Techmeme: Google says its AI model found breast cancer in screening mammograms with fewer false positives and fewer false negatives than human experts found (Denise Grady/New York Times)

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Denise Grady / New York Times:

Google says its AI model found breast cancer in screening mammograms with fewer false positives and fewer false negatives than human experts found — Computers that are trained to recognize patterns and interpret images may outperform humans at finding cancer on X-rays.

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

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Cody Toombs / Android Police:

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Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:

Apptopia: TikTok's in-app purchase revenue grew to $50M in Q4 2019, up from $20M in Q3, and was up 310% YoY — According to newly released third-party data, TikTok has reason to dance. — The famous, short-video application saw its in-app purchase revenue rise 310% on a year …

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Taylor Lorenz / New York Times:

A look at the Hype House “collab house”, a collective of 19 young influencers renting an LA mansion, whose TikTok group handle amassed 3M followers in ~10 days — The city is home to a land rush of “collab houses,” where the content creators are getting younger and younger.

Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge:

Samsung says it shipped 6.7M+ Galaxy 5G phones globally in 2019, accounting for 53.9% of the 5G phone market; Samsung had only sold 2M 5G devices as of Sept. — 2020 will be the real test for 5G devices, though — Samsung sold 6.7 million 5G phones in 2019 between the Galaxy S10 5G …

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Zach Laidlaw / Android Police:

APK teardown reveals Galaxy S11 camera features like Director's View, Pro Video, and Bokeh Effects, and super fast charging for Fold 2, which tops out at 45W — There's a certain thrill we feel when a photo of an unreleased device slides across our desks. It's new, mysterious, exciting …

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Anna Escher / TechCrunch:

Loft, a São Paulo-based real estate marketplace for Latin America, raises $175M Series C co-led by a16z and Vulcan Capital — Loft may have better product market fit in Brazil than Opendoor does in the U.S.. And now the São Paulo-based property tech company has growth funding to prove it.

More: Business Wire, Wall Street Journal, Contxto, FinSMEs, Business Insider, Crunchbase News, and PYMNTS.com

Tweets: @megan_hernbroth and @annaescher

Mike Masnick / Techdirt:

EU Patent Office rejects two patent applications in which AI was designated as the inventor; this is the right decision that all patent offices should emulate — We've written a bunch about why AI generated artwork should not (and need not) have any copyright at all.

More: ZDNet. Tweets: @woganmay, @glenngabe, @glynmoody, @seanmmcdonald, and @joemckendrick

New York Times:

A look at the optimists behind the Y2K-era Cassandra Project and how they emphasized the importance of analog community building amid technological uncertainty — For millennials, Y2K felt like an apocalypse. Twenty years later, we're still anxious.

Tweets: @jwherrman

Steve Brooks / Enterprise Times:

Receipt Bank, a UK-based digital bookkeeping platform, raises ~$73M Series C led by Insight Partners — Receipt Bank has announced a successful $73 million Series C funding round led by Insight Partner. Receipt Bank was advised by Harris Williams. This is the second round led …

More: Business Wire, Telegraph, EU-Startups, FinSMEs, and UKTN

Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat:

Dell debuts a new Latitude 9510 laptop with built-in 5G, to launch March 26, and says a spring update to its Mobile Connect software will enable iOS mirroring — Ahead of next week's CES in Las Vegas, Dell today announced two PC updates that will improve its appeal to users of mobile devices …

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Luke Larsen / Digital Trends:

Dell debuts updated XPS 13 with Intel 10th-gen processors, Intel's Iris Plus graphics, 16:10 screen, larger touchpad, available January 7 starting at $999

More: Engadget, LaptopMag, Firstpost Tech, XDA Developers, Barton's Blog, BetaNews, Engadget, The Verge, AnandTech, The Next Web, Gizmodo, Ars Technica, SlashGear, Thurrott, CNET, Windows Experience Blog, WebProNews, Windows Central, MSPoweruser, ZDNet, Tom's Hardware, LaptopMag, and Mashable

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