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[ad_1] Aaron Tilley / The Information: Apple has acquired Laserlike, a small Silicon Valley-based ML startup, likely to strengthen its AI efforts; Laserlike had raised $24M+, per Crunchbase  —  Apple has acquired Laserlike, a small Silicon Valley-based machine learning startup, …

[ad_1] Faith Ryan / GovernmentCIO Media: Microsoft makes Teams available in Microsoft 365 Government and announces Power Platform and Dynamics 365 for government as it bids for $8B Pentagon contract  —  The tech-giant announced new advancements in cloud-based services that …

[ad_1] Adam Vaughan / New Scientist: FamilyTreeDNA will let users block law enforcement from accessing data after report found the company gave the FBI access; EU users are automatically opted out  —  One of the biggest home DNA-testing companies seems …

[ad_1] Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: Google debuts the first preview of Android Q to devs, available on all Pixel devices, with granular privacy settings, better support for foldable devices, more  —  Google today launched Android Q Beta 1, available for …

[ad_1] Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: Google releases the first preview of Android Q to developers, available on all Pixel devices, with granular privacy settings, foldable screen support, and more  —  Improved privacy controls, support for foldable screens, and more  …

[ad_1] Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Education startup Newsela, which develops a platform for e-learning resources, raises $50M Series C led by TCV  —  As schools continue to look for new ways to cut costs while at the same time reboot …

[ad_1] Todd Haselton / CNBC: Apple Music arrives on Amazon’s Fire TV for US users, following its launch on Amazon’s Echo smart speakers last year  —  Apple Music launched on Amazon Fire TVs in the United States on Wednesday.  It …

[ad_1] Peter Rubin / Wired: An early look at Facebook’s Codec Avatars, extremely life-like representations of individuals made by applying machine learning to data collected in a studio  —  “There’s this big, ugly sucker at the door,” the young woman …

[ad_1] Shannon Liao / The Verge: Facebook says it is working to bring its services back online as users around the world report issues with Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, Oculus, and WhatsApp  —  While you can open the apps, they’re missing …

[ad_1] Ron Miller / TechCrunch: Determined AI, which wants to make AI development easier using its software, exits stealth and announces $11M Series A led by GV  —  Deep learning involves a highly iterative process where data scientists build models …