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Last updated on July 27th 2017 02:06

TechCrunch

A running list of every company backed by the $93B SoftBank Vision Fund
Kaspersky Lab releases free antivirus software in global push
Here’s how much the best Overwatch players will make in Blizzard’s new pro league
Medium acquires Talkshow Industries, with CEO Michael Sippey becoming Medium’s head of product
WhatsApp hits 1B daily users while its Snapchat clone rockets to 250M
Logitech Circle2 is a great surveillance system, but for a price
Microsoft launches Windows Bounty program, offering awards up to $250,000
Walmart cancels SNES Classic pre-orders, says ‘technical glitch’ made it appear
Meg Whitman steps down from HP’s board
Tesla’s Top 10 Project Loveday videos reveal truly dedicated fans

TNW

1 Billion people now use WhatsApp every single day
eBay is adding image recognition to find items with your camera
Cannabis is poised to be Silicon Valley’s billion dollar cash crop
Meizu’s new flagship puts a display on the back of your phone
It’s time to fear Amazon
Facebook teams with Harvard to defend democracy from hackers
Windows 95 running natively in your browser is a sight to behold
Teaching the Google Generation
Google just killed off one of its biggest features – and you won’t even notice
Why this wedding industry disruptor is taking a personalized approach to customer service

Mashable

This isn't a 3D printer, but it's still a lot of fun
Tesla has announced how to watch its highly anticipated Model 3 event
BMW and other carmakers team up to take on Waze and Google Maps
Disney's Magic Bench lets you play with AR characters without headset or smartphone
Twitter is filling your feed with more useless notifications
New TSA rules require separate screenings for all electronic devices
This team is helping to save the rainforest with audio technology
You’ll never fight over an outlet again with this desk lamp
TapMedia‏ Twitter account goes rogue as former employee calls out CEO for sexism
Apple ARKit developer recreates '80s classic 'Take On Me' by A-Ha in augmented reality

Re/code

Mark Zuckerberg said he wants to push more quickly into advertising on Messenger and...
Senate lawmakers want to make it harder for law enforcement to access suspects' emails...
Venmo users sent $8 billion last quarter — twice as much as a year ago
Trump is claiming a win after Foxconn announces its plans to build a factory in Wisconsin
Facebook's revenue growth is still slowing, but it keeps beating Wall Street's expectations
Google co-founder Sergey Brin has been instructed to give a deposition in Alphabet s...
Tech execs are standing up to Trump’s ban against transgender people serving in the military
Mark Zuckerberg: Everyone should be able to serve in the military
Full transcript: U.S. Senator Cory Booker on Recode Decode
Nearly 40 million Americans use Roku, beating out Google’s Chromecast

GigaOM

Update on the AI Minute
Predicting Personality Traits from Content Using IBM Watson
Amazon’s Alexa vs. Google’s Assistant: Same Questions, Different Answers
The Future of Business is a Digital Spokesperson Let s Build a Preview Using...
AI Startups: If You Say You Are Doing AI, Show It
Review: IBM’s Watson Can Learn a lot from Marchex Speech Analytics
How to Predict When You’re Going to Lose a Subscriber
DataGravity Brings Behavior-Driven Data Management to Veeam Environments
ITW 2017 – INOC Makes the Argument for the Outsourced NOC
ITW 2017: Visualization is the Key to Understanding Connectivity

Read/WriteWeb

Elon Musk says Mark Zuckerberg’s AI understanding is “limited”
TomTom to step back from wearables market after poor sales
Hologram announces world’s largest cellular IoT network
How dangerous are the threat of kill chain attacks on IoT?
Forget Elon Musk’s ban — let’s put our energy into building safe AI
When is the time to jump in on industrial augmented reality?
Amazon reportedly acquires startup to make Alexa smarter
Fitbit hit with lawsuit over haptic feedback patents
With hundreds of choices, how can you pick an IoT platform?
Google finds its Glass after two years in the dark

Signal v. Noise

Worry is the most useless emotion
What’s new in Basecamp for iOS
Not meeting your goals
Five ways to receive negative feedback well
One door at a time
The company isn’t a family
Building the Best Relationships We Can
Introducing “The Heartbeat” Newsletter
Going to the Mattresses
You Won’t Get Rid Of Your Problems. Best You Can Do Is Trade Up

Oreilly ideas

R’s tidytext turns messy text into valuable insight
Four short links: 26 July 2017
Making great hires in your design organization
Four short links: 25 July 2017
A lesson in prescriptive modeling
Four short links: 24 July 2017
Data science startups focus on AI-enabled efficiency
How (not) to approach persistence testing in Java and Groovy
Why product management isn’t a cookie cutter position
Four short links: 21 July 2017

ProgrammableWeb

Daily API RoundUp: Barclays, Body Labs, Soclip
Iteris Expands Digital Farming API Portfolio
APIMatic SDKs Now Support OAuth 2.0
Google Releases Final Android O Developer Preview
Instagram Launches New API Features and Upgrades to Facebook Graph API
In Other API Economy News: Yandex Open Source Machine Learning Library and More
Daily API RoundUp: Databricks, Glome, Hyphenate, PotCoin, Digify
How to Access Any RESTful API Using the R Language
Body Labs Introduces SOMA Shape API for 3D Model and Measurement Prediction
MapQuest is Retiring its JavaScript Maps API

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