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Exclusive: Google to Buy Artificial Intelligence Startup DeepMind for $400M — Google is shelling out $400 million to buy a secretive artificial intelligence company called DeepMind. — Google confirmed the deal after Re/code inquired about it, but declined to specify a price.
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| Amir Efrati / The Information: |
Google paid more than $500M for DeepMind, beating out Facebook; creates ethics board to ensure technology isn't abused — Google Beat Facebook for DeepMind, Creates Ethics Board — Google, which is acquiring DeepMind Technologies, has agreed to establish an ethics board to ensure …
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| David Carr / New York Times: |
Ezra Klein Is Joining Vox Media as Web Journalism Asserts Itself — After a week of speculation, it turns out that Ezra Klein, the prolific creator of The Washington Post's Wonkblog, will be going to Vox Media, the online home of SB Nation, a sports site, and The Verge, a fast-growing technology site.
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Exclusive: Watch Steve Jobs' First Demonstration of the Mac for the Public, Unseen Since 1984 — It's January, 1984. Steve Jobs, nattily attired in a double-breasted suit, is demonstrating Apple's breakthrough personal computer, Macintosh, before a packed room.
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Thanks:@mariedomingo| Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom: |
Google and Samsung reach global patent cross-licensing agreement covering “the two companies' existing patents as well as those filed over the next 10 years” — Google and Samsung reach global patent license deal — In a move that could have big implications …
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Google Broadens Its Outreach to GOP — Long Viewed as an Ally of Democrats, It's Now Courting Conservatives on Issues Affecting Its Business — WASHINGTON— Google Inc. employees have been a top source of campaign cash for President Barack Obama. A former chief executive campaigned for the president.
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| R. Jai Krishna / Wall Street Journal: |
Google Takes Defamation Case to India's Supreme Court — An Indian Supreme Court hearing on whether the local unit of Google Inc. is liable for allegedly defamatory comments posted on its blogging site will help decide how Internet companies do business in the growing South Asian market.
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| Owen Williams / The Next Web: |
Wikipedia adding celebrity voices to wiki pages to preserve them for future generations — A new project called WikiVIP was announced by Wikipedia today that seeks to add the voice of celebrities and other notable people to the online encyclopedia. — The project is the brainchild …
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| Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune: |
Ahead of earnings, analyst estimates put Apple's fiscal Q1 revenues at $58B, up 6.6% YoY — Spreadsheet of the day: Final estimates for Apple's fiscal Q1 2014 — The consensus forecast of 47 analysts: Earnings of $14.36 per share on sales of $58 billion.
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
As smart home standards make slow progress, middleman services to tie devices together emerge — The dumb state of the smart home — Consumers are ready to connect their homes, but their appliances aren't — Shane Dyer is surrounded by a dozen or so home appliances made by a dozen or so different manufacturers.
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| Ina Fried / Re/code: |
Samsung to Pay Hundreds of Millions of Dollars to Settle Patent Dispute With Ericsson — In the second patent deal announced by Samsung in the last 24 hours, the Korean electronics giant and Ericsson announced they have settled a dispute with a cross-licensing deal that will see some big checks … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
AT&T dismisses talk of a Vodafone takeover bid — AT&T might want a piece of the European wireless market, but it's not planning to bid for British firm Vodafone. The US carrier revealed today that it won't make a takeover offer for Vodafone, following months of speculation that originated in October.
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