Internet
A federal appeals court has rejected a settlement in a class-action lawsuit alleging that Google spied on users' online activity using tracking "cookies," even when privacy settings were set to prevent the snooping.
Aug 6, 2019
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Business
Swedish payment solutions provider Klarna said Tuesday it had raised $460 million (411 million euro) in an equity round, making it the most valuable financial technology company in Europe at $5.5 billion.
Aug 6, 2019
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Computer Sciences
Chess and AI are in the news again, this time in reports about a team who explore a model for chess via natural language processing (NLP). The learning mechanism was chess chatter—well chosen chatter. They pretrained on ...
Business
US President Donald Trump revived his criticism of Google on Tuesday, referencing a fired engineer who claimed the internet giant was working against his re-election.
Aug 6, 2019
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Business
Amazon's self-driving robots will be roaming the streets of another neighborhood.
Aug 6, 2019
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Robotics
By adding electronics and computation technology to a simple cane that has been around since ancient times, a team of researchers at Columbia Engineering have transformed it into a 21st century robotic device that can provide ...
Aug 6, 2019
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Computer Sciences
The holy grail of artificial intelligence is a machine that truly understands human language and interprets meaning from complex, nuanced passages. When IBM's Watson computer beat famed "Jeopardy!"Â champion Ken Jennings ...
Aug 6, 2019
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Business
US financial services company MasterCard has agreed to acquire Danish payment service company Nets' account-to-account payment business for 2.85 billion euro ($3.19 billion), the Danish company said Tuesday.
Aug 6, 2019
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Robotics
Under the watchful eyes of five high-speed cameras, a small, pale-blue bird named Gary waits for the signal to fly. Diana Chin, a graduate student at Stanford University and Gary's trainer, points her finger to a perch about ...
Aug 6, 2019
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Internet
Artificial intelligence is being used to tackle anti-Polish hate crime in the run up to Brexit.
Aug 6, 2019
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