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    As officials play in the fight against sophisticated hacking and fake news operations they fear Europe and its elections remain vulnerable at a critical moment The project of unity hangs in the balance challenged by populist forces within the bloc and pressures from Russia and beyond.
    Jakub Janda a deputy director of European Values a think tank that has worked with East Stratcom in Dmitry Kostyukov for The New York Times Despite the regionwide push to counter false reports experts question whether such efforts by governments and publishers will have a meaningful effect.
    In Germany where Chancellor Angela Merkel is facing tough competition ahead of elections in September the domestic intelligence service already has reported a sharp rise in phishing attacks in recent months aimed at political parties and members of the Parliament.
    As for the HorseFly itself the drone features a carbon fiber construction is powered by a proprietary lithium battery pack and capable of a flight time at a top speed of miles per hour the company says.
    guidance system draws from online databases covering airspace topograhpic weather and wind conditions and data from sensors like a GPS Compass LIDAR and infrared camera for landing.
    The transportation and delivery company originally poached a huge team away from Carnegie Mellon University and is now getting a taste of its own medicine with Ford recruiting heavily from its ranks to develop cars.
    Snapchat will need to match Facebook monetization levels on a basis if it is to ramp ad spending beyond the billion a year at which Twitter began to run into revenue growth issues Cordwell predicted.
    Our price target effectively assumes Snap trades at over EBIT earnings before interest and tax multiple at well in excess of the historical range of this metric for Facebook though margins still likely to be below structural potential at this point.
    Earlier on Tuesday Reuters reported that while investors attending the London leg of the Snap IPO road show were impressed with sleek presentation some were disappointed the company did not provide projections on future revenue and advertising share.
    Snap is on the road this week meeting investors and a key question is how much the company whose Snapchat app is known for its disappearing photos can grow its user base.
    Still the billion revenue target lines up with other analysts including James Cordwell from Atlantic Equities who issued a neutral rating on the stock.
    Snap executives met with investors in New York earlier on Tuesday and are planning to tour several other cities this week according to an invitation reviewed by Business Insider.
    Snap is on the road this week meeting investors and a key question is how much the company whose Snapchat app is known for its disappearing photos can grow its user base.
    Still the billion revenue target lines up with other analysts including James Cordwell from Atlantic Equities who issued a neutral rating on the stock.
    Snap executives met with investors in New York earlier on Tuesday and are planning to tour several other cities this week according to an invitation reviewed by Business Insider.
    Tuesday meeting on the floor of the Mandarin Oriental hotel in New York City Columbus Circle drew a crowd of nearly people that one investor said included the entire hedge fund mafia.
    Inside the hotel ballroom guests bearing the bright yellow IPO pitchbooks distributed at the event were treated to a light if uninspired lunch paired with heady prognostications by management.
    While attendees nibbled on turkey sandwiches and caesar salad wraps Snap CEO Evan Spiegel chief strategy officer Imran Khan and CFO Drew Vollero answered questions from the crowd according to people who attended the event.
    From devices regulating and monitoring factory production flows to intelligence stitched into a arteries to tune streetlights to the presence of people vehicle traffic and weather conditions.
    It is seen as the standard that will unlock long range IoT connectivity at scale as mobile network operators only have to upgrade their existing LTE systems to make it work.
    It is a portfolio we are continually investing in as we seek to help architect a world where hundreds of billions of devices can actively connect to global networks linking people businesses and the environment in powerful new ways we are only just beginning to imagine.
    Snap CEO Evan Spiegel and fellow executives faced questions from investors about declining user engagement according to fund managers present at the meeting who did not want to be identified as the discussions were private.
    Proceedings were housed in a conference center in the heart of financial district at Bishopsgate a few paces from Liverpool Street Station decked out with yellow branding.
    But in the Q A and a series of smaller meetings with Snap executives investors focused their questioning on user growth a sign that the slowdown is a serious issue in the minds of fund managers as is competition from rivals such as Facebook Inc.
    His power and ability to influence is greater than any President subject to political reality and and besides as Zuckerberg made clear last week his concern is not a mere country but rather the entire world.
    Until of course said meddling was uncovered at which point the service having so significantly betrayed trust would lose a substantial number of users and thus its lucrative and privileged place in advertising leading to a plunge in market value.
    To be sure algorithms are written by humans which means they will always have implicit bias and the focus on engagement has its own harms particularly the creation of filter bubbles and fake news but I have longed viewed use for explicit political ends to be the greatest danger of all.
    we start offering beer and wine there will be an associate checking identification an Amazon spokesperson wrote in an email.
    Dubbed Amazon Go the store concept allows shoppers to grab prepared food and drinks off of shelves and automatically be billed without stopping to pay on the way out.
    Amazon accomplishes this feat by making shoppers scan an app on the way in and then uses a mix of sensors cameras and computer vision to track the items that each customer takes.

 

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