediate third-party ad networks for free, only taking a revenue share when an ad is served by their own advertising demand.
This is the general model used by platforms such as MoPub, AdMob, Fyber, and Supersonic. On the other hand, platforms such as Upsight Ad Mediation (formerly AdRally by Fuse Powered) don’t have its own advertising demand and operates as an unbiased optimization platform where publishers can choose to pay a fee, or a revenue share from all ads served.
The choice: ad mediation with or without ad networks? So, what’s the difference? Two questions arise from these distinct business models: Can a mediation platform that only profits when their own ads are served truly be unbiased when given the optimization controls? Conversely, will an unbiased ad mediation platform outperform enough to justify taking a revenue share from all ads served? Fundamentally, the mediators who have their own demand are competing directly against the third-party ad networks and exchanges available within the mediation platform. Each platform has their own decision-making optimization logic that decides which ad get served: their own ad, or one from their competitors.
The precise detail behind the decision logic or optimization algorithms are not easily understood by most users or the third-party ad partners who participate within the mediation. Due to the competitive nature of mediation, it would seem the platform itself is not inherently aligned with the goals of the publishers using them. These platforms are incentivized to choose their own demand wherever possible. However, in their defence, they do provide all the connectivity and tools for mediating their competition for free. So it really is a pros and cons scenario.
A truly unbiased mediation platform, such as Burstly was, does not have its own ad demand and therefore, is not a competitor of the third-party advertising solutions it is mediating. The drawback here is that an unbiased mediation platform doesn’t have the ability to monetize off its own advertising demand and must either charge a fee, or take a revenue share across all ads served. Burstly offered both a fee based model, and a revenue share model for those who wanted Burstly to perform the optimization for them.
The benefits of unbiased ad mediation So does a fully managed, unbiased mediation platform outperform the more traditional mediators enough to justify a revenue share across all ads? The answer of course depends on the strength of the optimization algorithms, technology, team, and techniques. The fully-managed solution has some inherent advantages in that a single team has the ability to manage not only the optimization of the mediation stack, but also manage each of the accounts held with the third-party ad networks. The advantage is there are “tricks of the trade” that can be set up to allow for advanced optimization techniques that most mediation platforms cannot set up (i.e. calling each ad network multiple times in the mediated “waterfalls”, and setting up and running multiple, simultaneous floors on the RTB exchanges). These techniques have proven to more than cover the costs of the revenue share at Upsight and have consistently delivered higher net-net revenues to publishers.
These are the factors you need to consider when deciding to use an unbiased mediation platform versus a self-serve solution — and both have their pros and cons.
I suppose there is still one question you need to ask yourselves — do you want to focus your efforts on making great apps, or do you want to spend significant man-hours everyday integrating, optimizing and reconciling many advertising networks and exchanges? Darren Keyes is VP Platform Mediation at Upsight.
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Getting freelance help for business projects often feels more like dating than time-saving.
Businesses have to post an attractive task, pick a freelancer to do it (based on little information) and then hope it’s a good match and that the work comes back at a decent quality.
If it’s bad, they move onto the next one.
If they find the “one” who is a good fit, they will generally take the freelancer off the market to help work exclusively.
After all, that’s how Konsus is building its own business to help workers save time by using freelancers. They’ve been posting job listings, and then poaching the ones who do the best.
“This work of going around of platforms saying ‘I’m John from Russia and I’m great at PowerPoint, so please hire me’ isn’t a nice thing. And then people are not nice to you. You’re going to get fired daily,” said cofounder and CEO Fredrik Thomassen.
Instead, Konsus flips the model on its head. Businesses send a chat message or an email to ask for help on a project, and a project manager immediately delivers a quote and splits up the tasks among freelancers. No begging, dating, or firing on either side. And starting Thursday, the company is also launching an integration with Slack, so requesting a spiced up PowerPoint will be as easy as chatting with a coworker.
A problem with no solution for many workers Thomassen learned the value of outsourcing some easy tasks from his days as a consultant. At McKinsey, they had a staff of freelancers that could help them take care of some of the essential but non-core tasks of doing their jobs overnight. A PowerPoint presentation could be sent off at the end of the day and a formatted version would be back in his inbox in the morning.
Leaving to build his own company, Thomassen soon realized that his days spent building a company meant nights handling excel spreadsheets and creating investor presentations.
“At 10 p.m., you can’t really send a task to your employees because they’re going to be super pissed,” Thomassen said.
After messing around trying to hire folks on other platforms, he built his own network of freelancers, and soon realized his friends were looking for an affordable solution to cut down on office work too.
The problem is the freelancer market has been so broken, Thomassen said.
Meeting with his college friend Sondre Rasch for lunch in the parliament of Norway, where Rasch was working as a policy advisor, the pair realized that there was a larger need for quick and easy but quality work that benefited both the freelancer and business.
There were plenty of companies to get freelance labor, like Task Rabbit, or longer engineering work, like Gigster. But their idea for Konsus was to create a solution that any business can tap into and have round the clock support. Negotiating a contract for data entry shouldn’t take longer than the time it would take to just enter it.
The company launched in Norway in August 2015 and has already signed up customers ranging from major enterprise clients like Telenord to small 10 person businesses looking for some extra help. The pair joined the prestigious Y Combinator accelerator in January 2016 to introduce Konsus to the US after seeing 10% week-over-week growth after its launch. And unlike most startups that are eight months old, the pair claim it’s already profitable.
“The problem we’re solving is not just finding the freelancer, but also getting it done,” Rasch said.
How Konsus works To save businesses time, Konsus pre-screens and vets the freelancers to work on its platform, making it easy to find help immediately and not go through the back-and-forth hiring phase. For freelancers, it’s a big boost to have a constant stream of tasks without having to invest time into responding and competing for job postings.
The company narrows down its freelance help to 10 core competencies, ranging from website and logo design to data entry. After spending hours scanning freelancer forums all over the web, these tasks accounted for 60% of contract volume, Thomassen said.
When a business chats Konsus a request, a project manager quotes the company a price and puts it into a pool of available tasks. The project manager will be someone from your country, but the task could be sent to freelancers around the world based on their skill set and availability.
“The language barrier can be high when working with freelancers globally. Communication difficulties do arise and we bridge that gap by having that project manager who you do have a common language with and who you can hold responsible, ” Rasch said.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qKLYUQHsnw The project manager is also in charge of asking questions and breaking down the tasks into bits for freelancers.
While normally a business would have to post a task like a new website piece by piece on a freelance site, Konsus handles breaking it down and assembling the finished product. Logo design is dispatched to one specialist while copy writing is sent to another. The product manager then makes sure the quality is high and meets the standards before sending it back to the business — and all of this happens instantly since it’s staffed around the clock.
“What we find is that very few real tasks when you think about it in the business world revolves around one very well-specified single task,” Thomasssen said. “I think we’ve almost never seen a task which is simply one siloed specialized task that we can just complete directly.” Businesses can buy a package of 100 hours at a rate of $19/hour. For one-off tasks, it’s bumped to $29/hour. The company doesn’t vary pricing based on the freelancer or time of day or turnaround time. It’s designed to be transparent and equal.
For the founders, making Konsus affordable comes at a peak time when e-labor or freelance work is on the rise, but there hasn’t been any disruption to the traditional marketplace of posting job listings.
Previously contract work meant you were a beggar for work.
“Previously contract work meant you were a beggar for work. Maybe sometimes people would be nice to you and give you some task. But now the power relationship is totally changing around, and if you’re talented, you can tap into a service like Konsus and get work whenever you want,” Thomassen said.
By cutting down on the time freelancers spend having to search, they can do work that’s fitted to their skill set around the clock and increase profits just based on volume alone.
“Whether you’re a single mom in the Philippines or a failed writer in Scandinavia living in the mountains, you can just open up your computer at any moment to start working on what you’re good at and get paid the value of that product,” Rasch said. “We think that kind of flexibility for those that want is better, and that’s the future of work.” This story originally appeared on Business Insider.
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The Raspberry Pi Foundation has launched the Raspberry Pi 3, a third-generation model of the popular Raspberry Pi mini computer.
Priced at $35, the Raspberry Pi 3 boasts many of the same features as its predecessor, including HDMI, ethernet, and 4 USB ports. But the latest incarnation also lays out the red carpet for built-in wireless support, Bluetooth 4.0, and a faster 1.2GHz, 64-bit, quad-core ARMv8 processor. The Raspberry Pi 3 goes on sale for the same price as the Pi 2, so deciding which to opt for is a no-brainer, should you find yourself in the market for one of these devices.
Above: Raspberry Pi 3 If you’re new to Raspberry Pi, the credit card-sized contraption is designed as an easy point of entry for budding programmers and hackers. It has come a long way since its inception way back in 2012 — four years ago to the day.
It initially only supported a handful of operating systems, including Linux, but a processor upgrade in the Raspberry Pi 2 last February means it now supports Windows, too.
This essentially opened up the opportunities for what you can do with the microcomputer, transforming it into a machine capable of many of the same things as a traditional PC. And back in September, Raspberry Pi unveiled a new 7″ touchscreen display , making it easier for tech tinkerers to build their own tablets or other devices that rely on visual outputs.
More than eight million Raspberry Pi units have shipped in the past four years, and the Raspberry Pi Foundation now has more than 60 employees.
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Google’s Maps app for iOS now supports scheduling multiple stops along a trip. The feature originally arrived on Android in October.
Google aims to solve a common problem travelers face: having to constantly reenter your destination due to meal and bathroom breaks. It’s a simple feature that would’ve been nice to have had all along.
As far as we can tell, Apple Maps doesn’t offer a similar feature.
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A federal district court judge in New York today called into question several of the federal government’s arguments in its push to make Apple unlock San Bernardino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook’s iPhone.
U.S. Magistrate Judge James Orenstein, of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, focused much of his vigorous attack on the use of the All Writs Act in the case. Orenstein has spent the past several months handling a separate case — it involves Jun Feng, a resident of Queens, New York, who was indicted on charges of meth trafficking and whose iPhone 5s was taken by U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents — but one in which Apple feared that the All Writs Act would be invoked.
“This matter [involving the San Bernardino shooter] is therefore one of a dozen pending cases in which the government and Apple disagree as to the court’s authority to command Apple to assist the government in defeating the passcode security of devices Apple has manufactured,” Judge Orenstein wrote. He went on to dismantle the specific citation of the All Writs Act in several ways.
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Judge Orenstein echoed some of the points that Apple chief executive Tim Cook has made.
For instance, in the end, the judge suggested that the debate about this topic ought to be held in Congress, not behind closed doors in courts: [It] must take place among legislators who are equipped to consider the technological and cultural realities of a world their predecessors could not begin to conceive. It would betray our constitutional heritage and our people’s claim to democratic governance for a judge to pretend that our Founders already had that debate, and ended it, in 1789.
And the judge recognizes the slippery slope that could result from a ruling in the government’s favor. In a footnote Judge Orenstein goes beyond discussion of Apple’s iPhones and addresses the general category of Internet-connected devices, an area that hasn’t gotten a whole lot of attention in discussions about this case: In a world in which so many devices, not just smartphones, will be connected to the Internet of Things, the government’s theory that a licensing agreement allows it to compel the manufacturers of such products to help it surveil the products’ users will result in a virtually limitless expansion of the government’s legal authority to surreptitiously intrude on personal privacy.
The judge also doesn’t assign much fault to the way that Apple has not overtly done things to get in the way of the advancement of the investigation.
“Apple has not conspired with Feng to make the data on his device inaccessible,” Judge Orenstein wrote. “More importantly, perhaps, it has not even done what the telephone company did in N.Y. Telephone Co. — namely, it has not barred the door to its property to prevent law enforcement agents from entering and performing actions they were otherwise competent to undertake in executing the warrant for themselves.” And that point by extension means that the federal government can’t necessarily compare Apple with the New York Telephone Co. while resting its defense on the All Writs Act. For Judge Orenstein, that part of the argument just doesn’t hold up.
The New York Telephone Co. was classified as a regulated public utility in the 1977 Supreme Court case that the U.S. brought against it. But here again Judge Orenstein does not see how Apple is like the New York Telephone Co.
“It has a duty is to serve its shareholders rather than the public,” Judge Orenstein wrote.
Arguably the most significant attack that the judge leveled at the government today is its wavering in whether it has suitable technology to be able to unlock an iPhone. This might seem tactical, but its importance is really legal in nature. The government sought help through the courts here on the basis that it didn’t have the capability to unlock the phone, but as Judge Orenstein pointed out, that might not actually be the case.
“Two months earlier, however, in opposing a suppression motion in an unrelated criminal case in this district, the government said something quite different,” the judge wrote. He went on to quote from a letter the government submitted in the case United States v. Adamou Djibo: T]he lack of a passcode is not fatal to the government’s ability to obtain the records. That is because [the Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”), Homeland Security Investigations (“HSI”)] is in possession of technology that would allow its forensic technicians to override the passcode security feature on the Subject iPhone and obtain the data contained therein. In other words, even if HSI agents did not have the defendant’s passcode, they would nevertheless have been able to obtain the records stored in the Subject iPhone using specialized software. The software works to bypass the passcode entry requirement and “unlock” the cellular telephone without having to enter the code. Once the device is “unlocked” all records in it can be accessed and copied.
The technology in question here is the “IP-BOX,” which runs brute force attacks on iOS devices in order to unlock them. And the iPhone in the Djibo case is an iPhone 5 running iOS 8.1.2. When Judge Orenstein asked the government about the gap between what the government said then and what it said now, the government came back with a very confusing and obfuscating answer. Orenstein provides it here: The government has consulted with the testifying agent in Djibo, who noted that the government’s ability to bypass the passcode on an iPhone is highly device-specific, and depends in part on the specific hardware and software in place. The investigators in this case have examined the possibility of using various third-party technologies, including the hacking tool referenced in Djibo, and determined that, in this case, using such technology on the Target Phone [i.e., Feng’s iPhone] presents a non-trivial risk of data destruction. Specifically, the tool, which serially tests various passcodes until detecting the correct one, could activate the “erase data” feature of the iPhone and render the data in the Target Phone permanently inaccessible. By contrast, in this case, Apple has the unique ability to safely perform a passcode bypass on the Target Phone without risking such data destruction.
Judge Orenstein does not come away very convinced that the government’s argument is sound.
“What it does establish is simply that the government has made so many conflicting statements in the two cases as to render any single one of them unreliable,” the judge wrote. “Because it is the government’s burden, as the movant seeking relief, to demonstrate a basis for granting its request, I necessarily conclude that it has failed to establish that the help it seeks from Apple is necessary for purposes of the test under N.Y. Telephone Co.” For a full overview of the Apple-FBI case, check out our ongoing timeline.
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You can now share videos with your friends within Facebook’s Moments app. The company released an update today for the photo-sharing app today and said that in the coming weeks, it’ll launch an ability to include videos in Moments slideshows. The addition of video support comes as Facebook revealed more than 400 million photos have been shared through the app since its launch in June.
A standalone app, Facebook Moments syncs with your camera roll and uses face recognition and location to group photos together so you can share them with the right friends. So if you’re attending a party and everyone is taking pictures there, you won’t have to scramble to get your friends to share them later on — it just goes into Moments.
Created in Facebook’s Creative Labs, Facebook Moments has grown into a useful tool for sharing photos, especially among a group of friends. It simplifies mass sharing while leveraging the enormous power of its social graph. The company told us that out of the 400 million photos that have been shared in Moments to date, over 100 million came just in the past month.
Video support is available today on Facebook Moments’ iOS and Android apps.
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Gogo has announced it will upgrade the satellite modem used with its 2Ku and Ku satellite technologies to increase the throughput from satellites to Internet users on its planes in the U.S.
The news comes after American Airlines dropped its litigation against Gogo over its appallingly low in-flight Wi-Fi speeds. American had asked a district court in Texas to interpret a clause in its contract with Gogo that stipulated the airline could seek an alternative in-flight Wi-Fi provider if it received a better offer. After Gogo’s shares plunged , the Internet provider eventually agreed with American’s interpretation of the clause and confirmed it would submit a proposal to improve the service.
While American Airlines could still ultimately jump ship for a rival provider, such as ViaSat, Gogo will be fighting tooth and nail to keep its contract with what is one of the world’s largest airlines. That plan includes offering its new 2Ku satellite-based system for American Airlines’ fleet of around 200 domestic Boeing 737s, but this will require an investment in the onboard modems.
“Just like your home or office Wi-Fi set-up, you can make improvements to the amount of bandwidth delivered, but if the modem can’t support that bandwidth, you can create a choke point in the network,” explained Anand Chari, Gogo’s chief technology officer. “Gogo’s next generation modem is being built with a lot of room to spare so it will be ready to handle data delivered from next generation high throughput satellites and beyond.” Though Gogo made no specific mention of American Airlines in its announcement today, the timing of the announcement, so soon after their public spat, indicates more than a coincidence. Indeed, Gogo CEO Michael Small had already said that the company would send American Airlines its proposal by March 20. By putting its commitment to upgrade into the public domain today, Gogo could be hoping to strengthen its position.
Gogo is partnering with Gilat Satellite Networks for the new modem, which will be tested in-flight “in the coming months,” with commercial delivery expected to begin in 2017. The modem will be capable of speeds of 400Mbps, according to Gogo, which should be enough to support next-generation satellite technology too.
“Our 2KU antenna is twice as spectrally efficient as any other antenna, and this modem will allow us to deliver that speed advantage to our customers,” added Chari. “It also will allow our customers to seamlessly upgrade to the new Ku High Throughput Satellites (HTS) that have just started to be launched, and the massive-scale low earth orbit (LEO) constellations planned over the next decade.” The modem will also support IP streaming and IPTV, which are emerging as a key driving force for in-flight Wi-Fi.
Online video giants such as Netflix and Amazon are already teaming up with airlines to offer their respective services to passengers — without charging for Wi-Fi.
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