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December 5, 2016, 10:10 AM

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Carole Cadwalladr / The Guardian:
Jeremy Kahn / Bloomberg:
Google DeepMind open sources its AI training platform, releases entire source code on GitHub for researchers and developers to experiment  —  Company is increasingly embracing open-source initiatives  —  Move comes after rival Musk's OpenAI made its robot gym public
Rupert Jones / The Guardian:
Researchers guessed valid Visa card expiry dates and CVV codes in seconds via queries to multiple commercial websites; Visa failed to detect the attack  —  Academics say working out card number, expiry date and security code of Visa card takes ‘as little as six seconds’
Brian Heater / TechCrunch:
Amazon launches a beta of Go, a cashier-free, app-based retail shopping experience  —  The straight-forwardly named “Just Walk Out” technology ought to give you a pretty good idea of what Amazon Go is all about.  Launching in beta this year to Amazon employees at a single 1,800 square foot location …
Biz Carson / Business Insider:
SEC filings show peer-to-peer insurance startup Lemonade has raised another $33.1M  —  Two months after launching out of stealth to take on the peer-to-peer insurance industry, New York-based Lemonade has raised $33 million in funding, according to an SEC filing from December 2nd.
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Nitasha Tiku / BuzzFeed:
Snapchat avoids the fake news epidemic by vetting publishers who appear in Discover, hiring human editors for Live Stories, and limiting re-sharing  —  Evan Spiegel, Snapchat CEO and cofounder  —  Facebook emerged during the U.S. election as a central political and news source …

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