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Apple’s AirPods: Blessed are the early adopters
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As painful as it is, if we want change, we need to take that first step. But when it happens, we’re never happy.

By Carolina Milanesi
As Uber’s robot cars hit the streets in Pittsburgh, the fears of its human drivers have become a reality
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But as the tech develops, self-driving cars may make more economic sense.

By Johana Bhuiyan
Amazon has solved the Echo’s echo problem
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Want to sound smart? Call it Echo Spatial Perception.

By Jason Del Rey
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What the iPhone 7 tells us about the future of AppleWhat the iPhone 7 tells us about the future of Apple
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Dual cameras could pave the way for a move into virtual reality.

By Ina Fried
The NFL is putting tracking sensors inside its footballs for the first time
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The move is just a test — for now.

By Kurt Wagner
Will immersive virtual reality be too much for kids and their parents?
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Spoiler: The bunny dies in one tested ending. And in VR, that triggered much stronger feelings than it would have done in a regular movie.

By Carolina Milanesi
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Intel blew it on mobile. Now it’s trying to avoid missing out on virtual reality.Intel blew it on mobile. Now it’s trying to avoid missing out on virtual reality.
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The chip giant hopes that VR, connected cars and other devices will play to its strengths.

By Ina Fried
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Watson claims to predict cancer, but who trained it to ‘think?’Watson claims to predict cancer, but who trained it to ‘think?’
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Watson cannot read handwriting. Machine learning’s true potential is tied to human inputs.

By Kuang Chen
The head of Google’s Brain team is more worried about the lack of diversity in artificial intelligence than an AI apocalypse
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Lack of diversity is more than a public relations issue, people.

By Johana Bhuiyan
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Getty is using underwater robots and VR to make its Rio Olympics pictures stand outGetty is using underwater robots and VR to make its Rio Olympics pictures stand out
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The stock image house now has to compete with every fan and athlete with a smartphone.

By Ina Fried
Who is best positioned to build a smart home assistant?
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Who’s it gonna be? Amazon? Apple? Google? IFTTT? Or some amalgam of smart home solution providers?

By Jan Dawson
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The digital identity dilemmaThe digital identity dilemma
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Virtual ID “cards” will dramatically change how quickly and easily we use web services, make online transactions and more, while dramatically decreasing the potential for fraud and identity theft.

By Bob O'Donnell
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Internet of Things strategies are going from general to specialized and verticalInternet of Things strategies are going from general to specialized and vertical
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Qualcomm, Intel and Dell are among the companies moving toward enabling vertical-specific IoT solutions.

By Bob O'Donnell
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The blockchain future is here. And it needs a few good names.The blockchain future is here. And it needs a few good names.
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Please, let’s not have any more scary-sounding names like Enigma and BlockCypher.

By Jeff Schulz
Drones from Google’s Alphabet will take flight soon. But can they outmatch Amazon?
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There’s a difference in focus: Package delivery versus managing low-altitude airspace.

By Mark Bergen
Google’s Alphabet is part of a $700 million effort to cure disease without meds
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Verily and pharma giant GSK will pour the money into “bioelectronics.”

By Mark Bergen
Self-driving cars, Fiber and Alphabet’s other non-Google moonshots lost $859 million this past quarter
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Both revenue and losses increased a bit.

By Mark Bergen and Noah Kulwin
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What I saw at the SigGraph computer graphics fairWhat I saw at the SigGraph computer graphics fair
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Held across the street from Disneyland, the trade show is the holy grail of computer graphics and, increasingly, for mobile graphics, virtual reality and augmented reality.

By Bob O'Donnell
For only $30,000 you can build Facebook’s new camera to film 360-degree videos
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The blueprints are now available online.

By Kurt Wagner
Google wants to improve artificial intelligence to prevent robot screw-ups
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Five ways your future robot might go awry.

By Mark Bergen
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Here comes 5G — but first, a reality checkHere comes 5G — but first, a reality check
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With last week’s 5G-related announcements, the U.S. is again poised to be a leader in the development and deployment of next-generation wireless technology.

By Mark Lowenstein
Google has found a business model for its most advanced artificial intelligence
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DeepMind gets a job cutting the costs of data centers.

By Mark Bergen
What is ARM and why is SoftBank spending $32 billion on it?
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The company doesn’t make any products on its own, but its designs are used in billions of chips.

By Ina Fried
Digital advertisers should take a page from Snapchat’s playbook
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Ads can be a natural extension of the experience.

By Jeff Tidwell
Camera maker Light joins a long list of hardware startups to leave customers waiting
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The modular L16, originally due this summer, now won’t get to customers until early 2017.

By Ina Fried
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Are we about to enter a new ‘golden era’ in technology?Are we about to enter a new ‘golden era’ in technology?
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Voice-based assistants and bots — plus enhanced sound and audio — will have a dramatic impact on the man-machine interface.

By Tim Bajarin
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The rise of self-learning softwareThe rise of self-learning software
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I predict that in 10 years, every new enterprise application will be self-learning at its core.

By Adit Singh
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Why virtual reality mattersWhy virtual reality matters
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As a new medium, VR is in a peculiar predicament: Hailed as a multibillion-dollar industry, it’s also still in its creative infancy.

By Jason Brush
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Quantum computing: To boldly go where Einstein feared to treadQuantum computing: To boldly go where Einstein feared to tread
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To build a quantum computer — and to understand what it’s good for — scientists will have to stretch their minds farther than Einstein could stretch his.

By Charles H. Bennett
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Can artificial intelligence wipe out cyber terror?Can artificial intelligence wipe out cyber terror?
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AI will replace large teams of tier-1 SOC analysts who today stare at endless streams of threat alerts, says a former director of DARPA.

By Anup Ghosh
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Cortana comes to Xbox One, but Microsoft needs a bigger Trojan horse for the homeCortana comes to Xbox One, but Microsoft needs a bigger Trojan horse for the home
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She’s in your Xbox, but she wants to be in your bedroom — and kitchen, and every other room in your house, too.

By Carolina Milanesi
A Samsung executive says bendable phone screens are ‘right around the corner’
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The key is bringing manufacturing costs down.

By Ina Fried
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The evolution of cloud computingThe evolution of cloud computing
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Changes in server design will have a real-world impact on everyone who uses both traditional and new computing devices.

By Bob O'Donnell
Hewlett Packard Enterprise and GE are teaming up on the Internet of Things
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The pair will jointly go after business in the aerospace, energy and automotive industries.

By Arik Hesseldahl
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The voice-first user interface has gone mainstreamThe voice-first user interface has gone mainstream
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A quantitative study of Amazon’s Echo, Apple’s Siri and Google’s OK Google shows where — and how — they’re being used by consumers.

By Ben Bajarin
Getty Images CEO says VR is the next frontier for stock images, too
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The storied photo service plans to equip every one of its Olympics photographers with a 360-degree camera.

By Ina Fried
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Slack’s artificial intelligence will tell you what you need to knowSlack’s artificial intelligence will tell you what you need to know
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Now mainly for messaging, Slack will soon be smart enough to talk back.

By Arik Hesseldahl
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The AR/VR platform wars have begunThe AR/VR platform wars have begun
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Windows’ Holographic and Google’s Daydream represent early attempts to establish their platforms as key places for developers and content producers to create new AR/VR apps and media.

By Tom Mainelli
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The rise of machine intelligence at #codecon 2016The rise of machine intelligence at #codecon 2016
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Machine learning, artificial intelligence, deep simulation — or, as IBM’s CEO insisted, cognitive computing — were front and center for nearly every Code Conference speaker.

By Steven Sinofsky