Mark Zuckerberg responds to fake news controversy and outlines projects Facebook is working on to combat the issue
A lot of you have asked what we're doing about misinformation, so I wanted to give an update. — The bottom line is: we take misinformation seriously.
President Barack Obama weighs in on fake news, warning it could poison politics so that “we won't know what we're fighting for”
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Mike Pompeo, Trump's pick for CIA director, is a strong supporter of mass surveillance, but opposes mandating backdoors in encryption
Donald Trump announced on Friday that he's chosen Congressman Mike Pompeo to run the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the premiere spy agency of the United States. .
Intel details its vision for AI chips, mostly based on Nervana technology, but the strategy remains incomplete until the Movidius deal closes
AI strategy incomplete without Movidius — SAN FRANCISCO - Intel rolled out its intentions for a soup-to-nuts offering in artificial intelligence …
Amazon begins selling cars online, partnering with Fiat Chrysler to sell three models in Italy
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) said it has teamed up with U.S. internet giant Amazon to start selling cars online at prices up to a third cheaper than available elsewhere.
John Borthwick of Betaworks and Jeff Jarvis of CUNY offer ideas for tackling fake news on Facebook, Twitter, and Google
We—John Borthwick and Jeff Jarvis—want to offer constructive suggestions for what the platforms—Facebook, Twitter, Google, Instagram, Snapchat, WeChat, Apple News …
Facebook shuttering ad-serving part of Atlas platform to focus more on measurement tool
Facebook is shutting down the part of Atlas that didn't have a direct impact on ad sales but keeping the part that does. — Facebook's ad-tech strategy grows ever more insular.
A look at how fake news on Facebook has impacted foreign elections and political movements in Indonesia, the Philippines, Germany, Spain, and elsewhere
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Facebook SEC filings reveal $6B stock buyback program that starts Q1 2017, and chief accounting officer's resignation, effective February 17
Facebook today said it is authorizing a $6 billion stock buyback that will go into effect in the first quarter next year.
Nest updates mobile apps with “instaclips” to easily share video, brings live video feeds to Android TV, and says Apple TV support coming soon
Nest announced a big update to its Nest Camera application on Friday that's focused on sharing video clips you've captured.
Sources: Intel planning large number of layoffs in New Devices Group, its wearables division
Update 11/19: Intel is denying that the company is stepping back from wearables, though has not directly commented on the layoff news. Here is the company's statement in full,
Inside New York City's $10M digital crime lab, where analysts and researchers crack devices, use big data, and more to gather evidence to help solve crimes
Where phone hacking and big data solve crimes. — The cell phone at the police station contains evidence of a crime …
DraftKings and FanDuel agree to merge; DraftKings CEO Jason Robins to run the new company, and FanDuel CEO Nigel Eccles to become chairman of the board
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Surface Studio review: impressive screen and design, old CPU and GPU a slight letdown, Dial needs more app support, but overall the device is good for artists
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IRS seeks identities of Coinbase US customers who traded bitcoin between 2013 and 2015
Saturday, November 19, 2016 Nathaniel Popper / New York Times : Bitcoin Users Who Evade Taxes Are Sought by the I.R.S. Tweets: Joseph Cox / @josephfcox : Updated with Coinbase comment: “We are very co...
Experts say in-car smartphone use and dashboard apps are partly to blame for alarming rise in highway fatalities in the US in the past two years
The messaging app Snapchat allows motorists to post photos that record the speed of the vehicle. The navigation app Waze rewards drivers … Tweets: @amyklobuchar , @benrosstransit , @nytimesbusiness a...
French IoT startup Sigfox raises $160M Series E, sources say at a $637M valuation; Sigfox says it has around 10M devices registered on its network
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Interview with Manuela Veloso, head of machine learning at Carnegie Mellon University on personal assistants, robots, and challenges of AI for humanity
By 2021, everyday software will be vastly more intelligent and powerful, replacing humans in more and more tasks. How will we keep up? Tweets: @scsatcmu Tweets: CMU Computer / @scsatcmu : Manuela Vel...
Sprinklr acquires Little Bird, a tool for finding experts on anything via Twitter, co-founded by Marshall Kirkpatrick
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Delaware filing: BuzzFeed authorizes sale of $200M worth of shares at $1.5B valuation, unchanged from last year
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Behind the design and development of Google's Daydream View VR headset and controller, which were optimized for comfort and simplicity
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Any.Do adds real-time sync, integrated calendars, and a personal assistant for select users to its app, available on iOS now and Android soon
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Zoho CRM Plus in 2025: A year of thoughtful CX improvements
2025 marked 11 years of building a customer experience platform designed to support organizations as customer expectations, channels …
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