Facebook’s Reckoning Draws Nearer
Sooner or later, the company will be forced to take on the responsibilities that come with being the world's dominant news distributor.
Sooner or later, the company will be forced to take on the responsibilities that come with being the world's dominant news distributor.
ABOUT A WEEK ago, Stanford University researchers posted online a study on the latest dystopian AI: They'd made a machine learning algorithm that essentially works as gaydar. After training it with tens of thousands of photographs from dating sites, the algorithm ...
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Amazon is working on building a pair of smart glasses to house its Alexa voice assistant, and a home security camera that could be linked to its existing Echo connected devices to further expand their capabilities, according to a report in ...
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Made by hand in Italy, the Vadolibero Origo Vox Bike Butler does far more than just keep your bicycle off the ground. Its multi-layered birch cabinet is covered in real oak wood veneer and hides some smart features. Those include a ...
Microsoft’s CEO has stopped infighting, restored morale, and created more than $250 billion in market value. All it took was focusing on what matters most.
FOR THE PAST year, Apple has touted a mathematical tool that it describes as a solution to a paradoxical problem: mining user data while simultaneously protecting user privacy. That secret weapon is "differential privacy," a novel field of data science that ...
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Google has introduced a new payment app in India called Tez (the Hindi word for “fast”). Tez features a technology called audio QR that allows users to transfer money using sounds to pair two devices. Called the “cash mode option,” phones ...
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Slack has raised another huge new round of financing that values the company at more than $5 billion, this time led by Softbank — which seems to be investing in everyone at this point.
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That's what you call an upgrade! Russian billionaire unveils his £260m superyacht which is 300ft high, has eight floors and an underwater observation room - replacing his measly £190m boat
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China's TCL wants you to know that the new, improved BlackBerry portfolio is not a one-phone wonder.
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Alexa, be more human! Inside Amazon’s effort to make its voice assistant smarter, chattier and more like you.
How a person leaves their office desk can tell you a lot about them. Is it organized chaos, bursting with new plans and ideas to take the world by storm? Do sentimental photos of family and moments adorn the area surrounding the ...
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Building unshakable confidence and layers of resiliency starts with this mental shift. Abundance is commonly accepted as something that helps us live more fulfilling lives. But why? Simply, it's because operating in a state of abundance leads to a growth mindset. While operating in a state ...
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I understand people's phone choices say something about their personalities, so what does the luxury Lamborghini phone say about the person who uses it? They're glamorous? They enjoy leather? They value luxury, maybe? I can't say, nor can I even guess, because I ...
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Android Oreo has at last been fully baked, and given a name, and is now rolling out to those of you with a Pixel, Pixel XL, Nexus 5X, Nexus 6P, or Pixel C; Google says a bunch of other handsets will ...
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As always, the make and model dictate how long you'll be playing the waiting game.
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The latest version of the operating system is here, but you might not be able to access it for a little while
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Lots of founders come to me for advice on big deals that they’re trying to close. A lot of times they describe how they met with a buyer from a huge corporation, demoed their products, answered all initial questions, and seem to ...
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Did you watch the total solar eclipse of 2017? If so, you may have permanently damaged your eyesight if you didn't take the necessary precautions to protect your eyes from the sun's harmful UV rays.
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For years, the idea of bomb-sniffing dogs has been pretty straightforward: A trained canine walks up and down rows of people, sniffing every person in a crowd to suss out any bomb-making material or explosive devices. But the floppy-eared Labradors posted ...
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