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Cyberprivacy startup Anonyome Labs raises $20.4M for secure messaging and payments
Anonyome Labs, a Utah-based startup that runs a cyberprivacy platform for consumers, announced today that it has closed a $20.4 million funding round. The Series B round included participation by existing investors Greg Clark, chief executive of Symantec Corp., and Crosspoint Ventures founder John Mumford, as well as new investors Hanna Ventures and Ariba co-founder Ken ...
Google open-sources speech command dataset for TensorFlow
Alphabet Inc.’s TensorFlow machine learning framework and AIY do-it-yourself artificial intelligence teams have released a dataset of more than 65,000 utterances of 30 different speech commands, giving developers a powerful toolset to implement their own simple voice controls without having to build everything from scratch. Pete Warden, a software engineer on the Google Brain Team, said in a ...
Quick start: On Monday, Amazon will slash prices and offer Prime discounts at Whole Foods
Amazon.com Inc. single-handedly sent grocery company stocks tumbling in June when it made the surprise announcement that it would be acquiring Whole Foods Market Inc. for $13.7 billion. Now, after receiving approval from the Federal Trade Commission for the deal on Wednesday, that merger will be done come Monday. According to Amazon, Whole Foods customers will already see ...
Sliver.tv raises $9.8M to let esports fans watch in VR
Sliver.tv, a video streaming startup that lets users watch live esports matches in virtual reality, has raised an additional $9.8 million in early-stage funding as it looks to expand its platform and add new games to its roster. The Series A funding round was led by Danhua Capital, along with Heuristic Capital Partners and ZP Capital. ...
Battle of the titans: Wal-Mart and Google join to take on Amazon’s voice-assisted shopping
Retail giant Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is teaming up with Google Inc. to build its own voice-assisted shopping experience, as it looks to go head-to-head with similar features offered by Amazon.com Inc. Wal-Mart and Google announced today that users will soon be able to place Wal-Mart orders using Google Assistant either through the Google Home smart speaker ...
AI-powered job search Leap.ai raises $2.4M in seed round
Silicon Valley startup Leap.ai wants to use artificial intelligence to match job seekers up with potential employers, and now it has raised a stake to help it realize the vision. Today the company announced that it has closed a $2.4 million seed funding round that will allow it to expand its platform. The round was led by ZhenFund, a Beijing-based ...
Android Oreo rolls out with speed improvements and better multitasking
Google Inc. finally confirmed today that the latest version of its Android mobile operating system is called Android Oreo, and the new OS is already rolling out to Nexus and Pixel phones. Android Oreo boasts a number of improvements over its predecessors, some of which are more exciting than others. One of the most talked about ...
Facebook explains what happens to your data when you die
Facebook Inc. has more than 2 billion people using its social network, more than a quarter of the Earth’s population, and with such a large user base, it is inevitable that some users will pass away, leaving a graveyard of profiles that still contain the personal information of the deceased. Over the years, Facebook has ...
Reddit takes on YouTube and Facebook by allowing users to upload videos directly
Reddit, the popular content-sharing platform that considers itself to be “the front page of the Internet,” will test out a new feature that will allow users to upload their videos straight to the site without having to turn to a third-party host such as YouTube. Aside from posts that are text-only, most content on Reddit links to media ...
Report: Apple will invest $1B to create its own TV shows and films
Apple Inc. will invest more than $1 billion to produce several of its own television shows and films over the next year, which could put the iPhone maker in more direct competition with the likes of Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Prime. According to a report by the Wall Street Journal, sources familiar with the matter say that ...