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Uber receives approval to resume self-driving car tests in Pittsburgh
Just over eight months after one of Uber’s self-driving cars struck and killed a pedestrian in Tempe, Arizona, Pennsylvania’s Department…
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Google’s Music Transformer can generate piano melodies that don’t sound half bad
Google’s song-composing artificial intelligence (AI) might not measure up to Mozart or Liszt anytime soon, but it’s made impressive progress recently.…
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Facial recognition remains tempting but toxic for tech companies
In a blog post announcing support for the Asia Pacific AI for Social Good Research Network and highlighting Google’s efforts…
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ProBeat: Google+ is better off shut down
Google is doing itself a disservice by keeping Google+ on life support. The “ghost town” of a social network (yes,…
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SIMalliance: A new 5G SIM card is necessary to beef up network security
As the first standards-compliant 5G cellular devices are on the edge of release, it might be too late to change…
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HTC 5G Hub and Inseego MiFi 5G confirm larger hotspot form factors
As the first mobile 5G cellular networks roll out over the next six months, hotspots — sometimes called “pucks” —…
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Alphabet’s Waymo unveils its first commercial driverless taxi service: Waymo One
Alphabet’s self-driving car unit Waymo today took a huge step toward launching its first public self-driving taxi service. Waymo has…
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Apple Music will come to Amazon Echo devices in mid-December
Instead of keeping streaming music service Apple Music exclusive to its own devices and apps, Apple has let Google Android…
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Watch: Facebook’s Richard Allan fields questions from 9 countries at U.K. Parliament hearing
Richard Allan, Facebook’s vice president of public policy, is answering questions posed by lawmakers from Britain, Canada, France, Belgium, Brazil,…
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AI Weekly: What to expect at NeurIPS 2018, the biggest AI conference of the year
In just over a week, NeurIPS — the biggest AI summit of the year — will kick off Montreal. In 2016, the…
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