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• Report: Google tests a new group conversation app dubbed 'Spaces'

  02-04-2016 19:02
  
  Google is never one to shy away from a good experiment. It looks like the latest is a new group messaging app called Spaces.
  According to Android Police, the app appears to be a mini-social network that a group of friends or family members could use for shared conversations inside of a splashy interface.  Android Police
  A leaked product shot reveals what could be a new messaging app from Google.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
  
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• Windows comes up third in OS clash two years early

  02-04-2016 18:55
  
  Microsoft's Windows, which in 2015 fell to third place among the world's operating systems, will continue to lose share this year to both Android and Apple's combined OS X and iOS, Gartner said today.
  Not until 2017 will Windows begin to recoup some of the losses it's sustained since 2013, Gartner said in its latest device forecast.
  The continued decline of Windows makes Microsoft's job of pivoting to explorations of cross-platform opportunities all the more pressing. And it goes a long way to
  
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• 3 ways Airtable for iOS can help you ditch spreadsheets

  02-04-2016 14:00
  
  It's been nearly three years since Bento, an easy-to-use database app for Mac and iOS, joined the digital junkheap. During that time, I hadn't seen anything that can truly replace Bento — until I tinkered with Airtable.Airtable is a free iOS app that recently received a big upgrade. It has the look and feel of a spreadsheet app, such as Numbers or Excel, but it has a relational database engine as well. (Airtable's Android app is currently in beta, there's a Google Chrome app, and you can u
  
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• What will it take to make AI sound human?

  02-04-2016 02:23
  
  Conversation fillers such as "hmm" and "uh-huh" may seem like insignificant parts of human conversation, but they're critical to improving communication between humans and artificial intelligence.So argues Alan Black, a professor in the Language Technologies Institute at the Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science, who specializes in speech synthesis and ways to make artificially intelligent speech sound more real.Both Siri and Cortana incorporate aspects of Black's work, he says. But for the
  
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• What's in HPE's persistent memory?

  02-04-2016 00:29
  
  Memory and storage have been separate in computers for decades, but that's changing.Hewlett Packard Enterprise took a step towards merging the two with its new "persistent memory" announced this week. A persistent memory module combines 8GB of DRAM and 8GB of flash in a single module that fits in a standard server DIMM slot.DRAM operates at high speed but it's relatively expensive, and if a server shuts down unexpectedly any data in DRAM is lost. Flash is slower but it's nonvolatile, meaning it
  
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