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Google Assistant has a new look on the Pixel 4

Google has given Assistant an overhaul, updating the UI and making the voice assistant more useful, with a better understanding of context for the information or actions you ask it about. At the Made by Google event, the company showcased some of what the new Assistant has in store, including a zippy flow from Maggie Rogers’ Twitter account to her upcoming shows, sharing that info with a…
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Next-gen Google Assistant works in near real time, offers speech transcription

A faster, near real-time Google Assistant made its debut at a hardware event held today in New York, where the flagship Pixel 4 smartphone was also debuted. The next-generation Google Assistant can be used to open apps and deliver automated speech transcription from voice recordings, as well as using multi-turn dialogue to respond to multiple commands or queries. Google Assistant is also getting…
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CleverTap raises $35 million for AI that tracks and builds customer engagement

Mumbai- and Mountain View, California-based CleverTap, which develops cloud-based customer management and engagement tracking tools, today revealed that it recently closed a $35 million series C funding round at a valuation of $385 million — over double its previous valuation of $150 million. Tiger Global Management and Sequoia India co-led the raise, which brings the startup’s total raised to…
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Google Stadia launches on November 19th

Google’s Stadia game streaming service will launch on November 19th, the company’s Rick Osterloh announced today at the company’s fall hardware event. In a separate blog post published during the keynote, Google added that servers will open to the public at…
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MIT CSAIL fights fake news with AI

Fake news — loosely defined as a type of propaganda consisting of deliberate disinformation spread via traditional outlets or social media — is a menace. A December 2016 survey by the Pew Research Center suggests that 23% of U.S. adults have shared fake news, knowingly or unknowingly, with friends and others. It’s begun to erode trust in major television and newspaper outlets, studies show…
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