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Facebook blames ‘technical issue’ for illegal Marketplace listings, including drugs and live animals
This week, social media giant Facebook Inc. launched a Craigslist competitor called Marketplace, which allows users to buy and sell items in their local community through the Facebook app. Now, it looks like the platform has already run into some trouble. According to Facebook, a “technical issue” is responsible for allowing hundreds of illegal listings ...
Baidu launches ‘voice first’ keyboard app powered by AI
Why type on your phone’s tiny keyboard when you can tell it what to type instead? That’s the thinking behind a new keyboard app called TalkType released today by the Chinese web services giant Baidu Inc. The company calls it “the world’s first voice-centric, full-function keyboard.” The new app, which is now available on Android ...
Google could face major fines over Android antitrust case in Europe
Google Inc. parent company Alphabet Inc. could be in serious trouble in the European Union. EU regulators have said that they plan to order the company to cease offering financial incentives to Android phone makers who exclusively pre-install Google Search or Play Store on their devices. If Google does not comply, the company could face a hefty fine for ...
Look out, Craigslist: Facebook launches Marketplace for local goods
Social media giant Facebook Inc. is launching a new Craigslist-like storefront called Marketplace, which is aimed at letting people buy and sell things in their local community. According to Facebook, more than 450 million users are already buying and selling things within specialized Facebook Groups, and now the new Marketplace platform will give those users a streamlined, centralized place to peddle ...
Avast completes acquisition of rival antivirus company AVG
Two months after antivirus company Avast Software s.r.o. announced that it would be acquiring its rival, AVG Technologies N.V., for $1.3 billion, the deal is done. According to Avast, while the buyout of AVG has finally concluded, it will be up to a year before the company has been fully absorbed by Avast. Both Avast and AVG have ...
Nvidia demonstrates self-driving car that learned entirely from watching humans
Nvidia Corp. has released a new video showing off its latest progress in autonomous vehicle technology, this time with a self-driving car that has learned entirely from watching human drivers. “In contrast to the usual approach to operating self-driving cars, we did not program any explicit object detection, mapping, path planning or control components into ...
Shape Security raises $40M to fight cyber attacks with machine learning
Mountain View-based cybersecurity firm Shape Security has just secured an impressive $40 million in Series D funding led by the investment arm of the Singapore government’s economic development board (EDBI). The funding round also included investments from both Google Ventures and Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s (HPE) Pathfinder program. According to a statement by Singapore’s EDBI, in addition to ...
HP apologizes for printer update that locked out third-party ink cartridges
Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) has issued a public apology for a recent security update that locked out third-party ink cartridges and forcing consumers to use only HP-branded ink. In a statement, HP Chief Operating Officer John Flaxman claimed that the intent behind the update, which activated a dormant feature in some of its printers, was to ...
OpenSesame raises $9M for enterprise elearning, wants to add VR classes
OpenSesame, an enterprise-focused elearning platform, has just raised $9 million in a Series B funding round led by Altos Ventures. This latest funding round also included continued investment from Partech Ventures, which contributed to OpenSesame’s $8 million Series A funding round in January 2014. This brings the company’s total funding up to over $17 million. In a ...
Google says its photo-reading AI is now 93.9 percent accurate
Alphabet Inc.’s artificial intelligence research has made it into the headlines a few times over the last few years, for developments such as AlphaGo’s surprise victory over a human Go grand master. Now, the parent company of Google says it has made major strides in the field of computer vision, with its image recognition program Inception ...
