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    • Udacity lays of 20% of its staff, or 75 employees, and restructures its operations to help bring costs in line with revenue (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)

    Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: Udacity lays of 20% of its staff, or 75 employees, and restructures its operations to help bring costs in line with revenue  —  Udacity, the $1 billion online education startup, has laid off about 20 percent of its workforce and is restructuring its operations as the company’s co-founder Sebastian Thrun seeks

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    • Interview with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian on open source, AWS, working with the military, expanding Google Cloud's sales teams, and more (Tom Krazit/GeekWire)

    Tom Krazit / GeekWire: Interview with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian on open source, AWS, working with the military, expanding Google Cloud’s sales teams, and more  —  Coverage of Google’s sold-out annual cloud conference in San Francisco, as the search giant looks to extend its reach and build its momentum in the cloud. Interview with

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    • Stack Overflow's annual survey, taken by 90K+ developers this year, finds Python to be the fastest-growing major programming language, with Rust the most-loved (Nick Heath/TechRepublic)

    Nick Heath / TechRepublic: Stack Overflow’s annual survey, taken by 90K+ developers this year, finds Python to be the fastest-growing major programming language, with Rust the most-loved  —  The annual Stack Overflow survey is one of the most comprehensive snapshots of how programmers work. Stack Overflow's annual survey, taken by 90K+ developers this year, finds

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    • App performance monitoring startup PagerDuty raises its IPO price range to $21-$23/share, could raise $240M at a $1.69B valuation at the high end of the range (Becky Peterson/Business Insider)

    Becky Peterson / Business Insider: App performance monitoring startup PagerDuty raises its IPO price range to $21-$23/share, could raise $240M at a $1.69B valuation at the high end of the range  —  – On Tuesday, IT unicorn PagerDuty raised the price range for its upcoming IPO to $21 to $23 per share, up $2 from

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    • Pirates are using Facebook's Watch Party group video-streaming feature to host movie marathons and TV watch parties, sometimes for thousands of viewers (Rob Price/Business Insider)

    Rob Price / Business Insider: Pirates are using Facebook’s Watch Party group video-streaming feature to host movie marathons and TV watch parties, sometimes for thousands of viewers  —  – Facebook’s new group-video-watching feature, Watch Party, is proving wildly popular with pirates.  It’s designed to let Facebook users watch … Pirates are using Facebook's Watch Party

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    • 51% of consumers who bought the Google Pixel 3 in Q4 2018 were previously Samsung smartphone owners, while only 18% previously owned an iPhone (Jeff Fieldhack/Counterpoint Research)

    Jeff Fieldhack / Counterpoint Research: 51% of consumers who bought the Google Pixel 3 in Q4 2018 were previously Samsung smartphone owners, while only 18% previously owned an iPhone  —  Both the devices have failed to swing iOS users over to Android.  Over 80% of Pixel 3’s volumes are coming from previous Android smartphone owners.

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    • Qualcomm unveils Cloud AI 100, a chip slated to ship next year for AI inference at the edge, estimating peak performance to be over 3X that of Snapdragon 855 (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

    Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Qualcomm unveils Cloud AI 100, a chip slated to ship next year for AI inference at the edge, estimating peak performance to be over 3X that of Snapdragon 855  —  Qualcomm kicked off its annual AI Day conference in San Francisco with a bang.  It took the wraps off of three

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    • Physicists developed an experimental quantum device to predict the future

    A team of scientists from Griffith University in Australia and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Singapore have developed a quantum-powered machine that accurately simulates future outcomes. This research has huge implications at the intersection of quantum mechanics and machine learning. The team created a photonic quantum information processor that determines the possible trajectories of single photons

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    • YouTube says it will begin developing choose-your-own-adventure-style shows under a new unit, following the success of Netflix's "Bandersnatch" and others (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)

    Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: YouTube says it will begin developing choose-your-own-adventure-style shows under a new unit, following the success of Netflix’s “Bandersnatch” and others  —  – Video site is steering program dollars into new technology  — Company to announce new slate of shows next month in New York YouTube says it will begin developing choose-your-own-adventure-style

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    • Investigation finds games approved for kids on the Play Store with shooting and gore; Google removed 16 games after press inquiry (K.G Orphanides/WIRED UK)

    K.G Orphanides / WIRED UK: Investigation finds games approved for kids on the Play Store with shooting and gore; Google removed 16 games after press inquiry  —  Scores of games in Google’s Play Store that are rated safe for kids are packed with guns, gore and panda mutilation – but little is being done to

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    • Walmart expands its rollout of store tech in US, including more vending machine-like Pickup Towers for online orders and robots that scrub floors and scan items (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

    Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Walmart expands its rollout of store tech in US, including more vending machine-like Pickup Towers for online orders and robots that scrub floors and scan items  —  Walmart is doubling down on its technology innovations in its brick-and-mortar stores in an effort to better compete with Amazon. Walmart expands its rollout

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