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Tech watchdogs call on Facebook and Google for transparency around censored content
May 07, 7:01PM
If a company like Facebook can’t even understand why its moderation tools work the way they do, then its users certainly don’t have a fighting shot. Anyway, that’s the idea behind what a coalition of digital rights groups are calling The Santa Clara Principles (PDF), “a set of minimum standards” aimed at Facebook, Google, Twitter and […]
Microsoft Pay comes to Outlook, integrating Stripe, Braintree, Sage, Wave and more
May 07, 6:13PM
Microsoft Pay — Microsoft’s answer to Android Pay and Apple Pay that was originally launched in 2016 as Microsoft Wallet — is getting a little more useful today. At Build, Microsoft announced that it will be integrating its digital wallet service into Outlook. This means that, for the first time, when a company sends you […]
Drive.ai is launching an autonomous ride-hailing network in Texas
May 07, 6:00PM
Drive.ai, the self-driving car startup with roots in Stanford’s Artificial Intelligence Lab, has partnered with Frisco, Texas and the Hall Group to deploy the first autonomous ride-hailing platform in the state of Texas. Initially, the platform will be available to more than 10,000 members of Hall Group’s commercial and residential communities. Through the service, people will […]
Uber vehicle reportedly saw but ignored woman it struck
May 07, 5:51PM
The cause of the fatal crash of an Uber self-driving car appears to have been at the software level, specifically a function that determines which objects to ignore and which to attend to, The Information reported. This puts the fault squarely on Uber's doorstep, though there was never much reason to think it belonged anywhere else.
Live Share in Visual Studio lets you code and debug together
May 07, 5:45PM
At its Build developer conference, Microsoft today announced that Live Share, its previously announced collaborative development feature for Visual Studio and Visual Studio code, is now available to developers who want to give it a try. Until now, this feature, which allows developers to better work together, was only available in a private preview — […]
Microsoft shows off Alexa-Cortana integration, launches sign-up website for news
May 07, 5:24PM
Microsoft still isn’t giving a timeline as to when its virtual assistant, Cortana, will support integration with Amazon Alexa – something the companies had announced last year. But the company at its Build developer conference today did show off how that integration will work, in an on-stage demo with support from Amazon, and it launched a new […]
Microsoft overhauls its conversational AI chatbot tools
May 07, 5:17PM
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella talked briefly about a major update to the company's conversational AI tools. You can now more easily create, test and improve bots that run on Azure or your own servers and work across multiple platforms. "At this conference, we're launching a hundred plus features for the bot framework so that you […]
China closing in on massive new chip fund in bid to dominate US semiconductor industry
May 07, 4:57PM
China's government has made technological independence from the United States one of its highest priorities. And now it appears to be putting its money where its messaging has been. According to The Wall Street Journal, China is close to finalizing a $47 billion investment fund that would finance semiconductor research and chip startup development. The […]
Microsoft introduces a pair of new enterprise apps for HoloLens
May 07, 4:54PM
Today at Microsoft’s Day 1 Build keynote, AR and VR has definitely been a sideshow so far, but the company did have some announcements related to enterprise apps on the HoloLens. The company detailed two new apps, Remote Assist and Layout, which will be coming May 22. The new Remote Assist app from Microsoft is […]
Instagram code reveals upcoming music feature
May 07, 4:47PM
Instagram is preparing to let you add music to your Stories, judging by code found inside its Android app. "Music stickers" could let you search for and add a song to your posts, thanks to licensing deals with the major record labels recently struck by Facebook. Music stickers would make Instagram Stories much more interesting […]
Printify, a new marketplace for custom printing, raises $1 million seed
May 07, 4:31PM
Printify, a startup all the way from Riga, Latvia, has raised $1 million in seed funding led by Google AdSense pioneer Gokul Rajaram as it looks to expand its services in the U.S. and build out its team in Latvia. Today, roughly 50,000 e-commerce stores use Printify’s services for printing-on-demand, according to the company. Together […]
Vegan meal kit startup Purple Carrot raises $4M from Fresh Del Monte
May 07, 4:26PM
Purple Carrot announced this morning that it has raised $4 million in strategic funding from Fresh Del Monte Produce. The company, which delivers completely plant-based (vegan) meal kits to subscribers, was founded in 2014. It has, in part, gotten attention through celebrity involvement, first by enlisting food writer Mark Bittman as its chief innovation officer […]
Oculus Research is now the 'Facebook Reality Lab'
May 07, 4:02PM
Oculus Research is getting a new name. As the AR/VR-focused research group grows more instrumental to the future of Facebook at large, the group will now be called Facebook Reality Labs. The announcement was made by Oculus Chief Scientist Michael Abrash in a post on his personal Facebook page. It’s just a name change, but […]
Google's Android Things IoT platform comes out of beta
May 07, 4:00PM
Android Things, Google IoT platform for developers who want to build connected devices, is now out of beta, as the company today announced. After eight release candidates, the last of which launched less than a month ago, Google now deems Android Things ready for primetime. Despite its beta status, quite a few companies started building […]
JBL's new soundbar brings Android TV and Google Assistant to sets via HDMI
May 07, 4:00PM
Given the downright deluge of news over the past couple of weeks, one has to wonder what, precisely, Google is keeping up its sleeve for I/O. The big event doesn't kick off until tomorrow morning, but the company just dropped another interesting announcement: JBL Link Bar. Created in partnership with Google, the living room entertainment […]
With MIT launched, Learning Machine raises seed to replace paper with blockchain credentials
May 07, 3:37PM
Transcripts, diplomas, resumes — simple documents with enormously important economic consequences for their holders. The right classes or GPA on a transcript can radically change the career prospects of a young graduate, and yet, the infrastructure that manages these critical documents still centers on mailing official paper to processing centers. Now, a startup called Learning […]
Kaptivo looks to digitally transform the lowly whiteboard
May 07, 3:37PM
At Kaptivo, a company that’s bringing high-tech image recognition, motion capture and natural language processing technologies to the lowly whiteboard, executives are hoping that the second time is the charm. The Cambridge, U.K. and San Mateo, Calif.-based company began life as a company called Light Blue Optics, and had raised $50 million in financing since […]
Watch the Microsoft Build 2018 keynote live right here
May 07, 3:31PM
Microsoft is holding its annual Build developer conference this week and the company is kicking off the event with its inaugural keynote this morning. You can watch the live stream right here. The keynote is scheduled to start at 8:30 am on the West Coast, 11:30 am on the East Coast, 4:30 pm in London […]
Microsoft's Project Ink Analysis lets developers add handwriting recognition to their apps
May 07, 3:30PM
As part of its Build developer conference, Microsoft today announced Project Ink Analysis, a new service under its Cognitive Services brand of AI products that will allow developers to add support for handwriting and other shape recognition to their apps. The company says that this service will be available for Windows and other platforms. Microsoft […]
Microsoft wants developers to embrace Microsoft 365 and the Microsoft Graph
May 07, 3:30PM
The Microsoft Graph is an interesting but also somewhat amorphous idea. It’s core to the company’s strategy, but I’m not sure most developers understand its potential just yet. Maybe it’s no surprise that Microsoft is putting quite a bit of emphasis on the Graph during its Build developer conference this week. Unless developers make use […]
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