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OpenAI, a new nonprofit for AI research, gets $1B commitment from SV leaders including Reid Hoffman, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, also AWS, Infosys, YC Research — Introducing OpenAI — OpenAI is a non-profit artificial intelligence research company. Our goal is to advance digital intelligence …
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| Steven Levy / Backchannel: |
Q&A with Elon Musk and Sam Altman on the challenges and benefits of guiding AI research with OpenAI — How Elon Musk and Y Combinator Plan to Stop Computers From Taking Over — Their new organization, OpenAI, wants to pursue the most advanced forms of artificial intelligence—and give the results to the public
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| Rebecca Greenfield / Bloomberg Business: |
Harvard Business School study finds Airbnb hosts accepted guests with stereotypically black names 42% of the time versus 50% for white names — Study Finds Racial Discrimination by Airbnb Hosts — Renters with names that seemed African American had a harder time booking reservations …
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Apple advertising iPhone 6s to older iPhone owners through App Store popups — Apple has begun advertising the iPhone 6s to older iPhone users through the App Store, as spotted by @Dirk_Gently on Twitter. If a user browses the App Store, perhaps updating apps, with an iPhone 5s or earlier device …
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| Ed Bott / ZDNet: |
Microsoft backtracks on some OneDrive storage changes after user complaints, lets users opt-in to keep 15GB of free storage, doesn't reinstate unlimited storage — Microsoft apologizes for offending OneDrive fans, but won't restore unlimited storage — Customers of Microsoft's OneDrive … | Darren Samuelsohn / Politico: |
Inside the NSA's battle with the private sector to recruit coders, hackers, and engineers — Inside the NSA's hunt for hackers — The government is losing ground in the effort to hire critical cyber talent—but our most secretive agency isn't doing too badly.
Tweets: @politico, @20committee and @peterwsinger
| John Brownlee / Co.Design: |
Reality Editor, an iOS app developed by MIT researchers, lets you connect smart objects by drawing lines between them via an augmented reality interface — MIT's Amazing New App Lets You Program Any Object — The end goal of the Internet of Things is to make every object in your life programmable.
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| Andrii Degeler / Ars Technica UK: |
France won't block public Wi-Fi or ban Tor, PM says — Public Wi-Fi networks and Tor won't be blocked or forbidden in France in the near future, even during a state of emergency, despite the country's Ministry of Interior reportedly considering it. — Days after the reports on the proposal surfaced …
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| Kim Zetter / Wired: |
Tor Project hires Shari Steele, who led the EFF for 15 years, as its new executive director — Tor Hires a New Leader to Help It Combat the War on Privacy — The Tor Project is entering a crucial phase in its nearly 10-year existence. In the wake of the Edward Snowden leaks …
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SC Magazine and The Tor Blog blogs
| David Barboza / New York Times: |
Alibaba Buying South China Morning Post, Aiming to Influence Media — The Alibaba Group, the Chinese Internet giant, is making an ambitious play to reshape media coverage of its home country, taking aim at what company executives call the “negative” portrayal of China in the Western media.
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Business Wire, South China Morning Post, Crowdfund Insider, internetretailer.com, Bloomberg Business, Mashable, PYMNTS.com, Talking New Media, Wall Street Journal, Mumbrella Asia, VentureBeat, Hong Kong Free Press, Quartz, South China Morning Post, BuzzFeed, Associated Press, Variety, Forbes, TIME, International Business Times, BBC, The Seattle Times, BBC and CNBC
Tweets: @kenroth, @brianstelter, @nytimesbusiness, @tomgrundy, @nytimesbusiness, @tomgrundy and @bbgbillionaires
See also Mediagazer| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Gear VR review: portable, works best when used on a swivel chair, can cause pain after long usage, feels like a public beta, not a mainstream, consumer device — Virtually there: the hard reality of the Gear VR — Releasing the Gear VR headset the weekend before the Thanksgiving holiday …
Tweets: @dannysullivan
| Elizabeth Dwoskin / Wall Street Journal: |
Analytics firm Factual raises $35M to analyze streams of app user location data to build profiles for ads — Startup Factual Knows Your Commute, and Much More... Company, which announced a $35 million funding round, analyzes streaming location data — Researchers earlier this year found …
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