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Exclusive: Google to Buy Artificial Intelligence Startup DeepMind for $400M — Google is shelling out $400 million to buy a secretive artificial intelligence company called DeepMind. — Google confirmed the deal after Re/code inquired about it, but declined to specify a price.
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| Amir Efrati / The Information: |
Google paid more than $500M for DeepMind, beating out Facebook; creates ethics board to ensure technology isn't abused — Google Beat Facebook for DeepMind, Creates Ethics Board — Google, which is acquiring DeepMind Technologies, has agreed to establish an ethics board to ensure …
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| Andy Greenberg / Forbes: |
BitInstant CEO Charlie Shrem arrested in Silk Road investigation, charged with money laundering and operating an unlicensed money transmitting business — Winklevoss-Funded Bitcoin Startup CEO Arrested In Silk Road Investigation — The widening circle of arrests in the investigation …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft renames SkyDrive to OneDrive — Microsoft is renaming its SkyDrive cloud storage to OneDrive. The software giant has registered onedrive.com and the company has a promotional video on YouTube announcing the new name. Microsoft says the name change will take place soon …
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With proper warrants, FBI can search TorMail database seized in Freedom Hosting investigation for unrelated cases — If You Used This Secure Webmail Site, the FBI Has Your Inbox — While investigating a hosting company known for sheltering child porn last year the FBI incidentally seized …
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NSA and GCHQ target ‘leaky’ phone apps like Angry Birds to scoop user data — GCHQ documents use Angry Birds - reportedly downloaded more than 1.7bn times - as a case study for app data collection. — The National Security Agency and its UK counterpart GCHQ have been developing capabilities … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Kantar: Android Accounted 70% Of Smartphone Sales In Q4, But Samsung Is Now “Under Real Pressure” — Android continues to be the most popular mobile platform, with its share of smartphone sales climbing in every major market in Q4 2013, now accounting for 69.5% of all sales across 12 key markets versus 23.7% …
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| Maria Kiselyova / Reuters: |
Russia's Megafon signs new iPhone deal with Apple — (Reuters) - Russia's second-biggest mobile phone operator, Megafon, said on Monday it had signed a direct contract with Apple Inc and resumed selling iPhones after a four-year break. — Megafon has not been able to sell iPhones since 2009 … | Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune: |
Ahead of earnings, analyst estimates put Apple's fiscal Q1 revenues at $58B, up 6.6% YoY — Spreadsheet of the day: Final estimates for Apple's fiscal Q1 2014 — The consensus forecast of 47 analysts: Earnings of $14.36 per share on sales of $58 billion.| Zach Sokol / Motherboard: |
3-D Printed Crime Scenes Are Coming to a Courtroom Near You — There's undeniably something captivating about looking at a crime scene. Similar to watching a train wreck, try walking by a block protected by police tape without doing a double-take. As the gargantuan viewership of shows … | David Carr / New York Times: |
Ezra Klein Is Joining Vox Media as Web Journalism Asserts Itself — After a week of speculation, it turns out that Ezra Klein, the prolific creator of The Washington Post's Wonkblog, will be going to Vox Media, the online home of SB Nation, a sports site, and The Verge, a fast-growing technology site.
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Uber facing lawsuit after child was struck and killed by an Uber driver waiting for a fare — Uber and a Child's Death — Travis Kalanick, chief executive of the on-demand transportation service Uber, originally used “The Fountainhead” as his Twitter icon.
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