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| Siddhartha Mukherjee / New Yorker: |
How deep learning algorithms can be used to augment doctors in diagnosis — In some trials, “deep learning” systems have outperformed human experts. — One evening last November, a fifty-four-year-old woman from the Bronx arrived at the emergency room at Columbia University's medical center with a grinding headache.
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| Steve Kovach / Business Insider: |
Samsung's Galaxy S8 facial recognition feature can be fooled with a photo; Samsung suggests using fingerprint or iris scanning for more security — Samsung's newest security feature can easily be fooled. — The Samsung Galaxy S8, which launches April 21, has a new facial recognition feature … | Landon Thomas Jr / New York Times: |
BlackRock, the largest fund company in the world, shifts away from actively managed mutual funds and starts relying more on algorithms and models to pick stocks — Score one for the machines. — From the moment Laurence D. Fink, the chief executive of BlackRock, created the largest fund company …
Tweets: @aaronklein
| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Roundup of April Fools' Day gags by tech companies — Topsy-turvy day — April 1st — a day colloquially known as “April Fools' Day” or “the worst holiday ever” — isn't even until tomorrow, but because the month of April starts on a Saturday this year, all the #brands are already …
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OpenAI Blog, Recode, Yo, Google Cloud Platform Blog, 9to5Mac, Ubergizmo, The Verge, The Official Roku Blog, Network World, 9to5Google, TechConnect, TechCrunch, BGR, Engadget, Recode, BuzzFeed, Windows Central, Google Operating System, The Next Web, GeekWire, Kik, Business Insider, Android Police, TechCrunch, Computerworld, CNET, VentureBeat, TechnoBuffalo, NBC Bay Area, Axios, Digital Trends, AndroidHeadlines.com, USA Today, Google, Marketing Land, Android Central, Android Authority, PhoneDog.com, Newsroom, Pocketnow, and YouTube
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
New invite-only Amazon Influencer Program lets influencers with “large followings” earn affiliate revenue through their own curated selections on Amazon's site — Social media influencers - like Instagram stars or YouTube celebs - often promote products they like … | Tim Peterson / Marketing Land: |
Why chatbots on services like Messenger and Kik have struggled to live up to the hype, and how developers are trying to reverse their downward trend — Chatbots in apps like Facebook's Messenger and Kik have struggled to live up to the hype, but that might actually help them succeed.
Tweets: @mgsiegler, @joshconstine, and @caseynewton
| Agam Shah / PCWorld: |
Memory standards organization JEDEC says DDR5 DRAM specification will be finalized next year and be twice as fast as DDR4 — More DDR memory is on the way, despite many predictions that its time would soon be up. — Development of specifications for the new DDR5 DRAM has started …
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| Asha McLean / ZDNet: |
IBM X-Force report: Over 4B personal records leaked online in 2016, up 566% YoY; hackers increasingly targeting unstructured data such as email archives, IP — A report from Big Blue's security arm has found that the number of records compromised grew by 566 percent in 2016 to more than 4 billion.
| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Comcast, AT&T, and Verizon say they don't sell customers' personal web browsing history, in response to cancellation of new FCC privacy rules — Comcast, AT&T, and Verizon published blog posts this morning responding to the backlash they've been receiving since Congress voted to revoke …
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USA Today, CircleID, Verizon Fios & Custom TV, AT&T Public Policy Blog, SlashGear, Ubergizmo, Gizmodo, CodePlex, 9to5Google, BetaNews, Tech Times, Ars Technica, ZDNet, Axios, Engadget, Mashable, The Next Web, International Business Times, The Register, Comcast, Seeking Alpha, and CNET
Tweets: @brendansasso and @backlon
| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Founder Andy Baio relaunches Upcoming.org, his site for finding local events and organizing impromptu gatherings, four years after Yahoo shut it down — Before events were posted on Facebook, the place to find social activities on the internet (back in the early 2000s) was Upcoming.org.
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Daring Fireball, Kickstarter, and Laughing Squid
Tweets: @waxpancake, @waxpancake, @waxpancake, and @waxpancake
| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft is shutting down CodePlex, its service for hosting repositories of open source software, on December 15 due to the dominance of GitHub — Microsoft today announced that it's shutting down CodePlex, its service for hosting repositories of open source software.
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Brian Harry's blog, SlashGear, On MSFT, Neowin, InfoQ, BetaNews, gHacks Technology News, Ars Technica, MSPoweruser, The Register, and Business Insider
Tweets: @stevesi, @chrismessina, @peteskomoroch, and @anildash
| Tony Romm / Recode: |
Sources say Trump's Office of Science and Technology Policy is sidelined and understaffed as office's director and other key leadership postions remain unfilled — As he cuts federal research and targets immigration, Trump has neglected and marginalized the White House's own team of experts.
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New York Times, Tech Narratives, and Nextgov
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