Thursday, May 5, 2016

Periscope CEO stays cool on Facebook threat as service tweaks features and other top stories.

  • Periscope CEO stays cool on Facebook threat as service tweaks features

    Periscope CEO stays cool on Facebook threat as service tweaks features
    Periscope Co-Founder Kayvon Beykpour sits down with USA TODAY's Jefferson Graham to discuss how it started the company and how he feels about new competition from Facebook. Martin E. KlimekPeriscope co-founder Kayvon Beykpour is photographed at Twitter HQ in San Francisco on April 14, 2016. -- Photo by Martin E. Klimek, USA TODAY contract photographer ORG XMIT: MK 134743 Periscope 04/14/2016 [Via MerlinFTP Drop](Photo: Martin E. Klimek, USA TODAY)SAN FRANCISCO — For a tech execut..
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  • The people who made Siri are readying another big leap in AI

    The people who made Siri are readying another big leap in AI
    Showtime next week after 3.5 years of work. https://t.co/s0i6gfu4BX — Dag Kittlaus (@Dagk) May 4, 2016 Viv is planned as an open system -- more like the original Siri prior to being purchased by Apple in 2010 -- and currently features links to apps and services like Uber, FTD, SeatGuru and GrubHub. The example in the article describes ordering a pizza from Domino's without so much as making a phone call or opening an app. Viv can understand everything necessary like selecting toppings or pic..
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  • Google adds Q&A and laser pointer features to Slides apps

    Google adds Q&A and laser pointer features to Slides apps
    Google is making its presentation tool more interactive. The company introduced a new Q&A feature for Slides Wednesday, which allows audience members to ask questions while they watch presentations.  The new Q&A feature, now live on Slides' website, iOS and Android app, allows people to ask questions in real-time during presentations.  To use the new tool, presenters must choose to enable questions from within the presenter mode. Once enabled, viewers can submit questions via a URL and vote on ..
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  • Ranking the Innovation of Every iPhone

    Ranking the Innovation of Every iPhone
    Every year we get some new iPhones—and by now, they’re usually pretty solid. However, there’s no doubt that certain years have had more innovation than others.Sometimes, the iPhone is pushing forward in innovation and other times it is catching up—so here’s our ranking of the innovation of every iPhone ever made.
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  • Apple brings in ex-Googler and robotics expert Yoky Matsuok to work on Healthkit

    Apple brings in ex-Googler and robotics expert Yoky Matsuok to work on Healthkit
    Apple has tapped Nest’s former tech chief Yoky Matsuoka to head up health projects at the company, according to Fortune. The MacArthur genius award winner comes with an impressive resume as a former professor of robotics and co-founder of the Google X lab. Matsuoka joined Nest as head of technology in 2010. Matsuoka was slated to become Twitter’s tech VP last year but soon stepped away from the position, citing a life-threatening illness. The treatments seemed to have worked and Matsuoka was a..
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  • Millions of email names, passwords hacked in giant data breach, report says

    Millions of email names, passwords hacked in giant data breach, report says
    More than 250 million email usernames and passwords have been breached and are being used by "Russia's criminal underworld," according to a Reuters report.  Hold Security's Alex Holden, who reported the data breach, told Reuters that the breach affects many of the email addresses on Russia's popular Mail.ru service, as well as addresses from Google, Yahoo and Microsoft. Holden said his firm came across a Russian hacker who claimed to have more than 1 billion hacked addresses for sale. In total,..
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