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Exclusive: Why Microsoft is betting its future on AI

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Exclusive: Why Microsoft is betting its future on AI Inside Satya Nadella’s plan to outsmart Google.

Exclusive: Why Microsoft is betting its future on AI

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Exclusive: Why Microsoft is betting its future on AI

Why I Don't Use a Baby Monitor

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Why I Don't Use a Baby Monitor It’s not that there’s anything inherently wrong with checking in on your child. It’s more that the whole idea of baby tracking has gotten out of hand.

Article of the day for July 8, 2016

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Article of the day is New York Herald. Check it out: http://ift.tt/1oWeX6W

Picture of the day for July 8, 2016

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Picture of the day on July 8, 2016: View of the principal façade of Buckingham Palace, the London residence and principal workplace of the monarchy of the United Kingdom. The palace, located in the City of Westminster, was originally designed by Edward Blore and completed in 1850. The current appearance is the result of a renovation by Sir Aston Webb in 1913.

decommission: Word of the day for July 8, 2016

decommission , v : To take out of service or to render unusable. To remove or revoke a commission. To remove or revoke a formal designation.

decommission: Word of the day for July 8, 2016

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Word of the day is decommission : To take out of service or to render unusable. To remove or revoke a commission. To remove or revoke a formal designation.

Article of the day for July 8, 2016

The Article of the day for July 8, 2016 is New York Herald . The Jeannette Expedition of 1879–81 was an attempt led by George W. De Long to reach the North Pole using a route through the Bering Strait to the fabled temperate Open Polar Sea. The expedition was financed by James Gordon Bennett, Jr., the proprietor of the New York Herald, and based on the ocean current theories of the German cartographer August Petermann. The attempt failed; the expedition's ship, USS Jeannette (pictured), drifted in the polar ice for nearly two years before being crushed and sunk, north of the Siberian coast. De Long then led his men on a journey by boat and sled to the Lena Delta. Before ultimate rescue, more than half of the ship's complement died, including De Long. During Jeannette's long drift the expedition discovered what were later called the De Long Islands, and collected significant meteorological and oceanographic data. Although the ship's fate demolished the long-standing Ope...

Picture of the day for July 8, 2016

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View of the principal façade of Buckingham Palace, the London residence and principal workplace of the monarchy of the United Kingdom. The palace, located in the City of Westminster, was originally designed by Edward Blore and completed in 1850. The current appearance is the result of a renovation by Sir Aston Webb in 1913..

Video Shows How Terrifyingly Fast Wildfires Can Move

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Video Shows How Terrifyingly Fast Wildfires Can Move

Woman Streams Aftermath Of Boyfriend's Fatal Shooting By Police At Traffic Stop In Falcon Heights, MN

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Woman Streams Aftermath Of Boyfriend's Fatal Shooting By Police At Traffic Stop In Falcon Heights, MN

Woman Streams Aftermath Of Boyfriend's Fatal Shooting By Police At Traffic Stop In Falcon Heights, MN

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Woman Streams Aftermath Of Boyfriend's Fatal Shooting By Police At Traffic Stop In Falcon Heights, MN Less than two days after ​Baton Rouge police shot and killed Alton Sterling, who was black, at point-blank range, a Falcon Heights, Minnesota police officer shot and killed Philando Castile during a traffic stop. Castile was also black. His girlfriend livestreamed the aftermath of the shooting.

Video Shows How Terrifyingly Fast Wildfires Can Move

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Video Shows How Terrifyingly Fast Wildfires Can Move The fact that the trucks are equipped to endure burnovers doesn't make this video of an incredibly fast-moving fire in Australia overtaking and engulfing them any less crazy. July 7, 2016 at 03:51PM

Google Is Transforming NYC's Payphones Into a "Personalized Propaganda Engine"

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Google Is Transforming NYC's Payphones Into a "Personalized Propaganda Engine" New York City is erecting new internet monoliths that provide free phone, Wi-Fi, and charging — but all that glitters isn't gold, except for Google.

Google Is Transforming NYC's Payphones Into a "Personalized Propaganda Engine"

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Google Is Transforming NYC's Payphones Into a "Personalized Propaganda Engine"

Why I Don't Use a Baby Monitor

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Why I Don't Use a Baby Monitor

New edit in the Article on Google

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Google Custom Search Engine edited the Article on Google http://ift.tt/1oWeX6W

New edit in the Article on Google

On July 7, 2016 at 04:18PM, made an edit the Article on Google . The edit was about moodstocks acquisition.