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Source: Apple is working on Apple Neural Engine, a dedicated chip to power AI on devices — Move would follow similar announcements from Qualcomm, Google — Offloading tasks to dedicated chip may improve iPhone battery — Apple Inc. got an early start in artificial intelligence software …
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| Kara Swisher / Recode: |
Uber says that Travis Kalanick's mother has died in a boating accident; his father is in serious condition — Travis Kalanick's father Donald was seriously injured. — Bonnie Kalanick, the mother of Uber CEO Travis Kalanick, has died in a boating accident, a company spokesperson said.
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| Chris Johnston / The Guardian: |
British Airways cancelled all flights from London Heathrow and Gatwick on Saturday due to a major IT failure — IT outage leaves travellers unable to check in online, with some passengers stranded on a plane on the tarmac at Heathrow — British Airways has cancelled all flights from Heathrow …
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| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
AlphaGo retires from competitive Go after defeating world number one 3-0 — AlphaGo is going out on top. After beating Ke Jie, the world's best player of the ancient Chinese board game Go, for the third time today at the Future of Go Summit in Wuzhen, Google's DeepMind unit announced …
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| Sam Levin / The Guardian: |
Google says it is too expensive and time-consuming to compile and hand over salary records to the US government in the gender pay case — Officials said it was too financially burdensome and logistically challenging to hand over salary records that the government requested in discrimination case
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| Ryan Mac / BuzzFeed: |
Sources: Snap acquires LA-based drone maker Ctrl Me Robotics for under $1M — Snap has acquired Ctrl Me Robotics, a small drone manufacturer based in Los Angeles that should give the company added muscle in its push into hardware. — Snap's interest in drone manufacturers has been rumored for months …
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| Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Roundtable: |
Google adds “Personal” tab to search filters, which shows results from user's Gmail, Photos, more — Google now lets searchers filter their search results by “personal” results. By that, it mostly means emails, flights, anything related to that Gmail account they are logged into.
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| Bruce Schneier / The Atlantic: |
Educated guesses on who the Shadow Brokers are and how they acquired their NSA exploits — In 2013, a mysterious group of hackers that calls itself the Shadow Brokers stole a few disks full of National Security Agency secrets. Since last summer, they've been dumping these secrets on the internet.| Robert Levine / Billboard: |
Spotify settles class action suit filed by a group of songwriters over mechanical rights, to set up $43.4M fund as compensation for unpaid royalties — Spotify has reached a settlement with a group of songwriters who had sued for copyright infringement, eliminating an potential complication …
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| Rachel Becker / The Verge: |
As rumors about Apple's glucose tracker intensify, a look at scientific and technological challenges to non-invasive blood sugar monitoring — ‘Everybody thinks they have a way to do it, and everybody, so far, has failed’ — Illustrations by James Bareham and Rosy Warren| New York Times: |
China is investing heavily in AI and is preparing for a concerted nationwide push, while Trump proposes budget cuts that would impact AI research — HONG KONG — Sören Schwertfeger finished his postdoctorate research on autonomous robots in Germany, and seemed set to go to Europe or the United States … | Leena Rao / Fortune: |
Change.org raises $30M led by LinkedIn's Reid Hoffman; Sam Altman and Bill Gates invest too — In 2006, newly minted Stanford grad Ben Rattray sat at a Starbucks in Silicon Valley, pitching LinkedIn founder and early Facebook investor Reid Hoffman to fund his idea for a political website.
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