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1. CNSL, FRP: 
$FRP Consolidated Communications $CNSL to buy FairPoint in a $1.5 billion stock and debt deal – MW
$FRP Consolidated Communications $CNSL to buy FairPoint in a $1.5 billion stock and debt deal – MW3. KITE: $KITE Kite Pharma Announces Strong Remission Results from Two KTE-C19 Phase 1s – Street Insider
$KITE Kite Pharma Announces Strong Remission Results from Two KTE-C19 Phase 1s – Street Insider5. HLT: $HLT Hilton Worldwide Board Approves Spin-off, 1-for-13 Reverse Stock Split – Street Insider
$HLT Hilton Worldwide Board Approves Spin-off, 1-for-13 Reverse Stock Split – Street Insider7. JUNO: $JUNO Patient Deaths, Safety Concerns Cause Juno’s CAR-T Pipeline to Skid Out – Adam Feuerstein
$JUNO Patient Deaths, Safety Concerns Cause Juno’s CAR-T Pipeline to Skid Out – Adam Feuerstein23. GWPH: 
$GWPH GW Pharma Posts Q4 EPS of 7.4c; Announces Additional Positive Epidiolex Phase 3 Data – SI
$GWPH GW Pharma Posts Q4 EPS of 7.4c; Announces Additional Positive Epidiolex Phase 3 Data – SI
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8. NIKE:$NIKE upgraded to Buy from Hold at HSBC DOW component could be good end of year play .
10. RIO:$RIO upgraded to Neutral at Citigroup
11. TRIP:$TRIP upgraded to Hold at Stifel Nicolaus
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1. Patient Deaths, Safety Concerns Cause Juno’s CAR-T Pipeline to Skid Out
Juno now finds itself one year, if not two years or more, behind rivals Novartis and Kite.
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“Is it time for Disney to break up with ESPN?
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Technology News
- Congress has passed a law protecting the right of US consumers to post negative online reviews without fear of retaliation from companies.
- By ending gag clauses this legislation supports consumer rights and the integrity of critical feedback about products and services sold online Commerce Committee Chairman John Thune.
- Reviews on where to shop eat or stay on websites like Yelp or TripAdvisor help consumers make informed choices about where to spend their money said Brian Schatz.
- Think of Gab as the Make America Great Again of social sites a throwback to the freewheeling norms of the old internet before Twitter started cracking down on harassment and Reddit cleaned out its darkest corners.
- Recently Twitter beefed up abuse rules to police not only threats but also hate speech a race religion gender or The move presaged the purge that swept up Mr.
- Gab has also attracted the cutting conservative commentator Ann Coulter the media guerrilla Mike Cernovich and the disinformation king Alex Jones founder of Infowars.
- Fraudsters use a Distributed Guessing Attack to get around security features put in place to stop online fraud and this may have been the method used in the recent Tesco Bank hack.
- Mohammed Ali a PhD student at the university School of Computing Science said sort of attack exploits two weaknesses that on their own are not too severe but when used together present a serious risk to the whole payment system.
- is committed to keeping fraud at low levels and works closely with card issuers and acquirers to make it very difficult to obtain and use cardholder data illegally.
- Condé Nast publisher of the New Yorker and Vogue recently announced that it would ask artificial intelligence service Watson to take a break from finding cancer treatments to identify potential influencers.
- it was so easy to be an influencer then every single person on earth would do it said Gary Vaynerchuk who parlayed a YouTube channel into an ad agency VaynerMedia that specializes in social media marketing and now employs about people.
- Kim a former designer for Ralph Lauren told me she started her account as a sort of joke too posting photos of her shiba inu in sweaters and sport coats in the style of other popular fashion influencers.
- Last year under the previous conservative government Canada passed a controversial law called Bill which gave new powers to the police and intelligence agencies with little oversight.
- The bill has been criticized for allowing the domestic spy agency the Canadian Security Intelligence Service CSIS to become a by extending its powers beyond simple information gathering.
- After mandatory decryption and encryption backdoors failed to pick up steam in the United States but succeeded in the UK with the passing of the Charter Canada is looking to give this idea a try too.
- This method called deep learning leans heavily on the vast data sets that private technology companies own and that are used to train computers to do simple tasks such as match patterns or recognize faces in photographs.
- Marcus who helped found Geometric Intelligence in late said the gist of his philosophy goes something like this Instead of training machines by feeding them enormous amounts of data what if computers were capable of learning more like humans by extrapolating a system of rules from just a few or even a single example.
- Labs to apply its method to other tasks including combating fraud extracting information from street signs and learning to improve its mapping research and capabilities.
- IFTTT can automatically send Gmail attachments to Dropbox log the user favorite Pandora tracks in Evernote text a neighbor when Nest Protect detects a smoke emergency or flash a set of Philips Hue light bulbs when someone presses a Ring doorbell.
- The company launched a trio of new Do apps that were supposed to be simpler than the usual IFTTT recipes letting people quickly trigger an action on the internet by pressing a button taking a photo or jotting down some text on their phones.
- Still Tibbets is wary of defining the limits of what a particular device can instance ignoring the possibility of lightbulbs with embedded as Norwest Josh Goldman suggests a generic approach would risk alienating IFTTT partners.
- The top result from a site called Listovative has the headline Major Reasons Why People Hate I click on it today have taken over marketing militia medicinal technological media industrial cinema challenges etc and continue to face the worlds sic envy through unexplained success stories given their inglorious past and vermin like repression all over.
- And ordering of search results does influence people says Martin Moore director of the Centre for the Study of Media Communication and Power at College London who has written at length on the impact of the big tech companies on our civic and political spheres.
- Damien Tambini an associate professor at the London School of Economics who focuses on media regulation says that we lack any sort of framework to deal with the potential impact of these companies on the democratic process.
- The top result from a site called Listovative has the headline Major Reasons Why People Hate I click on it today have taken over marketing militia medicinal technological media industrial cinema challenges etc and continue to face the worlds sic envy through unexplained success stories given their inglorious past and vermin like repression all over.
- And ordering of search results does influence people says Martin Moore director of the Centre for the Study of Media Communication and Power at College London who has written at length on the impact of the big tech companies on our civic and political spheres.
- Damien Tambini an associate professor at the London School of Economics who focuses on media regulation says that we lack any sort of framework to deal with the potential impact of these companies on the democratic process.
- Lately however head scientist and vice president of Alexa Rohit Prasad has been speaking up in public making the case for his prowess in voice recognition and natural language understanding.
- Prasad who joined Amazon in spent some time with Backchannel before his talk today to illuminate the direction of Alexa and discuss how recruiting for Jeff arsenal without drying up the AI pipeline.
- So as part of skills announcing a larger set of hundreds functions slot types across different domains like books video or local businesses.
