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| Ryan Whitwam / ExtremeTech: |
DeepMind introduces AlphaStar AI, which won 10-1 in a series of StarCraft II matches against professional players — Humans tend to think we're adept at the games we create, but computers have proven time and time again that we're just not fast enough to stay on top.
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| Tom Krazit / GeekWire: |
Microsoft acquires Citus Data, which develops an open-source extension for PostgreSQL that turns it into a distributed database — Databases continue to be one of the most competitive areas of cloud computing, and Microsoft strengthened its database story Thursday with the acquisition of Citus Data.
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| Nathan Halverson / Reveal: |
Unsealed documents show Facebook orchestrated a multi-year effort that duped children who played video games into spending their parents' money — Facebook orchestrated a multi-year effort that duped children and their parents out of money, in some cases hundreds or even thousands of dollars …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft makes the Office suite available via the Mac App Store, with users needing an Office 365 subscription — An Office 365 subscription is required for most apps — Microsoft is making its Office suite available on Apple's Mac App Store today. The software giant originally promised …
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Jack Dorsey's recent media tour is largely performative, substituting talking for doing, masking Twitter's slow response to many of its issues — Jack Dorsey has a lot to say — but he has more to do — Jack Dorsey is talking. — He is talking to the Huffington Post's Ashley Feinberg.
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| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
Robinhood says it will roll out its cryptocurrency trading product in New York in the coming months after NY regulators grant the firm a BitLicense — Stock trading startup Robinhood and bitcoin ATM provider LibertyX have become the latest companies to be granted New York's BitLicense.
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| Natasha Singer / New York Times: |
Amazon's Rekognition mistakes women as men 19% of the time, and darker-skinned women as men 31% of the time, more than similar services from IBM and Microsoft — In new tests, Amazon's system had more difficulty identifying the gender of female and darker-skinned faces than similar services from IBM and Microsoft.
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| The Intercept: |
Snowden documents shed light on how states can compromise hardware supply chains, a practice undertaken by the US, France, Germany, China, and others — In October, Bloomberg Businessweek published an alarming story: Operatives working for China's People's Liberation Army had secretly implanted microchips …
Tweets: @bobmcmillan and @kimzetter
| Natasha Singer / New York Times: |
As the number of US students studying computer science doubled to over 106,000 from 2013 to 2017, the supply of professors is struggling to keep up — Lured by the prospect of high-salary, high-status jobs, college students are rushing in record numbers to study computer science.
Tweets: @mark_riedl and @puiwingtam
| Bloomberg: |
FOIA inquiry: Google urged US Labor Board to drop an Obama-era protection for staff organizing over work email; Google says doing so was part of a legal defense — While Google publicly supported employees who protested company policies, it quietly asked the government to narrow the right to organize over work email
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| Corbin Davenport / Android Police: |
Google Express quietly removes Walmart as a retail partner, leaving Target as the only major partner for the beleaguered delivery service — When Google Express re-launched in 2017 as a free service, it had two major retail partners — Walmart and Target. Both companies have a massive amount … | Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Intel Q4: revenue of $18.7B, up 9% YoY, vs. $19.01B est., Client Computing Group revenue of $9.82B, up 10% YoY, vs. $10.01B est.; stock down 6%+ after hours — Shares of Intel stock fell as much as 8 percent on Thursday after the company reported lower-than-expected revenue for the fiscal fourth quarter and light guidance.
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Strategy Analytics: Apple shipped an estimated 34.2M iPhones in China in 2018, down from 36.7M in 2017, and was the number five smartphone vendor in the country — Apple shipped an estimated 34.2 million iPhones in China in 2018, down from 36.7 million in 2017, according to new data shared today by Strategy Analytics.
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| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
Coinbase partners with TurboTax, will allow its customers to upload their transactions, gains, and losses in 2018 to TurboTax Premier to help file crypto taxes — Coinbase customers who need to file taxes in the U.S. this year can get a boost from TurboTax, the tax-filing software offered by Intuit Consumer Tax Group.
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The Coinbase Blog, CryptoGlobe, CoinGeek, Cointelegraph.com News, and Crypto Briefing
Tweets: @bitjob_team and @coindesk
| Richard Nieva / CNET: |
Facebook says it will shut down its private photo-sharing app Moments on Feb. 25; users can export photos until May — Take a moment to remember Moments. — Facebook said on Thursday it was shuttering Moments, its standalone app for privately sharing photos with friends, in part because few people were using it.
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Tweets: @frankba and @mattnavarra
| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Verizon's Visible, which offers unlimited text, voice, and data for $40/month, announces Android compatibility and starts selling Galaxy S9, S9+, and iPhones — When Verizon stealthily launched a new startup called Visible last year, it operated under a bring-your-own-device model …
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The Family, Android, KnowTechie, 9to5Google, TechSpot, Android Authority, Greenbot, Droid Life, The Verge, AndroidGuys, Digital Trends, 9to5Mac, Android Police, CNET, and Android Authority. Thanks:@mcalderone
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YouTube's “Up Next” still suggests conspiracy videos, hate group videos, and pirated videos after news searches; YouTube says it's still working to improve — How many clicks through YouTube's “Up Next” recommendations does it take to go from an anodyne PBS clip … | Tom Krazit / GeekWire: |
AWS launches Neo-AI, an open source project for ML training models that can be run across multiple operating environments, under the Apache Software License — Amazon Web Services has decided to release the code behind one of its key machine-learning services as an open-source project …
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