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Facebook details the AI technology behind Instagram Explore

According to Facebook, over half of Instagram’s roughly 1 billion users visit Instagram Explore to discover videos, photos, livestreams, and Stories each month. Predictably, building the underlying recommendation engine — which curates the billions of pieces of content uploaded to Instagram — posed an engineering challenge, not least because it works in real time. In a blog post published…
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Tookitaki raises $11.7 million more for AI-driven financial regulatory compliance tools

Ensuring regulatory compliance can be expensive for financial services companies. In fact, the average cost nearly doubled from $16 million to $30.9 million between 2011 and 2017, according to one survey. And it’s tough for most to keep up — in 2017, over 900 agencies together issued over 200 regulatory updates each day, on average. Companies like Tookitaki aim to ease the regulatory burden…
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MobileNews

Early Black Friday Sale: Save 40% on Bare Cases for iPhone 11, 11 Pro and 11 Pro Max

Ahead of its Black Friday and Cyber Monday promos, Bare is offering 9to5Mac readers an early40% off on all cases for iPhone 11, Pro & Pro Max modelsfrom its signature Bare Naked line, and the new Bare Armour collection. Head below for a better look at the new cases: Bare’s minimalist cases for iPhone 11 are designed to not interfere with the design and ergonomics of Apple’s…
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Samsung's smaller Galaxy S11e

Samsung’s Galaxy S10e is clearly a compromise between its smaller screen and ‘just’ two rear cameras, but its follow-up might be more appealing. Hot on the heels of a purported leak for the full-size Galaxy S11, OnLeaks and Pricebaba have posted renders of…
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Google Keep for Android rolling out Material Theme bottom bar with inset FAB

Google Keep rarely gets updated these days, but it’s mostly feature complete following dark themes earlier this year for Android and the web. The mobile client today is rolling out a Material Theme bottom app bar with inset FAB. Previously, the left side of the bottom bar had a “Take a note…” field that opened a blank screen when tapped. To the right were shortcuts for creating a new…
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