THOMAS NEHREN NEVER knew what to expect when he was on the road in his hometown of Salt Lake City. Whether it was speed traps, accidents or road construction, he too often found himself on the wrong street at the wrong time, when a different way to work might have kept him away from traffic […]
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Warren Buffett‘s longtime investing partner Charlie Munger thinks Americans should look for opportunities in China, where Berkshire Hathaway has invested in electric automaker BYD. “American investors are missing China,” Munger said Saturday in response to a question at Berkshire’s annual shareholder meeting. “It just looks too hard, sitting in Omaha, to outsmart the Chinese market. […]
Read moreFacebook “instituted its biggest executive shakeup in its 15-year history this week,” Recode reported on Tuesday, a reorganization that will include a new blockchain effort and aims to address privacy concerns. Facebook confirmed the report to CNBC but did not share any comments to Recode’s report. The experimental blockchain group will be led by David […]
Read moreA new generation of gamers is flocking to “Fortnite,” the battle royale-style online shooter title quickly becoming the most popular video game on the internet. With its vibrant, cartoonish visuals and slick controls, the free-to-play game is surging in revenue and popularity — and enabling younger gamers to gain prominence. One of them is 13-year-old […]
Read moreThe Walt Disney Company reported fiscal second-quarter earnings that beat analysts’ expectations on Tuesday. Here’s how the company did compared with what Wall Street expected: Adjusted earnings: $1.84 per share vs. $1.70 per share forecast by Thomson Reuters Revenue: $14.55 billion vs. $14.11 billion forecast by Thomson Reuters Shares of Disney initially gained more than […]
Read moreGoogle on Tuesday announced that it has developed a third generation of its special chips for artificial intelligence. The new Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) will help Google improve applications that use artificial intelligence to do things like recognize words people are saying in audio recordings, spot objects in photos and videos, and pick up underlying […]
Read moreThe Google Assistant is getting so “smart” that it’s soon going to be able to place calls for you. On Tuesday, at the Google I/O event, CEO Sundar Pichai demoed one experience where this sort of smart technology will be helpful. If you need to make an appointment for a haircut, for example, Google Assistant […]
Read moreGoogle is completely revamping its news product to make it more robust, featuring YouTube videos and tweets, and well as traditional articles. In the app’s new iteration, Google tries to balance artificial intelligence-fueled personalization with features that encourage people not to get stuck in “filter bubbles” that reinforce their preconceived opinions or ideas. “We are […]
Read moreGoogle will unroll six new voices for its Google Assistant, including that of entertainer John Legend. The voices will be both male and female, and will be made more natural with a technology called Wavenet, which Google’s DeepMind artificial intelligence team announced 18 months ago. “Wavenet models underlying raw audio to create a more natural […]
Read moreGoogle is amping up its use of artificial intelligence in email with a new Gmail feature called Smart Compose that tries to finish certain sentences for you. The tool is an extension of Google’s existing Smart Replies, which makes three suggestions it for users to their start emails. Gmail recently rolled that feature out out […]
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