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5 December 2016 / SF News / Eve Batey

Monday Morning Linkdump: Uber's AI Buy


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  • Your weekend ICYMI: Not that you missed the news that a deadly fire claimed an as yet undetermined number of lives in Oakland, though the death toll climbed all weekend as others shared their tales of escape. The site of the blaze was the Ghost Ship artists collective, the proprietor of which had been repeatedly warned that the structure was unsafe. Meanwhile, two people were injured in separate vehicle collisions.
  • Your Saturday and Sunday links.
  • Uber just bought Geometric Intelligence, a two-year-old artificial intelligence startup that vows to surpass the deep learning systems under development at internet giants like Google and Facebook. [Wired]
  • San Francisco 49ers coach Chip Kelly’s father died on Friday. [KRON 4]
  • Richmond celebrates being left off FBI’s most dangerous cities list, but it turns out they just forgot to send their crime stats in. [KRON 4] [CBS 5]
  • The father (who himself is a registered sex offender) of the De La Salle High School student accused in a sexual assault case is now putting the blame on the teenage girl who said she was raped. [ABC 7]
  • Here's what happens to the the conversations Alexa and Google Home record. [Wired]
  • China’s internet filters block many of Silicon Valley’s biggest companies but have done little to stanch a Chinese obsession with its culture. [New York Times]
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Dangerous Conditions Halt Search For Oakland Warehouse Fire Victims, As Death Toll Rises To 36

oakland fire Dept says they have stopped going thru warehouse for now bc bldg is compromised. 33 killed @kron4news pic.twitter.com/hWVUZYLmP8— Will Tran (@KRON4WTran) December 5, 2016 Fire crews were forced

  • Eve Batey
December 05, 2016
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Survivors Give Terrifying Accounts Of Escaping Oakland's 'Ghost Ship' Fire

With an estimated 70 to 100 people in attendance at Friday night's underground electronic music party at Ghost Ship in Oakland, and an estimated 35 to 40 dead, it is becoming increasingly possible

  • Jay Barmann
December 04, 2016

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