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John Callaham / Android Central:

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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

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A Closer Look at Android RunTime (ART) in Android L — With the latest I/O conference, Google has finally publicly made public its plans for its new runtime on Android. The Android RunTime, ART, is the successor and replacement for Dalvik, the virtual machine on which Android Java code is executed on.

Dylan Love / Business Insider:

Cycorp opens up about Cyc, a 30yo project to codify general human knowledge for machines — The Most Ambitious Artificial Intelligence Project In The World Has Been Operating In Near-Secrecy For 30 Years — “We've been keeping a very low profile, mostly intentionally,” said Doug Lenat, President and CEO of Cycorp.

More: UK News and Opinion. Tweets: @thetranshuman

Ian Johnson / New York Times:

Semiprivate social network WeChat eclipses public network Weibo as Chinese censors crack down — An Online Shift in China Muffles an Open Forum — BEIJING — For the past few years, social media in China has been dominated by the Twitter-like Sina Weibo, a microblogging service that created …

Tweets: @dkroy and @hunterwalk. See also Mediagazer

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