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Google Brain founder and Baidu's chief scientist Andrew Ng resigns from Baidu — I will be resigning from Baidu, where I have been leading the company's AI Group. Baidu's AI is incredibly strong, and the team is stacked up and down with talent; I am confident AI at Baidu will continue to flourish.
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Google Maps now lets users share their location with friends and family for a specific period of time — Google Maps has today launched a new feature to allow you to share your location with others. While that might seem creepy, it's not the first to add this type of functionality.
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| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
How iCloud account data helped police identify the attacker who allegedly tweeted seizure-inducing strobe, despite his use of a prepaid SIM bought with cash — An anonymous SIM card in a non-anonymous iPhone — In theory, it was the perfect setup: an anonymous Twitter account on a prepaid SIM card, bought with cash.
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google releases Android O to developers, touting better battery life through improved background app management and more organized notifications with “channels” — Developers can start work on it today — For the second year in a row, Google is making a developer preview …
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| Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
LinkedIn introduces trending topics section curated by human editors, rolling out Wednesday to US users on mobile and desktop — LinkedIn pulls a Facebook. — LinkedIn is known for helping people find their next job, but now it wants to help people find their news, too.| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 review: small, light tablet with bright screen and tight stylus integration, but the keyboard is cramped and multitasking is limited — I am in productivity hell. For the past week, I've been using Samsung's Galaxy Tab S3 to read Twitter, correspond on Slack, and write articles for this website.
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| Deanna Ting / Skift: |
Airbnb rebrands as Aibiying in China, plans to triple workforce and double investment in the country in 2017, integrates with Alipay and WeChat — But the bigger question remains: Can it successfully compete with the reigning “Airbnb of China,” Tujia? — Continuing on his global tour of six cities …
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| Sarah Kessler / Quartz: |
As IBM continues its drive to bring remote workers back into offices, some employees theorize that the company is using “co-location” as a downsizing effort — Less than a year into her tenure as IBM's chief marketing officer, Michelle Peluso prepared to make an announcement …
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Facebook and Nokia successfully test new technique that boosts the speed of existing undersea cables from 13Tbps to 32Tbps — An experimental technology from Nokia could expand a submarine cable's capacity by 2.5 times — Facebook and Nokia have found a way to push a lot more data through … | Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: |
Instagram to let users book appointments with businesses, may eventually add more tools like reviews; feature set to roll out in next couple of months — New feature will give advertisers a direct way to measure the power of Facebook's photo-sharing app — Instagram, the photo-sharing …
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon adds “Send to Kindle” feature to its Kindle iOS app, letting users send articles for reading later — Amazon has quietly rolled out the “Send to Kindle” feature to its Kindle for iOS application that allows you to save to the app articles and documents found on the web.
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| Blaise Zerega / VentureBeat: |
Uber board member Arianna Huffington, head of N. America operations Rachel Holt, and HR officer Liane Hornsey take questions on sexual harassment investigation — Uber today provided an update on its investigation into alleged sexual harassment and discriminatory practices at the company.
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Microsoft says it has finished customizing Windows 10 for Chinese government use, after last year's passage of cybersecurity law that shook industry — Tech companies are customizing products to meet heightened security demands from Beijing — BEIJING— Microsoft Corp. has finished development …
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Apple discontinues iPad mini 2 and raises iPad mini 4's base storage from 32GB to 128GB, available for $399 — Apple today announced that the iPad mini 4 now offers more capacity for the same price. The 128GB model with Wi-Fi now starts at $399, which was previously the price for the 32GB model … | Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
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