Four major Hollywood studios join Disney's Movies Anywhere service, a digital locker that brings together movies from Amazon Video, Google Play, iTunes, Vudu
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Microsoft and Amazon AWS announce Gluon, a new open source deep learning interface to simplify deep learning models
New Open Source Interface Simplifies Deep Learning Development — At Microsoft we have a vision and passion to amplify human ingenuity with the transformative power of AI.
South Korean lawmaker says North Korea put malware into third-party antivirus tool to hack military database that was inadvertently left connected to internet
Hackers allegedly used antivirus software to access South Korea-U.S. military plans from network mistakenly connected to the internet for more than a year
House Intelligence Committee leaders say they hope to publicly release Russia-linked Facebook ads once the company has scrubbed identifying info
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In an interview, Sheryl Sandberg affirms Facebook's support for helping Congress release Russia-linked Facebook ads along with information on user targeting
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Facebook Inc Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg said on Thursday the company was fully committed …
Facebook unveils Oculus Go, a new $199 standalone wireless VR headset, shipping early next year with Gear VR support, integrated spatial audio, and new optics
Onstage at Oculus Connect 4 in San Jose, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled a new mobile headset called “Oculus Go.”
Target expands voice-activated shopping with Google Express nationwide; option to link Target.com accounts to Google coming in 2018
- Other retailers on the Google Express platform include Wal-Mart, Costco, Kohl's and Ulta, according to Google's website.
Amazon's Alexa can now recognize different voices and give personalized responses
Your Echo just got smart enough to tell you apart from the people you live with — The battle of the smart speakers has become a constant back and forth between Amazon and Google.
Google says it will permanently remove top touch functionality on Google Home Mini after report that device would repeatedly record, transmit audio to company
Google is permanently disabling a feature on the forthcoming Google Home Mini smart speaker, after a reviewer discovered …
Facebook drops Oculus Rift's price with bundled Touch controllers to $399
Facebook debuts Rift Core 2.0 with redesigned Dash UI featuring dock-like hub and Home, the desktop-like space that can be shown to friends in VR, coming in Dec
Areas of Facebook's political ad review process still lacking clarity: review guidelines, which topics are “debatable social issues”, what varies by region
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Sources: Waymo sought public apology, independent monitor on Uber's autonomous vehicle tech, and at least $1B in damages in settlement talks with Uber
SAN FRANCISCO(Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's Waymo sought at least $1 billion in damages and a public apology from Uber Technologies Inc …
Apple's VP of diversity Denise Young Smith says she is “a little” frustrated that “diversity” is “tagged to the people of color, or the women, or the LGBT”
Denise Young Smith is Silicon Valley's most powerful black woman. “My name was not talked about prior to maybe 5 years ago,” she says.
In an interview focusing on augmented reality, Tim Cook says the technology doesn't exist to make quality AR smart glasses
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Sources say Kaspersky antivirus tool was modified for espionage purposes to search for terms like “top secret” and that the firm must have known
Wall Street Journal :
Q&A with Amazon CEO Worldwide Consumer Jeff Wilke on integrating Whole Foods despite cultural differences and the reasoning behind opening a second headquarters
Amazon's head of world-wide consumer talks about integrating Whole Foods—and what it is like to disagree with CEO Jeff Bezos Tweets: @thinksimons and @gregbensinger Tweets: John Simons / @thinksimons ...
Facebook lets users bring their own photos and videos into its VR hangout app Spaces, where they can now create 3D objects and share them to News Feed
One of the hottest things coming … Collen Kriel / SiliconANGLE : Facebook expands virtual reality Spaces app with new features Michael Nuñez / Mashable : The Oculus ‘Santa Cruz’ headset will be the re...
ROSS Intelligence raises $8.7M Series A to help legal teams search case law using machine learning
Armed with an understanding of machine learning, ROSS Intelligence is going after LexisNexis and Thomson Reuters for ownership of legal research. The startup, founded in 2015 by Andrew Arruda …
Amazon now lets teens aged 13-17 shop with their own account, after parents' approval; teens can also be assigned preset spending limits per order
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
Pornhub to start using an AI-powered system that uses facial recognition to automatically identify porn stars and tag videos
Paul Sawers / VentureBeat :
eShares, which helps companies track and value equity and manage corporate governance, raises $42M Series C led by Menlo Ventures and Social Capital
Katie Roof / TechCrunch :
Brilliant, which makes a $199 smart home hub, raises $21M Series A led by August Capital
Scott Martin / Wall Street Journal :
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