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Google's AI Wins Fifth And Final Game Against Go Genius Lee Sedol — SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA — In the final game of their historic match, Google's artificially intelligent Go-playing computer system has defeated Korean grandmaster Lee Sedol, finishing the best-of-five series with four wins and one loss.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
After 0 successful submissions, Google doubles top reward for hacking a Chromebook to $100,000 — Over the past six years, Google has paid security researchers over $6 million (over $2 million last year alone) since launching its bug bounty program in 2010.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
GM, Lyft announce Express Drive, a short-term car rental program for Lyft drivers, going live in Chicago first — Lyft and GM partner on Express Drive, a rental service that paves the way for autonomous cars — Two months after General Motors announced a $500 million investment … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Here Maps drops support for Windows Phone and Windows 10 — Here maps has been a strong part of Microsoft's Windows Phone offering for years, but that's coming to an end later this month. Here is announcing today that it plans to pull its mapping apps for Windows 10 on March 29th, and …
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Verizon launches yearly upgrade program for Galaxy S7, S7 Edge — After launching a similar program for the iPhone last year, Verizon has announced a Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge upgrade program. — Verizon has announced a new program that will allow customers to upgrade to the latest Galaxy smartphone each year.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google adds support for Microsoft Office, Facebook at Work, Slack and others to its single sign-on solution — Google doesn't just offer its own web-based productivity apps, but it also offers a service for business users who want to use Google as an identity provider for accessing … | Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
Western Digital releases 314GB PiDrive for Raspberry Pi with USB 3.0 interface and BerryBoot bootloader, for $46 — Western Digital makes a $46, 314GB hard drive just for the Raspberry Pi — The Raspberry Pi 3 was released earlier this month with some significantly improved hardware …
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Apple News introduces ad format for sponsored posts that appear in feeds alongside articles, with Apple keeping 30% of revenue — Apple News will soon get ‘native’ ads that look like articles — Apple has introduced a new ad format for sponsored posts that will appear in users' news feeds alongside articles in the Apple News app.| Cade Metz / Wired: |
How Dropbox moved 90% of its files from Amazon's S3 to data centers designed by its own engineers over two-and-a-half years — The Epic Story of Dropbox's Exodus From the Amazon Cloud Empire — If you're one of 500 million people who use Dropbox, it's just a folder on your computer desktop …
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| Madeline Vuong / GeekWire: |
VR sports and music startup Voke raises $12.5M from Intel Capital, Sacramento Kings, A&E and others — Voke, a virtual realty technology company that specializes in live streams of sports and music events, has raised $12.5 million in venture capital, the company confirmed to GeekWire today.
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| Pam Belluck / New York Times: |
Study finds smartphone digital assistants mostly fail when users say they're in distress or having a medical emergency — Hey Siri, Can I Rely on You in a Crisis? Not Always, a Study Finds — Smartphone virtual assistants, like Apple's Siri and Microsoft's Cortana …
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Sony PlayStation Vue launches “Slim” TV bundles nationwide starting at $30 per month but without live broadcast channels in most markets — Sony PlayStation Vue Launches ‘Slim’ TV Bundles Nationwide Without Live Broadcast Channels — Packages priced $10 per month below ‘full’ TV service …
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