Day: October 10, 2018

Razer Phone 2 hands on: Snapdragon 845, 20MP and 8MP dual rear cameras, and Qi Wireless Charging; available for pre-order now from $799 (Ian Cutress/AnandTech)

Ian Cutress / AnandTech: Razer Phone 2 hands on: Snapdragon 845, 20MP and 8MP dual rear cameras, and Qi Wireless Charging; available for pre-order now from $799  —  When Razer announced its Razer Phone as a ‘gaming smartphone’, a sizeable number scoffed at the idea – how can it be a gaming smartphone if everyone

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New York-based Loadsmart, which uses AI to automate freight booking, raises $21.6M Series A led by Maersk Growth, the shipping giant's investment arm (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: New York-based Loadsmart, which uses AI to automate freight booking, raises $21.6M Series A led by Maersk Growth, the shipping giant’s investment arm  —  Roughly 80 percent of all cargo in the United States is transported by the 7.1 million people who drive flatbed trailers, dry vans … New York-based Loadsmart,

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The Little Cat That Could

Most humans take a year to learn their first steps, and they are notoriously clumsy. [Hartvik Line] taught a robotic cat to walk [YouTube link] in less time, but this cat had a couple advantages over a pre-toddler. The first advantage was that it had four legs, while the second came from a machine learning

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Google makes alert center for G Suite, launched in beta in September, generally available to help organisations identify security threats and mitigate them (Charlie Osborne/ZDNet)

Charlie Osborne / ZDNet: Google makes alert center for G Suite, launched in beta in September, generally available to help organisations identify security threats and mitigate them  —  The alert center’s security notification system has been opened up days after Google revealed a service-ending Google+ data leak. Google makes alert center for G Suite, launched

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Global PC shipments in Q3 were flat, up 0.1% YoY according to Gartner, while IDC estimates 0.9% decline; Gartner: Microsoft breaks into top 5 PC vendors in US (Emil Protalinski/VentureBeat)

Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: Global PC shipments in Q3 were flat, up 0.1% YoY according to Gartner, while IDC estimates 0.9% decline; Gartner: Microsoft breaks into top 5 PC vendors in US  —  The PC market is seeing some very interesting moves this year.  In Q2 2018, global shipments were up for the first time

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Chipmaker Micron Technology says it is planning to invest up to $100M in startups working on AI for use in fields like self-driving cars and factory automation (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)

Stephen Nellis / Reuters: Chipmaker Micron Technology says it is planning to invest up to $100M in startups working on AI for use in fields like self-driving cars and factory automation  —  (Reuters) – Micron Technology said on Wednesday it planned to invest up to $100 million in startup companies working … Chipmaker Micron Technology

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Leaked presentation by Google employees gives a rare and stark look at Google's struggles as it grapples with decisions around freedom of speech and censorship (Nick Statt/The Verge)

Nick Statt / The Verge: Leaked presentation by Google employees gives a rare and stark look at Google’s struggles as it grapples with decisions around freedom of speech and censorship  —  A rare look at how the employees of the world’s most powerful search engine are trying to balance two opposing forces Leaked presentation by

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Analysis of the top 2,000 websites visited by EU and US residents shows ad trackers per page dropped 4% for EU users after GDPR and rose by 8%+ for US users (Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch)

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: Analysis of the top 2,000 websites visited by EU and US residents shows ad trackers per page dropped 4% for EU users after GDPR and rose by 8%+ for US users  —  An analysis of the impact of Europe’s new data protection framework, GDPR, on the adtech industry suggests the regulation

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Google's Pixel 3 XL, which includes a very tall notch and a "chin" bezel, lacks the groundbreaking tech Apple used to justify the iPhone X's notch (Nick Statt/The Verge)

Nick Statt / The Verge: Google’s Pixel 3 XL, which includes a very tall notch and a “chin” bezel, lacks the groundbreaking tech Apple used to justify the iPhone X’s notch  —  A large notch requires a strong argument, and Google didn’t make one  —  Google’s Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL arrived yesterday without

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Microsoft’s Bing keeps surfacing racist, offensive, and probably-illegal images

Microsoft’s Bing search engine has a problem with surfacing results that are blatantly offensive, uniformly exploitative towards women and girls, and full-on racist. And that’s before you even turn the “SafeSearch” feature off. A report from HowToGeek’s Chris Hoffman shows that image searches for innocuous terms such as “Jew” or “Michelle Obama” are met with

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Google says in an email to users that its Reply tool for Android, which added a smart response bar to notifications, is being shut down over the coming months (Abner Li/9to5Google)

Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google says in an email to users that its Reply tool for Android, which added a smart response bar to notifications, is being shut down over the coming months  —  Earlier this year, Google’s internal Area 120 incubator unveiled Reply as a smart response toolbar appended to notifications on Android. Google

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