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With Google's RAISR machine learning-driven image enhancement technique, images can be up to 75% smaller without losing their detail — With unlimited data plans becoming increasingly expensive, or subscribers being forced to ditch their unlimited data due to overuse, anything that can reduce the amount of data we download is welcome.
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| Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
Intel launches new IoT retail platform called Responsive Retail Platform and announces plan to invest $100M over next five years in the retail tech sector — The platform works to bring together retail hardware, software, APIs and sensors in a standardized way.
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Raspberry Pi upgrades its $30 Compute Module for embedded computing with 10x the CPU performance at 1.2GHz and twice the RAM at 1GB — Compute Module for embedded computing gets first big upgrade since 2014. — The Raspberry Pi Compute Module is getting a big upgrade … | Bloomberg: |
Baidu hires AI specialist and former Microsoft EVP Qi Lu as group president and chief operating officer to oversee and develop AI technologies — AI specialist Qi Lu becomes Baidu's COO and president — Lu will oversee Baidu's efforts to develop AI technologies
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| Matt Weinberger / Business Insider: |
How Amazon's Echo made Alexa the most successful smart voice assistant at home, and how Google, Microsoft, and Apple are fighting back — We're barely halfway through January of 2017, and it's already looking like this is going to be the year of Amazon's Alexa, the virtual assistant at the heart of the Amazon Echo.
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| David Pierce / Wired: |
Google's head of Daydream Labs and the director of immersive design speak about the challenges of building Daydream and pushing the boundaries of VR — A few minutes after Google CEO Sundar Pichai finished speaking to the crowd at a Google developer conference one sunny June morning in 2014 … | Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Nvidia Shield TV 2017 review: best balance for home entertainment with smart home features, gaming, streaming 4K HDR video, and the upcoming Google assistant — Nvidia's Shield line of devices is now more than six years old, and the latest member of the family is the new Shield TV … | Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Xiaomi stops disclosing annual smartphone unit sales numbers; CEO admits the company grew “too fast”, hints at new retail strategy incorporating offline sales — Xiaomi has forgone its tradition of revealing how many smartphones it sold the previous year.
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| Brian Armstrong: |
Coinbase CEO likens IRS subpoena to asking Fidelity or PayPal for all customer records, suggests Coinbase could send 1099-B forms to customers and IRS instead — A few weeks ago the IRS sent Coinbase a subpoena asking us to disclose records on all U.S. customers over a three year period (this covers millions of customer accounts).
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| Simon Sharwood / The Register: |
Google publishes paper detailing its cloud security strategy, including the deployment of custom chips on servers and peripherals — Even the servers it colocates (!) says new docu revealing Alphabet sub's security secrets — Google has published a Infrastructure Security Design Overview …
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SiliconANGLE, The Overspill, SecurityWeek, and cloudpro.co.uk
| Maya Kosoff / Vanity Fair: |
WSJ: new investors in Snap IPO won't get any voting power; founders Spiegel and Murphy, who own 45% of Snap's stock, will retain 70%+ of voting rights — Spiegel and Snapchat co-founder Bobby Murphy want to retain management control of their company. — Before Facebook went public …
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Tweets: @runvc, @jessicalessin, and @mattyglesias
| Thomas B. Edsall / New York Times: |
Corporate PACs associated with Microsoft, Facebook, Google, Amazon donated more money to Republican Congressional candidates than Democratic opponents in 2016 — In 2016, the corporate PACs associated with Microsoft, Facebook, Google and Amazon broke ranks with the traditional allegiance …
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