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Facebook to Share Data with Aid Groups Via “Disaster Maps”

The social network says the anonymized data could help the Red Cross and others focus on areas that have been hit hardest. Facebook plans to share user data with aid organizations to help out in emergences. In a blog post Wednesday, the world’s largest social network said it will create “disaster maps” for aid groups like the [...]

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Google Reveals New Stand-alone DayDream Headset

Google has announced a new stand-alone DayDream headset that cuts the cable and eliminates the need for a VR-enabled smartphone. To be precise it has revealed to its I/O Developers conference that it has developed a Qualcomm-based reference design for a headset and HTC and Lenovo will be the first to produce it by the [...]

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Apple’s Next Big Project: Free Courses to Make Its Stores the Most Happening Places in Town

Apple will launch 60 educational sessions at all its stores focusing on coding, digital media, and art and design. Apple will soon launch a range of educational sessions at 495 stores covering coding, media, and art and design to help people get more from their Apple hardware. The new sessions, dubbed Today at Apple, aim [...]

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Microsoft Details New Privacy Settings in Windows 10 Creators Update

As Microsoft announced last week, the Windows 10 Creators Update will start rolling out to users on April 11. As part of this update, the company is also making some changes to the privacy settings in Windows 10 and how it informs its users about the data it collects from them (because it doesn’t give them the option to [...]

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Samsung Galaxy S8: A Rumor Roundup

We round up the latest rumors for Samsung’s next flagship, the Galaxy S8. Samsung needs a hit after the Galaxy Note 7 debacle, and the Galaxy S8 is believed to launch in April. It’s been eleven months since Samsung announced the Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge, but there are already plenty of rumors surrounding [...]

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Apple’s New Campus “Apple Park” Will Open in April

This grand opening has been years in the making. Apple’s new campus now has a name and an opening date. It’ll be called Apple Park and the first employees will move in April 2017. As 12,000 Apple employees are going to work there, the move isn’t going to be an easy task. It’s going to take roughly [...]

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Google Is Quietly Rebuilding Itself Offline

The omniscient service is now designing around its greatest limitation: those times when the cloud is out of reach. Google is never down. It’s the most resilient, expansive cloud infrastructure ever built, with layers of redundant servers to promise that when you ask Google to look up some inane piece of trivia or search your email [...]

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Android Wear 2.0 to Launch in February

Google first announced Android Wear 2, an operating system designed for smartwatches and wearables in May 2016. At that time, it was released as a developer preview with the expectation of an official release by the end of the year. Then in September, Google announced it was delaying the release of Android Wear 2.0 until early 2017. [...]

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Facebook Live Audio Makes Talk Radio Social, Starting With the BBC

Book readings, interviews, and news radio are coming to Facebook thanks to its new Live Audio feature launching today with a few publishers and authors before opening up next year. A complement to its Facebook Live video streaming, it could bring audio-first content like podcasts to the News Feed, and provide a low-bandwidth real-time broadcasting [...]

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Dr. Google May Check Your Eyes in the Future

The search giant trains an algorithm to spot diabetic retinopathy, which can cause blindness. Dr. Google might be your next ophthalmologist. The search giant said Tuesday it had trained a deep-learning algorithm to spot signs of diabetic retinopathy in patients. It does this in a manner similar to eye specialists by checking pictures of the back of [...]

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