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Apple is continuing to add to its team of machine learning experts in Cupertino. TechCrunch reports that Apple has acquired Tuplejump, which describes itself as a service that "presents all your data in a familiar format" on their now-removed website. Apple buys smaller technology companies from time to time, and we generally do not discuss our purpose or plans. The report notes that Tuplejump is based in part in India as well as the United States and doesn't disclose the terms of the acquisition. We're hearing that Apple was particularly interested in "FiloDB", an opensource project that Tuplejump was building to efficiently apply machine learning concepts and analytics to massive amounts of complex data right as it streamed in.