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Trump to sign American AI Initiative executive order that will prioritize federal funding for AI, create resources for AI researchers, establish standards, more — Artificial intelligence may have been invented in the United States, but other nations, including China, Canada, and France …
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| South China Morning Post: |
IDC: Apple's Q4 smartphone shipments in China fell 19.9% YoY and Xiaomi fell 34.9% but Huawei shipments grew 23.3% — Huawei racks up 23 per cent gain in shipments in fourth quarter against 9.7 per cent slump in industry shipments.
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Apple says it has partnered with the US Department of Veterans and will soon let veterans access their digital health records through iPhone's Health app — Apple has announced that it will soon support accessing digital health records for veterans through the Health app on iPhone.
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Autonomous vehicle startup Nuro says it has raised $940M from SoftBank's Vision Fund, valuing the company at $2.7B — (Reuters) - Autonomous technology startup Nuro said on Monday it raised $940 million from SoftBank Group Corp, which valued the Silicon Valley-based company at $2.7 billion.| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Report finds evidence of 90+ cases of child sex offenses via dating services like Tinder, as UK considers expanding age verification checks to dating apps — The UK government has said it could legislate to require age verification checks on users of dating apps, following an investigation …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Hands-on with AR navigation on Google Maps that the company is testing with Local Guides, a group of power users helping Google improve its Maps experience — The coming Google Maps augmented-reality navigation feature will look through your phone's camera to figure out where you are and show you where you are going.
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Tweets: @reneritchie, @pierce, @bakergavin, @rachel_inman, @neil_mehta, and @wsj
| Joshua Brustein / Bloomberg: |
Current and former contractors employed by Apex Systems to work at an Apple “black site” talk about living in fear of terminations, inadequate facilities, more — Apple's new campus in Cupertino, California, is a symbol of how the company views itself as an employer …
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| Julia Boorstin / CNBC: |
Reddit raises $300M Series D at a $3B valuation, with Tencent, Sequoia, a16z, Fidelity among investors, says it has 330M MAUs, half between the age of 18 and 24 — - CEO Steve Huffman says the company will use the investment to improve Reddit's website and work to take digital ad market share away from Facebook and Google.| Kate Losse / New Republic: |
While tech companies' mission statements claim their work has a higher purpose, CEOs also keep them vague so employees can't use them to make concrete demands — Tech workers are using company mission statements to hold their CEOs accountable. — Companies in Silicon Valley are wonderfully fond …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google announces the general availability of an API for Google Docs task automation — Google today announced the general availability of a new API for Google Docs that will allow developers to automate many of the tasks that users typically do manually in the company's online office suite.
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| Times of India: |
Indian parliamentary panel summons Twitter CEO to appear before it on February 25 to discuss data privacy and misuse of social media ahead of national elections — HIGHLIGHTS — The committee meeting was scheduled for February 7 but was later postponed to February 11 to allow the Twitter CEO …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
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