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February 19, 2018, 7:00 PM

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Manish Singh:
Wikipedia Zero, which partnered with 97 mobile carriers in 72 countries to provide 800M+ users access to Wikipedia at no data cost, is being discontinued  —  In an unexpected development, the Wikimedia Foundation announced on Friday that it is discontinuing Wikipedia Zero …
Mishaal Rahman / xda-developers:
Nuance discontinues Swype iOS, Android apps after buying company in 2011 for $100M as it exits consumer keyboard business and focuses on AI for businesses  —  For the longest time, one of the advantages of Android over iOS was the ability to use third-party keyboard apps available on the Play Store.
Nikkei:
Sony and five Japanese taxi operators plan joint venture to develop taxi-hailing system in Japan that uses AI to predict demand  —  Group teams with fleet operators to develop AI-powered dispatching  —  TOKYO — Sony will lead a new Japanese effort to develop a taxi-hailing system …
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Matthew Hutson / Science:
Missing data is hindering replication of AI studies as survey of 400 algorithms presented at major conferences finds just 6% had code and 30% included test data  —  Last year, computer scientists at the University of Montreal (U of M) in Canada were eager to show off a new speech recognition algorithm …

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