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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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| 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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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 … | Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
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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| 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.| 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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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Since implementing its own screen time tracking tools in iOS 12, Apple has removed some 3rd-party trackers and parental control apps from the App Store — A number of app developers building third-party screen time trackers and parental control applications are worried that Apple's increased scrutiny …
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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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| Vibhuti Sharma / Reuters: |
IBM to sell seven of its software products, including Notes, Domino, BigFix, and Unica, to India-based IT services company HCL for $1.8B — (Reuters) - International Business Machines Corp (IBM.N) said on Thursday it will sell some of its software products business to Indian software services …
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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 … | 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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| Astasia Myers / Memory Leak: |
In 2018, at least $46.8B has been spent on acquiring open source companies, including IBM's $34B Red Hat purchase and Salesforce's $6.5B MuleSoft buy — Astasia MyersBlockedUnblockFollowFollowing — When Elastic filed its S-1 in September, we wrote a piece calling “2018: The Biggest Year for Open Source Software Ever!”
Tweets: @astasiamyers
| Mark Sullivan / Fast Company: |
Amazon says it is beta testing Amazon Answers, an invite-only program for users to help answer questions that Alexa doesn't know, starting today — Smartphones settle a lot of dinner table debates nowadays. We argue about this or that, until somebody finally pops out a phone and Googles it.
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US Day One Blog, Inquirer, TechCrunch, ZDNet, SiliconANGLE, Pocket-lint, Voicebot, and Engadget. Tweets: @peteskomoroch
| 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 …
Tweets: @loudmouthjulia and @profcarroll
| 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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