Intelligent Machines 364

The new Samsung Galaxy Note 7 might bump up Samsung's already amazing 2016 revenues, everybody else had a great 3rd quarter as well (except Twitter), Google AMP might take over mobile search, Comcast wants to sell all your web data to advertisers, and one weird trick for amazing abs: Chipotle. Every day. For a year.

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• Alphabet Announces Second Quarter 2016 Results - Investor Relations - Alphabet
• Facebook Profit Nearly Triples on Mobile Ad Sales and New Users
• Earning $857M in Q2, Amazon posts record profit for the third straight quarter (Jason Del Rey/Recode)
• Amazon reaches new high of 268,900 employees - skyrocketing 47% in just one year (Nat Levy/GeekWire)
• Twitter Shares Slump on Lower-Than-Expected Revenue Forecast
• Self-driving cars, Fiber and Alphabet’s other non-Google moonshots lost $859 million this past quarter
• Twitter Fails to Harness Its Importance
• The Samsung Galaxy Note7 is official with a Snapdragon 820, 5.7-inch curved AMOLED, iris scanner, and more
• Samsung Posts Best Quarterly Results In Two Years
• Related: Galaxy S7 Edge hottest Android smartphone for first half of 2016 - CNET
• Samsung Pass will give you secure banking via an iris scan
• Researchers used 2D photos to reconstruct fingerprints, successfully unlock Samsung Galaxy S6 for police
• Android Nougat may be coming on August 5
• LG's V20 will be released in September with Android 7.0 Nougat
• Samsung to offer free Gear Fit 2 or 256GB microSD with Galaxy Note 7 purchases
• Samsung gives the Gear VR a facelift
• Exclusive: This is Google's new "Nexus Launcher" that may debut on the 2016 Nexus phones
• Google updates Android with onscreen security notifications - CNET
• Google’s Instant Articles competitor is about to take over mobile search
• Alphabet’s Project Wing Delivery Drones to Be Tested in U.S.
• Guy eats Chipotle every day for a year
• Comcast: ISPs should be able to sell your Web history to advertisers
• NEW MAGIC LEAP DEMO SHOWS SHOPPING WITH AUGMENTED REALITY
• Magic Leap will soon have a developer testing lab at Lucasfilm in San Francisco
• Star Wars Magic Leap video
• Didi to Buy Uber's China Operations
• 'Pokémon GO' Used Struggle, It's Not Very Effective... - Forbes
• Aarons Project: Fing Your Raspberry Pi
• $12 Secret Code Box on Instructables
• Tease for TNNS this weekend
• 3 employees from FB, Twitter contributed to Trump
• Verne: The Himalayas