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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 Beat Facebook for DeepMind, Creates Ethics Board — Google, which is acquiring DeepMind Technologies, has agreed to establish an ethics board to ensure the artificial intelligence technology isn't abused, according to two people familiar with the deal.
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| Harry McCracken / TIME: |
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| 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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| 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 … | Lorraine Luk / Wall Street Journal: |
Foxconn Weighs Plan for U.S. Plant — Taiwanese Tech Manufacturer Would Make Displays at U.S. Facility — TAIPEI— Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. , which assembles gadgets for Apple Inc. and other global technology firms, is evaluating a plan to build an advanced display manufacturing plant in the U.S., its chairman said.| Jenna Wortham / NYT Bits: |
For some, Twitter is becoming less about relevancy and more about one-liners — Valley of the Blahs: How Justin Bieber's Troubles Exposed Twitter's Achilles' Heel — At some point, Twitter and the rest of social media became less about wanting to share the news and more about wanting to be the news.
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51 Startup Failure Post-Mortems … On his many failed experiments, Thomas Edison once said … And so while we have dug into the data behind startups that have died (as well as those acqui-hired) and found they usually die 20 months after raising financing and after having raised about $1.3 million …
| Kevin Poulsen / Wired: |
How a Math Genius Hacked OkCupid to Find True Love — Chris McKinlay was folded — into a cramped fifth-floor cubicle in UCLA's math sciences building, lit by a single bulb and the glow from his monitor. It was 3 in the morning, the optimal time to squeeze cycles out of the supercomputer … | 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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How WordPress has embodied and benefited from the principles of open source — The Four Freedoms — Eleven months before the U.S. declared war on Japan, President Franklin D. Roosevelt said “As men do not live by bread alone, they do not fight by armaments alone.”
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