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Twilio adds Google’s speech recognition to its voice platform
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IFTTT now lets any developer build and publish applets for others to use
Microsoft reportedly acquires Israeli cybersecurity startup Hexadite for $100 million
Google’s AlphaGo narrowly beat the top Go player because it avoids risks
Google starts selling 4K digital whiteboard Jamboard for $4,999 in the U.S.
Chef’s compliance updates let developers move fast without breaking things
Pot luck: Hound Labs raises $8.1 million to combat stoned drivers with cannabis breathalyzers
Apple and Nokia end legal spat by signing multi-year patent agreement
AWS signs Java ‘father’ James Gosling
Former IBM employee pleads guilty to ‘economic espionage’ after stealing trade secrets for China
How Improbable convinced SoftBank to invest $502 million in its platform for massive online game worlds
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Zomato agrees to hacker’s demand — will launch bug bounty program in exchange for stolen data deletion
Salesforce beats estimates with Q1 deferred revenue growth of 26%
AI Weekly: Google shifts from mobile-first to AI-first world
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Can we just call them apps?
Microsoft beats Google and Amazon to announce first African data centers, kicking off in 2018
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Aporeto raises $11.2 million to help build a more secure cloud
Amazon expands Prime Reading book service beyond the U.S. and into the U.K.
40,000 AT&T workers could go on strike over delays to contract negotiations
Facebook fined $122 million by EU over misleading WhatsApp information
AMP pages from Google Search now load twice as fast
Google’s speech recognition technology now has a 4.9% word error rate
Google updates Firebase with performance monitoring and phone authentication, starts open-sourcing SDKs
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