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Google says its AI has made significant improvements at reading mammograms to detect breast cancer in a research study of images from around 90K cases — Computers that are trained to recognize patterns and interpret images may outperform humans at finding cancer on X-rays.
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Lenovo announces ThinkSmart View, a smart display for Microsoft Teams, available this month for $349 — The new personal business communications device makes it easier for mobile workers to conduct Microsoft Teams audio and video calls. — Lenovo on Friday announced the expansion …
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Sources: Snap has acquired Ukraine-based computer vision startup AI Factory, which helped create a Cameos feature Snapchat is currently testing, for ~$166M — After acquiring Ukraine startup Looksery in 2015 to supercharge animated selfie lenses in Snapchat — arguably changing the filters game …
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Apptopia: TikTok's in-app purchase revenue grew to $50M in Q4 2019, up from $20M in Q3, and was up 310% YoY — According to newly released third-party data, TikTok has reason to dance. — The famous, short-video application saw its in-app purchase revenue rise 310% on a year … | Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Samsung says it shipped 6.7M+ Galaxy 5G phones globally in 2019, accounting for 53.9% of the 5G phone market; Samsung had only sold 2M 5G devices as of Sept. — 2020 will be the real test for 5G devices, though — Samsung sold 6.7 million 5G phones in 2019 between the Galaxy S10 5G …
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APK teardown reveals Galaxy S11 camera features like Director's View, Pro Video, and Bokeh Effects, and super fast charging for Fold 2, topping out at 45W — There's a certain thrill we feel when a photo of an unreleased device slides across our desks. It's new, mysterious, exciting … | Anna Escher / TechCrunch: |
Loft, a São Paulo-based real estate marketplace for Latin America, raises $175M Series C co-led by a16z and Vulcan Capital — Loft may have better product market fit in Brazil than Opendoor does in the U.S.. And now the São Paulo-based property tech company has growth funding to prove it.
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Google is ending its print-replica magazine service, launched in 2012 as the Play Magazines app, and is refunding payments to users — The venerable Egon Spangler once said, “print is dead.” The statement may have been premature, but today it feels a little more on point because Google … | Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
EU Patent Office rejects two patent applications in which AI was designated as the inventor; this is the right decision that all patent offices should emulate — We've written a bunch about why AI generated artwork should not (and need not) have any copyright at all.
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
SuperData: digital games and interactive media revenue was up 4% YoY to $120.1B in 2019, with $64.4B for mobile; Fortnite topped with $1.8B, vs. $2.4B in 2018 — The combined game industry grew 3% to $120.1 billion in 2019, according to market researcher SuperData in its year-end report.
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A look at the optimists behind the Y2K-era Cassandra Project and how they emphasized the importance of analog community building amid technological uncertainty — For millennials, Y2K felt like an apocalypse. Twenty years later, we're still anxious.
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| Liam Tung / ZDNet: |
Mozilla will allow all users to request the deletion of Firefox telemetry data stored on its servers in accordance with the CCPA; the feature will ship Jan. 7 — The next version of Firefox will give users a way of requesting Mozilla delete their telemetry data.
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Google unveils the Coral Dev Board Mini, a smaller, budget alternative to the Coral Dev Board with the Edge TPU, and the Accelerator Module, available H1 2020 — Last March, Google took the wraps off of Coral, a collection of hardware kits and accessories intended to bolster AI development at the edge.
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Receipt Bank, a UK-based digital bookkeeping platform, raises ~$73M Series C led by Insight Partners — Receipt Bank has announced a successful $73 million Series C funding round led by Insight Partner. Receipt Bank was advised by Harris Williams. This is the second round led …
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Dell debuts a new Latitude 9510 laptop with built-in 5G, to launch March 26, and says a spring update to its Mobile Connect software will enable iOS mirroring — Ahead of next week's CES in Las Vegas, Dell today announced two PC updates that will improve its appeal to users of mobile devices …
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