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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.
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.
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
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 …
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 …
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.
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'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.
Kif Leswing / Business Insider:
Apple News introduces ad format for sponsored posts that appear in feeds alongside articles, with Apple keeping 30% of revenue  —  Apple News will soon get ‘native’ ads that look like articles  —  Apple has introduced a new ad format for sponsored posts that will appear in users' news feeds alongside articles in the Apple News app.

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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Trump says Stephen Colbert is a “pathetic trainwreck” and “CBS should, ‘put him to sleep,’ NOW”, after CBS aired a Late Show rerun in which Colbert mocked Trump

Alex Ritman / Variety:
In Channel 4's 2025 Alternative Christmas Message, Jimmy Kimmel said “tyranny is booming” in the US and, on his ABC suspension, “We won, the president lost”

Henry Blodget / Regenerator:
Bari Weiss' 60 Minutes decision may have been a way to both signal that she's serious about shifting CBS' sensibility to the right and “improve” a story

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