Financial Services Committee / YouTube: Livestream of Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony before the House Financial Services Committee on the Libra cryptocurrency — Wednesday, October 23, 2019 (10:00 AM) —Hearing: “ An …
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Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: Viz.ai, which uses AI to help medical professionals spot early signs of stroke, raises $50M Series B led by Greenoaks, bringing its total raised to ~$80M …
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Ferris Jabr / New York Times: A deep dive into the debate surrounding video game addiction, as the scientific understanding of what it means to be addicted continues to evolve …
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Chris O’Brien / VentureBeat: Report: France’s AI startup scene grew 38% in 2019 with government and investor backing; from 2014 to 2019 French AI startups raised $1.27B vs. $1.24B in …
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Cade Metz / New York Times: Google claims “quantum supremacy” breakthrough: its quantum computer performed a calculation in 3 min 20 sec which largest supercomputer could not in 10K years …
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Grady McGregor / Fortune: Profile of Colin Yao, head of Tencent’s game development subsidiary TiMi Studios, responsible for building some of the most played games in China — Colin Yao, …
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Sean Czarnecki / PRWeek: Cision, a media monitoring firm and parent of PR Newswire, to go private after being acquired for $2.74B by an affiliate of PE firm Platinum Equity …
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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: Q&A with Steve Roddy, vice president of the machine learning group at Arm, on culling neural nets for embedded devices, competing with Nvidia and Intel, more …
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Kate Cox / Ars Technica: A deep dive into the debate whether the Americans with Disabilities Act should apply to websites and apps, and what lies in the future for …
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Becca Farsace / The Verge: GoPro Max review: the most accessible 360 camera with durable hardware, great audio and display, but stabilization is jittery and non-fisheye footage is grainy — …
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