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Kurzweil joins Google to work on new projects involving machine learning and language processing — Ray Kurzweil confirmed today that he will be joining Google to work on new projects involving machine learning and language processing. — “I'm excited to share that I'll be joining Google …
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Ray Kurzweil Joins Google In Full-Time Engineering Director Role; Will Focus On Machine Learning, Language Processing — Famed inventor, entrepreneur, author, and futurist Ray Kurzweil announced this afternoon that he has been hired by search engine giant Google as a director of engineering focused … | Geoff Colvin / Fortune: |
Comcast CEO: What we learned from Apple — Comcast CEO Brian Roberts applies the Apple model to his business empire: Keep it simple, and reinvent constantly. — FORTUNE — America's biggest media company isn't what you think. Comcast (CMCSA) takes in more revenue and commands …
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Patented Book Writing System Creates, Sells Hundreds Of Thousands Of Books On Amazon — Philip M. Parker, Professor of Marketing at INSEAD Business School, has had a side project for over 10 years. He's created a computer system that can write books about specific subjects in about 20 minutes.| Megan Garber / The Atlantic Online: |
How the UN's ‘Game-Changing’ Internet Treaty Failed — German delegates on the fourth day of the 12-day-long World Conference on International Telecommunications (ITU/Flickr) — Did you know that, for the past two weeks, the future of the Internet has been at stake? — Yes, it has.| Ryan Tate / Wired: |
Meet the World's Cheapest Venture Capitalist — Maciej Cegłowski's new startup fund was the toast of Silicon Valley on Friday, lighting up Twitter, winning top billing on the elite Hacker News forum, and drawing dozens of applications from would-be portfolio companies. The fund's draw: Extreme stinginess.| Ben Kersey / The Verge: |
Samsung rejects labor claims, says there are no underage workers at its supplier — Samsung has responded to allegations of HTNS Shenzhen hiring underage workers following complaints from China Labor Watch. In a blog post, the company reveals that it met with both HTNS Shenzhen …
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Walmart now offers iPhone 5 for $127, 4S for $47, and third-gen iPad for $399 — Walmart is continuing to slash price tags on Apple products this holiday season, as the global retailer just announced it is now offering the 16GB iPhone 5 for $127. Walmart also cut the iPhone 4S from $89.97 … | Margalit Fox / New York Times: |
N. Joseph Woodland, 1921-2012: N. Joseph Woodland, Inventor of the Bar Code, Dies at 91 — It was born on a beach six decades ago, the product of a pressing need, an intellectual spark and the sweep of a young man's fingers through the sand. — The result adorns almost every product of contemporary life …
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Amazon gives customers more detailed billing of their cloud services — Updated: Amazon is still not carving out EC2 compute instances in smaller-than-an-hour increments as we speculated it might, and as Cloud Sigma and ProfitBricks already do. But now it is offering customers … | Steve Kovach / Business Insider: |
Every Apple-Made App On Your iPhone Can Be Replaced By A Better App — With yesterday's launch of Google Maps for iOS, I reached the point where I no longer use any of Apple's built-in apps on my iPhone. — Well, there are three very basic exceptions: Clock, Messages* (the texting app), and Phone.| Brian Barrett / Gizmodo: |
Today's Awful Apple Rumor: Retina iPad Mini — There's something in the air this week. Maybe it's that the holidays are coming, or that it's getting colder, or that there's not much actual news to be had three weeks before the Consumer Electronics Show. But for some reason …
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