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    • Huawei says it has developed its own OS for both smartphones and computers in case those developed by US companies are no longer available (Li Tao/South China Morning Post)

    Li Tao / South China Morning Post: Huawei says it has developed its own OS for both smartphones and computers in case those developed by US companies are no longer available  —  Huawei Technologies, the largest smartphone vendor in China, said it has developed its own operating systems (OS) for both smartphones and computers …

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    • Adthena, which offers an AI-driven search marketing intelligence platform, raises $14M Series A, says it has over 250 customers including Volvo and HSBC (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

    Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Adthena, which offers an AI-driven search marketing intelligence platform, raises $14M Series A, says it has over 250 customers including Volvo and HSBC  —  Marketers are increasingly using AI to streamline workflows and automate monotonous tasks.  According to an Adobe survey … Adthena, which offers an AI-driven search marketing intelligence platform,

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    • HTC's subscription service Viveport Infinity, which gives access to a catalog of 600+ VR apps and games, will launch on April 2nd and cost $13/month or $99/year (Jon Fingas/Engadget)

    Jon Fingas / Engadget: HTC’s subscription service Viveport Infinity, which gives access to a catalog of 600+ VR apps and games, will launch on April 2nd and cost $13/month or $99/year  —  HTC is nearly ready to launch its unlimited Viveport Infinity service after months of teasing. HTC's subscription service Viveport Infinity, which gives access

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    • As Lyft, Pinterest, Postmates, Slack, and Uber prepare to go public, VCs are preparing to invest in a new wave of startups created by employees enriched by IPOs (Erin Griffith/New York Times)

    Erin Griffith / New York Times: As Lyft, Pinterest, Postmates, Slack, and Uber prepare to go public, VCs are preparing to invest in a new wave of startups created by employees enriched by IPOs  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Riley Newman, a former head of data science at Airbnb, set out in mid-2017 to raise a

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    • Polarr, which develops a hardware-agnostic AI stack to enable computational photography on a range of devices, raises $11.5M Series A led by Threshold Ventures (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

    Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Polarr, which develops a hardware-agnostic AI stack to enable computational photography on a range of devices, raises $11.5M Series A led by Threshold Ventures  —  Polarr, a six-year-old San Francisco computer vision startup cofounded by Stanford graduate and Google veterans Borui Wang and Derek Yan … Polarr, which develops a hardware-agnostic

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    • There are parallels between Facebook's response to organized abuse of its platform and Microsoft's response to malware on Windows and Office 20 years ago (Benedict Evans)

    Benedict Evans: There are parallels between Facebook’s response to organized abuse of its platform and Microsoft’s response to malware on Windows and Office 20 years ago  —  – There are strong parallels between organised abuse of Facebook and FB’s attempts to respond, in the last 24 months … There are parallels between Facebook's response to

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    • Google breaks world record for the most accurate value of pi, first time using cloud computing, calculating 31.4T digits after a ~112-day computation (Emma Haruka Iwao/Google Cloud Blog)

    Emma Haruka Iwao / Google Cloud Blog: Google breaks world record for the most accurate value of pi, first time using cloud computing, calculating 31.4T digits after a ~112-day computation  —  Try GCP  —  Get $300 free credit to spend over 12 months.  —  Free Trial  —  TM title , and the first time the

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