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As remainder of five-game match plays out, Lee Se-dol finally beats Google's AlphaGo in game four — Go champion Lee Se-dol strikes back to beat Google's DeepMind AI for first time — AlphaGo wrapped up victory for Google in the DeepMind Challenge Match by winning its third straight game …
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| Cade Metz / Wired: |
Google's AlphaGo wins historic match against Go grandmaster after three consecutive wins in five-game series — Google's AI Takes Historic Match Against Go Champ With Third Straight Win — SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA — Google's artificially intelligent Go-playing computer system has claimed victory …
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| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
DeepMind founder Demis Hassabis on how AI will shape the future — DeepMind's stunning victories over Go legend Lee Se-dol have stoked excitement over artificial intelligence's potential more than any event in recent memory. But the Google subsidiary's AlphaGo program is far from its only project — it's not even the main one.
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| Matt Apuzzo / New York Times: |
Sources: Justice Department debating how to resolve standoff with WhatsApp over encryption in non-terrorism investigation — WhatsApp Encryption Said to Stymie Wiretap Order — WASHINGTON — While the Justice Department wages a public fight with Apple over access to a locked iPhone … | Justin Sink / Bloomberg Business: |
At SXSW, President Obama advises tech industry to compromise on encryption now instead of waiting for Congress to act — Government Can't Let Smartphones Be ‘Black Boxes,’ Obama Says — Obama advises tech industry to compromise before Congress acts — President appears at South by Southwest as FBI sues Apple Inc.
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| Steven Levy / Backchannel: |
US government reigniting the crypto wars of the 90s as tech companies implement strong encryption by default post-Snowden — Why Are We Fighting the Crypto Wars Again? — The iPhone Crisis reignited a conflict that should have been settled in the 90s. The loser is our national security.
Tweets: @christophera and @eff
| Farhad Manjoo / New York Times: |
Amazon Echo, initially ridiculed, could be the next must-have gadget — The Echo From Amazon Brims With Groundbreaking Promise — Many of the world's largest technology companies have spent the last five years searching in vain for the holy grail, a machine to succeed the smartphone as the next must-have gadget.| Peter Bright / Ars Technica: |
Epic's Tim Sweeney is missing the point: the restrictions of the Universal Windows Platform make PCs easier to use and more secure — Tim Sweeney is missing the point; the PC platform needs fixing — Op-ed: Bringing the console model to Windows wasn't an accident.
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| Amar Toor / The Verge: |
AdBlock replaces ads with messages from anti-censorship activists through Saturday, in partnership with Amnesty International — Snowden, Pussy Riot, and Ai Weiwei launch AdBlock campaign to protest censorship — Ai Weiwei, Edward Snowden, and Pussy Riot have partnered with AdBlock … | Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
Michael Goguen, longtime partner at Sequoia Capital, is out after suit unrelated to firm alleging sexual and physical abuse — Longtime VC Michael Goguen was just hit with an explosive lawsuit — Michael Goguen, a longtime partner at Sequoia Capital who joined the tony Sand Hill Road …
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Tweets: @sequoia, @caseynewton, @caseynewton, @mariachong, @danprimack and @sarahcuda
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft launches tool to help Evernote users on Windows move their notes to OneNote — Microsoft launches OneNote importer tool for Evernote users — Microsoft today launched a OneNote importer tool that lets Evernote users bring their content to Microsoft's note-taking tool.
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| Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Instacart cuts commissions for couriers by 50%, reduces fees per drop-off to $1.50 from $4 in SF, LA, and some other metro areas — Grocery-Delivery Startup Instacart Cuts Pay for Couriers — Instacart is the latest on-demand startup to try to contain costs in a tighter funding environment
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Tweets: @scottmaustin, @mattbuchanan, @dangillmor, @mikeisaac and @caseynewton
| Ellen Huet / Bloomberg Business: |
| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Coming at Apple's March 21st event: 4-inch iPhone SE, 9.7-inch iPad Pro & new Apple Watch models — If Apple's most recent hardware events were about going bigger (larger iPhones, a jumbo iPad, and a new Apple TV), Apple's March 21st event is about going smaller.
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