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Amazon Alexa skills are about to become much smarter
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Sony, Facebook, Google, and Samsung dominate VR, with over 50% market share

Trump reportedly to appoint Pence ally to FCC chair, setting stage to rollback net neutrality

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How chatbots will factor into elections

Amazon unveils Dash button for AWS IoT with twice the battery life of the original

SurveyMonkey shutting down its mobile app insight service on January 31

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The limitations of letting chatbots imitate humans

Expedia now has an Alexa skill for flight updates and car rentals

Reddit to ban or suspend harassers following Pizzagate and abuse directed at CEO

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The Bots Landscape evolves, adds heavyweights like Google Assistant, funds 14 more Slack bots

Geohot’s startup Comma.ai open-sources its self-driving car technology

Everything announced at AWS re:Invent 2016

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AWS now offering trucks to move your data to its cloud

Google launches App Maker to help people easily build custom enterprise software

AWS brings PostgreSQL support to the Aurora database engine

AWS launches Amazon Athena service for querying data stored in S3

AWS launches Amazon Lex, a bot framework that powers Alexa
Kony Launches New Kony Visualizer Integrated with Amazon Web Services to Simplify and Accelerate Mobile App Development

AWS launches Amazon Lightsail, a DigitalOcean killer offering $5 virtual private servers

YouTube now supports 4K livestreaming across standard and 360-degree videos

Email delivery platform SendGrid raises $33 million ahead of IPO in 2017

AWS launches elastic GPUs for EC2, FPGA-backed F1 instances, R4 and refreshed T2, C5 and I3 coming in Q1

Twitter now lets you curate your own Moments on mobile

GoPro is cutting 15% of its workforce amid sales slump

Netflix finally lets you download some movies and TV shows to watch offline
Tangent Energy Posts a Strong Second Half by Closing $101M in DER Contracts Since July

Russia set to become BlaBlaCar’s biggest market in 2017

Data science startup Civis Analytics raises $22 million
Twist, a Smart Light Bulb that Combines AirPlay Audio and Transitional LED Lighting in a Refreshingly Compact Package; Now Available

Samsung Electronics surges to record high on payout growth hopes

Female fertility app Clue raises $20 million in round led by Nokia Growth Partners

Why MoneyFarm reassures customers that humans invest their money, not bots

Uber defends business model as a digital service before Europe’s highest court

Trump’s Secretary of Transportation could help Uber and Lyft

Google now shows a card to compare products in search results
