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Google announces it has bought Kaggle, a platform with ~500K data scientists, which hosts data science and machine learning competitions and has raised $12.75M — Google today said it is acquiring Kaggle, an online service that hosts data science and machine learning competitions …
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| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Google debuts Engineering Support for cloud services, charging a flat fee based on response time; plans start at $100/user per month for 4-8 hour response time — Google is famous in the tech industry for the effectiveness of its reliability engineers who keep its search and other products running smoothly.
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Thanks:@alexrkonrad| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google debuts Cloud Video Intelligence API, letting developers analyze and catalog the contents of video — At its Cloud Next conference in San Francisco, Google today announced the launch of a new machine learning API for automatically recognizing objects in videos and making them searchable.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Nest is working on a cheaper sub-$200 thermostat with individual room control, a home security alarm system, and a digital doorbell — Nest, the pioneer of the iPhone-like digital thermostat, is readying several new products in its quest to modernize the home. — by
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| Joe Sullivan / Uber Global: |
Uber security chief says company is reviewing Greyball technology and will prohibit using it to evade regulators — We wanted to give everyone an update on “greyballing”. This technology is used to hide the standard city app view for individual riders, enabling Uber to show that same rider a different version.
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Pinterest acquires Q&A service Jelly, which pivoted and unpivoted over its 4-year life, and whose co-founder Biz Stone is a Pinterest angel investor — Jelly rolls — Pinterest said today that it has acquired Jelly, a bad 4-year-old search engine, for an undisclosed sum.
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| Johana Bhuiyan / Recode: |
Didi Chuxing opens AI lab in Mountain View, California, and hires Uber engineer Charlie Miller to lead security and development teams — The Mountain View lab will focus on AI-based security and intelligent driving systems for cars. — Didi, China's largest ride-hail player, is getting serious about self-driving cars.
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Microsoft partners with Qualcomm and Cavium to develop Windows for servers using ARM processors, has been testing it in Azure for search, storage, more — The software maker seeks to cut costs in its Azure cloud business by developing new hardware — Microsoft Corp. is committing …
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| Arlene Gabriana Murillo / Facebook Code: |
Facebook refreshes server line, with design specs available on Open Compute, debuting Big Basin, a GPU server that can train ML models 30% larger than before — With people watching more than 100 million hours of video every day on Facebook, 95-plus million photos and videos being posted … | Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Facebook launches Facebook 360, a hub for 360-degree photos and videos available only on Samsung Gear VR — Facebook has devoted major resources and billions of dollars to virtual reality, but there has been a pretty clear line between what happens in the main Facebook app and what happens on the Oculus Rift and Gear VR.
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Thanks:@lucas_matney. | Ellen Huet / Bloomberg: |
Instacart raises $400M, valuing the firm at $3.4B, led by Sequoia Capital with participation from a16z, Khosla Ventures, Thrive Capital, KPCB, more — The online grocery delivery startup is looking to pinch pennies, starting with bottle deposit fees. — by — Apoorva Mehta is thinking a lot about bottle deposits.
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Tweets: @shiraovide, @scottmaustin, @mdudas, @sequoia, @business, @paulpage, @ellenhuet, and @ellenhuet
| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Gary Marcus, director of Uber's AI Labs, to leave his role after four months with the company and become a “senior adviser” to Uber — Gary Marcus, a research scientist who joined Uber four months ago as director of its AI labs, is leaving the company, according to sources.
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