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Sonos sues Google, seeking financial damages and a ban on the sale of Google's speakers, smartphones, and laptops in US for allegedly infringing on five patents — The maker of home speakers said Google and Amazon stole its technology and abused their power, but it could only risk suing one.
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Internal Facebook memo from longtime exec Andrew Bosworth says he “desperately” wants Trump to lose in 2020, but Facebook should not tilt the scales against him — In an internal memo, Andrew Bosworth said he “desperately” wanted the president to lose.
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Andrew Bosworth publicly releases his internal post on Facebook's role in 2016 election, Cambridge Analytica, polarization, algorithmic transparency, and more — The NYT recently obtained a copy of a post I made to the wall of my internal profile within Facebook.
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Google says Assistant now has 500M users and announces upcoming features: Scheduled Actions, privacy-focused voice controls, longform reading, and Sticky Notes — Google Assistant is now used by 500 million monthly active users, and today Google is previewing features on the way in 2020 …
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Facebook says it is tightening its policies around misleading manipulated media by banning videos that are either heavily edited or deepfakes — People share millions of photos and videos on Facebook every day, creating some of the most compelling and creative visuals on our platform.
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Facebook bans deepfakes, but its new policy may not cover simpler forms of deception like with the distorted Pelosi video — Facebook has banned users from posting computer-generated, highly manipulated videos, known as deepfakes, seeking to stop the spread of a novel form of misinformation months …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
As part of a broader strategy shift, Intel says it will partner with Google to design chips for Chromebooks built on Intel's Project Athena framework — Intel, the chip-making giant, has been on the road of refocusing its strategy in recent months. While it has sold its mobile chip operation … Thanks:@ingridlunden
| Asha Barbaschow / ZDNet: |
Intel previews Tiger Lake mobile CPUs, with Xe-based discrete-level graphics, and Thunderbolt 4, which it says will have four times the throughput of USB 3 — CEO Bob Swan said the chip giant is focused on ‘relentless innovation’. — Intel has offered a first look of its newest Intel Core mobile processors, code named Tiger Lake.
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Report: pizza-making robot startup Zume, which raised $375M from SoftBank Vision Fund in 2018, plans to lay off up to 400 staff, or about 80% of its employees — In a little over a year, pizza-making robot startup Zume has gone from getting $375 million from SoftBank, to pivoting …
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| Cory Weinberg / The Information: |
Sources: Softbank-backed car-rental startup Getaround plans to lay off ~150 employees, or about a quarter of its staff, to mitigate rising costs — Car-rental startup Getaround plans to lay off roughly 150 employees, or about a quarter of its staff, in a bid to reduce rising costs, people familiar with the matter said.
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Lyft open sources Flyte, a platform for maintaining AI workflows that currently manages over 7,000 unique workflows at the company — Hot on the heels of Uber's open-sourcing of an AI debugging tool this morning, Lyft announced the release of Flyte, which it describes as a structured …
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Wide-ranging Q&A with AMD's CEO Dr. Lisa Su on everything from TSMC's tight wafer supply to AMD's evolving brand and its latest efforts across product lines — This week AMD took the wraps off of its latest generation of mobile processors. The company is being aggressive … | Joshua Goldman / CNET: |
Lenovo unveils the Yoga 5G, a $1,499 2-in-1 with the Snapdragon 8cx chipset and claimed 24-hour battery life, coming spring and will be called Flex 5G in the US — Last May, Lenovo announced Project Limitless, its plan to make the first 5G laptop. That plan is now a reality with the Yoga 5G …
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