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Sources: during a talk at a private party, Elon Musk said Tesla is developing specialized AI hardware “that we think will be the best in the world” — - At a private party on Thursday, Elon Musk spoke boldly about Tesla's upcoming custom artificial intelligence hardware.| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
KGI: all three iPhones to be introduced in 2018 will have more powerful batteries, with 6.5-inch and 5.8-inch OLED models getting L-shaped battery designs — Ming-Chi Kuo of KGI Securities is out with his latest investor note this evening covering more changes we can expect with next year's iPhone refresh.| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
Sources: YouTube to introduce paid, on-demand streaming music service in March; Warner has signed on, talks continue with Sony, Universal, and Merlin — Warner has signed on, talks underway with Sony, Universal — Artists asked to help promote service, internally called Remix
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Tweets: @joshconstine, @lucas_shaw, and @backlon
| Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: |
Facebook publicly shares its internal policies on harassment and bullying in the workplace, outlines process for investigating harassment allegations — Facebook, in a similar manner to what it did with its internal policies around Managing Bias, is making its policies on harassment and bullying publicly available.| Blair Hanley Frank / VentureBeat: |
Nvidia unveils Titan V GPU aimed at machine learning applications, says Titan V has 110 teraflops of raw computing capability, 9x that of Pascal-based Titan X — Nvidia launched a new desktop GPU today that's designed to bring massive amounts of power to people who are working on machine learning applications.
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Tweets: @calbucci and @davegershgorn
| Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed: |
Data from publishing tool SocialFlow says Twitter users are retweeting and liking tweets with over 140 characters almost twice as much as shorter ones — Given the deluge of complaints about Twitter's 280-character limit when it debuted this fall, you'd think people would be ignoring the new, lengthier tweets.
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| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Amazon brings its Echo smart speakers and Music Unlimited service to 28 new countries across Europe and South America — Amazon is continuing to push its media services worldwide after it expanded its Alexa smart speakers and its standalone Music Unlimited service to an additional 28 countries today.
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| Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: |
Singapore's largest taxi company, ComfortDelGro, to buy 51% of Uber's Singapore car rental unit for $218M, forming a joint venture to better compete with Grab — Uber will retain remaining 49% in the Singapore joint venture — Deal marks ComfortDelGro's single largest deal to-date
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Wall Street Journal, Axios, TechCrunch, ZDNet, Channel NewsAsia, Reuters, The Straits Times, Tech in Asia, and Seeking Alpha. Tweets: @scottmaustin
| Jake Smith / ZDNet: |
Baidu and Qualcomm announce strategic AI partnership to optimize Baidu's DuerOS conversational AI system for Snapdragon processors — Qualcomm's collaboration with Baidu will bring AI for voice enabled solutions to the new Snapdragon 845 mobile platform. — Qualcomm and Baidu have formed …
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Qualcomm, Inquirer, Fone Arena, @Baidu_Inc, Android Central, Investor's Business Daily, and Seeking Alpha. Tweets: @tarunpathak
| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Windows 10 Redstone 4, slated for April 2018, will improve eSIM support, including a pilot allowing companies to bulk-purchase and provision cell connectivity — Microsoft is working on eSIM and power-management capabilities that could make their way into Windows 10 Redstone 4.
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SiliconANGLE, Business Wire, Windows Central, 9to5Mac, Engadget, On MSFT, ZDNet, MSPoweruser, USA Today, 9to5Mac, SlashGear, MacRumors, and BrianMadden.com
| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Zero-day flaw allowed unauthorized remote access to HomeKit products via iOS 11.2; fix made that limits some functionality, full fix coming in update next week — A HomeKit vulnerability in the current version of iOS 11.2 has been demonstrated to 9to5Mac that allows unauthorized control …
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Facebook debuts Sound Collection tool for inserting copyright-free music into Facebook and Instagram clips, starts camera loaner program for 360 video creators — The right soundtrack can make a boring video interesting. So after years of reported discussions with the record labels … Sponsor Posts
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