The biggest tech headlines of the day include of the new products Google announced including Pixel phones, smartspeakers, new earbuds and more.
Source: CNET
A pink room of pink animals and a gallery of smells? Yeah, the Pixel 2 launch was bizarre.
Source: CNET
Context is everything when dealing with dialog systems. We humans take for granted how complex even our simplest conversations are. That’s part of the reason why dialog systems can’t live up to their human counterparts. But with an interactive learning approach and some open source love, Berlin-based Rasa is hoping to help enterprises solve their conversational AI problems. The… Read More
Source: TechCrunch
Google’s ARCore is expanding. A new app, AR Stickers, will launch in preview alongside the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL later this year. But that’s not all — League of Legends, Houzz, and others are joining the platform.
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Source: Digital trends
Employees at the Department of Energy are the latest to undergo government-wide training sessions on “the importance of protecting classified and controlled unclassified information.”
Source: Wired
Plus: Pixel Buds, two new Google Homes, an upgraded Daydream View, and more.
Source: Wired
Larry Ellison was at it again yesterday, making friends, influencing people and pissing off rivals. It was AWS in the keynote earlier in the week. Yesterday, it was Splunk, a seemingly innocuous logging software company, which somehow fell into Ellison’s marketing cross-hairs. The company took serious exception. Splunk is best known for logging all events related to IT. Ellison announced… Read More
Source: TechCrunch
Neither lawmakers investigating election meddling nor social-media companies will release the controversial ads.
Source: Wired
Google has new AR stickers coming to its Pixel devices, with rollout set to begin later this year. They use Google’s ARCore, which is designed as an easy way for Android developers to bring augmented reality experiences to device users. The AR stickers are built right into the camera app on the Pixel (when they make their way out via software update) and they can be selected like any… Read More
Source: TechCrunch
In the first Crunchbase Women in Venture report (April 2016), our goal was to establish a well-defined baseline against which to measure future progress of women in the venture business. As 2017 draws to a close, Crunchbase re-applied the methodology from the 2016 report to see what progress, if any, might be measurable. Here are the somewhat encouraging results from that analysis. Read More
Source: TechCrunch