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December 15, 2012, 4:30 PM

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KurzweilAI:

Kurzweil joins Google to work on new projects involving machine learning and language processing — Ray Kurzweil confirmed today that he will be joining Google to work on new projects involving machine learning and language processing. — “I'm excited to share that I'll be joining Google …

More: VatorNews, MIT Technology Review, SlashGear, VentureBeat, The Verge, CNET, ZDNet, Engadget, Techonomy, PC Magazine, HotHardware.com News, Softpedia News, NextBigWhat, Digits, GigaOM, SocialTimes, The Next Web, Ars Technica, PhoneArena, Computerworld, ReadWrite, AllThingsD and Electronista

Tweets: @benlillie and @counternotions

Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch:

Ray Kurzweil Joins Google In Full-Time Engineering Director Role; Will Focus On Machine Learning, Language Processing — Famed inventor, entrepreneur, author, and futurist Ray Kurzweil announced this afternoon that he has been hired by search engine giant Google as a director of engineering focused …

More: Gizmodo. Thanks:@loyalelectron

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Google drops a Gmail-shaped bomb on Windows Phone — The ecosystem battle continues — For Windows Phone users, the news out of Google today couldn't be much worse. — The company announced it's removing support for Microsoft's Exchange ActiveSync protocol for new devices from January 30th, 2013.

More: Engadget, ZDNet and SuperSite for Windows. Tweets: @tomwarren

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Google to shut down Calendar features, Google Sync, Google Calendar Sync, Issue Tracker Data API, and Punchd

More: HotHardware.com News, iDownloadBlog.com, Engadget, PhoneArena, The Verge, Electronista, BGR, VatorNews, iPhone in Canada Blog, Ars Technica, VentureBeat, 9to5Google, TechCrunch and 9to5Mac

Tweets: @reckless, @maryjofoley and @charlesarthur

Geoff Colvin / Fortune:

Comcast CEO: What we learned from Apple — Comcast CEO Brian Roberts applies the Apple model to his business empire: Keep it simple, and reinvent constantly. — FORTUNE — America's biggest media company isn't what you think. Comcast (CMCSA) takes in more revenue and commands …

More: The Verge, CNET, PandoDaily and Business Insider

David J. Hill / Singularity Hub:

Patented Book Writing System Creates, Sells Hundreds Of Thousands Of Books On Amazon — Philip M. Parker, Professor of Marketing at INSEAD Business School, has had a side project for over 10 years. He's created a computer system that can write books about specific subjects in about 20 minutes.

More: Examiner, ExtremeTech, Good E-Reader, broadstuff and DVICE. Tweets: @joshuamcclure

New York Times:

Microsoft Battles Google by Hiring Political Brawler Mark Penn — SEATTLE — Mark Penn made a name for himself in Washington by bulldozing enemies of the Clintons. Now he spends his days trying to do the same to Google, on behalf of its archrival Microsoft.

More: The Verge. Tweets: @akovacs, @fxshaw, @fxshaw, @fxshaw and @fxshaw

Megan Garber / The Atlantic Online:

How the UN's ‘Game-Changing’ Internet Treaty Failed — German delegates on the fourth day of the 12-day-long World Conference on International Telecommunications (ITU/Flickr) — Did you know that, for the past two weeks, the future of the Internet has been at stake? — Yes, it has.

More: TPM IdeaLab and Datamation.com. See also Mediagazer

Lauren Indvik / Mashable!:

Washington Post Moves Social Reader Off Facebook — The Washington Post Company has decided to move its Social Reader app — which displays stories from Washington Post Co. publications and 90 other news organizations, including this one, on Facebook — to a standalone site at socialreader.com, the co...

Tweets: @laureni. See also Mediagazer

Ryan Tate / Wired:

Meet the World's Cheapest Venture Capitalist — Maciej Cegłowski's new startup fund was the toast of Silicon Valley on Friday, lighting up Twitter, winning top billing on the elite Hacker News forum, and drawing dozens of applications from would-be portfolio companies. The fund's draw: Extreme stinginess.

More: Pinboard. Tweets: @panzer, @pinboard, @sriramk, @davidpetersimon and @pinboard

Barb Darrow / GigaOM:

Amazon gives customers more detailed billing of their cloud services — Updated: Amazon is still not carving out EC2 compute instances in smaller-than-an-hour increments as we speculated it might, and as Cloud Sigma and ProfitBricks already do. But now it is offering customers …

More: Amazon Web Services Blog, ProgrammableWeb, Web Host Industry Review, InfoWorld and VentureBeat

Ben Kersey / The Verge:

Samsung rejects labor claims, says there are no underage workers at its supplier — Samsung has responded to allegations of HTNS Shenzhen hiring underage workers following complaints from China Labor Watch. In a blog post, the company reveals that it met with both HTNS Shenzhen …

More: SAMSUNG TOMORROW Global, china labor watch, Bloomberg, CNET and CBS News

Margalit Fox / New York Times:

N. Joseph Woodland, 1921-2012: N. Joseph Woodland, Inventor of the Bar Code, Dies at 91 — It was born on a beach six decades ago, the product of a pressing need, an intellectual spark and the sweep of a young man's fingers through the sand. — The result adorns almost every product of contemporary life …

More: The Verge, BBC, Geek News Central, Laughing Squid, Engadget, The Register, Gawker, nbcnews.com, Reuters, Softpedia News and Guardian

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