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Thursday, August 31, 2017

Why HPV Vaccination Rates Remain Low in Rural States

Why HPV Vaccination Rates Remain Low in Rural States

The potentially life-saving cancer vaccine has been around for more than a decade, so why isn’t everyone getting it?

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Profile of Bhavin Turakhia, who made millions selling an adtech firm and is now investing $45M of his own money to build Slack rival Flock, which has 25K users (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)

Saritha Rai / Bloomberg:
Profile of Bhavin Turakhia, who made millions selling an adtech firm and is now investing $45M of his own money to build Slack rival Flock, which has 25K users — Bhavin Turakhia pitching Flock as a cheaper messaging platform — Entrepreneur has 140 pairs of sweatpants and T-shirts

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SRG: enterprise SaaS market up 31% YoY in quarterly revenue to almost $15B; Microsoft still market leader, followed by Salesforce, Adobe, Oracle, SAP (Synergy Research Group)

Synergy Research Group:
SRG: enterprise SaaS market up 31% YoY in quarterly revenue to almost $15B; Microsoft still market leader, followed by Salesforce, Adobe, Oracle, SAP — New Q2 data from Synergy Research Group shows that the enterprise SaaS market grew 31% year on year to reach almost $15 billion in quarterly revenues …

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Small local social networks get usage boost during Harvey; opens of walkie-talkie app Zello rose 600%, and membership of NextDoor saw a 650% increase (Alex Kantrowitz/BuzzFeed)

Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed:
Small local social networks get usage boost during Harvey; opens of walkie-talkie app Zello rose 600%, and membership of NextDoor saw a 650% increase — On Wednesday morning, with flood waters still rising in Houston, voices bubbled inside the relatively obscure walkie-talkie app Zello …

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Twitch announces extensions for streamers to customize channel pages, including Amazon affiliate links, and opens extension platform to third-party developers (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Twitch announces extensions for streamers to customize channel pages, including Amazon affiliate links, and opens extension platform to third-party developers — Twitch today is introducing a suite of tools called Twitch Extensions that will allow its streamers to customize their channel pages …

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Juniper Networks acquires Cyphort, maker of a machine learning-powered analytics engine that can be integrated with existing security tools (Natalie Gagliordi/ZDNet)

Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet:
Juniper Networks acquires Cyphort, maker of a machine learning-powered analytics engine that can be integrated with existing security tools — The Silicon Valley startup makes security analytics software. Financial terms were not disclosed. — Juniper Networks announced Thursday it plans …

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Full Colour 3D Printer at IFA - Geek News Central

With 3D printing, the colour of the substrate determines the colour of the model and as most 3D printers only hold one or two reels of material, it’s held back the visual appeal of the models. Anything detailed needs to be painted in post-production.

That’s all changing now as XYZprinting have announced the da Vinci Color 3D Printer which combines an inkjet and 3D printer, colouring the material as it goes. Because the colour is injected into the substrate, there’s no need to pause to change spools. The da Vinci Color uses fused filament fabrication (FFF) 3D printing and can take advantage of 16 million of shades using its CMYK palette. The print bed is 20 cm x 20 cm x 15 cm in build volume and there’s complementary software to tweak models for colour.

The printer has 4 ink cartridges (20 ml) which are easily replaced by the owner with a recommended price of €65. A new PLA (a polyester for 3D printing) was exclusively developed for the new da Vinci Color. This 600 g transparent coil is also certified DEHP-free & heavy metal-free at a recommended price of €39.

The da Vinci Color will be available throughout the network of XYZprinting partner resellers at a recommended price of €3 599. It’s pricey for home use, but I think that’ll be snapped up by small businesses and education.

If you happen to be at IFA, call into their stand at the Berlin Exhibition Grounds, Hall 13 Booth 102, Messedamm, Berlin.

Full Colour 3D Printer at IFA

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Blake Ross, Firefox co-founder and former Facebook exec, joins Uber part-time to develop product strategy (Anita Balakrishnan/CNBC)

Anita Balakrishnan / CNBC:
Blake Ross, Firefox co-founder and former Facebook exec, joins Uber part-time to develop product strategy — - Blake Ross, the founder of Firefox and a former Facebook executive, will join Uber to develop product strategy, he said on Thursday. — The ride-hailing company has plenty of work to do …

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Spotify's head of original video and podcasting, Tom Calderone, is leaving as firm rethinks its video strategy, tying it more closely to music (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)

Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Spotify's head of original video and podcasting, Tom Calderone, is leaving as firm rethinks its video strategy, tying it more closely to music — Streaming company says videos will focus around music — Spotify Ltd. is parting ways with Tom Calderone, the head of original video and podcasts …

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Profile of Cerebras Systems, a little known Los Altos-based maker of AI-specific chips, which sources say focus on AI training, that has raised $112M (Aaron Tilley/Forbes)

Aaron Tilley / Forbes:
Profile of Cerebras Systems, a little known Los Altos-based maker of AI-specific chips, which sources say focus on AI training, that has raised $112M — In the past few years, a family of artificial intelligence techniques called deep learning has taken the tech industry by storm.

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Microsoft was an early player in AR, thanks to HoloLens, but is being superseded by Apple and Google, who focus on adding AR to software over expensive hardware (Peter Bright/Ars Technica)

Peter Bright / Ars Technica:
Microsoft was an early player in AR, thanks to HoloLens, but is being superseded by Apple and Google, who focus on adding AR to software over expensive hardware — HoloLens was inspirational, but it's ARKit and ARCore that are going to win developers. — Stop me if you think you've heard …

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California DMV website shows Samsung has secured a permit to test self-driving cars (Darrell Etherington/TechCrunch)

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:
California DMV website shows Samsung has secured a permit to test self-driving cars — Samsung got approval to test autonomous vehicles on state roads in California, according to the CA Department of Motor Vehicle's website. The DMV maintains an ongoing list of companies and organizations …

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After documenting botnet attack on ProPublica, DFR Lab faced its own attack from bots and impersonators, who use follows, likes, retweets to intimidate users (Brian Krebs/Krebs on Security)

Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:
After documenting botnet attack on ProPublica, DFR Lab faced its own attack from bots and impersonators, who use follows, likes, retweets to intimidate users — I awoke this morning to find my account on Twitter (@briankrebs) had attracted almost 12,000 new followers overnight.

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Crowdsourced same-day delivery platform Deliv expands to 33 markets and 1,400 cities, says it has 4,000 retail partners including Best Buy, UPS, and Macy's (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Crowdsourced same-day delivery platform Deliv expands to 33 markets and 1,400 cities, says it has 4,000 retail partners including Best Buy, UPS, and Macy's — As Amazon continues to expand its retail muscle beyond its own e-commerce portal, there's been some activity among startups …

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Lenovo debuts $1,330+ Yoga 920 with 4K display, $649 Yoga 720, $1K+ Miix 520 detachable, $349 Lenovo Explore AR headset, $80 pack that adds Alexa to its tablets (Emil Protalinski/VentureBeat)

Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:
Lenovo debuts $1,330+ Yoga 920 with 4K display, $649 Yoga 720, $1K+ Miix 520 detachable, $349 Lenovo Explore AR headset, $80 pack that adds Alexa to its tablets — At its IFA 2017 event today, Lenovo took the wraps off three refreshed laptops, its new Windows Mixed Reality headset …

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Hands-on with the midrange Moto X4, which has 5.2" 1080p display, 12MP and 8MP dual cameras, IP68, Snapdragon 630, 3000mAh battery; ships September for €399 (Dan Seifert/The Verge)

Dan Seifert / The Verge:
Hands-on with the midrange Moto X4, which has 5.2" 1080p display, 12MP and 8MP dual cameras, IP68, Snapdragon 630, 3000mAh battery; ships September for €399 — The latest Moto X hits Europe in September, US later this fall — After a short hiatus, Motorola is bringing back the venerable Moto X …

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Apple breaks its silence on net neutrality, urging the FCC not to roll back ban against fast lanes (Tony Romm/Recode)

Tony Romm / Recode:
Apple breaks its silence on net neutrality, urging the FCC not to roll back ban against fast lanes — It's the company's first comments in the 2017 debate. — Apple is breaking its silence on net neutrality, urging the Trump administration to preserve strong rules that prevent the likes of AT&T …

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Instagram rolls out Stories to desktop and mobile web starting today, with ability to upload from mobile web coming in next few months (Natt Garun/The Verge)

Natt Garun / The Verge:
Instagram rolls out Stories to desktop and mobile web starting today, with ability to upload from mobile web coming in next few months — Mobile web upload is coming soon — Instagram is adding the ability for you to view Stories on desktop and mobile web so you can see the ephemeral posts on larger screens.

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Apple announces event on September 12 at 10am PT in Steve Jobs Theater at its new Apple Park campus, where new iPhones are expected (Jim Dalrymple/The Loop)

Jim Dalrymple / The Loop:
Apple announces event on September 12 at 10am PT in Steve Jobs Theater at its new Apple Park campus, where new iPhones are expected — Apple on Thursday announced an event which will be held at the Steve Jobs Theater located at the company's new Apple Park campus. The event will take place on September 12 at 10:00 am.

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Effective mechanisms for searching the space of machine learning algorithms

The O’Reilly Data Show Podcast: Kenneth Stanley on neuroevolution and other principled ways of exploring the world without an objective.

In this episode of the Data Show, I spoke with Ken Stanley, founding member of Uber AI Labs and associate professor at the University of Central Florida. Stanley is an AI researcher and a leading pioneer in the field of neuroevolution—a method for evolving and learning neural networks through evolutionary algorithms. In a recent survey article, Stanley went through the history of neuroevolution and listed recent developments, including its applications to reinforcement learning problems.

Continue reading Effective mechanisms for searching the space of machine learning algorithms.

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Lyft expands full coverage to an additional 32 US states, bringing its total to 40, and says it has 700,000 drivers (Tom Krisher/Associated Press)

Tom Krisher / Associated Press:
Lyft expands full coverage to an additional 32 US states, bringing its total to 40, and says it has 700,000 drivers — http://ift.tt/2xPqxWb 6c69a89e316f — Link copied! — DETROIT (AP) — Lyft is driving into the countryside in an effort to raise ridership and steal market share from rival Uber.

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Peter Thiel-backed internet monitoring startup Qadium, founded by an ex-CIA analyst, raises $40M Series B led by IVP (Thomas Fox-Brewster/Forbes)

Thomas Fox-Brewster / Forbes:
Peter Thiel-backed internet monitoring startup Qadium, founded by an ex-CIA analyst, raises $40M Series B led by IVP — Qadium, a Peter Thiel-backed cybersecurity start-up from San Francisco, has raised a Series B of $40 million, as it expands its product that CEO and ex-CIA analyst Tim Junio claims …

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Six big global banks join Utility Settlement Coin, a project aimed at making it easier for central banks to issue currencies on a blockchain (Michael del Castillo/CoinDesk)

Michael del Castillo / CoinDesk:
Six big global banks join Utility Settlement Coin, a project aimed at making it easier for central banks to issue currencies on a blockchain — Several of the world's largest banks have today revealed a series of steps to advance a project aimed at making it easier for central banks to issue currencies on a blockchain.

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Peter Thiel-backed internet monitoring startup Qadium, founded by an ex-CIA analyst, raises $40M led by IVP (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)

Connie Loizos / TechCrunch:
Peter Thiel-backed internet monitoring startup Qadium, founded by an ex-CIA analyst, raises $40M led by IVP — Tim Junio knew as a high school student that he wanted to join the CIA. He even wrote as much in his college application to Johns Hopkins University, where he would go on to nab …

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Sony launches $700 Xperia XZ1 and $600 XZ1 Compact smartphones with Snapdragon 835, Android 8.0 Oreo, and a camera with 3D-scanning and super slo-motion video (Dan Seifert/The Verge)

Dan Seifert / The Verge:
Sony launches $700 Xperia XZ1 and $600 XZ1 Compact smartphones with Snapdragon 835, Android 8.0 Oreo, and a camera with 3D-scanning and super slo-motion video — Snapdragon 835 and a new camera arrive for Sony's mainstream phones — Sony is today announcing the new Xperia XZ1 and XZ1 Compact smartphones …

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Garmin launches $299 Vivoactive 3 smartwatch with Garmin Pay and new sport profiles, and the $199 Vivosport and $199 Vivomove HR activity trackers (Valentina Palladino/Ars Technica)

Valentina Palladino / Ars Technica:
Garmin launches $299 Vivoactive 3 smartwatch with Garmin Pay and new sport profiles, and the $199 Vivosport and $199 Vivomove HR activity trackers — Another $300 smartwatch that wants to be the best high-end fitness device. — Ahead of this year's IFA conference, Garmin announced new additions to its Vivo family of wearables.

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Wednesday, August 30, 2017

Sequoia's Ascent program, which pairs technical women with mentors from other portfolio companies, is increasing number of participants from 50 to 200 this year (Michal Lev-Ram/Fortune)

Michal Lev-Ram / Fortune:
Sequoia's Ascent program, which pairs technical women with mentors from other portfolio companies, is increasing number of participants from 50 to 200 this year — Silicon Valley venture capital firms haven't exactly been models for gender equality—especially in light of the recent spate …

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Expedia names CFO Mark Okerstrom as its new CEO, replacing Dara Khosrowshahi, who left for Uber (Expedia, Inc.)

Expedia, Inc.:
Expedia names CFO Mark Okerstrom as its new CEO, replacing Dara Khosrowshahi, who left for Uber — Expedia, Inc. (NASDAQ: EXPE) today announced that its Board of Directors has approved the appointment of Mark Okerstrom, currently Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President of Operations …

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Box reports Q2 revenue of $122.9M, up 28% YoY, vs. $124.3M expected, on operating loss of $39M, or 32% of revenue, compared to 40% a year ago (Stephanie Condon/ZDNet)

Stephanie Condon / ZDNet:
Box reports Q2 revenue of $122.9M, up 28% YoY, vs. $124.3M expected, on operating loss of $39M, or 32% of revenue, compared to 40% a year ago — However, after two quarters of achieving positive free cash flow, Box reported that for Q2 free cash flow was negative $14.7 million.

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