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Why unlocking your door with Amazon’s Alexa may never be completely safe

The Pentagon wants to expand its controversial Project Maven AI initiative

Twitter is locking out those who change their birth dates, users say (updated)

Apple releases iOS 11.4 and tvOS 11.4 with AirPlay 2 (Updated)

ForwardX raises $10 million for AI-powered luggage that follows you
Pandora Completes Acquisition of AdsWizz

Carats launches a pricing index to bring tokenization to the diamond market

Rocket Internet targets $3 billion cash at fintech and AI

LG develops AI to deal with nausea in VR

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Smart speakers could dictate your entire shopping ecosystem

Chinese schools are testing AI that grades papers almost as well as teachers

Still digesting GDPR? Well, hang on because more EU privacy rules may be on the way

France and Germany push the EU to fund tech innovation

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Stop adding Stories to every app

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Stablecoins: Brilliant idea or ticking time bomb?

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Should European startups look to scale in China or the U.S.?

U.S. reaches deal to keep China’s ZTE in business

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Law enforcement has to get serious about cyber crime

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How government-backed VC firms help and hurt the Midwest

Qualcomm claims its on-device voice recognition is 95% accurate

AI Weekly: AI can be misused, but it’s also a force for good

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AI marks the beginning of the Age of Thinking Machines

VentureBeat is looking for an AI reporter

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ProBeat: 3 issues Slack needs to fix

Microsoft is developing a tool to help engineers catch bias in algorithms

Facebook is building chips to analyze and filter live video

Fatmap wants to be the Google Maps for the great outdoors

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How 4 Chicago startups are using tech to address the industry’s diversity problem

Data privacy activist Max Schrems takes aim at ‘forced consent’ in wake of GDPR

GDPR claims its first victims: U.S. newspapers

Google confirms Feed ads are a test

The dangers of AI challenge even the experts

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How Lyft is using AI to keep customers happy (VB Live)

Apple wins $538.6 million from Samsung in latest iPhone patent retrial (Updated)

Intel AI Lab open-sources library for deep learning-driven NLP

Salesforce data scientist surveys the state of AI-assisted photography

Facebook releases its U.S. political ad archive
