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Support for regulation of cryptocurrencies is growing in Congress, with members on both sides, including some free-market Republicans, calling for action — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Jolted by the global investment craze over bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, U.S. lawmakers are moving … | Manish Singh: |
Wikipedia Zero, which partnered with 97 mobile carriers in 72 countries to provide 800M+ users access to Wikipedia at no data cost, is being discontinued — In an unexpected development, the Wikimedia Foundation announced on Friday that it is discontinuing Wikipedia Zero …
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Research from Alphabet's Verily shows that blood pressure, age, whether someone smokes, and more can be deduced by analyzing scans of patients' retinas with AI — Experts say it could provide a simpler way to predict cardiovascular risk — Scientists from Google and its health-tech subsidiary Verily …
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| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Google's Tez, its payment service in India, updates to allow users to pay bills from 80+ organizations from its iOS and Android apps — Google's Tez payment service in India has gotten a major update that allows users to pay their utilities and other bills via the app.
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Apple releases iOS 11.2.6, watchOS 4.2.3, tvOS 11.2.6, and macOS 10.13.3 supplemental update, fixing issue where an Indian character would crash apps — Apple has released new software updates to address the Telugu character bug that affected devices running the latest public version of Apple's software.
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| Katharine Schwab / Co.Design: |
How ProPublica is developing its own machine learning algorithms and chatbots as investigative tools to hold Facebook and other big tech companies accountable — The nonprofit is fighting fire with fire, developing algorithms and bots that hold Facebook and Amazon accountable.
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| Steven Sinofsky / Learning By Shipping: |
Apple's reported new focus on software reliability isn't reactionary or a massive pivot, it's a predictable evolution of an extremely robust and proven system — The following was shared as a twitter thread. Here's the medium version. — 1/ Apple has a software problem.| Mishaal Rahman / xda-developers: |
Nuance discontinues Swype iOS, Android apps after buying company in 2011 for $100M as it exits consumer keyboard business and focuses on AI for businesses — For the longest time, one of the advantages of Android over iOS was the ability to use third-party keyboard apps available on the Play Store.
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| CoinDesk: |
Israel says it will regard cryptocurrencies as “a property, not a currency”, making them subject to capital gains tax, as well as VAT in some cases — Israel's government confirmed Monday that it would treat bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies as a kind of property for tax purposes.
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Sony and five Japanese taxi operators plan joint venture to develop taxi-hailing system in Japan that uses AI to predict demand — Group teams with fleet operators to develop AI-powered dispatching — TOKYO — Sony will lead a new Japanese effort to develop a taxi-hailing system …
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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Huawei Mate 10 Pro review: great build quality and performance with exceptional battery life, but the software is buggy and poorly designed for an $800 phone — Huawei's premier smartphone is let down by bad software — We're less than two months into 2018, and so far, the year hasn't been very good for Huawei.
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9to5Google, Android Central, ZDNet, v3.co.uk, The Next Web, and TechRepublic. Tweets: @dcseifert
| Matthew Hutson / Science: |
Missing data is hindering replication of AI studies as survey of 400 algorithms presented at major conferences finds just 6% had code and 30% included test data — Last year, computer scientists at the University of Montreal (U of M) in Canada were eager to show off a new speech recognition algorithm …
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