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Apple rolls out final iOS 10 release candidate for public beta testers
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Website personalization: Giving consumers what they want before they know they want it (VB Live)
Star Trek’s best game in 50 years is this simple first-person shooter
DeepMind’s WaveNet produces better human-like speech than Google’s best systems
Enterprise startup Kore: Banks need bots to woo young people
President Obama reportedly to name retired Air Force general as first cybersecurity chief
PlayStation 4 Pro isn’t for professionals; it’s for people who already own a PS4
Apple won’t reveal first-weekend iPhone 7 sales
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Developers are trying to move past the hype and figure out chatbots
Blizzard is removing cards from Hearthstone’s Arena mode to make it more fair
Fluent City raises $2.5 million to teach Brooklyn hipsters about French culture
Twitter direct messages finally get read receipts, and yes you can turn them off
Google Photos for iOS now lets you stabilize Live Photos
Pokémon Go is fastest mobile game ever to make $500 million
TwitchCon 2016 will have a Streamline tournament worth $10,000
No Man’s Sky edges out Madden for August’s most popular game videos
Box teams with cloud vendors to launch coalition supporting crisis response groups
Google Maps adds Lyft and Gett as transport options in the U.S.
Chrome will start marking HTTP sites that transmit passwords or credit cards as non-secure in January 2017
Unitas Global Awarded “Top Cloud Solution Provider: Customer Engagement”
Lego Harry Potter Collection is coming to PlayStation 4
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A.I. developers: Gather ‘round…Watson awaits!
LinkedIn boosts its publishing credentials with refreshed desktop interface
Uber launches redesigned rider music program with Pandora and Spotify
SkyGuru mobile app helps passengers cope with fear of flying
Google to acquire API management provider Apigee for $625 million
Why Shopify’s Michael Perry is afraid bots will fail small businesses
Amazon launches upgraded $90 Fire HD 8, reveals that Alexa will be coming to Fire tablets soon
Intel leads $12M investment into automated video-creation platform WSC Sports
IBM unveils Power8 Linux servers for deep learning
Salesforce’s Community Cloud gets Lightning templates from Accenture, Deloitte, others
LinkedIn adds conversion tracking for sponsored updates
Twilio targets the enterprise with plan offering more security and regulatory controls
General Catalyst’s Phil Libin says first bot IPOs are 2 or 3 years away
Matt Mills Appointed CEO of MapR Technologies
Menlo Ventures brings back Shawn Carolan as managing director of its consumer practice
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Take it from Gilt and Zillow: It’s not the size of your user base, it’s how you use it (VB Live)
OfferUp raises $119 million to help people buy and sell stuff locally
