by Alpha | Mar 15, 2017 | Pre-Market
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1. Goldman Turns Cautious on Stocks as Fed Threatens to Upset Calm
The longer the seemingly unstoppable reflation rally continues, the more warning signs start to flash for Goldman Sachs Group Inc. — especially in stocks.
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4. Deutsche Bank turns less bearish on the euro
Currency analysts at Deutsche Bank, among the most gloomy on the euro’s prospects against the dollar, now expect the currency to hold its ground in coming months before falling below parity with the greenback by the end of the year.
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6. Analyst: Snapchat’s valuation numbers don’t add up
Snap doesn’t compare to Facebook or Google yet.
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Since announcing the preview in November more than organizations have started using Microsoft Teams including Accenture Alaska Airlines Cerner Corporation ConocoPhillips Deloitte Expedia Hunt Walter Thompson Hendrick Motorsports Sage Trek Bicycle and Three UK.
We also added support for audit log search eDiscovery and legal hold for channels chats and files as well as mobile application management with Microsoft Intune.
With that in mind working to ensure every team member can participate with new accessibility features including support for screen readers high contrast and navigation.
Content that promotes hate or violence against a group of people based on criteria including but not limited to race or ethnicity religion gender nationality or citizenship disability age sexual orientation or veteran status.
In two other examples given raters are instructed to flag a result said to falsely represent a scientific study in an offensive manner and a page that seems to exist solely to promote intolerance.
In an increasingly charged political environment natural to wonder how raters will deal with content easily found on major news sites that call both liberals and conservatives idiots or worse.
Telle Whitney the president and CEO of the Anita Borg Institute a nonprofit that supports women in technology says gender bias is a big problem in which are frequently run by brotherhoods of young many cases friends or out of elite colleges.
Too many decisions are made on gut instinct the training argues A hiring manager looks at a résumé and sees a certain fraternity or hobby or a conventionally white or male name and bang to the unconscious brain making shortcuts that person gets an interview.
an attempt to duplicate one of the most renowned studies in the genre In Claudia Goldin and Cecilia Rouse showed that when major orchestras allowed musicians to audition behind a screen that hid their gender the percentage of women selected rose dramatically.
Telle Whitney the president and CEO of the Anita Borg Institute a nonprofit that supports women in technology says gender bias is a big problem in which are frequently run by brotherhoods of young many cases friends or out of elite colleges.
Too many decisions are made on gut instinct the training argues A hiring manager looks at a résumé and sees a certain fraternity or hobby or a conventionally white or male name and bang to the unconscious brain making shortcuts that person gets an interview.
an attempt to duplicate one of the most renowned studies in the genre In Claudia Goldin and Cecilia Rouse showed that when major orchestras allowed musicians to audition behind a screen that hid their gender the percentage of women selected rose dramatically.
Following a lawsuit in an Illinois federal court parent company Standard Innovation has been ordered to pay a total of C to owners with those who used the vibrators associated app entitled to the full amount each.
In addition data is collected and sent back to Standard Innovation letting the company know about the temperature of the device and the vibration intensity which combined reveal intimate information about the sexual habits.
The flaws with the sex toy were first revealed at the Def Con hacking conference in Las Vegas in by New hackers and.
But with a piece of software the researchers built called Gyrophone they found that the gyroscopes were also sensitive enough to allow them to pick up some sound waves turning them into crude microphones.
Though the result is unintelligible to the human ear Stanford researcher Yan Michalevsky and Gabi Nakibly built a custom speech recognition program designed to interpret it.
In this case the researchers say mobile operating system makers like Google could prevent the gyroscope problem by simply limiting the frequency of access to the sensor as Apple already does.
In episode of CxO Talk Gartner analyst Mark McDonald presents a compelling and insightful view of social collaboration and relationships between IT the chief marketing officer and lines of business.
As of today there are more than integrations available or coming soon with bots and connectors from companies like Meekan Growbot ModuleQ SAP SuccessFactors and Trello.
Microsoft also is continuing to integrate Teams with its own productivity software and services Word Excel PowerPoint OneNote Skype etc.
Snapchat is doubling down on private messaging as Instagram and Facebook Messenger clone and steal usage from its Stories feature.
Scroll down to add Snapchat and your Best based on your interaction who have created personalized Bitmoji avatars for themselves will automatically appear as widgets on the home screen.
By redoubling its efforts in chat Snap could entrench itself as the most casual way to talk with friends since all messages delete themselves by default.
Following a lawsuit in an Illinois federal court parent company Standard Innovation has been ordered to pay a total of C to owners with those who used the vibrators associated app entitled to the full amount each.
In addition data is collected and sent back to Standard Innovation letting the company know about the temperature of the device and the vibration intensity which combined reveal intimate information about the sexual habits.
The flaws with the sex toy were first revealed at the Def Con hacking conference in Las Vegas in by New hackers and.
by Alpha | Mar 14, 2017 | Pre-Market
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3. ANTH:$ANTH prices $15m at $.50/share with warrants at $.55/share
5. MGI:Is a bidding war about to break out? Jack Ma/Alibaba offered to buy $MGI at $13.25/share. Someone just offered this:
6. EDIT:$AGN $EDIT in Crispr development pact for eye diseases.
7. M:Macy’s president and soon to be CEO Gennette tells BAML conf: “We don’t have our heads in the sand,” changes we are seeing are “secular” $M
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1. Phase 4 Study Shows EXPAREL® Versus an Active Comparator Significantly Reduces Opioid Consumption and Postsurgical Pain in Patients Undergoing Total Knee Arthroplasty
Multicenter randomized study serves as unequivocal evidence of EXPAREL as an opioid minimizing agent in a complex and painful surgical procedure. Protocol’ s best practice infiltration technique for the …
2. The Most Important Player in the AIG CEO Resignation: Carl Icahn
Carl Icahn was at the center of last week’s surprise resignation of Peter Hancock at insurance giant AIG.
3. Twitter Traders Yap, but Aurinia Raising $150 Million was a Well-Executed Deal
Aurinia executives don’t manage the business to serve the interest of traders and their desire to flip the stock for a few bucks’ profit.
4. YY Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2016 Unaudited Financial Results
GUANGZHOU, China, March 14, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — YY Inc. (NASDAQ: YY ) (“YY” or the “Company”), a live streaming platform, today announced its unaudited financial results for the fourth quarter and full year 2016.
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6. Prudential Raises Dividend as Full-Year Profit Gains on Asia
Prudential Plc, the U.K.’s largest insurer, raised its ordinary dividend after earnings rose 7 percent, helped by a stronger business in Asia.
7. Oil Drops After Saudis Tell OPEC They Reversed Some Output Cuts
Oil reversed earlier gains after Saudi Arabia told OPEC it raised output back above 10 million barrels a day in February, reversing about a third of the cuts it made the previous month.
8. Tesla Model Y unofficial render ahead of launch
The Tesla Model Y is expected to be a compact SUV built on the same platform as the Model 3. The automaker hasn’t officially commented on when it plans to unveil the vehicle, but we have to assume …
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ET Before accepting rides on his Uber app each day Seattle driver Fasil Teka must first choose whether to listen to podcasts on voting rights collective bargaining and city council hearings.
He and other drivers in the city have received text messages meeting invites and phone surveys from firm Uber Technologies in an attempt the company says to sway them against unionizing.
As Uber scrambles to address an internal scandal over employee allegations of systemic sexism facing another increasingly heated labor battle in Seattle a union drive led by the Teamsters.
While the Teamsters worked to win the city approvals necessary to represent drivers Uber ramped up a sprawling phalanx of efforts including everything from notifications and text messages to seminars collective bargaining pizza parties and podcasts.
For some Uber drivers drawn to the platform by its promise of a job with flexible hours union membership which comes with dues and a hierarchical power structure can be.
ET Before accepting rides on his Uber app each day Seattle driver Fasil Teka must first choose whether to listen to podcasts on voting rights collective bargaining and city council hearings.
He and other drivers in the city have received text messages meeting invites and phone surveys from firm Uber Technologies in an attempt the company says to sway them against unionizing.
That seem like a long way out but Krzanich told Squawk Alley on Monday it important to start now.
Krzanich said it a matter of spending more time with the investment community to explain the strategy behind Mobileye technologies.
They more than just cars they be in devices like the spotting cameras on helicopters they be in drones and they be in robotics as well Krzanich said.
Last year Google opened a startup incubator called Area which was designed to let employees use some of their discretionary time to start up their own companies.
Once you log in with your Google account greeted with a short introductory video that explains how it all works.
You can watch and comment on something like a movie trailer but if you rotate your phone degrees it let you type text or add reactions.
Currently available only in the US to people with an invite hint use the code PIZZA it lets you see who else is watching the same video as you in and you can also add comments and reactions.
Tap a video and spot your avatar moving along a progress bar as well as other icons.
like to see some of these features integrated into the default YouTube app given how much time I spend on the platform these days and often beam clips over to friends via messaging apps be great to be able to interact with them over clips without switching screens.
We also a media company on top of that because we streaming hours of live TV content each day and have another classes.
A couple of years ago we also leaked out on Reddit how to unlock the device and download Netflix but there have been a lot of people asking for it.
Overall I do assume that content in this area is going to massively heat up in the next year or two including among all the traditional stationary bike manufacturers who have realized that people do want to stare at a wall and motivate themselves.
We also a media company on top of that because we streaming hours of live TV content each day and have another classes.
A couple of years ago we also leaked out on Reddit how to unlock the device and download Netflix but there have been a lot of people asking for it.
Overall I do assume that content in this area is going to massively heat up in the next year or two including among all the traditional stationary bike manufacturers who have realized that people do want to stare at a wall and motivate themselves.
We currently intend to use the net proceeds that we will receive from this offering for working capital other general corporate purposes and to fund our growth strategies including continued investments in our business expanding our international footprint and growing demand for our external use case.
The Okta Application Network is an extensive partner ecosystem which includes among thousands of others integrations with Amazon Web Services Atlassian Box DocuSign Google Cloud Microsoft NetSuite SAP Salesforce ServiceNow Slack Workday Workplace by Facebook and Zendesk.
Our Okta Application Network is an extensive partner ecosystem that includes integrations with Amazon Web Services Atlassian Box DocuSign Google Cloud Microsoft NetSuite SAP Salesforce ServiceNow Slack Workday Workplace by Facebook and Zendesk among thousands of others.
by Alpha | Mar 13, 2017 | Pre-Market
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1. Intel to buy Mobileye for $14-$15 billion: Israeli media report
Chipmaker Intel (INTC.O) has agreed to buy Israeli technology firm Mobileye (MBLY.N) for $14-$15 billion dollars, according to TheMarker, one of Israel’s leading financial newspapers.
2. Intel to Buy Mobileye for $15.3 Billion
Intel Corp. struck a deal to buy Mobileye NV for $15.3 billion, the latest investment by a technology company in the future of self-driving cars.
3. Starbucks Should Continue To Outperform (NASDAQ:SBUX)
Wedbush’s Nick Setyan expects “Americas comp momentum, accelerating CAP unit growth, a successful EMEA turnaround, and multiple CPG and emerging market opportunities…
4. M&T Bank Should Focus on the Future
Its CEO’s gripes about regulation won’t boost the lender’s performance, so he should concentrate on what will.
5. Intel Kickstarts Autonomous Engine, To Buy Mobileye For $15 Billion (NYSE:MBLY)
Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) has set its foot firmly in the fast-growing market for fully autonomous vehicles by agreeing to buy Israel-based Mobileye NV (NYSE: MBLY) for…
6. Press Release | Investors | Agios
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. , March 13, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Agios Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:AGIO) today announced that Celgene Corporation has designated the development candidate focused on MTAP (methylthioadenosine phosphorylase) deleted cancers as a development candidate under the master research and collaboration agreement (the “Agreement”) dated May 17, 2016 .
7. Heat Biologics Meets Efficacy Endpoint in its Phase 1b Lung Cancer Trial to Progress to Phase 2
Encouraging results evaluating HS-110 in combination with Bristol-Myers Squibb’s anti-PD-1 checkpoint inhibitor, nivolumab (Opdivo ® )
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ET Before accepting rides on his Uber app each day Seattle driver Fasil Teka must first choose whether to listen to podcasts on voting rights collective bargaining and city council hearings.
He and other drivers in the city have received text messages meeting invites and phone surveys from firm Uber Technologies in an attempt the company says to sway them against unionizing.
A pair of damning advisories independently published Wednesday raise serious questions about the security assurances of Confide a messaging app that billed as providing battle tested military grade encryption and is reportedly being used by individuals inside the US government.
One of the bulletins published by security firm Quarkslab warned that current versions of those available for Macs PCs iPhones Android devices and Apple provide true encryption at all at least as that term is commonly defined.
Our security team is continuously monitoring our systems to protect our users integrity and we were able to detect anomalous behavior and remediate many of the issues during IOActive testing in real time.
In an order today the commission found that the proposed fund was too susceptible to fraud due to the unregulated nature of Bitcoin.
Unfortunately for speculators the commission ultimately concluded that the price of Bitcoin is still too vulnerable to manipulation for it to be certified.
markets related to the underlying asset provide a deterrent to manipulation the commission wrote in its analysis.
As Uber scrambles to address an internal scandal over employee allegations of systemic sexism facing another increasingly heated labor battle in Seattle a union drive led by the Teamsters.
While the Teamsters worked to win the city approvals necessary to represent drivers Uber ramped up a sprawling phalanx of efforts including everything from notifications and text messages to seminars collective bargaining pizza parties and podcasts.
For some Uber drivers drawn to the platform by its promise of a job with flexible hours union membership which comes with dues and a hierarchical power structure can be.
ET Before accepting rides on his Uber app each day Seattle driver Fasil Teka must first choose whether to listen to podcasts on voting rights collective bargaining and city council hearings.
He and other drivers in the city have received text messages meeting invites and phone surveys from firm Uber Technologies in an attempt the company says to sway them against unionizing.
But the piggybacking on activities offers some clues to the breadth and creativity of espionage efforts at a time when the United States and Europe are scrambling to counter increasingly sophisticated attacks capable of destroying critical infrastructure disrupting bank operations stealing government secrets and undermining democratic elections.
At one point he owned two villas in France and kept a fleet of cars parked around Europe so he would never have to rent a vehicle while on vacation according to a Ukrainian law enforcement official with knowledge of the Bogachev case who requested anonymity to discuss the continuing investigation.
In the summer of the together with law enforcement agencies in over half a dozen countries carried out Operation Tovar a coordinated attack on criminal infrastructure that shut down his network and liberated computers infected with GameOver ZeuS.
After authentication fixed identifiers are no longer used in all other types of queries made by the client the authorization field contains the token returned by the server.
The official website boasts the confidentiality provided by the product through three qualifiers encrypted ephemeral and screenshot protected.
Confide connections are made using the node request module which does not respect the system proxy settings under Windows.
He has been indicted in the United States accused of creating a sprawling network of computers to siphon hundreds of millions of dollars from bank accounts around the world targeting anyone with enough money worth stealing from a pest control company in North Carolina to a police department in Massachusetts to a Native American tribe in Washington.
But the piggybacking on activities offers some clues to the breadth and creativity of espionage efforts at a time when the United States and Europe are scrambling to counter increasingly sophisticated attacks capable of destroying critical infrastructure disrupting bank operations stealing government secrets and undermining democratic elections.
At one point he owned two villas in France and kept a fleet of cars parked around Europe so he would never have to rent a vehicle while on vacation according to a Ukrainian law enforcement official with knowledge of the Bogachev case who requested anonymity to discuss the continuing investigation.
price plummeted after regulators rejected a proposal by the Winklevoss twins for a publicly traded fund based on the digital currency dashing hopes that a investment vehicle would lead to wider interest in virtual money.
Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss the brothers famed for their dispute with Mark Zuckerberg over the origins of Facebook vowed to continue working with the SEC to make their bitcoin vision a reality.
SEC is the gatekeeper against securities that are not properly market tested and could be a danger to investors said Mark Williams master lecturer at Boston University who focuses on risk management.
by Alpha | Mar 10, 2017 | Pre-Market
Holding in chop and pull back is hard, but if you have your plan written, it actually not bad..We stayed long our core positions, traders in chat room added some long exposures via $TNA, and $SPY/$ES also we placed some great #earning winners. here is the pre market movers
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4. ABBV:$ABBV upgraded to Conviction Buy from Buy at Goldman. PT $80 from $74
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1. Biotech Stock Mailbag: Puma’s Rebound Explained, TG Therapeutics Approval Debate, Aurinia Next Steps
TheStreet’s Adam Feuerstein answers reader questions about biotech stocks.
2. U.S. Jobs, Wages Show Solid Gains in Trump’s First Full Month
U.S. employers added jobs at an above-average pace for a second month on outsized gains in construction and manufacturing, showing the labor market continued its steady growth in the new year.
3. TG Therapeutics, Inc. Announces Fourth Quarter and Year-End 2016 Financial Results and Business Update
Company solidifies balance sheet with approximately $89M in gross proceeds through the combination of $57.5M public offering and $31M from at-the-market (ATM) sales facility completed prior to the offering
4. A Peek Into The Markets: U.S. Stock Futures Gain; All Eyes On Jobs Report
Pre-open movers U.S. stock futures traded higher in early pre-market trade. Data on nonfarm payrolls and unemployment rate for February will be released at 8:30 a.m. ET, while the…
5. Trillium Therapeutics Reports Annual 2016 Financial and Operating Results
TORONTO, March 10, 2017 – Trillium Therapeutics Inc. (NASDAQ/TSX: TRIL), a clinical stage immuno-oncology company developing innovative therapies for the treatment of cancer, today provided a corporate update and reported financial results for the year ended December 31, 2016. “2016 marked a year of significant clinical progress with our lead drug candidate TTI-621, which completed Phase 1a dose escalation and advanced into Phase 1b cohort expansion in patients with advanced hematologic malignancies. Late in the year, we also initiated a Phase 1 clinical trial of TTI-621 in solid tumors. These studies will provide data that will guide us in designing the optimal commercial development path for TTI-621. Both trials are recruiting well, and we remain on track to provide updates later this year,” said Dr. Niclas Stiernholm, president and CEO of Trillium Therapeutics. “The TTI-621 program momentum continues in 2017. Recent pharmacology data from the Phase 1 a/b trial expand on
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hacker malware posed a threat to journalists and others who require secure communication by infecting iPhone and Android devices and encrypted message apps such as Signal and WhatsApp.
Security experts I spoke with however stressed that these techniques appear to be mostly known methods some of them learned from academic and other open conferences and that there were no big surprises or unexpected wizardry.
Last July right after the attempted coup in Turkey WikiLeaks promised with much fanfare to release emails belonging to ruling Justice and Development Party.
We consistently heard from customers about ways we can improve Hangouts like making it easier to work with external clients or reducing the to a meeting to zero.
deep integration with G Suite means shared content from Drive and Docs or photos and videos can be viewed directly in conversations.
And powerful filterable search in Chat makes it easy to find all your content dating back to the start of the project.
And today in a bit of a surprise Google has signaled that it finally decided Hangouts is supposed to be a business communication tool to complement its consumer apps.
For regular old Gmail users when it becomes available Hangouts Chat will follow a model which means that anybody will be able to download and try it out but we know for sure what features will cost money.
There is no need to install a plugin on Chrome or Firefox though both Microsoft Edge and Safari will still require one until they buck up and support the Web RTC standard.
screenshot The addition of Conde Nast builds on what NBCU and Vox have already been doing over the past year when they teamed up to create Concert an advertising marketplace for content and its audiences.
The pitch to the marketplace from these entertainment companies is that they can give advertisers the reach promised by some other digital platforms but in a safer environment where click fraud and ad viewability problems are running rampant.
The companies claim that the three entities digital offerings combined will reach over million consumers and of online millennials in the citing ComScore data from January.
As cities hospitals and transport systems find new ways to understand what people need from them unearthing opportunities to change how they work today and identifying exciting ideas for the future.
already invited additional oversight of DeepMind Health by appointing a panel of unpaid Independent Reviewers who are charged with scrutinising our healthcare work commissioning audits and publishing an annual report with their findings.
no single patient identified information database in the UK and so the process of care involves data travelling back and forth between healthcare providers IT systems and even services like wearable devices.
screenshot The addition of Conde Nast builds on what NBCU and Vox have already been doing over the past year when they teamed up to create Concert an advertising marketplace for content and its audiences.
The pitch to the marketplace from these entertainment companies is that they can give advertisers the reach promised by some other digital platforms but in a safer environment where click fraud and ad viewability problems are running rampant.
The companies claim that the three entities digital offerings combined will reach over million consumers and of online millennials in the citing ComScore data from January.
hacker malware posed a threat to journalists and others who require secure communication by infecting iPhone and Android devices and encrypted message apps such as Signal and WhatsApp.
Security experts I spoke with however stressed that these techniques appear to be mostly known methods some of them learned from academic and other open conferences and that there were no big surprises or unexpected wizardry.
Last July right after the attempted coup in Turkey WikiLeaks promised with much fanfare to release emails belonging to ruling Justice and Development Party.
by Alpha | Mar 8, 2017 | Pre-Market
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3. OCRX:$OCRX halted
5. CLLS:UCART-BCMA contains an intra-CAR suicide switch . Seems different vs UCART19 $PFE $CLLS #ADOPT17…
6. PLCE:$PLCE crushed EPS and +6.9% comps, one of the healthier retail stories
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1. We bought Snapchat parent on the IPO, legendary investor David Tepper says
Billionaire hedge fund manager David Tepper told CNBC on Wednesday he bought shares of Snap on the IPO.
2. Adidas U.S. push keeps up pressure on Nike, Under Armour
The new boss of Adidas (ADSGn.DE) increased sales and profit targets on Wednesday, sending shares in the German sportswear firm to a record high as he pledged to keep investing heavily in the key U.S. market and do more to boost e-commerce sales.
3. Elon Musk to join Trump Wednesday at infrastructure meeting: source
Elon Musk, who heads Tesla Inc and Space X, will take part in a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump and business leaders Wednesday on the administration’s plans to boost infrastructure spending, a White House official told Reuters.
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6. The Children’s Place Inc. Bottom Line Climbs 44% In Q4
(RTTNews.com) – The Children’s Place Inc. (PLCE) announced earnings for its fourth quarter that advanced compared to the same period last year. The co
7. ADP Says Companies in U.S. Added 298,000 Employees in February
Companies unexpectedly accelerated the pace of hiring in the U.S. in February, data from the ADP Research Institute in Roseland, New Jersey, showed Wednesday.
8. Amazon CEO’s Rocket Company Blue Origin Emerges as Force in Aerospace
Fledgling satellite-service provider OneWeb is expected to announce it has signed multiple contracts for satellite launches with Blue Origin, the commercial-space company run by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.
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But Ben Wizner the director of the American Civil Liberties Speech Privacy and Technology Project said the documents suggest that the government has deliberately allowed vulnerabilities in phones and other devices to persist to make spying easier.
But James Lewis an expert on cybersecurity at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington raised another possibility that a foreign state most likely Russia stole the documents by hacking or other means and delivered them to WikiLeaks which may not know how they were obtained.
In scale the Vault archive appears to fall into the same category as the biggest leaks of classified information in recent years including the diplomatic cables taken by Chelsea Manning the former Army intelligence analyst and given to WikiLeaks in and the hundreds of thousands of National Security Agency documents taken by Snowden in.
Tinder has been operating a version of the platform called Tinder Select which is meant to serve only the elite users on the app including CEOs super models and other affluent types.
unclear exactly how Tinder decides who gets invited and who but the common thread among those on the Select app is that generally attractive and relatively.
The app used LinkedIn as a backbone for data around education and profession to determine who was allowed on the platform.
Today Instagram launched its first geostickers which let users add and arrange illustrations to their Stories posts related to their locations.
With geostickers in place the last big Snapchat feature missing from Instagram Stories is augmented reality selfie Lenses.
Instagram Stories is stealing Snapchat usage which led user growth to plummet percent in the two quarters after copycat spun up.
While a wide range of candidates are being considered sources said board would prefer a woman exec for the job echoing Mark move to bring in Sheryl Sandberg to Facebook in when the social network giant was facing rougher waters.
report is expected in six weeks or so said sources while Huffington and Uber HR head Liane Hornsey are working on a series of new practices and rules for the company related to employee management.
This is all a effort to help Uber recover from a series of hits of late including an explosive blog post by a former engineer Susan Fowler who wrote about a company that operated like a version of the Wild West.
On Tuesday morning WikiLeaks released what calling Vault an unprecedented collection of internal CIA appear to be a kind of catalog the apparent hacking techniques.
certainly seems that in the CIA toolkit there were more exploits than estimated says Jason Healey a director at the Atlantic Council think tank who has focused on tracking how many of those unpatched hacking US government has stockpiled.
That includes the sandbox that limits access to the operating system and the security feature that randomizes where a program runs in memory to make it harder to corrupt adjacent software.
Read comments from top tech and industry leaders.
Today Instagram launched its first geostickers which let users add and arrange illustrations to their Stories posts related to their locations.
With geostickers in place the last big Snapchat feature missing from Instagram Stories is augmented reality selfie Lenses.
Instagram Stories is stealing Snapchat usage which led user growth to plummet percent in the two quarters after copycat spun up.
Internally the neural network accomplishes this mapping incrementally by applying a series of transformations to the image which can be thought of as a vector of numbers corresponding to the pixel intensities.
This rotation is simply a PCA that aligns the major directions of variation in the data to the axes followed by a permutation to heuristically balance the variance across the splits of the product quantization.
Though these techniques are in their infancy we hope similarity search provides a useful new way to appreciate the amazing collection of images at Flickr and surface photos of interest that may have previously gone undiscovered.
Details about the transaction remain somewhat vague but given that Google is hosting its Cloud Next conference in San Francisco this week the official announcement could come as early as tomorrow.
The service got an early start and even though it has a few competitors like DrivenData TopCoder and HackerRank it has managed to stay well ahead of them by focusing on its specific niche.
Earlier this month Google and Kaggle teamed up to host a machine learning competition around classifying YouTube videos.
New York NY March Shazam one of the most popular apps today announced the launch of a massively scaled augmented reality AR platform for its brand partners artists and hundreds of millions of global users.
new platform can bring any marketing materials to packaging POS advertising events and by utilizing the app to scan unique The codes are capable of delivering AR experiences including animations product visualizations and videos.
This breakthrough technology offers an accessible immersive platform with which to engage in a rewarded gamification experience at the point of purchase leading up to Cinco de Mayo.
by Alpha | Mar 7, 2017 | Pre-Market
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4. TGTX:LADEN $TGTX TGTX Announces Positive Top-Line GENUINE Phase 3 Data; Increase PT to $30
9. RVNC:$RVNC Completes Enrollment in P3 Pivotal Trials of RT002 Injectable for the Treatment of Glabellar Lines. Top line results Q4 17
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1. ECB doing good job in balancing needs of euro zone members: Schaeuble
The European Central Bank (ECB) is doing a good job in pursuing a monetary policy that meets the needs of the euro zone’s 19 member countries that each have their own requirements, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said on Tuesday.
2. Japan Joins Trump in War Against Drug Prices
President Donald Trump has pledged to reverse what he describes as
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Image caption Some group members used an acronym to refer to child porn Facebook rules forbid convicted sex offenders from having accounts.
Media captionFormer Facebook executive Elizabeth Linder warns against site becoming a state I have been very disturbed by what I have seen very disappointed that one year on we are still seeing images that are very sexualised totally in my view unacceptable she said.
The social network director of policy Simon Milner agreed to be interviewed last week on condition the BBC provided examples of the material that it had reported but had not been removed by moderators.
Image caption Some group members used an acronym to refer to child porn Facebook rules forbid convicted sex offenders from having accounts.
Media captionFormer Facebook executive Elizabeth Linder warns against site becoming a state I have been very disturbed by what I have seen very disappointed that one year on we are still seeing images that are very sexualised totally in my view unacceptable she said.
The social network director of policy Simon Milner agreed to be interviewed last week on condition the BBC provided examples of the material that it had reported but had not been removed by moderators.
Stephen Bannon President senior White House counselor has served as a Cambridge corporate Damon New York Times Drawn to America parent company the Strategic Communication Laboratories Group has a long record of trying to understand and influence behavior.
Mercer and his daughter Rebekah presided over a growing political empire that included millions of dollars in contributions to conservative groups and a stake in Breitbart whose nationalist and racially antagonistic content prefigured presidential campaign.
Mercer has never spoken publicly about his policy views in depth but his giving is eclectic He has financed documentaries media watchdogs libertarian think tanks and both Senator Ted Cruz a religious conservative and Trump a nationalist.
Whenever I wonder what will eventually happen to Twitter which is something I think about literally every day I remember this Jessica Livingston tweet from September.
On Pulse which is rolling out to all users over the next few weeks broadcasters can post to their friends and followers with a mix of text links images and videos.
Top Twitch streamers all have over million followers apiece and easy to imagine them turning to Pulse to grow their audiences and keep them entertained while not broadcasting.
The lawsuit filed by car unit Waymo has jolted the and highly competitive industry that has sprung up around autonomous vehicles and ride services which are seen as the future of private road transport.
Anthony Levandowski a key engineering manager at the car unit now called Waymo began to talk openly about leaving the company as the autonomous vehicle field blossomed according to Alphabet lawsuit.
In the lawsuit Alphabet alleges Levandowski downloaded proprietary design documents and used them to create Otto and later Uber version of a key autonomous vehicle technology called Lidar which uses light pulses reflected off objects to gauge their position.
Deep learning is not a different thing its just a cool body of work yielding state of the art results for lots of important problems and so people are rightly availing themselves of it.
As this becomes more evident over the next months and the bigcos exhaust and ramp down their appetite for AI acquihires just as they did for mobile app dev shops I suspect that we start to see potential founders and VCs realize that something is off.
Cloud providers will leave the services on but they be big money makers the MLaaS startups will start meeting their demise this year as growth goes sideways and appetite to double down on them dries up.
ET Hewlett Packard Enterprise said Tuesday it agreed to acquire Nimble Storage for about billion in cash aiming to ignite sales in its declining storage business.
The deal also calls for HP Enterprise to assume or pay out unvested equity awards with a value of about million at closing.
The cash amount is about a premium to roughly million market value as of close of trading.
Image caption Some group members used an acronym to refer to child porn Facebook rules forbid convicted sex offenders from having accounts.
Media captionFormer Facebook executive Elizabeth Linder warns against site becoming a state I have been very disturbed by what I have seen very disappointed that one year on we are still seeing images that are very sexualised totally in my view unacceptable she said.
The social network director of policy Simon Milner agreed to be interviewed last week on condition the BBC provided examples of the material that it had reported but had not been removed by moderators.
This afternoon the image was tweeted by President Trump with the caption should start an immediate investigation into SenSchumer and his ties to Russia and Putin.
The image is an AP photograph from September which appeared in newspapers after Putin visited the first New York gas station of the Russian company Lukoil.
However before it was tweeted by Trump on Friday the image gained popularity the previous night on Reddit and across the fringes of the conservative internet.
Stephen Bannon President senior White House counselor has served as a Cambridge corporate Damon New York Times Drawn to America parent company the Strategic Communication Laboratories Group has a long record of trying to understand and influence behavior.
Mercer and his daughter Rebekah presided over a growing political empire that included millions of dollars in contributions to conservative groups and a stake in Breitbart whose nationalist and racially antagonistic content prefigured presidential campaign.
Mercer has never spoken publicly about his policy views in depth but his giving is eclectic He has financed documentaries media watchdogs libertarian think tanks and both Senator Ted Cruz a religious conservative and Trump a nationalist.
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