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| Scott Dadich / Wired: |
Interview with Barack Obama and MIT Media Lab director Joi Ito on AI and its impact on society, medical research, self-driving cars, and more — IT'S HARD TO think of a single technology that will shape our world more in the next 50 years than artificial intelligence.
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Amazon launches Music Unlimited, a subscription streaming service that costs $4/month for Echo owners, $8/month for Prime members, and $10/month for all others — Would you pay a few extra bucks a month to turn your smart home speaker into an intelligent, unlimited jukebox? Amazon is betting people will.
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Thanks:@taylor_soper. See also Mediagazer| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Samsung cuts profit forecast by 33% for Q3 from $7B to $4.6B, revenue expectations from $44B to $41.8B, following Galaxy Note7 crisis — Samsung issued earnings guidance last week that suggested the calamitous Galaxy Note 7 recall wouldn't have a major impact on the company's bottom line …
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| Caitlin Dewey / Washington Post: |
The Washington Post tracked Facebook's Trending Topics section over three weeks, uncovering five fake stories and three profoundly inaccurate ones — The Intersect ran a little experiment a few weeks ago: During the work day, we'd check in with Facebook each hour, on the hour …
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See also Mediagazer| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Pandora launches Pandora Plus, its $5/month ad-free service that also gives users offline playback, more song skips and replays — Pandora is not taking today's debut of Amazon's new, on-demand music streaming service lying down. The company has conveniently timed the launch of its own new paid tier …
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| Sijia Jiang / Reuters: |
Apple says it will set up a R&D center in Shenzhen, China, to help strengthen ties with local software developers and partners — Apple Inc (AAPL.O) will set up a research and development center in China's manufacturing metropolis Shenzhen, the U.S. tech giant said on Wednesday … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft expands availability of its $3K Hololens to Germany, France, UK, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand; preorders are live now, units ship next month — HoloLens, Microsoft's $3,000 mixed-reality goggles (or “the world's first self-contained holographic computer” in Microsoft's parlance) … | Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Verizon and Google say Verizon's Pixels will get OS updates and security patches at the same time as those sold by Google — Verizon apparently has turned over a new leaf and “won't stand in the way of updates.” — Update: A Verizon spokesperson has reached out to Ars with the following corrections about its version of the Pixel:
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| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
Google, Facebook, Pacific Light Cable Network partner to lay undersea cable between LA and Hong Kong which will transfer data at 120 terabits/sec, open in 2018 — Google said today that it's working with Facebook and China Soft Power Technology Holdings subsidiary Pacific Light Data Communication … | Niraj Chokshi / New York Times: |
Facebook's voter registration reminder, displayed for four days in Sept., caused near-record levels of registration, at least nine secretaries of state say — A 17-word Facebook reminder contributed to substantial increases in online voter registration across the country, according to top election officials.| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Filings show Apple's M&A head Adrian Perica joined Didi Chuxing's board after Apple's $1B investment — Shortly after making a $1 billion investment in Chinese ride-hailing company Didi Chuxing, Apple was given a seat on the board, reports The Information.| Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
Twitter won't host its annual developer conference, Flight, this year, will focus on smaller regional events instead — The company will focus on smaller regional events instead. — Twitter will forgo its annual mobile developer conference, Flight, this year.Sponsor Posts
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