April 11, 2017
Chrome now uses scroll anchoring to prevent those annoying page jumps
The latest update to Google’s Chrome browser makes mobile browsing a bit easier and (hopefully) less frustrating. Read More Powered by WPeMatico
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April 11, 2017
Slack developers get another small tool to fill out their bot functionality
Slack, which at times can sometimes seem allergic to product changes, is making an alteration and giving developers the ability to add a drop-down menu to give additional…
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Facebook Messenger now supports group payments
Facebook introduced person-to-person payments within Messenger in early 2015, but today the company announced the feature is expanding to support groups, as well. The payments feature essentially works…
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Apple could be designing its own power management chip as well
Apple already has planned to design its own graphics chip for the iPhone, but the company doesn’t plan to stop there. According to Reuters and German investment banks,…
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Instagram Direct unites ephemeral and permanent messaging for 375M users
After successfully cloning Snapchat Stories, Instagram is looking to one-up its competitor in chat with a reimagining of its sleeping giant of a private messaging feature, Instagram Direct.…
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Qualcomm countersuit claims Apple ‘refuses to acknowledge’ the value of its technology
Apple filed a billion-dollar royalty lawsuit against Qualcomm in January and today the chip maker hit back with a legal case of its own against the iPhone maker…
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A $150 million fund, The Engine, will back startups others find ‘too hard’
A fund and accelerator for advanced technology startups, The Engine, closed its debut fund at a robust $150 million this week, according to its president, CEO and managing…
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Popular Pays raises $3.1M in new funding to connect marketers and creators
How can Popular Pays stand out in the influencer marketing crowd? The key, according to co-founder Corbett Drummey, is to focus on content. The approach seems to have…
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Of course a venture capitalist was no match for CMU’s updated poker-playing AI
Libratus, Carnegie Mellon’s poker-playing AI, is damn good. It easily routed four of the world’s best poker players back in January over 120,000 hands of No-Limit Texas Hold-um.…
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See you tomorrow at the Pittsburgh Micro-Meetup
We’re in town for a few days and we’re excited to meet all of you at the Pittsburgh Micro-Meetup tomorrow. In preparation for Disrupt New York and our…
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