El Kaiser and J.D. are back this week with the usual suitcase full of technology news to unpack, including Samsung’s announcement that its Bixby virtual assistant is open (source) for business. And while Blue Apron is folding up a bit of its workforce, and Google’s DeepMind A.I. software is folding proteins. Oh, and let’s not forget, the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update started to show up on PCs everywhere this week. Now, if only we can get to the sweater weather…slip on your flip-flops come on along for Episode 251!
Links to Stories Mentioned on This Week’s Show
- Bixby 2.0: The Start of the Next Paradigm Shift in Devices (Samsung Global Newsroom)
- Experience Samsung 360 Round, a High-Quality Camera for Creating and Livestreaming 3D Content for Virtual Reality (Samsung Mobile Press)
- Facebook officially rolls out its discovery-focused ‘Explore Feed’ (TechCrunch)
- AlphaGo Zero: Learning from scratch (DeepMind)
- ‘It’s able to create knowledge itself’: Google unveils AI that learns on its own (The Guardian)
- Google Serves Fake News Ads in an Unlikely Place: Fact-Checking Sites (The New York Times)
- Twitter account claiming to belong to Tennessee GOP was run by Russian trolls (The Hill)
- McCain signs on to Democrats’ Facebook ad disclosure bill (Politico)
- Facebook and Google Helped Anti-Refugee Campaign in Swing States (Bloomberg)
- Dodging Russian Spies, Customers Are Ripping Out Kaspersky (The Daily Beast)
- HP Unveils World’s Most Powerful and First Detachable PC Workstation (HP Newsroom)
- Blue Apron announces layoffs (Axios)
- Lego’s official ‘Women of NASA’ set goes on sale November 1 (TechCrunch)
Windows 10 Fall Creators Update
- What’s new in the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (Microsoft)
- How to get the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (Microsoft)
- The definitive Windows 10 Fall Creators Update review (Windows Central)