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Read More »Tesla’s referral program will be kaput as of Feb. 1 – Roadshow
Bad news if you were hoping to coerce your friends, family members and coworkers into buying a Tesla so you could get yourself a free set of wheels.
Read More »YouTube starts rolling out a new feature on iOS that will let viewers swipe right or left to navigate between videos, coming to Android devices later…
Eleanor Cummins / Popular Science : YouTube starts rolling out a new feature on iOS that will let viewers swipe right or left to navigate between videos, coming to Android devices later this year — The design team tells us how they made swipe happen. — Tapping is so last year. That's why YouTube began rolling …
Read More »Trump administration proposes rules to remove waiver requirements for operating drones at night and over populated areas (David Shepardson/Reuters)
David Shepardson / Reuters : Trump administration proposes rules to remove waiver requirements for operating drones at night and over populated areas — (Reuters) - The Trump administration on Monday proposed rules that would allow drones to operate over populated areas and end a requirement for special permits for night use …
Read More »Apple’s FoundationDB says it is open sourcing FoundationDB Record Layer, which powers CloudKit and offers schema management, indexing, and query…
Chance Miller / 9to5Mac : Apple's FoundationDB says it is open sourcing FoundationDB Record Layer, which powers CloudKit and offers schema management, indexing, and query capabilities — Apple originally acquired FoundationDB in 2015, and last April it announced that it was making the cloud database open source.
Read More »HSBC says it processed over 3M FX transactions worth ~$250B using blockchain tech in 2018 and plans to make its FX Everywhere platform commercially…
Eva Szalay / Financial Times : HSBC says it processed over 3M FX transactions worth ~$250B using blockchain tech in 2018 and plans to make its FX Everywhere platform commercially available — HSBC is leaning more heavily on blockchain-based tools to handle the fiddly processes behind foreign-exchange trades …
Read More »Autonomous vehicle startup Zoox names Intel exec Aicha Evans as CEO, making her one of the most high-profile black women running a Silicon Valley tech…
Tim Higgins / Wall Street Journal : Autonomous vehicle startup Zoox names Intel exec Aicha Evans as CEO, making her one of the most high-profile black women running a Silicon Valley tech company — The Senegal native will become one of the most high-profile black women running a Silicon Valley tech company
Read More »Salesforce announces AI-powered APIs for Commerce Cloud that let developers add recommendations, visual search, and inventory availability to their…
Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet : Salesforce announces AI-powered APIs for Commerce Cloud that let developers add recommendations, visual search, and inventory availability to their apps — The CRM giant is rolling out a series of update to Commerce Cloud that aim to expand the footprint of the platform.
Read More »WeChat adds a Snapchat-like Stories feature called Time Capsule that lets users upload videos of up to 15 seconds that disappear after 24 hours (Rita…
Rita Liao / TechCrunch : WeChat adds a Snapchat-like Stories feature called Time Capsule that lets users upload videos of up to 15 seconds that disappear after 24 hours — WeChat, the Chinese messaging giant with over 1 billion monthly active users around the world, just added a Snap-like ephemeral video feature as part of its biggest overhaul since 2014.
Read More »Fourth Paradigm, a Chinese provider of AI-driven data analysis software founded by Huawei veterans, raises $150M at a ~$1.2B valuation (Mark…
Mark Bergen / Bloomberg : Fourth Paradigm, a Chinese provider of AI-driven data analysis software founded by Huawei veterans, raises $150M at a ~$1.2B valuation — - Fourth Paradigm snags $150 million at a $1.2 billion valuation — The startup is joining ranks of Chinese firms making AI chips
Read More »Artificial general intelligence is far from being a reality because AI systems of today do not use intrinsic knowledge about the world to predict and…
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat : Artificial general intelligence is far from being a reality because AI systems of today do not use intrinsic knowledge about the world to predict and plan — Forecasting musical taste. Detecting metastatic tumors. Generating synthetic scans of brain cancer. Creating virtual environments from real-world videos.
Read More »How Alexa has used machine learning to get smarter over the last year, with a 25% error rate reduction, carrying over context from one query to the…
Brian Barrett / Wired : How Alexa has used machine learning to get smarter over the last year, with a 25% error rate reduction, carrying over context from one query to the next, more — IT'S FAIR TO say that when Amazon introduced the first Echo speaker in the fall of 2014, most people weren't quite sure what to make of it.
Read More »HQ Trivia to launch HQ Words tonight, a Wheel of Fortune-style game that’s been in closed beta for months, and reinstalls Rus Yusupov as CEO (Josh…
Josh Constine / TechCrunch : HQ Trivia to launch HQ Words tonight, a Wheel of Fortune-style game that's been in closed beta for months, and reinstalls Rus Yusupov as CEO — HQ's expansion beyond trivia emerges from beta tonight, but the question is whether it's different and accessible enough to revive the startup's growth.
Read More »HQ Trivia launches HQ Words, a Wheel of Fortune-style game that’s been in closed beta for months, and reinstalls Rus Yusupov as CEO (Josh…
Josh Constine / TechCrunch : HQ Trivia launches HQ Words, a Wheel of Fortune-style game that's been in closed beta for months, and reinstalls Rus Yusupov as CEO — HQ's expansion beyond trivia is emerging from beta, but the question is whether it's different and accessible enough to revive the startup's growth.
Read More »A look at Joel Kaplan’s growing sway at Facebook as he pushed against News Feed changes designed to reduce polarization, promoted The Daily Caller…
Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal : A look at Joel Kaplan's growing sway at Facebook as he pushed against News Feed changes designed to reduce polarization, promoted The Daily Caller partnership — Joel Kaplan has emerged as the social-media site's protector against allegations of political bias
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