Support grows for Galaxy Note 7 name; will Samsung really skip the Note 6?

The importance of branding to smartphone sales can’t be understated, and the difference between a forgettable phone and one that goes on to be a best-seller really can be as simple as giving it an identity that really resonates with the smartphone-buying public. Samsung knows this truth as well as anyone (and how many times have you heard people talk about “Galaxy” phones when they’re referring to Android handsets in general?), and new rumors have suggested that the company is taking that lesson to heart, calling its next phablet the Galaxy Note 7 in an effort to create synergy with this year’s … – Source

Support grows for Galaxy Note 7 name; will Samsung really skip the Note 6?

CrowdFlower raises $10M to combine artificial intelligence with crowdsourced labor

CrowdFlower is announcing that it has raised $10 million in Series D funding.

The round was led by Microsoft, with participation from Canvas Ventures and Trinity Ventures. The San Francisco-based company has now raised a total of $38 million, according to CrunchBase.

CrowdFlower launched at the TechCrunch50 conference back in 2009, billing itself “labor as a service” tool using… Read More

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CrowdFlower raises $10M to combine artificial intelligence with crowdsourced labor

Helpshift raises $23M led by Microsoft, Salesforce for a chat tool that helps with CRM in apps

As more of our day-to-day services make the shift to digital platforms, a startup that has built a customer care tool to help us through some of the pain points in mobile apps has closed a Series B round of funding. Helpshift, which provides an SDK to software companies to build a chat bridge between users of their mobile apps and their customer service teams, has raised $23… Read More

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Helpshift raises $23M led by Microsoft, Salesforce for a chat tool that helps with CRM in apps

There is still hope for Apple to open retail stores in India

After Apple’s application to open retail stores in India was denied by the Indian government, it turns out the company might still get the chance to sell its devices at its own retail stores in the country. Currently, this is not allowed under Indian legislation, as it obligates foreign companies to sell at least 30 percent locally-sourced goods in order to be allowed to open retail stores in the country. Last year saw a minor amendment in the law, exempting foreign high-tech manufacturers from the rule, provided they submit a special application for a waiver, backed by a sufficient body of reasons, … – Source

There is still hope for Apple to open retail stores in India

Users giving BlackBerry Priv a solid thumbs down, says AT&T exec

BlackBerry’s debut Android-powered smartphone Priv has got a big thumbs down from customers, at-least according to AT&T. An unnamed, high-level executive with the carrier bluntly told Cnet that the device “is really struggling.”

The executive noted that the handset mostly caught the fancy of BlackBerry loyalists only, and over-and-above that, majority of those who actually went ahead and purchased the phone found it difficult to make a switch from the Canadian company’s OS to Google’s OS.

“We’ve seen more returns than we would like,” the executive said.

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Users giving BlackBerry Priv a solid thumbs down, says AT&T exec

Officials may never find out who carried Bangladesh bank heist

Sean Kanuck, who was the most senior official in charge of cyber security at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence for five years said that there had been no official determination on who committed the cyber heist, one of the biggest ever. – Source

Officials may never find out who carried Bangladesh bank heist

Dear Dads: This is what rape culture looks like, and you're responsible

Being a dad these days is hard, right? So many things you have to remember. So much political correctness. Much of the way our dads taught us to behave no longer cut the mustard with polite society.

I have no intention of making the process of parenting teenage boys any harder than it already is, so here’s one clear and easy rule for dads everywhere. Follow this long-standing rule for raising young gentlemen, and you should be good. Huddle up, guys!

If you teach your son to cook a good steak before you teach him to respect women and treat them as human beings at all times, you have failed at life. …

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Dear Dads: This is what rape culture looks like, and you're responsible

Anti-Defamation League adds echo symbol to list of hate symbols - CNET

The (((echo))) symbol has been used to single out Jews on Twitter, the civil right organization says. – Source

Anti-Defamation League adds echo symbol to list of hate symbols - CNET

Jesus' Tomb Is Finally Getting the Restoration That Bickering Monks Delayed for 200 Years

The are many reasons one might put off a much-needed home improvement project. Budget. Can’t find the right contractor. When it came to the tomb where Christians believe Jesus was buried, it was two centuries of infighting between some very possessive monks.

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Jesus' Tomb Is Finally Getting the Restoration That Bickering Monks Delayed for 200 Years

Star Trek Beyond will be one extended HPE commercial, according to HPE

Enlarge / Star Trek Beyond might be good or it might be bad, but either way it belongs in the canon. (credit: Paramount Pictures)

Hewlett-Packard Enterprises (HPE) gleefully announced on Monday that it has been working with Paramount over the last few months to “develop three conceptual technologies” for Star Trek Beyond, the latest in the new Star Trek movies.

In an HPE press release, the company writes: “Without giving any spoiler alerts [editor’s note: I think you simply mean “spoilers” here, HPE], we collaborated on three different technological concepts in the film: The quarantine, the diagnostic wrap, and the book. Each of these concepts showcase HPE’s vision for the future of technology, but are rooted in developments we hope to introduce much sooner.”

That futuristic technology that HPE is promising “much sooner” is related to a product called “The Machine,” which a larger, less-fractured HP promised in 2014. The Machine would use memristors (technology theorized in the ‘70s and built in 2008 by HP to employ flexible electrical resistance as memory) as well as optical interconnects to create a new genre of hardware that was supposed to revolutionize supercomputers and mobile devices alike. The company was sufficiently gung-ho about its R&D to claim in 2014 that it would commercialize the technology in The Machine within the next few years “or fall on its face trying.”

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Star Trek Beyond will be one extended HPE commercial, according to HPE

Chinese powerhouses lead the way in AnTuTu's recent top 10 chart

AnTuTu, one of the most popular mobile benchmarks, has just released a list of the top 10 fastest smartphones for the month of May 2016. Leading the pack are several smartphones from China, all of which feature 6GB of RAM.

The top three smartphones in AnTuTu’s May 2016 list – the Vivo Xplay 5 Elite, the LeEco Max 2, and the Lenovo ZUK Z2 Pro – are all based on the same configuration, namely a Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 chipset paired with 6GB of RAM. Interestingly, the occupants of the number four and five positions are also based on a Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 SoC, … – Source

Chinese powerhouses lead the way in AnTuTu's recent top 10 chart