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• How to stream March Madness on any device, starting March 15

  12-03-2016 19:12
  March Madness is my favorite thing in sports—those first two rounds cramming 48 games into one weekend, the upsets, the excitement building as the rounds grind on, all the excuses to eat Buffalo wings. There’s nothing better. And this year it’ll stream to pretty much every device you can think of, too.
  The NCAA Tournament starts March 15, and on Friday the NCAA released details on how to stream the whole enchilada on multiple platforms, including the Apple TV, Roku, Fire TV, i
  
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• Google explains why its self-driving car crashed into that bus

  12-03-2016 19:02
  
  It took 1.4 million miles for Google’s self-driving cars to learn that people can be terrible drivers—even people operating the city bus.
  “We don’t like cars bumping into things,” Chris Urmson, Director of Google’s Self-Driving Project, told the audience during his SXSW panel on Friday. 
  Back in February, one of Google’s cars got into an accident with a bus while trying to get back on the road from a right turn lane. The car estimated that there wa
  
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• The mighty mini-PC: These little computers can have big uses

  12-03-2016 18:59
  
  Mini-PCs are little but plucky, easily squeezing into small spaces to perform their computing tasks. Whether mounted to the back of a monitor or tucked into an entertainment center, they can handle everyday demands just as well as full-sized desktops.
  And like their larger counterparts, you can pick (and customize) a mini-PC to fit your circumstances. Most are bare-bones machines that just need a hard drive and some RAM, but you can also find ready-made systems that range from stick-style PCs t
  
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• SXSW: Obama touts tech, others examine pitfalls

  12-03-2016 18:59
  
  AUSTIN, Texas
  Government, the private sector and non-profits should work together to apply technology to address the nation's problems and to enhance civic engagement, said President Barack Obama, delivering the keynote Friday at the South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive technology conference here.
  The first sitting president ever to address the conference, he said if we pull together, "There's no problem we face in this country that's not solvable."
  His address was in the form of an interview
  
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• Here's why GM is buying an autonomous driving software firm

  12-03-2016 18:58
  
  General Motors announced Friday that it's acquiring Cruise Automation for Cruise's deep software talent and rapid development capability -- a move designed to further accelerate GM's development of autonomous vehicle technology.
  Over the past two months, GM has entered into a $500 million alliance with ride-sharing company Lyft; formed Maven -- its personal mobility brand for car-sharing fleets in many U.S. cities -- and established a separate unit for autonomous vehicle development.GMGM P
  
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• Google’s AlphaGo AI program strong but not perfect, says defeated South Korean Go player

  12-03-2016 09:24
  
  Google DeepMind’s AlphaGo artificial-intelligence program has beaten South Korean Go player Lee Se-dol with three consecutive wins in a five-game tournament.
  “I kind of felt powerless,” said Lee after his defeat.
  The closely watched contest between man and machine on Saturday will likely reinforce the view that AI has come into its own, with great potential not only in gaming but also in enterprise and other applications.
  AI in Go still has some way to go, according to Lee. &l
  
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• Big win for AI as Google AlphaGo program trounces Korean player in Go tournament

  12-03-2016 09:24
  
  Google DeepMind’s AlphaGo artificial-intelligence program has beaten South Korean Go player Lee Se-dol with three consecutive wins in a five-game tournament.
  The closely watched contest between man and machine on Saturday will likely reinforce the view that AI has come into its own, with great potential not only in gaming but also in enterprise and other applications.
  AlphaGo previously won against Lee, a top Go player, in games in Seoul, South Korea on Wednesday and Thursday, leading the
  
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• Obama on encryption: 'It's fetishizing our phones above every other value'

  12-03-2016 00:05
  
  President Barack Obama can’t comment on the specifics of the ongoing feud between Apple and the FBI, but he did sit down with Texas Tribune editor-in-chief Evan Smith at South by Southwest Interactive on Friday to weigh in on one of the most pressing issues facing American society today: Is national security more important than privacy in the digital age?
  “The question we now have to ask is if technologically it is possible to make an impenetrable device or system where the encrypti
  
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