Monday, June 20, 2016

Twitch fights view-inflating bot makers with lawsuit and other top stories.

  • Twitch fights view-inflating bot makers with lawsuit

    Twitch fights view-inflating bot makers with lawsuit
    Twitch has just about had it with bots that artificially inflate view counts for videos. In fact, it’s taking the makers of such bots to court. In a post published to the Twitch Blog on Friday, Matthew DiPietro, Twitch’s senior vice president of marketing, explained how the company is working to combat fraudulent view counts. In addition to the current steps Twitch takes—such as human moderation and technical measures to combat view-count inflation—the company announced that it would sue “seven..
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  • NVIDIA Announces PCI Express Tesla P100: Shipping In Q4'16

    NVIDIA Announces PCI Express Tesla P100: Shipping In Q4'16
    Kicking off this week in Frankfurt, Germany is the annual International Supercomputing Conference, better known as ISC. One of the two major supercomputing conferences for the year, ISC is commonly used as a backdrop for high performance processor announcements, and this year is no different. Starting things off this year is NVIDIA, who is taking to the show to announce the PCI Express version of the Tesla P100 accelerator. We were first introduced to Tesla P100 back in April of this year, when..
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  • Facebook: Official app arrives on Windows 10

    Facebook: Official app arrives on Windows 10
    By: IANS New York Updated: Jun 20, 2016, 14:11 By: IANS | New York | Updated: June 20, 2016 2:11 pm Microsoft has finally got the long awaited official Facebook app for Windows that would be available for Windows 10-powered personal computers and smartphones. Technology giant Microsoft has finally got the long awaited official Facebook app for Windows that would be available for Windows 10-powered personal computers and smartph..
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  • Waze From Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Google That Will Help In Steering Difficult Intersections

    Waze From Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Google That Will Help In Steering Difficult Intersections
    Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Google has upgraded its mapping and navigation app to make it easier for drivers in Los Angeles to steer around tricky intersections. Waze will help in solving the Left-hand turns which more often than not can be a safety hazard especially in the absence of traffic light. Waze will safe many the agony of having to make hectic left turns from tiny streets to join multi-lane arteries. Speaking about the app, its spokeswoman Julie Mossler said that no one will be forc..
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  • Apple's Loss in Chinese Patent Fight Seen Emboldening Rivals

    Apple's Loss in Chinese Patent Fight Seen Emboldening Rivals
    Apple Inc.’s loss in a Chinese patent dispute may spell more legal trouble ahead as fast-rising local rivals get bolder in taking on the world’s largest technology company.The Beijing Intellectual Property Office ruled last week that some Apple devices violate the design patents of little-known Chinese smartphone vendor Shenzhen Baili. While the iPhone maker appealed to keep its best-selling gadgets on the market, it could face a rising tide of lawsuits and a threat to its sales if the ruling c..
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  • Facebook Wants To Make Messenger Easier To Use

    Facebook Wants To Make Messenger Easier To Use
    There are over 900 million people using Messenger every month, so it’s no surprise that Facebook are focusing on how to best utilise the service. “Up until now, a lot of how message organisation and inboxes work has been broken,” says Facebook. “So, we’ve been thinking about how we can make it simpler and easier to find what you want to start a conversation.” Here’s what Facebook has planned and what changes have already been made. There’s a new Home tab for your messages where you can see your..
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  • Tesla Model S Benefit #111: It Can Swim

    Tesla Model S Benefit #111: It Can Swim
    A Floridian with the username “Dan1” on the Tesla Motors Club forum just shared an interesting little video of a Tesla Model S making it out of a flooded tunnel, much more easily than the vehicles around it. Dan had the clever idea of the “Model S can ...
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  • Chinese Supercomputer Tops List of World's Fastest Computers

    A Chinese supercomputer has topped a list of the world's fastest computers again this year, and for the first time the winning system uses Chinese-designed processors instead of U.S. technology. Researchers in the United States and Germany who maintain the TOP500 ranking said Monday the latest unit to top the speed list is the Sunway TaihuLight developed by China's National Research Center of Parallel Computer Engineering & Technology. It displaced Tianhe-2, another Chinese computer that hel..
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