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DeepMind's new Go-playing AI wins 90% of time against version of AlphaGo that beat world champ, trained solely by reinforcement learning without human input — The company's latest AlphaGo AI learned superhuman skills by playing itself over and over — Google's AI subsidiary DeepMind …
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Tweets: @dmoberhaus, @ldrogen, @joonian, and @mattburgess1
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Sources: Facebook and Google helped Secure America Now, a conservative nonprofit advocacy group, target ads for an anti-refugee campaign in swing states — The big tech companies worked closely with Secure America Now to target an audience the group felt could be swayed by the message.
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SiliconBeat, TechCrunch, Business Insider, The Hill, New York Magazine, CNET, Engadget, Gizmodo, and Fortune
Tweets: @boztank, @pinboard, @eringriffith, @stevekovach, @mazmhussain, @profcarroll, @tomgara, @zeynep, @mollymckew, @emptywheel, and @stevekovach
| Kevin Collier / BuzzFeed: |
Twitter took 11 months after being notified by GOP to shut down a fake Twitter account with 136K+ followers run by a Russian troll farm, posing as Tennessee GOP — The account was one of hundreds created by Russia's Internet Research Agency and drew 136,000 followers by tweeting divisive messages …
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CNET, Gizmodo, International Business Times, Vanity Fair, and Meduza
Tweets: @passantino, @epro, @kevincollier, @miriamelder, @micahsingleton, @mekosoff, and @miriamelder
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook officially starts rolling out its discovery-focused “Explore Feed” on desktop and mobile — Facebook's tests of an alternative News Feed dubbed the “Explore” feed have progressed to a full rollout, the company now confirms. Previously available on mobile devices …
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Engadget, MacRumors, Mashable, and iPhone Hacks
| Karissa Bell / Mashable: |
Samsung announces Bixby 2.0 update with better voice recognition and more, will bring it to IoT devices, and plans to open it to third-parties in “near future” — It was only a matter of time: Samsung's Bixby assistant isn't confined to just phones anymore.
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Samsung Global Newsroom, TechCrunch, Ars Technica, Android Authority, SiliconANGLE, Android Police, ZDNet, Axios, Engadget, The Verge, and The Verge
Tweets: @jandawson, @jandawson, @jandawson, and @jandawson
| Catalin Cimpanu / BleepingComputer.com: |
Mozilla, Microsoft, Google, Samsung, and W3C agree to unify cross-browser web documentation under Mozilla's MDN portal, rebranded as MDN Web Docs — Mozilla, Microsoft, Google, Samsung, and the W3C have agreed today to unify all their documentation sites under one single roof, on Mozilla's MDN portal.| Alex Webb / Bloomberg: |
Apple partners with General Electric to develop industrial mobile apps for managing machinery, factories, and power plants — Businesses want same experiences as consumers, executive says — Apple makes GE's Predix its preferred industrial platform — General Electric Co. is teaming … | Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
Blue Apron to lay off 6%, or more than 250 employees after going public earlier this year — As Blue Apron approaches its next earnings report in a couple of weeks, the company said Wednesday that it is laying off 6 percent of its staff as part of “a company-wide realignment of personnel to support its strategic priorities.”| Joe Shields / AnandTech: |
HP unveils $1,749+ ZBook x2 2-in-1 workstation with 14-inch 4K display, 7th and 8th generation i7, up to 32GB RAM, optimized for Adobe apps, shipping in Dec. — Today at the Adobe MAX conference in Las Vegas, HP will showcase their new HP ZBook x2. The ZBook x2 will be HP's …
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HP, Laptop Mag, eWeek, The Verge, Engadget, ZDNet, TechSpot, The Tech Report, TechConnect, ZDNet, and SlashGear
| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Samsung and Google partner to bring ARCore platform to Samsung devices beyond the Galaxy S8 — Google and Samsung team up as augmented reality partners to take on Apple — Today, Samsung and Google announced a partnership to bring Google's new ARCore framework to Samsung's line of Galaxy smartphones …
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International Business Times, CNET, 9to5Google, and The Verge
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PolitiFact and Snopes, using Google AdSense, unwittingly hosted ads by fake news publishers; source says AdSense has terminated the ads — SAN FRANCISCO — The headlines are eye-catching. Melania Trump is leaving the White House! Home renovation cable star Joanna Gaines has abandoned her HGTV show and husband Chip Gaines!
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CNET, SiliconBeat, Engadget, and The Hill
Tweets: @nytimes, @profcarroll, @rhhackett, and @fmanjoo
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google tests letting iOS users add third-party accounts to Gmail beta, available on TestFlight platform — Google wants to make Gmail the place where you check all your email accounts, not just your Google accounts. The company announced this week it's testing a new version of the Gmail app …
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Engadget, Ars Technica, SlashGear, TechnoBuffalo, Softpedia News, 9to5Mac, and MacRumors
Tweets: @gmail and @techcrunch
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Adobe turns Lightroom CC into a new cloud photography service, providing 1TB of storage with support for RAW images, and introduces new pricing plans — Adobe's annual Adobe MAX conference kicks off today, and the company is introducing a whole slew of updates to its Creative Cloud platform.| Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios: |
UAE-based sovereign wealth fund Mubadala is launching a $400M fund in partnership with SoftBank, a $200M VC fund-of-funds, and is opening a San Francisco office — Mubadala, an Abu Dhabi-based sovereign wealth fund with $125 billion in assets under management, is opening its first U.S. office …
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Recode, PE Hub Blog, and TechCrunch
| Joseph Cox / The Daily Beast: |
Sources: after spying accusations, Kaspersky's business is struggling, especially in US, where a source says its KGSS subsidiary has been closed for 2+ months — The promise was clear: give our software all sorts of access to your computer, and we'll make sure it isn't infected with a bevy of viruses, worms, or other dodgy programs.
Tweets: @josephfcox, @josephfcox, and @zackwhittaker
| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
“Nude” app uses machine learning locally on device to find nude pics of users before moving them to PIN-protected vault, available for iOS, Android app to come — Making the camera roll safe for sharing — Nudes are an inconvenient truth of the mobile era.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Samsung says $499 Odyssey, the premier Windows Mixed Reality headset, won't be sold in Europe — Samsung unveiled what looks like the best Windows Mixed Reality headset earlier this month. Samsung's Odyssey headset differs from its rivals thanks to dual-OLED displays …
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Windows Central, On MSFT, and Samsung Electronics America
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