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Google launches Google Earth tools that let users create and present virtual tours, with attached text, images, and videos, for specific places (Jay Peters/The Verge)

Jay Peters / The Verge: Google launches Google Earth tools that let users create and present virtual tours, with attached text, images, and videos, for specific places  —  It’s like a homemade guided tour  —  Today, Google is adding new tools to Google Earth on the web that let you build your own tour of

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Apple launches Apple Music for Business, letting businesses play music in retail locations with Apple providing human-curated playlists and recommendations (Benjamin Mayo/9to5Mac)

Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: Apple launches Apple Music for Business, letting businesses play music in retail locations with Apple providing human-curated playlists and recommendations  —  Apple Music is now partnering with businesses to play music at retail stores.  In a partnership with PlayNetwork … Apple launches Apple Music for Business, letting businesses play music in

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Starburst, which is seeking to modernize data analytics with the open source Presto distributed query engine, raises $22M led by Index Ventures (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Starburst, which is seeking to modernize data analytics with the open source Presto distributed query engine, raises $22M led by Index Ventures  —  Starburst, the company that’s looking to monetize the open-source Presto distributed query engine, today announced that it has raised … Starburst, which is seeking to modernize data analytics

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Anonymous users on Reddit, Patreon, and other websites are making, selling, and getting off to custom 3D likenesses of celebrities and other real people (VICE)

{$inline_image} VICE: Anonymous users on Reddit, Patreon, and other websites are making, selling, and getting off to custom 3D likenesses of celebrities and other real people  —  u003Cpu003EYou can buy a belly button online.  It can be an innie, outtie, twisted to the left or the right, and placed on a virtual body. Anonymous users

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CloudFactory, a data labelling for machine learning platform, raises $65M led by FTV Capital, bringing its total raised to $78M (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: CloudFactory, a data labelling for machine learning platform, raises $65M led by FTV Capital, bringing its total raised to $78M  —  AI and machine learning algorithms require data.  Lots of data.  But the bulk of that data is of no use if it isn’t first labeled by human annotators. CloudFactory, a

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