Google PhotoScan turns your prints into high-quality digital images and other top stories.

• Google PhotoScan turns your prints into high-quality digital images

  

  The team behind Google Photos has released a new app for turning your old prints into digital photos, letting you save them to the cloud with a single tap. PhotoScan, which is being made available today on iOS and Android, lets you quickly scan a large number of photos using a novel, almost game-like interface. The tradeoff for the speed of the scans is quality — it’s slightly lower than what you might expect to get from a traditional flatbed scanner. PhotoScan’s interface is admirably simple,..

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• Google, Facebook and the "fake news" crackdown

  Nabanita De Facebook is facing increasing criticism over its role in the 2016 US presidential election because it allowed propaganda lies disguised as news stories to spread on the social-media site unchecked. The spreading of false information during the election cycle was so bad that President Barack Obama called Facebook a "dust cloud of nonsense." And Business Insider's Alyson Shontell called Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's reaction to this criticism "tone-deaf." His public stance is that fa..

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• Google's 'Quick, Draw!' AI Guesses Your Scribbles

  

  Have a look at the scribbles below. Drawn on a laptop's touch screen with a somewhat errant index finger, they're not exactly fit to be displayed in The Louvre. Artificial intelligence is still working on things like driving and playing Go, so one ...

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• Review: Huawei Mate 9

  

  Huawei has two main line ups of smartphones right now, there's the P series and then the Mate series. The Mate series is arguably more popular, and that's due to the fact that it has a large screen (something that's very popular now thanks to Samsung ...

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• New performance tests show just how dominant the iPhone 7 really is

  

  Remember a few short years ago when Android smartphone makers first began touting the specs of their smartphones as a big advantage of Apple’s iPhone line? Quad-core and octa-core processors — woo! 2GB of RAM… 3GB of RAM… so much RAM! Meanwhile Apple kept releasing new iPhones with dual-core processors and a measly 1GB of RAM. What on Earth was Apple thinking?! Of course, when people actually got around to testing these brawny Android phones and pitting them against Apple’s iPhone lineup, they ..

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• Microsoft is partnering with Elon Musk's OpenAI to protect humanity's best interests

  

  Microsoft’s artificial intelligence research division has announced a partnership with the Elon Musk-backed nonprofit OpenAI. As part of the deal, OpenAI will get access to Microsoft’s latest virtual machine technology for running large-scale AI training and simulation exercises, while Microsoft will have cutting-edge research conducted on its Azure cloud platform. OpenAI, founded last December by Musk and Y Combinator president Sam Altman, is focused on developing AI that has long-term positiv..

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