Google says its Neural Machine Translation System translates between language pairs it hasn't seen before, and sees signs of “interlingua” common representation
Posted by Mike Schuster (Google Brain Team), Melvin Johnson (Google Translate) and Nikhil Thorat (Google Brain Team)
Black Friday online sales reach an estimated $3.34B, up 21.6% from last year; mobile sales rise 33% to $1.2B
Black Friday online shopping is continuing to grow, and this Friday was another record-breaking day. According to a new report out this evening from Adobe …
US auto safety regulator NHTSA proposes voluntary guidelines calling on phone makers to limit functionality in their software while users are driving
Apple iPhones and other hand-held devices have long had an airplane mode that shuts off wireless communications to prevent interference …
Payments provider Stripe raises $150M Series D at a $9B valuation led by General Catalyst and CapitalG, bringing total amount raised by Stripe to about $440M
Stripe — the company that lets websites and apps incorporate payments services by way of an API and a few lines of code …
Amazon limits customers to five reviews per week; verified purchases, books, music, and video are exempt from the cap
Amazon will start capping the number of product reviews any customer can submit in a given week, limiting each person to five/week except for products that have been verified …
Google has been warning prominent journalists and professors that their accounts are under attack from “government-backed attackers”
A flurry of social media reports suggests a major hacking campaign has been uncovered. — Google is warning prominent journalists and professors …
VLC previews 360° video and photo support for its desktop apps, says the feature will come to mobile soon; dedicated VLC apps for VR headsets due in 2017
Popular open source video playback app VLC has added support for 360-degree video to its desktop versions, and is planning …
WaPo's Russian propaganda story has dubious sources, little evidence, and too general claims that describe how any news is usually shared on social media
On Thanksgiving, the Washington Post dropped … Carrie Mihalcik / CNET : Russian propaganda may have fueled fake election news fiasco Lizzie Plaugic / The Verge : Russian propaganda campaign reportedly...
Sources: Amazon is in talks to acquire Dubai-based e-commerce website Souq.com for $1B; the website sells 1.5M products in UAE, Egypt, Saudi Arabia
No final decisions have been made, talks could still falter — Middle East e-commerce site initially planned to sell a stake
Reddit CEO Huffman's decision to delete and alter comments on Trump thread amounts to censorship and has eroded the site's credibility with users
Reddit CEO admits to messing with posts on /r/The_Donaldhttps://www.yahoo.com/ news/ceo-reddit-confessed-modifying- posts-022041192.html ... @dhh : “CEO of Reddit confessed to modifying posts from Tru...
Android Nougat's new file-based encryption is a move in the right direction, but Google's efforts to achieve lock screen security are still six years behind iOS
Over the past few years we've heard more about smartphone encryption than, quite frankly, most of us expected to hear in a lifetime. Tweets: @matthew_d_green , @imgustavog , @steipete , and @csoghoi...
How the rise of the Internet, Facebook, and fake news has fueled anti-Muslim sentiment in Myanmar
YANGON, Myanmar — The internet brought Donald Trump to Myanmar. Or, at least that's how Shar Ya Wai first remembers hearing about the Republican president-elect. — “One day, nobody knew him. Tweets...
SEC filing shows Palantir raised a $20M funding round from a single entity on November 8, bringing total raised to over $2B
Palantir — that $20 billion secretive outfit that provides government, finance, healthcare and other organizations with analytics, security and other data management solutions …
IT solutions provider Presidio files for an IPO, reportedly at $3B valuation
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Work on Apple's $1B Irish data center delayed until after court hearing in March; locals fear Apple will back out as some contest environmental, economic impact
Objections to Irish data center approval to be heard by judge — Tiny village in west of country fears investment may be lost Tweets: @business Tweets: @business : Apple's $1 billion site is way behi...
Trae Stephens, a principal at Peter Thiel's Founders Fund, has joined Trump's defense transition team; sources says he won't take an administration role
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Sources: GoDaddy is in exclusive talks to acquire European hosting company Host Europe Group, valued at $1.8B
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Twitter gives Anthony Noto an additional $12M a year in stock over a four year period, for his new job as COO, replacing Adam Bain
Alex Heath / Business Insider : Tweets: @alexeheath and @lexnfx . Thanks: @lexnfx Tweets: Alex Heath / @alexeheath : Here's Twitter's statement on Anthony Noto's COO promotion / big stock award today...
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