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Amazon says its Luna cloud gaming service is available to try for free in the US on select Fire TV devices, after launching as invite-only last year (Jon Porter/The Verge)

Jon Porter / The Verge: Amazon says its Luna cloud gaming service is available to try for free in the US on select Fire TV devices, after launching as invite-only last year  —  And anyone in the US can also buy a Luna Controller  —  Amazon’s cloud-gaming service, Luna, is now available to try for

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Is there a more environmentally friendly way to train AI?

{$inline_image}Machine learning is changing the world, and it’s changing it fast. In just the last few years, it’s brought us virtual assistants that understand language, autonomous vehicles, new drug discoveries, AI-based triage for medical scans, handwriting recognition and more.  One thing that machine learning shouldn’t be changing is the climate.  The issue relates to how machine learning is developed. In

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Source: Dispo, a retro photo sharing app co-founded by YouTube star David Dobrik, raises $20M Series A led by Spark Capital at a $200M valuation (Kia Kokalitcheva/Axios)

Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios: Source: Dispo, a retro photo sharing app co-founded by YouTube star David Dobrik, raises $20M Series A led by Spark Capital at a $200M valuation  —  Dispo, a retro photo-sharing app co-founded by YouTube star David Dobrik, recently raised $20 million in Series A funding led by Spark Capital … Source:

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US Federal Reserve's system that lets banks send money back and forth is down, impacting its automated clearinghouse system and a range of other services (Jeff Cox/CNBC)

Jeff Cox / CNBC: US Federal Reserve’s system that lets banks send money back and forth is down, impacting its automated clearinghouse system and a range of other services  —  The Federal Reserve’s system that allows financial institutions to send money back and forth went down Wednesday afternoon. US Federal Reserve's system that lets banks

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iRobot, which makes Roomba vacuums, says a software update to fix issues with i7 and s9 models will take several weeks, after users reported them acting "drunk" (Mitchell Clark/The Verge)

Mitchell Clark / The Verge: iRobot, which makes Roomba vacuums, says a software update to fix issues with i7 and s9 models will take several weeks, after users reported them acting “drunk”  —  Users have reported their robotic helpers acting ‘drunk’  —  iRobot, maker of the robotic Roomba vacuums … iRobot, which makes Roomba vacuums,

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Lyft reinvents calling a cab

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Lyft is admitting that some part of traditional taxi services are worth emulating today by letting people in select Florida cities book Lyft rides with just a phone call. The new “Call A Lyft” feature should be “perfect for seniors and folks without access to the Lyft app,”

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Emails show how Facebook responds to requests by authoritarian governments to censor content, as happened in Turkey during its military offensive against Kurds (ProPublica)

ProPublica: Emails show how Facebook responds to requests by authoritarian governments to censor content, as happened in Turkey during its military offensive against Kurds  —  Amid a 2018 Turkish military campaign, Facebook ultimately sided with Turkey’s demand to block the page of a mostly Kurdish militia. Emails show how Facebook responds to requests by authoritarian

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