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Google's DeepMind has defeated Go champion Lee Se-dol in first of five matches in historic AI victory — Google's DeepMind defeats legendary Go player Lee Se-dol in historic victory — A huge milestone has just been reached in the field of artificial intelligence: AlphaGo …
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Google introduces Destinations, a travel tool available via search on mobile, with information on flights, hotels, price comparisons, more — Google Search now has travel guides to help plan your vacation — Google is trying to make planning vacations less of a hassle.| Daniel Kahn Gillmor / American Civil Liberties Union: |
How the FBI can bypass auto-erasing without Apple's help by backing up part of the shooter's iPhone — One of the FBI's Major Claims in the iPhone Case is Fraudulent — Does the FBI Need to Worry About the San Bernadino Shooter's iPhone Self-Erasing? — “We have enormous computing power …
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| Leo Kelion / BBC: |
Microsoft will end Skype for TV app support in June — Skype ditches support for smart TVs — Skype has announced that it is ending support for its smart TV software. — The Microsoft-owned chat app said that the move reflected the public preference for using mobile devices … | Globes Online: |
Replay Technologies aquired by Intel, sources say for $175M, one week after the multi-dimensional video tech startup raised $13.5M — Intel acquires Israeli co Replay Technologies for $175m — The Tel Aviv based startup has developed multi-dimensional video imaging technologies for sports TV coverage.
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Samsung Galaxy S7 teardown: glued components make it harder to repair than S6, rear camera was downgraded to 12-megapixel/4K from 16-megapixel in S6 — Samsung Galaxy S7 Teardown … Teardown — Teardowns provide a look inside a device and should not be used as disassembly instructions.
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| Sonam Joshi / Mashable: |
Facebook Lite Android app for slow networks passes 100M users in 9 months, plans background video download support, after adding low res streaming last year — Facebook Lite is growing faster than Facebook app — Facebook Lite, the stripped-down version of the social networking app …
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Facebook Code, The Next Web, Tech in Asia, Ubergizmo and NDTV Gadgets360.com. Tweets: @kylesethgray
| Catalin Cimpanu / Softpedia News: |
Researchers at Michigan State unlocked fingerprint-protected Samsung Galaxy S6 and Huawei Honor 7 phones using inkjet prints — You Can Unlock Fingerprint-Protected Phones with a Regular Inkjet Printer — Two researchers have come up with a new method of hacking smartphones … | Alan F. / PhoneArena: |
Huawei sends out invitations to April 6th event; unveiling of Huawei P9 is hinted at — Earlier this month, Huawei posted a teaser for what appeared to be an event that was taking place in Berlin on March 9th. At the time, it appeared that at this event the manufacturer would unveil the Huawei P9 … | Lucas Mearian / PCWorld: |
Seagate to launch “world's fastest” 10GBps NVMe SSDs with 16-lane PCIe slots this summer — Seagate's blistering new 10GBps NVMe drive is the world's fastest-ever SSD — The new SSD will be available this summer. — Seagate today announced what it's calling … | Erin Griffith / Fortune: |
Behind Dick Costolo's and Jack Dorsey's efforts to fix Twitter — Fixing Twitter — How the media-juggernaut-turned-train- wreck is getting back on track after a rough two years. — In late January the Tweeps needed a kumbaya moment, and Jack Dorsey knew exactly how to give it to them.| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Flickr makes desktop Auto-Uploadr available to Flickr Pro members only, membership remains $5.99/month or $49.99/year — Flickr's desktop auto-upload feature is no longer free — Flickr has made a change to its $5.99 monthly Pro membership plan that will affect those using the photo-sharing social network for free.
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Flickr Blog, The Next Web and The Verge
| Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
Air Transport Services Group will lease, operate 20 Boeing 767's for Amazon, issues warrants for Amazon to acquire up to 19.9% of ATSG shares over five years — Amazon has leased 20 Boeing 767s to carry out fulfillment services — Amazon has finalized a deal with Air Transport Services Group …
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