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The initiative is just one example of several efforts that combine crowdsourcing and computing to tackle “hard problems.”

Since late computer scientist John McCarthy came up with the term artificial intelligence back in 1955, there’s been plenty of scientific research and experimentation around achieving that goal. But we’re still a long way off from fully reproducing the complexities of the human mind, despite all the exciting AI-related experiments we are witnessing at Google (autonomous cars), Facebook (facial recognition), Microsoft (language translation) and Amazon (voice recognition).

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Use of artificial intelligence in health care to grow tenfold in 5 years, say analysts—for everything from cancer diagnosis to diet tips.

More than six billion dollars: That’s how much health care providers and consumers will be spending every year on artificial intelligence tools by 2021—a tenfold increase from today—according to a new report from research firm Frost & Sullivan. (Specifically, it will be a growth from $633.8 million in 2014 to $6,662.2 million in 2021.)

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In the dating app’s first global expansion, Tinder is gearing up to open an office in Delhi, India.

Tinder, the wildly popular dating app, is deepening its global presence with its first international office. And what better place to set up shop than India, where the app supposedly clocks 7.5 million swipes every day?

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T-Mobile started the movement away from the consumer-unfriendly arrangement and other big wireless carriers have been forced to follow suit.

The two-year phone contract, always a carrier-friendly and consumer-unfriendly arrangement, appears to be on its way out. Finally.

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Welcome to the doomed media convergence fest.

Adrianne Jeffries has been one of my favorite technology writers since the very beginning of Tabs, and she remains the person whose bullshit detector I put the most faith in. So I’m extremely pleased that she’s here today, straight from VICE’s hipster-infested Brooklyn headquarters where she edits Motherboard, to bring us the latest tech news.

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The New York attorney general will also require Uber to pay $20,000 for failing to report a 2014 data breach.

Uber has reached a settlement with the New York state attorney general requiring it to encrypt riders’ geolocation information and implement other rider privacy protections.

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Want to know how many calories are in that slice of pizza?

Curious about how many calories are in that latte?

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The company came out of nowhere to overtake Samsung and Huawei as the Chinese smartphone sales leader in 2014.

The upstart Asian smartphone maker Xiaomi became a serious force in the Chinese market when it overtook Samsung and Huawei as the sales leader in 2014.

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Porn helped VHS vanquish Betamax and Blu-Ray beat HD DVD. Now it’ll probably boost virtual reality.

If there’s one segment of the VR content industry that is banking on the highly immersive nature of the medium, well, of course it’s porn.

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