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Microsoft steps up calls for regulation of facial recognition tech; research group AI Now stresses urgency for companies to open their AI algorithms to auditing — AFTER A HELLISH year of tech scandals, even government-averse executives have started professing their openness to legislation.
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| Jackson Ryan / CNET: |
DeepMind's new AI program, AlphaZero, taught itself to play and beat the world's best AI in three different board games: chess, shogi, and Go — Humans have mostly accepted that they will never be as good at chess as the robots, but now even the robots have to accept they will never be as good as other robots.
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| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
Winklevoss' Gemini exchange says it will add support for Bitcoin Cash on December 10, after receiving approval from NY regulator — The Winklevoss-owned Gemini crypto exchange is adding support for bitcoin cash (BCH), the firm announced Friday. — Specifically, the New York-based startup … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft says it will rebuild Edge to run on Google's open source Chromium project and will make it available on macOS, Windows 7, and Windows 8 — A Chromium version of Edge will also arrive on Windows 7 and Windows 8 — Microsoft is announcing some significant changes to its Edge browser today.
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FTC's Consumer Protection Bureau head cannot participate in investigations involving 120 companies like Facebook, Equifax, Uber, due to conflict of interest — The list of 120 includes Uber, Twitter, and Equifax — The Federal Trade Commission's top consumer protection official is prohibited …
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| Julia Alexander / The Verge: |
Inside the collapse of Defy Media, which raised $70M and oversaw 50+ YouTube creators, including Smosh, many of whom are still owed money — Ryland Adams is one of YouTube's most prominent creators, best known for his collaborative work with boyfriend Shane Dawson and his time as a host on Clevver …
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| Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
SoftBank hires Kirthiga Reddy, former managing director of Facebook India, as the first female partner to manage its $100B Vision Fund — SoftBank hired Facebook Inc. executive Kirthiga Reddy as a partner at its $100 billion Vision Fund, the first woman to join a group of just a dozen … | The Information: |
Sources: ByteDance, the startup behind popular video app TikTok, is in talks to raise $1.45B for its first venture fund to invest in AI and media content — China's ByteDance, the world's most valuable startup worth $75 billion, is in talks to raise the equivalent of more than $1 billion …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Google Translate's website, to combat bias, now gives both feminine and masculine translations for some gender-neutral words such as “doctor” in some languages — Google's making an effort to reduce perceived gender bias in Google Translate, it announced today.
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Google launches a personalized audio news feed on Google Assistant using Google News, rolling out to some users in the US in English — For the past century, radio has been a one-size-fits-all medium. Turn on the radio and you're dropped into a show at a moment in time … | Andrii Degeler / Tech.eu: |
Tourlane, a travel booking service that solves the problem of coordinating bookings from different suppliers, raises $24M Series B led by Sequoia Capital — Berlin-based travel booking platform Tourlane has raised a $24 million Series B funding round led by Sequoia Capital with participation …
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EU's technology commissioner: EU should be worried about Huawei and other Chinese tech companies because of the risk they pose to bloc's industry and security — BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union should be worried about Huawei [HWT.UL] and other Chinese technology companies …
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| Jake Swearingen / New York Magazine: |
Smartphone manufacturers are likely preparing for a global sales decline as replacement cycles lengthen and smartphones approach becoming commodities — From roughly 2007 until 2013, the smartphone market grew at an astonishing pace, posting double-digit growth year after year, even during a global recession.| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Qualcomm announces the Snapdragon 8cx, an “extreme” processor for Windows laptops that it says is the first 7nm chip for a PC platform — Could Qualcomm replace Intel in your next Windows PC? — The “X” stands for “extreme.” That's what Qualcomm's marketing department wants you to think about the new Snapdragon 8cx.
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