There’s a simple formula to it: Smart people with good ideas receive millions of dollars to build something. If that something generates billions of dollars, it is a success. If it does not, it is a failure. Such “failures” include: Twitter, Soundcloud, Vine, Reddit.
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More than four years after the launch of Google Now, the company has fully dissolved its AI assistant into the DNA of many of its core product offerings.
Today, Google is delivering an update to the feed it introduced to its Google app last year, bringing more attention to showcasing the information its knowledge graph has built on users while allowing them to “follow” certain topics and people to shape what they’re seeing in the feed, as well.
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One thing was very clear at Computex: It’s going to be a transformational year for computing. We’re seeing several trends from the past few years — like the move towards thinner and lighter laptops, and the rise of mobile computing — evolve in new and intriguing ways.
Computex has always been the place to see the groundwork being laid for technology industry’s next steps. It just so happens that this year was particularly ripe with innovation.
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Another day, another Internet of Things botnet. This time, a new botnet discovered in the wild is believed to have infected over 120,000 Internet-connected cameras.Dubbed Persirai by researchers at Trend Micro Inc., the botnet is targeting more 1,000 Internet Protocol camera models from various off-brand producers.
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After years of development and several delays, multi-process Firefox, also known as Electrolysis or e10S, is about to be enabled for a subset of Firefox stable users. The following guide provides you with information about Firefox’s multi-process architecture.
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Google’s I/O conference concluded last week, and if there’s one thing people will be talking about long after it’s over it’s Google Lens.
Google Lens is a technology that integrates Google’s search engine with a smartphone’s camera. By taking a photo with Google Lens your camera will be able to recognize objects and search for them on the web.
It goes deeper than that though, as CEO Sundar Pichai’s keynote went on some further examples were shown.
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When Intel launched its first Itanium processor in 2001, it had very high hopes: the 64-bit chip was supposed to do nothing less than kill off the x86 architecture that had dominated PCs for over two decades. Things didn’t quite pan out that way, however, and Intel is officially calling it quits.
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BuzzFeed News gets its first Pulitzer citation
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Coursera is one of the top most online learning platforms for students. Anyone can signup and enrol in different courses for free and earn a completion certificate upon the completion of their specific role.
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Messaging applications, such as WhatsApp and Snapchat, will grow their user base from 2.3 billion unique users in 2016 to 4.2 billion by 2021 according to a study from Juniper. This represents growth of more than 12 per cent.
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