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Artificial intelligence and the antitrust case against Google
Venture Beat - 21 Oct 2020 21:59
Federal prosecurots say Google uses anticompetitive business practices as well as artificial intelligence, data, and scale to maintain monopolies.
Anyscale raises $40 million to launch a managed service for distributed computing workloads
Venture Beat - 21 Oct 2020 15:00
Anyscale, the startup behind the open source project Ray, today closed a $40 million round to support its first commercial offering, a managed Ray platform.
Microsoft shifts PlayFab game services pricing to pay-as-you-go
Venture Beat - 21 Oct 2020 15:00
Microsoft's PlayFab division said it is introducing a pay-as-you-go plan for its game developer services with no minimum monthly fees.
Rally unveils digital currency with soccer star Keisuke Honda, esports team Gen.G, and more
Venture Beat - 21 Oct 2020 23:00
Rally's new cryptocurrency is getting support from soccer star Keisuke Honda, esports organization Gen.G, and crypto influencer Joon Ian Wong.
FIFA 20, Final Fantasy XV, and big games that divided critics and players
Venture Beat - 21 Oct 2020 21:17
The Last of Us Part II was a very contentious game of 2020, with gamers battling critics over review scores. But it isn't in the top 10 most divisive games.
How Outsourcing Key Functions Can Give Your Startup A Competitive Edge
Forbes - 21 Oct 2020 20:49Researchers find evidence of racial, gender, and socioeconomic bias in chest X-ray classifiers
Venture Beat - 21 Oct 2020 20:10
Researchers claim to have found evidence of racial, gender, and socioeconomic bias in popular datasets used to train X-ray scan classifiers.
Microsoft And SpaceX: The Final Frontier For Cloud Computing
Forbes - 21 Oct 2020 19:16What Antarctica Can Teach Us About Leadership And Genuine Conversation
Forbes - 21 Oct 2020 19:085G built wrong? iPhone 12 battery tests raise questions for mini, Max
Venture Beat - 21 Oct 2020 18:04
While Android phone makers boosted the battery sizes of their first 5G devices, Apple surprisingly went in the opposite direction with the iPhone 12 family.
How Trump and Biden economic and tax plans differ in ways that could impact Main Street
CNBC - 21 Oct 2020 18:00
The 2020 election choices are stark in Donald Trump versus Joe Biden, and on issues of taxes and the economy deciding on a vote has rarely been harder for business owners.
Landing AI launches product inspection platform for manufacturers
Venture Beat - 21 Oct 2020 17:00
Landing AI is launching a platform to help manufacturers inspect products like automotive parts or semiconductors using computer vision.
T-Mobile Ventures will fund transformative 5G products and services
Venture Beat - 21 Oct 2020 16:53
A new multi-year, multi-million-dollar fund will back developers of products and services that expand the capabilities of T-Mobile's layer cake 5G network.
Data privacy startup Mine raises $9.5 million and expands to the U.S.
Venture Beat - 21 Oct 2020 16:00
Mine, which is developing a platform that helps discover and manage personal data on the web, today closed a $9.5 million funding round.
Kite expands its AI code completions from 2 to 13 programming languages
Venture Beat - 21 Oct 2020 16:00
Kite's AI code completion supports programming languages Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, HTML, CSS, Go, C, C#, C++, Objective C, Kotlin, and Scala.
Mozilla rightly fears "collateral damage" in Google antitrust case
Venture Beat - 21 Oct 2020 15:03
Mozilla has responded to the U.S. antitrust lawsuit against Google, voicing concerns that it may become "collateral damage."
Sam's Club expands autonomous floor-sweeping robots to all U.S. stores
Venture Beat - 21 Oct 2020 15:00
Sam's Club and Brain Corp will partner to deploy autonomous floor-scrubbing robots in hundreds of Sam's Club stores around the U.S.
Syte raises $40 million to bring visual search to online retailers
Venture Beat - 21 Oct 2020 15:00
Syte, a visual search and discovery platform for retailers, has raised $40 million in a round of funding led by Viola Ventures.
Dropbox launches $17 per month family plan to grow cloud storage consumer base
Venture Beat - 21 Oct 2020 15:00
Dropbox is rolling out its new family plan for all users after several months in beta testing, starting at $16.99 per month when billed annually.