Tuesday, May 10, 2016

The creators of Siri just showed off their next AI assistant, Viv, and it's incredible and other top stories.

  • The creators of Siri just showed off their next AI assistant, Viv, and it's incredible

    The creators of Siri just showed off their next AI assistant, Viv, and it's incredible
    Dag Kittlaus and Adam Cheyer created the artificial intelligence behind Siri, Apple's iconic digital assistant, and one of the first modern apps to capably handle natural language queries on a smartphone. Today the pair showed off their newest creation, Viv, a next generation AI assistant that they have been developing in stealth mode for the last four years. The goal was to create a better version of Siri, one that connected to a multitude of services, instead of routinely shuffling queries of..
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  • New iPhone 7 Image Confirms Apple's Design Decision

    New iPhone 7 Image Confirms Apple's Design Decision
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  • Royal Botanical Gardens: Mixed report on the world's plants

    Royal Botanical Gardens: Mixed report on the world's plants
    A Nymphaea Thermarum, an endangered plant, grows at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in London, Monday, May 9, 2016. Kew Gardens held the launch of the first ever State of the Worlds Plants report. The report is the first of its kind in the plant world.
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  • Facebook now directly denies report of biased trends, says there's no evidence

    Facebook now directly denies report of biased trends, says there's no evidence
    Facebook is now strongly refuting claims that it suppressed conservative Trends after issuing a more vague and indirect PR statement earlier today about having neutrality guidelines. Facebook VP of search Tom Stocky Facebook has “found no evidence that the anonymous allegations are true” wrote VP of search Tom Stocky on the social network tonight at 9:30pm pacific May 9th, regarding a Gizmodo report from sources who said they were formerly on the team that chose what Trends appeared on Faceboo..
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  • Moto X To Have Two Versions, Will Come With Modular Backplates: Report

    Moto X To Have Two Versions, Will Come With Modular Backplates: Report
    (Photo : Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for Motorola) The new Moto X handsets, codenamed Vector Thin and Vertex, are expected to be unveiled in June. Motorola is said to be working on two versions of its Moto X flagship Android smartphones, codenamed Vertex and Vector Thin, according to VentureBeat's Evan Blass. Both handsets are said to come with a modular design for its backplates. The backside is compatible with swappable backplates, which provides room for additional functionalities, according..
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  • 'Final Fantasy X' re-released again, this time on Steam

    'Final Fantasy X' re-released again, this time on Steam
    Final Fantasy XV finally launches this September, but publisher Square Enix wants you to take a look back in the vaults ahead of that. Final Fantasy X and its direct sequel X-2 got the HD remaster treatment on PlayStation 4 last year and now the double pack is headed to PCs by way of Steam. That means a remastered soundtrack, better-looking graphics and a few bits and bobs from the International Editions like a special boss fight mode for the first. No word on improved voice acting, though. How..
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  • Mercury rising: planet completes rare transit of Sun

    Mercury rising: planet completes rare transit of Sun
    Astronomers celebrated Monday witnessing one of the highlights of the skywatchers' year, when the Sun, Mercury and Earth all lined up—a phenomenon that happens just a dozen or so times per century. Mercury was seen through telescopes as a black dot ...
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  • T-Mobile customers can roam in Cuba this summer

    T-Mobile customers can roam in Cuba this summer
    T-Mobile has struck a roaming deal with state-owned Cuban carrier Empresa de Telecomunicaciones de Cuba SA (ETECSA), letting visitors to the island nation use voice, text, and data services from this summer. The move follows the Obama administration's loosening of travel and trade restrictions between the US and Cuba last year; Verizon and Sprint both made similar arrangements in the fall. Google is also looking into expanding internet access in the country. "The historic opening of Cuba is a n..
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