Google CEO Pichai cancels 'town hall' on gender dispute

Google CEO Sundar Pichai has canceled an internal town hall meant to address gender discrimination on Thursday after employee questions for management began to leak online from the company's ...

6 hours ago from Phys.org

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Consumers Reports pulls Microsoft laptop recommendation

Consumer Reports is pulling its recommendation of four Microsoft laptops after one of its surveys found that users were complaining about problems with the devices.

Thu 10 Aug 17 from Phys.org

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Researchers hack computer using malware encoded in synthetic DNA

In what they're calling the first evidence of a DNA-based exploit of a computer system, a team of scientists have successfully shown that a computer can be hacked through malicious code ...

11 hours ago from Gizmag

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Amazon Reportedly Wants To Take On Ticketmaster

When you think of attending an event that requires you to buy tickets, we wouldn’t be surprised if Ticketmaster were a platform that comes to mind. After all the company has been in operation ...

53 minutes ago from Ubergizmo

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DeepMind AI teaches itself about the world by watching videos

AI usually relies on humans to label the world for them, but a new system from DeepMind learns to recognise images and sounds by matching up what it hears with what it sees

20 hours ago from Newscientist

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Uber investor sues former CEO Travis Kalanick, claiming fraud

Latest lawsuit sets up a power struggle over board of directors

14 hours ago from The Independent

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Facebook launches Watch platform for original video

There's a battle going on for our attention, that no media format is safe from. Video already features heavily in Facebook's news feed, but the social media giant is ramping things up ...

18 hours ago from Gizmag

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How to make sense of Facebook's new video service, Watch

Facebook's Watch is competing with a lot of video services. Here's how it shakes out.

23 hours ago from The Washington Post

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Today's Google Doodle teaches you to scratch and mix turntables

Google's doodles are an outlet for the company's playful urges. And, even though they've become all too common, the redesigns still manage to pack the odd surprise. Take ...

2 hours ago from Engadget

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Lithuanian court OKs extradition in US phishing case

A Lithuanian businessman suspected of tricking more than $100 million out of Google and Facebook in an elaborate cybercrime case should be extradited to the United States, a local court ruled ...

24 minutes ago from Phys.org

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