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Facebook’s Zuckerberg Plans AI To Help With Home, Work

Facebook (FB) CEO Mark Zuckerberg, in a personal post on the Facebook website, said his personal challenge for 2016 is to develop an artificial intelligence system to run his home and help with work. After exploring the current state of artificial intelligence, the billionaire plans to build a system that can control “everything in our home,” including music, lights and temperature. It will include facial recognition software that, after scanning

Facebook To Open Virtual Reality Headset Preorders

Facebook (FB)-owned virtual reality firm Oculus will begin taking preorders for its Rift virtual reality headset starting on Wednesday at 8 a.m. Pacific time, the company said in a blog post on Monday. The Rift would come bundled with the platforming adventure game “Lucky’s Tale” and a multiplayer space combat game, “EVE: Valkyrie,” Oculus said. The blog post did not contain pricing information for the headset. Last week, Oculus said that the Rift

New Enterprise Software Stock Atlassian Draws Ratings

Atlassian (TEAM), the December IPO that designs enterprise software to manage team projects, may have won more analyst coverage initiations than any other firm on the first trading day of the new year. But its stock isn’t immune to the fresh downdraft from China that swept in over the weekend, following the release of weak Chinese manufacturing data and pending tighter trading restrictions there. The Shanghai composite closed down 6.9% Monday.