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Microsoft researchers are teaching AI to write stories about groups of photos

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EU adopts new data protection law that could mean bigger fines for Silicon Valley companies

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Artificial intelligence startup DigitalGenius raises $4M to make customer service agents superhuman
Coupa to Host Record Number of Customers and Industry Leaders at Inspire ’16

Identity verification startup Onfido raises $25 million to inject more trust into the sharing economy

White House won’t share iPhone unlocking method with FBI or Apple

IT budgets focus on cloud, but it has to be more secure

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Blizzard is fending off a potential Lizard Squad cyberattack that’s affecting Battle.net

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3 trends driving the chatbot revolution

Stardew Valley is one of the best-selling PC games of the year as it surpasses 1M copies sold

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Kochava helps brands measure success amid Messenger chatbot mania

Vine now lets you automatically play all videos in a channel

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Star Ocean reminds us that Final Fantasy and Persona aren’t the last big-budget JRPGs

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Cloud data warehouses: Why simple is better (webinar)

How to get in the Overwatch, Battleborn, Doom, and Gears of War 4 open betas

Senate releases draft of controversial encryption bill aimed at Apple

Chrome 50 arrives with push notification improvements, drops support for old Windows and OS X versions

Apple releases first Safari Technology Preview update with Web Inspector, ES6 enhancements

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Google should revise its Android update messaging strategy

Naughty America tries to get VR porn just right

Facebook wants to make social VR indistinguishable from real life

Facebook’s latest AI experiments: generating captions and recognizing faces in videos

Star Wars: Battlefront’s next expansion adds Cloud City and Lando

Microsoft on causing Oculus Rift delays: ‘This is false’

Microsoft adds Universal Windows Platform support to Facebook’s React Native

Google launches Android N Developer Preview 2 with new 3D rendering API, launcher shortcuts, and Emoji Unicode 9

Facebook demos taking selfies in VR

Facebook unveils antennas for improving Internet access in cities and rural areas

Google launches TensorFlow 0.8 with support for distributed model training
