Mozilla has responded to the US Department of Justice’s antitrust lawsuit against Google, but instead of praising the DOJ’s actions, browser maker Firefox has raised concerns that its commercial partnership in the fight against Google’s alleged monopoly practices could result in “collateral damage”. The DOJ, with support from 11 states, confirmed yesterday that it is suing Google for alleged antitrust …
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Kite, suggesting real-time code snippets for developers, today added support for 11 more programming languages, making 13 available in total. In addition to Python and JavaScript, Kite’s AI-powered code completions now support TypeScript, Java, HTML, CSS, Go, C, C #, C ++, Aim C, Kotlin and Scala. (The team selected the 11 languages by triangulating the StackOverflow developer survey, Redmonk’s …
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Mine, which is developing a platform that enables personal data to be discovered and managed online, today closed a $ 9.5 million financing round led by Gradient Ventures, Google’s AI-focused company. The money infusion comes as Mine prepares to launch in the U.S. after debuting in Israel and Europe earlier this year. According to a spokesman, 100,000 people have used …
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Rally recently launched a cryptocurrency called Creator Coin, which influencers, content creators, and streamers can use to run their own virtual economies. And today it is announced that international soccer star Keisuke Honda, sports organization Gen.G and crypto influencer Joon Ian Wong are partners. All of these entities have a huge following and they are adopting what Rally calls Brand …
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During a conversation with investors and journalists today, Tesla CEO Elon Musk was asked to expand on a tweet from yesterday. In it he explained: “Tesla Think of this as a dozen or so tech startups, many of which have little or no correlation with traditional automotive companies. “ In short, he stated that there are over a dozen startups …
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The end is in sight for Quibi PayPal offers support for cryptocurrency and Netflix is testing a new advertising strategy. This is your daily crisis for October 21, 2020. The big story: Quibi shuts down The much-touted streaming video app, led by Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman, which raised nearly $ 2 billion in funding, is closing, according to reports …
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From big changes in the advertising ecosystem to the imminent arrival of the Metaverse, the gaming world is full of changes that industry folks need to watch out for. For this reason, GamesBeat, VentureBeats’ dedicated games channel, is pleased about a partnership Facebook Gaming and Facebook Audience Network Bringing a major new game industry event to life. The event will …
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T-Mobile’s Layer Cake 5G network is in place – now killer apps are required to increase widespread interest and acceptance, especially among companies. As a result, the airline today announced T-Mobile Ventures, an investment fund designed to drive the development of “5G transformative products and services” in four key areas: edge computing, security, industrial IoT and the future of work. …
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Here we are 2 weeks before the election in the valley of pre-change and God knows where we are in the pandemic. As my partner Tina tells me on that once glorious sunny day (the view formerly known as the Pacific has been replaced by the fog like a zoom background), we seem to be better prepared for something to …
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Landing AI today launches LandingLens, a computer vision platform that manufacturers can use to train AI models. The goal is to help companies use AI faster for visual inspection of products ranging from automotive components to semiconductors to parts for steelmaking and the assembly of equipment and electronics. Andrew Ng, founder of Landing AI, told VentureBeat LandingLens that it is …
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