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GM, Lyft announce Express Drive, a short-term car rental program for Lyft drivers, going live in Chicago first — Lyft and GM partner on Express Drive, a rental service that paves the way for autonomous cars — Two months after General Motors announced a $500 million investment …
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| Cade Metz / Wired: |
Google's AI Wins Fifth And Final Game Against Go Genius Lee Sedol — SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA — In the final game of their historic match, Google's artificially intelligent Go-playing computer system has defeated Korean grandmaster Lee Sedol, finishing the best-of-five series with four wins and one loss.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
After 0 successful submissions, Google doubles top reward for hacking a Chromebook to $100,000 — Over the past six years, Google has paid security researchers over $6 million (over $2 million last year alone) since launching its bug bounty program in 2010.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Meal delivery service SpoonRocket, which has raised $13.5M to date, shuts down after failing to raise new financing — SpoonRocket shuts down amongst on-demand apocalypse — SpoonRocketinformed its investors it's shutting down its on-demand pre-made meal delivery service after failing …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Here Maps drops support for Windows Phone and Windows 10 — Here maps has been a strong part of Microsoft's Windows Phone offering for years, but that's coming to an end later this month. Here is announcing today that it plans to pull its mapping apps for Windows 10 on March 29th, and …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google's new Analytics 360 Suite for enterprise marketers directly challenges Adobe's Marketing Cloud — Google announces Analytics 360 Suite for enterprise marketers — Google is launching a new product for enterprise marketers today that will directly challenge Adobe's Marketing Cloud and similar services.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google puts presidential campaign finance information and more directly in search — Just in time for “Mega Tuesday,” Google has rolled out new features to Google Search that will allow you to better track the primaries and learn more about the candidates. One new addition provides easy …
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| Mark Hachman / PCWorld: |
AMD announces $1499 dual-GPU Radeon Pro Duo video card for VR content creation, reveals Crytek partnership to deliver VR hardware and software to universities — AMD bets big on virtual reality with new cards, partnerships — AMD is expected to provide details at an event in San Francisco on Monday night.
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| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
Western Digital releases 314GB PiDrive for Raspberry Pi with USB 3.0 interface and BerryBoot bootloader, for $46 — Western Digital makes a $46, 314GB hard drive just for the Raspberry Pi — The Raspberry Pi 3 was released earlier this month with some significantly improved hardware …
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Computerworld, PR Newswire, BerryTerminal, Digital Trends, TechSpot, Gizmodo, BetaNews and PCWorld. Tweets: @albertwenger
| Jake Smith / ZDNet: |
Verizon launches yearly upgrade program for Galaxy S7, S7 Edge — After launching a similar program for the iPhone last year, Verizon has announced a Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge upgrade program. — Verizon has announced a new program that will allow customers to upgrade to the latest Galaxy smartphone each year.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google adds support for Microsoft Office, Facebook at Work, Slack and others to its single sign-on solution — Google doesn't just offer its own web-based productivity apps, but it also offers a service for business users who want to use Google as an identity provider for accessing … | Pam Belluck / New York Times: |
Study finds smartphone digital assistants mostly fail when users say they're in distress or having a medical emergency — Hey Siri, Can I Rely on You in a Crisis? Not Always, a Study Finds — Smartphone virtual assistants, like Apple's Siri and Microsoft's Cortana …
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