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Amazon says Alexa is coming to its iPhone app next week, with the ability to shop, track packages, tell jokes, check the weather, more — Starting today and available to all iPhone users next week, you can talk to Amazon's intelligent assistant Alexa while using the Amazon app.
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| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
Report: Spotify is negotiating with music labels to decrease royalty fees ahead of future IPO, possibly by limiting some releases to paid users for a period — Spotify is considering a move that would mean some of its biggest new releases will be restricted to paid users, according to a new report from Financial Times.
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| Bloomberg: |
Profile of Anthony Levandowski, Otto founder and ex-head of Google's LiDAR team, who's at the heart of Waymo's Uber lawsuit after allegedly taking designs — Travis Kalanick, the chief executive officer of Uber Technologies Inc., says he needs leadership help.
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Some users report Google Home playing a promo for “Beauty and the Beast”; Google says it's not an advert as Assistant invites “partners” to “share their tales” — Google Assistant now does advertising — Today some Google Home owners are hearing something extra …
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Nvidia partners with trucking giant PACCAR to put its autonomous technology into trucks — Nvidia's already going deeper down the self-driving vehicle rabbit hole in partnership with Bosch, but it's also moving further into autonomous trucking with a newpartnership with PACCAR, one of the world's largest makers of transport trucks.| Jordan Golson / The Verge: |
Nvidia partners with Bosch to sell its AI-powered driver-assistant platform to automakers — Nvidia has announced a new partnership with Bosch to sell its Drive PX 2 driver-assist platform to automakers. In effect, the deal gives Nvidia a go-to-market strategy for its self-driving hardware and software platform.
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| Corinne Gretler / Bloomberg: |
Swatch CEO Nick Hayek says the firm is developing a smartwatch operating system focused on battery life, to compete with iOS and Android, debuting in late 2018 — First product with new system to be Tissot in late 2018 — Swiss watchmaker says technology can be used in small objects
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| Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
Netflix to replace star ratings with thumbs up and thumbs down in coming weeks after A/B testing showed thumbs got 200% more ratings — Get ready to say good-bye to star ratings on Netflix: The company is getting ready to replace stars with Pandora-like thumbs-ups and thumbs-downs in the coming weeks.| Rita El Khoury / Android Police: |
Google says its Assistant rollout on devices running Android 6.0 and above “does not include tablets” — When Google announced that the Assistant would start rolling out to devices running Android 6.0 and above, there was one little detail we didn't pay close attention to … | Sam Kim / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Galaxy S8 will allow Samsung Pay authorization via facial recognition, building on authorization via fingerprint and iris scans — It's counting on features to differentiate its flagship phone — Phone to feature digital assistant, all-screen front as well
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| Shelby Carpenter / Forbes: |
Bike-sharing startup LimeBike raises $12M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz, plans to launch in the Bay Area early April — When Andreessen-Horowitz partner Jeff Jordan goes from his Portola Valley home to San Francisco, he avoids driving as much as possible.
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| Miguel Helft / Forbes: |
Mobile heart monitor maker AliveCor unveils an AI platform to flag abnormal heart conditions, and raises $30M led by Omron Healthcare — AliveCor, the Silicon Valley-based maker of the $99 Kardia Mobile, a portable electrocardiogram device, is now betting that artificial intelligence …
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