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Amazon debuts Amazon Go, a 1,800 sq. ft. checkout-less food store in Seattle, where purchases are tracked by app, open to Amazon staff now and customers in 2017 — The straight-forwardly named “Just Walk Out” technology ought to give you a pretty good idea of what Amazon Go is all about.
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Google DeepMind open sources its AI training platform, releases entire source code on GitHub for researchers and developers to experiment — Company is increasingly embracing open-source initiatives — Move comes after rival Musk's OpenAI made its robot gym public
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| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Uber acquires AI startup Geometric Intelligence; its cofounders Gary Marcus and Zoubin Ghahramani will be co-directors of Uber's new research arm A.I. Labs — SAN FRANCISCO — Uber envisions a future in which a fleet of vehicles can make the most complex maneuvers while carting passengers around without the help of a driver.
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| Natt Garun / The Verge: |
Google's new Trusted Contacts app lets you share your location during emergencies — It's basically Google Latitude, three years later — When Google discontinued Latitude in 2013, it never truly made a replacement for its version of iOS's Find My Friend.
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| Raymond Wong / Mashable: |
Leap Motion brings its hand tracking tech to standalone VR headsets, demos it on Samsung's Gear VR — The first thing you instinctively want to do after strapping on a VR headset and diving into a virtual world is to reach out and touch what you see. — Unfortunately, this is not a reality on today's most popular VR headsets.
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
IDC: Apple Watch sales estimated at 1.1M units in Series 2 launch quarter, down 70% YoY; Fitbit sales estimated at 5.3M units, up 11% YoY, with 23% marketshare — A new report from IDC estimates that the Apple Watch continues to the best-selling smartwatch with about 40% marketshare …
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| Mehedi Hassan / MSPoweruser: |
Microsoft quietly launches a chatbot on Kik named Zo that avoids conversation topics like politics, following disastrous debut of Tay chatbot earlier this year — Earlier this year, Microsoft introduced a new chatbot powered by artificial intelligence, called Tay.
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| Rupert Jones / The Guardian: |
Researchers guessed valid Visa card expiry dates and CVV codes in seconds via queries to multiple commercial websites; Visa failed to detect the attack — Academics say working out card number, expiry date and security code of Visa card takes ‘as little as six seconds’
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Oculus Touch review: precise, usually reliable tracking and fantastic hardware design, but the two-controller package is pricey at $199 — Healing the Rift — When the Oculus Rift reawakened our fascination with virtual reality in 2012, it was largely a visual medium.| Cho Mu-Hyun / ZDNet: |
LG Electronics promotes the head of its home appliances division, Jo Seong-jin, to CEO — LG Electronics' home appliance boss has been promoted to vice chairman and will become CEO, while its mobile division has been given a second chance to rebound the faltering business.
| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
US Consumer Review Fairness Act passes, voids ToS gag clauses under which companies could sue or impose penalties for users who post negative reviews — Consumer Review Fairness Act bans customer gag clauses, awaits Obama signature. — Congress has passed a law protecting the right … | Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Volkswagen debuts Moia, a standalone mobility company, which will work on tech for self-driving on-demand transportation — Volkswagen Group is making a significant bet on future mobility services with Moia, a new separate company that will exist under the VW umbrella of brands focused specifically … Sponsor Posts
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