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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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| John Koblin / New York Times: |
Nielsen announces it is providing Netflix viewer data to clients, based on audio recognition in 44K homes in US; Netflix disputes accuracy — In the five years since Netflix started streaming original series like the Emmy-winning “House of Cards” and “Master of None,” the shows … | 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| Tony Romm / Recode: |
White House says Trump will nominate Joe Simons, a longtime antitrust lawyer, as head of FTC; nomination must still be confirmed by Senate — Joe Simons has represented companies like Microsoft, and may be the country's privacy, competition and consumer protection cop.| 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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| 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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Laptop Mag, HP, eWeek, The Verge, TechSpot, Engadget, The Tech Report, ZDNet, ZDNet, SlashGear, TechConnect, 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, ZDNet, International Business Times, 9to5Google, and The Verge
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Adobe turns Lightroom CC into a new cloud photography service, providing 1TB of storage with support for RAW images, and introduces new pricing plans — Adobe's annual Adobe MAX conference kicks off today, and the company is introducing a whole slew of updates to its Creative Cloud platform.
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Photoshop Blog, Talking New Media, TechSpot, On MSFT, Digital Trends, Digital Photography Review, Cult of Mac, The Next Web, Ars Technica, 9to5Mac, Direct2Dell, Engadget, SlashGear, TechCrunch, Subtraction.com + Feed, MSPoweruser, Fuji Rumors, Canon Rumors, iDownloadBlog.com, CNET, TechCrunch, ZDNet, Insanely Great Mac, The Verge, and 9to5Mac. Tweets: @sokane1
| 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.
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