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Ex-Apple employees say Siri was released prematurely, leading to development debates after launch, and that the Siri team was unaware of HomePod until 2015 — The Information has published an in-depth look at how Siri has transitioned from one of Apple's most promising technologies into a “major problem” for the company.
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| Megan Farokhmanesh / The Verge: |
Wikimedia says it was unaware of YouTube's plans to use Wikipedia content next to conspiracy videos, amid concerns it could increase article vandalism — Well, this is awkward — At SXSW yesterday, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki announced that the platform would start adding information …
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Google has open sourced the semantic image segmentation model that powers the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL's portrait mode — Google's Pixel phone has one hell of a camera, and one of the reasons for this is AI. Google has used its machine learning talent to squeeze better shots and shooting modes out of a tiny smartphone lens.| U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission: |
SEC charges Theranos, CEO Elizabeth Holmes, and former president Ramesh Balwani with defrauding investors for $700M+; Theranos and Holmes have settled — Holmes Stripped of Control of Company for Defrauding Investors — The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Silicon Valley …
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| Andrew Webster / The Verge: |
Google's new Maps platform for games gives developers access to real-time Google Maps data, an SDK for Unity, and a new API to use real-world locations in games — The first wave of games includes Jurassic World and The Walking Dead — There's been a wave of location-based mobile games … | Daisuke Wakabayashi / New York Times: |
Lyft to develop and manufacture autonomous car systems with Canadian auto supplier Magna; Magna making $200M equity investment in Lyft, now valued at $11.7B — SAN FRANCISCO — The ride-hailing service Lyft has agreed to alliances with just about anyone working on driverless car technology.
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| Allison Linn / The AI Blog: |
Microsoft says it has trained AI that can match human performance in translating news from Chinese to English — A team of Microsoft researchers said Wednesday that they believe they have created the first machine translation system that can translate sentences of news articles from Chinese …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Spotify confirms it is testing an in-app voice control feature and user demo shows fairly accurate speech recognition — Now Spotify listens to you instead of the other way around. Spotify has a new voice search interface that lets you say “Play my Discover Weekly,” “Show Calvin Harris” or “Play some upbeat pop” to pull up music.
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| Michelle Castillo / CNBC: |
Sources: Twitter is working on a camera-first feature to rival Snap that combines location-based photos and videos with Twitter Moments around notable events — - Twitter is working on a camera-first feature to rival a Snap service that has been popular with advertisers.
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Proposed net neutrality law in California would be toughest yet by banning zero-rating, affecting programs like Verizon FreeBee and AT&T's Sponsored Data — Bill would recreate core FCC net neutrality rules and be tougher on zero-rating. — A proposed net neutrality law in California …
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| Kevin Draper / New York Times: |
Sources: NYC's Madison Square Garden has quietly used facial-recognition technology to bolster security and identify those entering the building — Madison Square Garden has quietly used facial-recognition technology to bolster security and identify those entering the building … | Julia Fioretti / Reuters: |
EU is drafting regulations requiring platforms like Google or Amazon to be more transparent about their search rankings, reasons for demotion and delisting — (Reuters) - Online platforms such as Google (GOOGL.O), Apple (AAPL.O) and Amazon (AMZN.O) face new European Union rules …
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| Stephanie Condon / ZDNet: |
Palo Alto Networks is acquiring Evident.io, a cloud security and compliance firm, for $300M in cash, with Evident.io founders joining Palo Alto — Palo Alto Networks is paying $300 million in cash for the cloud security and compliance firm. — Palo Alto Networks on Wednesday announced …
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| Jessica Toonkel / Reuters: |
NBC News planning online streaming service this year to attract younger viewers; company says it has no plans to bring any of its content back to Facebook — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Comcast Corp's NBC News plans to launch an online streaming service this year as part of its effort … | Ginny Marvin / Marketing Land: |
Reddit says its iOS and Android apps account for 41% of time spent on all of its platforms and will introduce native in-feed ads to them in the coming weeks — The company says its iOS and Android apps are now the most popular way for users to access Reddit content on mobile.
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| Renae Merle / Washington Post: |
Former CIO of an Equifax unit, Jun Ying, faces criminal and civil charges from SEC over alleged insider trading on confidential info about 2017's data breach — Federal prosecutors on Wednesday charged a former Equifax executive with insider trading, alleging that he profited …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Chinese app Qu Toutiao, which aggregates news and video and is a rival of ByteDance's Jinri Toutiao, weighs US IPO, seeking as much as $3B valuation — Qu Toutiao considers listing in U.S. as soon as this year — News and video aggregation mobile app launched in June 2016| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Josh Elman, who formerly worked on product at Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook, will join Robinhood as its VP of product while remaining a partner at Greylock — Zero-fee stock trading app Robinhood is getting some product firepower as it dives into cryptocurrency and weighs platform aspirations.
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