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DeepMind's new Go-playing AI wins 90% of time against version of AlphaGo that beat world champ, trained solely by reinforcement learning without human input — The company's latest AlphaGo AI learned superhuman skills by playing itself over and over — Google's AI subsidiary DeepMind …
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Tweets: @ldrogen, @joonian, @mattburgess1, and @dmoberhaus
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook officially starts rolling out its discovery-focused “Explore Feed” on desktop and mobile — Facebook's tests of an alternative News Feed dubbed the “Explore” feed have progressed to a full rollout, the company now confirms. Previously available on mobile devices …
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9to5Mac, Engadget, Mashable, iPhone Hacks, and MacRumors
| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Samsung unveils 360 Round, a disc-shaped device with 17 2MP cameras and six microphones that can stream 4K VR at 30 FPS — Samsung already has a virtual reality camera in the form of the Gear 360, but it's not really for pros — it's for everyday users who want to record a 360-degree video on the street.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Facebook and Google helped Secure America Now, a conservative nonprofit advocacy group, target ads for an anti-refugee campaign in swing states — The big tech companies worked closely with Secure America Now to target an audience the group felt could be swayed by the message.
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| Kevin Collier / BuzzFeed: |
Twitter took 11 months after being notified by GOP to shut down a fake Twitter account with 136K+ followers run by a Russian troll farm, posing as Tennessee GOP — The account was one of hundreds created by Russia's Internet Research Agency and drew 136,000 followers by tweeting divisive messages …
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CNET, The Hill, Gizmodo, International Business Times, Vanity Fair, and Meduza
Tweets: @passantino, @epro, @micahsingleton, @miriamelder, @kevincollier, @mekosoff, and @miriamelder
| Catalin Cimpanu / BleepingComputer.com: |
Mozilla, Microsoft, Google, Samsung, and W3C agree to unify cross-browser web documentation under Mozilla's MDN portal, rebranded as MDN Web Docs — Mozilla, Microsoft, Google, Samsung, and the W3C have agreed today to unify all their documentation sites under one single roof, on Mozilla's MDN portal.| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
MongoDB prices IPO above range at $24, may raise up to $220.8M at a valuation of about $1.2B — MongoDB has finished up what is essentially the final step in going public, pricing its IPO at $24and raising $192 million in the process. — The company will debut on the public markets tomorrow …
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| Karissa Bell / Mashable: |
Samsung announces Bixby 2.0 update with better voice recognition and more, will bring it to IoT devices, and plans to open it to third-parties in “near future” — It was only a matter of time: Samsung's Bixby assistant isn't confined to just phones anymore.
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| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
Blue Apron to lay off 6%, or more than 250 employees after going public earlier this year — As Blue Apron approaches its next earnings report in a couple of weeks, the company said Wednesday that it is laying off 6 percent of its staff as part of “a company-wide realignment of personnel to support its strategic priorities.”| Joe Shields / AnandTech: |
HP unveils $1,749+ ZBook x2 2-in-1 workstation with 14-inch 4K display, 7th and 8th generation i7, up to 32GB RAM, optimized for Adobe apps, shipping in Dec. — Today at the Adobe MAX conference in Las Vegas, HP will showcase their new HP ZBook x2. The ZBook x2 will be HP's …
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HP, Laptop Mag, The Verge, eWeek, Engadget, TechSpot, ZDNet, The Tech Report, TechConnect, ZDNet, SlashGear, and CNET
| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Samsung and Google partner to bring ARCore platform to Samsung devices beyond the Galaxy S8 — Google and Samsung team up as augmented reality partners to take on Apple — Today, Samsung and Google announced a partnership to bring Google's new ARCore framework to Samsung's line of Galaxy smartphones …
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CNET, International Business Times, ZDNet, 9to5Google, and The Verge
| Alex Webb / Bloomberg: |
Apple partners with General Electric to develop industrial mobile apps for managing machinery, factories, and power plants — Businesses want same experiences as consumers, executive says — Apple makes GE's Predix its preferred industrial platform — General Electric Co. is teaming … | New York Times: |
PolitiFact and Snopes, using Google AdSense, unwittingly hosted ads by fake news publishers; source says AdSense has terminated the ads — SAN FRANCISCO — The headlines are eye-catching. Melania Trump is leaving the White House! Home renovation cable star Joanna Gaines has abandoned her HGTV show and husband Chip Gaines!
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eWeek, CNET, Salon, SiliconBeat, Engadget, and The Hill
Tweets: @nytimes, @profcarroll, @rhhackett, and @fmanjoo
| Joseph Cox / The Daily Beast: |
Sources: after spying accusations, Kaspersky's business is struggling, especially in US, where a source says its KGSS subsidiary has been closed for 2+ months — The promise was clear: give our software all sorts of access to your computer, and we'll make sure it isn't infected with a bevy of viruses, worms, or other dodgy programs.
Tweets: @josephfcox, @zackwhittaker, and @josephfcox
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google releases a beta version of its iOS Gmail app on TestFlight that lets users add non-Google accounts, like Outlook, Yahoo, Hotmail — Google wants to make Gmail the place where you check all your email accounts, not just your Google accounts. The company announced this week it's testing …
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Engadget, Mashable, TechnoBuffalo, Pocket-lint, Ars Technica, MacRumors, and 9to5Mac
Tweets: @gmail and @techcrunch
| Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios: |
UAE-based sovereign wealth fund Mubadala is launching a $400M fund in partnership with SoftBank, a $200M VC fund-of-funds, and is opening a San Francisco office — Mubadala, an Abu Dhabi-based sovereign wealth fund with $125 billion in assets under management, is opening its first U.S. office …
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