• Picture Platform 500px Drops Offerings
    Photographers using picture platform 500px can no longer license their work under a Creative Commons license, The Verge reports. The site is also removing the functionality to search and download these images. “The site also closed down its stock photo platform, 500px Marketplace yesterday, replacing it with distribution partnerships with Getty Images and Visual China Group,” The Verge notes.
  • Is Facebook Nabbing A Natural-Language Processing Startup?
    Facebook is reportedly the process of buying Bloomsbury AI, which specializes in natural language processing technology. “Facebook plans to deploy the company’s team and tech to work on combating fake news and to tackle other content issues,” TechCrunch writes, citing sources.
  • Dell Prepping Second IPO
    Five years after its leveraged buyout, Dell is eying another IPO. “The tech giant will return to public markets by buying out its tracking stock, DVMT, in a cash and share-swap deal valued at $21.7 billion,” Bloomberg reports, citing a company filing. “The move aims to simplify Dell’s tangled corporate structure without weighing on its balance sheet.”
  • Apple Is Rebuilding Maps
    To the delight of iPhone owners around the world, Apple is vowing to remake its Maps feature from the ground up. “It’s re-building the maps part of Maps,” TechCrunch writes. “It’s doing this by using first-party data gathered by iPhones with a privacy-first methodology and its own fleet of cars packed with sensors and cameras.”
  • Microsoft Developing Pocket-Sized Surface Device
    Don’t call it a smartphone, but Microsoft is reportedly building a pocket-sized Surface device. With the gadget, Microsoft is promising a “‘new and disruptive’ device category to influence the overall Surface roadmap and blur the lines between what’s considered PC and mobile,” The Verge reports. However, sources tell The Verge the device remains highly experimental.
  • Comcast Suffers Nationwide Outages
    Comcast users experienced service outages from coast to coast on Friday, CNet reports. Confirming the major disruption, the carrier tweeted: “One of Comcast’s large backbone network partners had a fiber cut that we believe is also impacting other providers. It is currently affecting our business and residential internet, video and voice customers.”
  • Amazon Echo Dot Kids Edition Gets Mixed Reviews
    The early reviews of Amazon’s Echo Dot Kids Edition are in, and they’re mixed. “Like [Amazon’s Fire tablet] for Kids, the Echo Dot Kids Edition is just an Echo Dot, but foam-wrapped in appealing colors for maximum cuteness,” Wired’s Adrienne So writes. Ultimately, “Given the choices we’ve made as a family, we simply didn't find the Dot useful as a tool or toy,” So said.
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