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  Zuckerberg: Video today, virtual reality tomorrow

  When people grow tired of posting photos and videos on social media, what then? Virtual-reality posts, according to Mark Zuckerberg.

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  Facebook revenue surges 39 per cent but costs also soar

  Facebook has posted strong sales results for the second quarter, showing continued success in its advertising business, though its costs also rose sharply.

• IBM aims new IoT community site at developers

  Hoping to rally the worldwide development community around the Internet of Things and drive business to its cloud services as well, IBM has launched a community space for programmers to write software to connect remote devices to back-end cloud syste...

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  Trade groups tell Congress to keep its hands off IoT

  The U.S. Congress should take a hands-off approach toward the burgeoning Internet of Things industry and let vendors figure out how to deal with privacy and security issues, representatives of four trade groups said.

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  Yahoo unveils app for texting with silent video

  Yahoo is releasing a mobile messaging app that combines texting with live one-on-one video.

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  Alibaba eyes cloud computing expansion with $1 billion investment

  Enterprise customers can expect to hear more from e-commerce giant Alibaba Group. The Chinese company is accelerating the global expansion of its cloud computing business, with a US$1 billion investment.

• The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Wednesday, July 29

  Intel, Micron unveil a new class of memory...Facebook's mobile revenue tipped to rise again...New drones help drivers with tricky deliveries...and more tech news.

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  Twitter mulling big changes to how you view tweets

  Desperate times call for desperate measures. For Twitter, that could mean a new approach to the way it displays tweets.

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  Twitter surprises with a sales gain, but user growth lags

  Twitter reported a higher than expected increase in revenue on Tuesday, suggesting progress in the company's efforts to grow its ad sales.

• Italian parliament drafts a declaration of Internet rights

  The Italian parliament wants to have its say in the creation of an international legal framework promoting freedom, equality and access to cyberspace for all, and on Tuesday it presented a Declaration of Internet Rights that it will bring to the Inte...

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  Amazon Launchpad store will sell goods from startups

  Amazon is opening a specialized storefront on its website that will sell products from startups in an effort to help the fledging companies build their businesses.

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  Google tells its publisher partners to comply with EU cookie directive

  Google is now requiring that publishers that carry its ads comply with a European Union directive and ask their site visitors' for permission before setting cookies on their computers.

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  The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Tuesday, July 28

  Samsung's bigger Galaxy S6 likely in August...Most Android phones can be hacked via an MMS...Leading researchers want autonomous weapons ban...and more tech news.

• Amazon takes on MySQL with Aurora

  After nine months of testing, Amazon Web Services is now offering its Aurora database as a full commercial service, positioning it as a high-performance alternative to the widely used open source MySQL database.

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  Over 10 million Web surfers possibly exposed to malvertising

  Upwards of 10 million people may have visited websites carrying malicious advertisements in the last ten days, possibly infecting their computers with malware, according to computer security company Cyphort.