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Uber is testing UberHop, a bus-like service, in Seattle, and carpooling service UberCommute in Chicago — UberHop is Uber's latest idea for killing mass transit — For months, Uber has denied that it has any interest in becoming a private alternative to public transportation.
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Seattle, GeekWire, Quartz, New York Magazine and GeekWire
| Alan Boyle / GeekWire: |
Researchers develop algorithm to teach a new concept to a computer using just one example — Bayesian boost for A.I.: Researchers find a quicker way to teach a computer … Researchers say they've developed an algorithm that can teach a new concept to a computer using just one example …
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Mashable, New York Times, Science, Latinos Post, Gizmodo, Singularity HUB, World Tech Today, Business Insider, Washington Post, Computerworld, Telegraph, Fortune, Tech Times and Engadget
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| Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
Taylor Swift's 1989 World Tour Live video, debuting on December 20, will be exclusive to Apple Music; Apple gets rights to Swift's name for store promotions — Apple Gets a Giant Taylor Swift Concert Exclusive (Because It Paid Taylor Swift) — Remember when Taylor Swift and Apple didn't get along …
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Taylor Swift, The Next Web, Digital Trends, New York Times, Associated Press, PC Magazine, CNET, Engadget, MacRumors, Fortune, Billboard, The Verge, TechCrunch, BGR and 9to5Mac
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See also Mediagazer| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
Google debuts a preview of Cloud CDN service to compete head-on with Akamai and Amazon — Google has quietly launched an Akamai competitor — Google has quietly started offering Google Cloud CDN service, a new content-delivery network (CDN) that should appeal to independent developers who want their applications to load quickly.
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Fortune, Fortune, TechWeekEurope UK, Data Center Knowledge, Business Cloud News and cloudpro.co.uk. Tweets: @batteryventures
| Sarah Jeong / Motherboard: |
Twitter Told a Bunch of Users They May Be Targets of a ‘State Sponsored Attack’ — Twitter is letting some users know that their accounts may have been the targets of a state-sponsored attack. … The attack is currently being investigated by Twitter. In their notice to users …
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Engadget, The Verge, PC Magazine, Tech Insider and Neowin
Tweets: @coldhakca, @runasand, @ioerror, @csoghoian, @sarahjeong and @csoghoian
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US officials: San Bernardino shooter Tashfeen Malik said she wanted to be part of violent jihad on social media before her visa was approved — U.S. Visa Process Missed Zealotry on Social Media — WASHINGTON — Tashfeen Malik, who with her husband carried out the massacre in San Bernardino …
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Tweets: @michelebachmann, @nytimes, @theharryshearer, @saletan, @pkafka, @ejtaub and @allahpundit
| Katie Roof / TechCrunch: |
Just 28 tech companies entered the US public markets in 2015, and half of those now trade below their IPO price — Worst Year For Tech IPOs Since 2009 — With just 28 technology companies entering the U.S. public markets, 2015 was the worst year for IPOs since 2009, according to Dealogic.| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Public Chrome OS commits suggest Google originally planned to launch the Pixel C with Chrome OS, instead of Android — The Pixel C was probably never supposed to run Android — The Pixel C is ill-suited to Android, but it wasn't supposed to be this way...| 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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benedelman.org, Metro.co.uk, PC Magazine, Washington Post, Digital Trends, VatorNews, Tech Times, CNNMoney, New York Times, Forbes, BBC, The Huffington Post, Engadget, HBS Working Knowledge, bizjournals, SFist, Quartz, Fast Company and Fusion. Tweets: @kashhill
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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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BBC, Forbes, PCWorld, CNNMoney, International Business Times, Mashable, Gizmodo UK, Bloomberg Business, CNET, New York Times, The Daily Dot, Tech Times, Wired, BuzzFeed, Quartz, Ubergizmo, bizjournals, GeekWire, USA Today, ZDNet, 9to5Google, Fortune, SlashGear, PC Magazine, IEEE Spectrum, Business Insider, TechCrunch, Tech Insider, The Next Web and Engadget
Tweets: @paulg, @om, @sama, @rstephens, @shivon, @startupljackson, @haldaume3 and @lanceulanoff
| Steven Levy / Backchannel: |
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Haywire, TechSpot, The Huffington Post, Forbes, Wall Street Journal, Mashable, Yahoo Tech, Daily Mail, VentureBeat and Business Insider
Tweets: @glichfield, @ramez, @om, @om, @om, @om, @counternotions, @ross and @srivatsanlaxman
| Kaveh Waddell / The Atlantic: |
UC Davis CS professor says it's cryptographers' moral duty to take on the surveillance state, like scientists in the 1950s confronting the threat of nuclear war — The Moral Failure of Computer Scientists … Computer scientists and cryptographers occupy some of the ivory tower's highest floors.
Tweets: @maellegavet, @vermicelli, @jayrosen_nyu, @jacksmithiv, @thomas_drake1, @jayrosen_nyu and @dangillmor
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Dell XPS 13 (late 2015) review: improved battery life and trackpad, along with a great display and build quality make it the best Windows laptop out there — Dell XPS 13 review: The best Windows laptop just got better — I've been searching for the perfect Windows laptop ever since Windows 8 was released, three years ago.| 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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PCWorld, The Tor Blog, Boing Boing, Engadget, The Register and SC Magazine
Tweets: @mattdevost, @wiretaplawyer and @kevinbankston
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