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Why Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google all desperately need you to know...
It's been an unusual year in tech: Apart from maybe Snapchat's elusive Spectacles, there hasn't been a truly game-changing, mass-market piece of technology that's totally dominated the...
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One of the biggest VCs in Silicon Valley explains how basic income could fail...
Sam Altman is putting a lot of faith in the idea that giving people free money will make them happier and healthier, but that doesn't mean he's betting it all.Altman is the president of Y Combinator,...
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Mark Zuckerberg is considering giving away the personal virtual assistant it...
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's personal project for 2016 has been to build an artificially intelligent, voice-controlled assistant for his home.Now that he's finished the first version of his own "Iron...
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Here's a video of Mark Zuckerberg's personal virtual assistant, which is...
The artificially intelligent virtual assistant that Mark Zuckerberg built for his home is voiced by none other than Morgan Freeman.Zuckerberg posted a humorous video to his Facebook page on Tuesday...
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The $2,500 answer to Amazon's Echo could make Japan's sex crisis even worse
Japan has a sex problem. The country's birthrate is shrinking year after year, to the point where deaths are outpacing births.Simply put, Japan's population is decreasing.But let's be clear: Population...
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Starbucks has big plans for artificial intelligence
Starbucks has led the way for not just fast-casual restaurants, but all of retail when it comes to using customer-facing technology in its stores. The company was the first major chain to integrate...
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Why connecting all the world's robots will drive 2017's top technology trends
If you want to make predictions for the future, you need to find the trajectory of events in the past.So to work out what shape digital technology will likely take next year, we should look back to the...
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Apple has published its first AI research paper (AAPL)
Apple has stayed true to its promise and published its first academic paper on artificial intelligence.The world's most valuable company has traditionally kept its AI research private but earlier this...
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I've owned an Amazon Echo for over a year now — here are my 19 favorite...
I activated my Amazon Echo for the first time in December 2015. It's since become one of my favorite tech gadgets ever.Amazon's family of Echo speakers were some of the hottest gifts this holiday...
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Asia could take the lead in artificial intelligence tech this year
Facebook. Google. Apple. Baidu. Not a day goes by when we don’t hear of something related to artificial intelligence in the news.But AI (sometimes confused with machine learning, which is simply a...
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DeepMind has started paying to put PhD students through Oxford (GOOG)
Alphabet's DeepMind is paying to put future artificial intelligence (AI) gurus through Oxford University as the battle for AI talent increases between the tech giants.The London-based AI lab — acquired...
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How MasterCard is using AI to improve the accuracy of its fraud protection...
When it comes to security in their financial transactions, American consumers want it all. In Total System Services, Inc.'s 2016 U.S. Consumer Payments Study, a whopping 74% of all respondents said...
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A Japanese company is already replacing office workers with robots
A future in which human workers are replaced by machines is about to become a reality at an insurance firm in Japan, where more than 30 employees are being laid off and replaced with an artificial...
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A Japanese insurance firm replaced 30 workers with IBM's artificial...
A future in which human workers are replaced by machines is about to become a reality at an insurance firm in Japan, where more than 30 employees are being laid off and replaced with an artificial...
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Poker players are getting much better thanks to AI
A bunch of top poker pros are getting ready to take on Libratus, the latest and greatest poker bot, in a 20-day Heads-Up No-Limit Texas Hold’em challenge. Since the bot's predecessor, Claudico, was...
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Morgan Stanley weighs in on the 9 big questions that will dominate Wall...
Morgan Stanley has released a big report on the "Big Debates" of 2017, which highlights the key questions they think will shape global markets over the next 12 months.Will protectionism hinder US...
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Microsoft bought a Samsung-backed startup and signed a top expert in its...
Microsoft has purchased Maluuba, a Samsung-backed artificial intelligence startup based in Montreal, in its quest to build better, smarter artificial intelligence that can be used in the workplace, the...
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Artificial intelligence could help fight financial fraud
Financial institutions (FI’s) face many challenges, but one of the biggest of all is fighting fraud. With so much money and valuable data at stake, the financial system will always be a target for...
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IBM CEO says AI and automation will create jobs (IBM)
This story was delivered to BI Intelligence IoT Briefing subscribers. To learn more and subscribe, please click here.At the World Economic Forum in Davos, IBM CEO Ginni Rometty argued that AI and...
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17 rumors we've heard about Samsung's Galaxy S8, one of the biggest...
Samsung's Galaxy S8, as it's expected to be called, is said to be announced within the next couple months, and we have a bunch of good rumors from reliable sources to share.Most recently, one of the...
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