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Here's what happened during Google's biggest event of the year (GOOG)
MOUNTAIN VIEW, California — Google CEO Sundar Pichai said there were now 2 billion active devices based on the company's Android software and touted the company's new artificial-intelligence efforts as...
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Google and Amazon are at war to control your home, and the effects will be...
Amazon and Google are currently in the early stages on an epic battle to control your home, the effects of which will be be felt for years to come.Artificial intelligence (AI) and virtual assistants...
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How Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff uses artificial intelligence to end internal...
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff isn't just predicting that artificial intelligence will one day help run everyone's companies, he's already using it at Salesforce today.He's got a special, not-yet-released...
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Facebook, Microsoft, and Google are raising the bar higher than ever for...
We're coming up on the end of the busiest season in tech — the month-and-a-half stretch where the biggest companies in the market reveal their grand visions for the next 12 months at their annual...
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Google is getting ahead of itself in its quest to make the future happen now...
One of the the most unusual demos at Google's annual I/O conference last week was of a custom-built automatic cocktail maker powered by the company's artificial intelligence system, Google...
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Google DeepMind is edging towards a 3-0 victory against world Go champion Ke...
Google DeepMind has won its second game against world Go champion Ke Jie in China, winning the series and putting it one step closer to a 3-0 victory.The company's self-learning AlphaGo AI agent is...
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Mark Zuckerberg calls for exploring basic income in Harvard commencement speech
In his Harvard commencement speech on Thursday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg advocated exploring a system in which all people receive a standard salary just for being alive, no questions asked.The...
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Apple is working on a chip to power artificial intelligence in future...
Apple is working on chips to power artificial-intelligence capabilities in its gadgets, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reported Friday.The chips would handle more advanced AI tasks, such as facial...
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I used software to analyse if my relationship is doomed to failure
Artificial intelligence can now take a guess at whether you and your partner can go the distance.An AI firm called DataRobot has built a tool based on Stanford University data that asks you six...
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The $2,500 answer to Amazon's Echo could make Japan's sex crisis 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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This 'shopbot' allows you to find out where an outfit is from simply by...
Fashion lovers, rejoice — recreating the outfits you see on your social media feeds or even on the street is now as easy as taking a picture.Glamix, a chatbot created by Israeli startup Syte, allows...
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A hedge fund veteran is trying to bring quant trading to a new market —...
Sports trading company Stratagem raising a £25 million fund to bet on sports;Company set up by ex-hedge funder, run by former Goldman Sachs partner;Stratagem uses artificial intelligence to analyse...
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Alphabet tops $1,000 for the first time (GOOGL)
The internet giant just hit new highs.Class A shares of Alphabet, the parent company of Google, broke $1,000 in early trading Monday.Alphabet has gained about 25% so far this year. The S&P 500 is...
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A Stanford researcher is pioneering a dramatic shift in how we treat...
Depression is the leading cause of disability worldwide, and it can kill. But scientists know surprisingly little about it.We do know, however, that talking seems to help — especially under the...
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This AI will turn your doodled self-portraits into horrifying nightmares
Artificial intelligence (AI) may one day be used to do everything from drive your car to help cure diseases.But for now, it's being harnessed for some truly bizarre experiments.The Dutch broadcaster...
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Chinese poetry scholars are 'disgusted' by a new book written by a robot
There are 139 Chinese poems in the new book "The Sunlight that Lost the Glass Window," and the fact they're all written by one artificially intelligent bot doesn't make local scholars too pleased."It...
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Experts predict when AI will exceed human performance
Artificial intelligence is changing the world and doing it at breakneck speed. The promise is that intelligent machines will be able to do every task better and more cheaply than humans.Rightly or...
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DeepMind created a YouTube database of humans doing stuff that can help AIs...
Google DeepMind has created a database of hundreds of thousands of YouTube URLs that can help artificial intelligence (AI) agents to identify human actions such as drinking beer, riding a mechanical...
View ArticleA Microsoft robot got the highest all-time score in 'Ms. Pac-Man' (MSFT)
Game over, man.A Microsoft-made artificial-intelligence system has achieved a perfect score of 999,990 points on the Atari 2600 version of the classic "Ms. Pac-Man"— making it very likely the first...
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Apple's HomePod is not artificial intelligence — but it is a great speaker...
Sometime later this year, Apple's $349 smart speaker, called HomePod, will go on sale.The HomePod may be many things: a high-quality speaker, another possibly overpriced Apple product, or an odd move...
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