Verizon Media launches OneSearch, a privacy-focused search engine
Carnegie Mellon researchers propose AI that surfaces positive online comments
VRgineers interview: Why it’s making an 8K military-grade VR headset
Chinese court rules AI-written article is protected by copyright
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ProBeat: A smart speaker does not a smart home make
Pinterest details the AI and taxonomy systems underpinning Trends
Facebook Gaming grows 210% in 2019 as it battles Twitch, YouTube
Soul Machines raises $40 million for AI-powered customer-facing digital avatars
DuckDuckGo trumps Bing in Google’s controversial Android ‘choice screen’ search engine auction
Facebook will let you limit political ads, but won’t stop false claims or micro-targeting
U.S. lawmakers say Facebook’s steps to tackle deepfakes don’t go far enough
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Quibi shows off new snack-size, mobile-first streaming service
Twitter will soon let you choose who can reply to your tweets
At CES 2020, 5G hype shifted from phones to PCs, cars, and infrastructure
Google now includes taxes and fees in hotel searches
App Store hit record spend on New Year’s Day 2020, Apple News passes 100 million users
Google Assistant passes 500 million users, will get longform reading and deeper smart home integration in 2020
IBM launches Advertising Accelerator with Watson to automatically optimize campaigns with AI
Firefox 72 arrives with fingerprinting blocked by default, Picture-in-Picture on macOS and Linux
Samsung subsidiary STAR Labs showcases Neon, an ‘artificial human’ project
Facebook will remove certain deepfake videos ahead of the 2020 U.S. election
Bluetooth LE Audio promises superior sound quality and battery life
Lenovo’s foldable PC is the ThinkPad X1 Fold, starts at $2,499
Samsung unveils ultra-thin $1,000 Galaxy Chromebook with AMOLED display
Amazon brings Fire TV to cars, soundbars, and set-top boxes
IOGear launches UpStream video-capture equipment for content creators
Celestron’s StarSense Explorer brings telescope optics to smartphones
Samsung’s Sero display switches orientations to mirror a paired smartphone
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2019’s U.S. TV advertising trends across Amazon, Apple, Google, Facebook, and Microsoft
Airbnb tops list of 13 potential tech IPOs in 2020
Top minds in machine learning predict where AI is going in 2020
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