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1) YouTube TV is officially becoming available nationwide

There is good news for cord cutters with good internet access. YouTube TV is now available nationwide. The service started in 2017 and has been growing quietly. Google is not known for hype and marketing and YouTube TV is no exception. As a YouTube TV subscriber I am relatively happy as most content that I consume is available on it. Two missing pieces in YouTube TV is lack of offline support; unlike YouTube and Netflix, I can’t store shows on my devices to watch during flights. YouTube TV also doesn’t integrate with Movies Anywhere so that I can watch movies that I already own. # Culture
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2) Adobe acquires French 3D Design Specialist Allegorithmic

Adobe users are going to have even more latest technologies at their disposal. Adobe is acquiring the notable French company Allegorithmic, which is known for its Substance tools that are used in AAA video games. Substance will give Adobe tools that it needs to help creators build AR (augmented reality) content. #emergingtech
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3) DoorDash ropes in UberEats engineering boss Sokol

Popular food delivery service, DoorDash has eaten UberEats’ lunch by poaching Uber’s head of strategic finance, Ryan Sokol as its CFO. During his 5-year stint at the ride-hailing app, Sokol led and scaled UberEats from its inception. UberEats, its food delivery arm, has turned out to be one of the company’s major success stories. Sokol will lead DoorDash’s 200-person engineering team, focusing on product, infrastructure, and optimizing software. He will report to co-founder and CEO Tony Xu. #emergingtech
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4) African Software Start-up Andela Raises $100 million

In one of the largest ever capital raises by an African tech company, Andela has raised $100 million in a new round of funding led by Al Gore’s Generation Investment Management (the investment fund co-founded by former Vice President Al Gore). With the latest funding, Andela will accelerate the development of its technology platform to identify, develop and match talent at scale. #diversity
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5) Your Next macBook May Get The OLED Display

Samsung is ready to deliver larger OLED laptop screens to you earlier than expected. Samsung Displays has made a 15.6-inch 4K laptop display, which will enter mass production next month. The latest display from Samsung comes equipped with a brightness range of 0.0005 to 600 nits. Its spectrum of 34 million colors is also said to be double than that of 15-inch LCD panels. Thanks to its HDR capabilities, the panel can produce blacks 200 times darker than those of LCD panels, and whites more than twice as bright. #emergingtech
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6) Microsoft launches low-cost laptops to take on Chromebooks

Microsoft is posing a serious challenge to Google’s push into the education segment with its low-cost modern laptops. Microsoft has launched a range of Windows 10 devices for education, with prices as low as $189. These include Lenovo 100e ($189), Lenovo 300e​ (two-in-one, $289), Lenovo 14w ($299), Acer TravelMate B1 ​($215), Acer TravelMate Spin B1​ (two-in-one, $299), Acer TravelMate B1-114 ($319) and Dell Latitude 3300 for Education ($299). These may be low-cost devices, they pack all the punches kids needs from modern devices, including support for Pen accessory.
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7) MacBook Pro’s ‘Flexgate’ could cost you $600

Is another MacBook Pro hardware controversy knocking the door of Apple?. iFixit has reported an issue with the laptop’s backlights failing, in turn causing the lighting at the bottom of the display to appear spotted and uneven. The issue has been dubbed “flexgate” by an enterprising user. “The issue is fairly simple: the current generation of MacBook Pro laptops (2016-present) uses flexible ribbon cables to connect the display to a display controller board beneath the Touch Bar,” said iFixit’s Taylor Dixon. MacBook Pro owners are forced to shell out as much as $600 to get the issue fixed by Apple.
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8) Fedora Remix for WSL now arrives for Windows 10 users

Adding to the constantly growing Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) on Windows 10 is Fedora Remix for WSL. The latest distro from Whitewater Foundry is a remix of the popular Fedora Linux and can be installed directly from the Microsoft Store. Fedora Remix for WSL joins other Linux distributions Debian GNU/Linux, Kali Linux, OpenSUSE, Ubuntu, and WLinux there. It brings powerful Fedora Linux distribution-specific tools, the DNF package manager, and access to the Fedora Linux distribution package repositories to Windows Subsystem for Linux, as well as easy access to additional packages available on the COPR, EPEL, and RPM Fusion repositories.
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9) Intel Releases Open Source Nauta

Intel is out with the release of Nauta for distributed deep learning (DL) using Kubernetes. Nauta is a multi-user, distributed computing environment for running DL model training experiments on Intel Xeon Scalable processor-based systems. Developers can benefit from the platform by using existing data sets, proprietary data, or downloaded data from online sources, and create public or private folders to make collaboration among teams easier. Nauta is said to use components from the Kubernetes orchestration system, leveraging Kubeflow, and Docker for containerized machine learning at scale. #kubernetes #ml #al
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10) Sony’s Aibo robot now in Chocolate edition

Say hello to the first color variant of Sony’s Aibo robot dog. You will find it harder to resist as the chocolate-colored dog comes in two lovely shades of brown. The new robotic canine is available for pre-order in Japan. It also costs $1,800 like the original Aibo as it is just a recolored release with no differences in hardware and software. The tech giant has also joined hands with security firm Secom to provide a new security feature, which will enable Aibo to patrol the house. Sony also plans to open up the robot’s API this summer. #emergingtech
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