by Alpha | Aug 17, 2017 | Pre-Market
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4. BABA:$BABA reports Q1 adjusted EPS $1.17, consensus 93c Reports Q1 revenue $7.4B, consensus $7.13B
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European Central Bank officials said they’re worried that the euro might strengthen more than justified by an improving economy.
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3. Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals Announces Submission and Validation of IV Eravacycline Marketing Authorization Application by European Medicines Agency
WATERTOWN, Mass., Aug. 17, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTPH ), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing novel antibiotics to treat life-threatening multidrug- resistant (MDR) infections, today announced that the Marketing Authorization Application (MAA) for IV eravacycline for the treatment of complicated intra-abdominal infections (cIAI) has been submitted and was validated by the European Medicines Agency (EMA). Eravacycline is a novel, fully-synthetic fluorocycline antibiotic being developed for the treatment of serious infections, including those caused by multidrug-resistant (MDR) pathogens. The MAA filing is based on data from the phase 3 IGNITE1 clinical trial in which eravacycline was well tolerated and demonstrated statistical non-inferiority to ertapenem using the primary endpoint of clinical response at the test-of-cure (TOC) visit.
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5. Wal-Mart earnings: $1.08 a share, vs $1.07 EPS expected
As of Wednesday’s market close, shares of Wal-Mart have climbed about 11 percent over the past 12 months.
6. Alibaba’s Sales Beat Estimates on Surging Consumer Demand
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.’s quarterly revenue beat analysts’ estimates, powered by Chinese consumers’ thirst for cheaper and higher quality goods online.
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Business leaders disbanded two CEO councils created by the White House a move they said was protesting Donald failure to sufficiently condemn racism marking a dramatic break between companies and a president who has sought close ties with.
In the hours that followed combative news conference which he appeared to apportion blame equally between white supremacist groups and.
Apple CEO Tim Cook sent an email to employees Wednesday night announcing donations to the Southern Poverty Law Center and the League saying that he disagreed with the president drawing a moral equivalence between Nazis and white nationalists and those who opposed them.
It is with this backdrop that PayPal strives to navigate the balance between freedom of expression and open dialogue and the limiting and closing of sites that accept payments or raise funds to promote hate violence and.
Color of Change a nonprofit advocating for racial justice has started a campaign called Blood Money listing known hate groups that use major credit cards employ payment processing services or sell items on.
The sole published comparison of actual competency in coding I am aware of found that women were more likely than men to have their GitHub contributions if they were project outsiders this was true only if their gender was concealed.
The intention was to make it easier to send notifications such as shared a photo with Presumably it occur to anyone involved in of them many women choose to conceal their sex online to cut down on harassment.
At Heterodox Academy Sean Stevens and Jonathan Haidt have compiled a pretty comprehensive list of psychological differences between the sexes are plenty not all point the same way and there are many caveats.
In terms of design the Nokia is slim at on average across its curved frame and it places the antennas at the top and bottom with a full aluminum back like seen from Meizu Apple and even OnePlus Oppo.
The bothie mode yes really is similar to what seen Samsung and LG do in the past and it will activate both the front and rear cameras to capture photos or video.
HMD setting the bar high here with an uninspiring design a lack of waterproofing or wireless charging and a price point that make this a cheap Android phone with good specs.
In the face of corporate defections and the member disclosure Trump announced plans to dissolve the group and the Manufacturing Jobs Initiative council.
The strategic forum led by Blackstone CEO Steve Schwarzman and made up of top business leaders is separate from Trump manufacturing council which had seen seven defections this week.
Correction The headline of this story has been updated to reflect that the Strategic and Policy Forum is separate from the manufacturing council that several business leaders left this week.
On Wednesday morning a dozen of the most influential joined a conference call and after some debate a consensus emerged The policy forum would be disbanded delivering a blow to a president who came into office boasting of his close ties with business leaders.
American history never had business leaders decline national service when requested by the president said Jeffrey Sonnenfeld a professor of organizational behavior at the Yale School of Management.
Having stood with the president in recent months even as he advanced positions they vehemently opposed including tough immigration policies and withdrawing the United States from the Paris climate accord many executives felt his apparent tolerance for white nationalist violence was a bridge too far.
ET Apple has set a budget of roughly billion to procure and produce original content over the next year according to people familiar with the sign of how serious the maker of iPhones is about making a splash in Hollywood.
Combined with the marketing clout and global reach the step immediately makes Apple a considerable competitor in a crowded market where both new and traditional media players are vying for original shows.
budget is about half of what Time Warner HBO spent on.
The size and scale of the attacks that can now easily be launched online make it such that if you do have a network like Cloudflare in front of your content and you upset anyone you will be knocked offline.
In fact in the case of the Daily Stormer the initial requests we received to terminate their service came from hackers who literally said Get out of the way so we can DDoS this site off the Internet.
In a future if we not there already it may be that if you going to put content on the Internet you need to use a company with a giant network like Cloudflare Google Microsoft Facebook Amazon or Alibaba.
by Alpha | Aug 16, 2017 | Pre-Market
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11. EXEL:$BMY vs $EXEL 1st line PFS improvement of 3.18 months vs 2.6 months . ORR & PFS better in CM214 for sunitinib.
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1. Apple Readies $1 Billion War Chest for Hollywood Programming
Apple has set a budget of roughly $1 billion to procure and produce original content over the next year—a sign of how serious the iPhone maker is about making a splash in Hollywood.
2. Tencent Beats Estimates as WeChat, Mobile Games Drive Growth
Tencent Holdings Ltd. posted a quarterly profit that surpassed all estimates as its marquee title Honour of Kings drove a 54 percent surge in mobile gaming revenue.
3. Target shares jump as shoppers return to stores, boosting sales
Until this past Monday, Target had so far been on the sidelines as far as deals go in retail.
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In the wake of a killing and widespread violence at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville Virginia web services company GoDaddy announced it was dropping the Daily Stormer as a client leaving the site without a registrar.
SOPA and other copyright protection proposals have specifically targeted web infrastructure hoping to ban registrars and other providers from directing users to websites that host pirated content.
ban seems to have been specifically triggered by a Daily Stormer post celebrating the killing of Heather Heyer a Charlottesville resident struck by a car while protesting the rally.
Although GoDaddy had previously defended its choice to provide domain services to the site citing its rights under the First Amendment the company took a different stance this time around.
Other tech companies have also made moves against the far right Airbnb banned users it suspected were traveling to attend the rally while Discord a chat service for online gamers shut down a server and some accounts used for spreading extremist views.
When users sent complaints to Cloudflare about content they saw on The Daily Stormer and similar sites it would automatically send the website owners the names and email addresses of the complainants who often then suffered prolonged harassment.
Two people familiar with the discussions told Reuters on Tuesday that the talks had ended without Blackstone and NSO reaching an agreement.
Israel Calcalist business newspaper last month reported Blackstone was in advanced talks to buy percent of the privately held Israeli firm for million.
Access Now last month launched a petition that urged Blackstone to drop plans to invest in NSO and its surveillance technology.
NEW YORK Reuters Online sites are turning their backs on activists looking to offer financial support for James Fields the man accused of driving his car into at a rally in Charlottesville Virginia on Saturday.
Most mainstream crowdfunding sites which let people fund projects or ventures by raising money online have policies that prohibit campaigns that promote hate speech or violence.
He started a campaign called the Unite the Right Legal Defense Fund on Sunday night and aims to raise to sue the city of Charlottesville for failing to protect the speakers and protesters at the rally.
Happiness is not a goal it is a.
Uber has been enduring horrendous press for almost a year the latest bad news being tied to a lawsuit from investors against former CEO Travis Kalanick.
Meanwhile smaller rival Lyft has been quietly reaping the gains of Uber journey from company to veritable Silicon Valley pariah.
The source who requested anonymity due to an NDA said that Lyft has been scaling back its partnerships with external promoters as well as reducing the financial incentives for new users to sign up.
Taking inspiration from line drawings Reddit and Messenger Facebook is overhauling the design of the News Feed to make it more legible clickable and commentable.
Over the years repeatedly asked top executives like CPO Chris Cox and VP of News Feed Adam Mosseri about whether the company is doing research into how to prevent or minimize internet addiction that can stem from business model and never gotten a direct answer that indicates they think a priority.
Yet at some point when people are sitting in the dark alone refreshing the feed over and over it could be worth surfacing Internet addiction and mental health tips or encouraging them to connect directly with a friend via messaging.
We will continue to support Cycle Computing clients using AWS Google Cloud a Microsoft spokesperson told CNBC in an email.
JP Morgan Chase Lockheed Martin Pfizer and Western Digital are among the companies that have worked with Cycle Computing which was founded in.
WATCH Consumer Reports says percent of Microsoft Surface computers will break within two years.
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4. Merck CEO resigns from Trump’s American Manufacturing Council, citing ‘responsibility to take a stand against intolerance’
Merck CEO resigns from Trump’s American Manufacturing Council, citing ‘responsibility to take a stand against intolerance.’
5. Merck CEO quits Trump panel in ‘stand against violence and extremism’
Kenneth Frazier said he would step down from one of Trump’s advisory panels, citing “a responsibility to take a stand against violence and extremism.”
6. Amarin’s REDUCE-IT Cardiovascular Outcomes Study of Vascepa to Continue as Planned at Recommendation of Independent Data Monitoring Committee
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8. Ophthotech’s Final Try at Combo Eye Drug Comes up Short | Xconomy
It wasn’t too long ago that Ophthotech was running a group of clinical trials being perhaps as closely watched as any in the ophthalmology field, studies t
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Today we played Dendi on mainstage at The International winning a match.
Agents must learn to plan attack trick and deceive their opponents.
Success in Dota requires players to develop intuitions about their opponents and plan accordingly.
why earlier this year after leaving Microsoft the previous fall legendary engineer Qi Lu headed to Beijing to become Baidu chief operating officer.
With our code base that we released on July we will make it possible for one person to assemble a vehicle in three days that can do autonomous driving in limited forms and start on R Ds.
And since I have lived in China for over six months now honestly I read more papers I talk to more AI developers and you can feel the strength of the talent base.
ET investigators uncovered a global financial network run by a senior Islamic State official that funneled money to an alleged ISIS operative in the through fake eBay transactions according to a recently unsealed FBI affidavit.
The alleged recipient of the funds was an American citizen in his early who had been arrested more than a year ago in Maryland after a lengthy Federal Bureau of Investigation surveillance operation.
Yet even as Uber undergoes leadership troubles the company which is largely funded by venture capital and private equity firms remains an attractive investment because it is the biggest service and is growing fast.
More recently an investor coalition led by Dragoneer which includes the private equity firm General Atlantic and others has emerged with a deal that would protect valuation.
I publicly asked you to resign from the Uber board in light of the overall circumstances I do have tremendous appreciation for your role in helping the development in the past Pishevar said in a new letter to Benchmark on Saturday which was obtained by The New York Times.
why earlier this year after leaving Microsoft the previous fall legendary engineer Qi Lu headed to Beijing to become Baidu chief operating officer.
With our code base that we released on July we will make it possible for one person to assemble a vehicle in three days that can do autonomous driving in limited forms and start on R Ds.
And since I have lived in China for over six months now honestly I read more papers I talk to more AI developers and you can feel the strength of the talent base.
Long time VC watcher writer and analyst Dan Primack suggested on Friday that the days of VCs trying to out each other are now over.
The VC industry is highly competitive for the best opportunities and we certainly do try to ingratiate ourselves and our firms to the entrepreneurs who will decide who gets to invest in their companies and who does not.
They are the bodies made up of reasonable people who can and should debate these issues and find resolution and make the hard decisions.
ET Months before company Snap publicly disclosed slowing user growth rival Facebook already knew.
Late last year Facebook employees used an internal database of a sampling of mobile activity to observe that usage of flagship app Snapchat growing as quickly as before people familiar with the matter said.
They saw that the shift occurred after Instagram app launched Stories a.
Long time VC watcher writer and analyst Dan Primack suggested on Friday that the days of VCs trying to out each other are now over.
The VC industry is highly competitive for the best opportunities and we certainly do try to ingratiate ourselves and our firms to the entrepreneurs who will decide who gets to invest in their companies and who does not.
They are the bodies made up of reasonable people who can and should debate these issues and find resolution and make the hard decisions.
That was Mark take last Tuesday but the own central figures beat him to the punch by warning about overly inflated prices from the stage at the Consensus blockchain conference in May.
And when he saw disgruntled attendees turned away from the overbooked Token Summit conference Fortune Robert Hackett saw bubble written all over the bitcoin market.
Most observers including Cuban have by now accepted that blockchain technology a promising innovation in data security based on shared ledgers has huge potential for tracking assets and information in fields from supply chain management to health records.
by Alpha | Jul 25, 2017 | Pre-Market
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8. PLUG:$PLUG price target raised to $3.50 at FBR Two Retail Anchors; WalMart Deal Echoes Amazon’s– Reiterate Outperform
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2. The Chipotle Corporate Sabotage Theory Returns
Some people see a simple case of foodborne illness. Others see corporate sabotage.
3. Michael Kors to Buy Jimmy Choo in $1.2 Billion Deal
The agreement comes as upscale American brands grapple with plummeting sales and tepid profits, particularly in the so-called middle market.
4. Biogen Reports Record Quarterly Revenues of $3.1 Billion, Raises Full Year Revenue Guidance
Biogen Inc. today reported second quarter 2017 financial results, including:
5. McDonald’s earnings: $1.70 per share, vs expected EPS of $1.62
McDonald’s is slated to report second-quarter earnings before the market opens on Tuesday
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MS Paint fans rejoice The original art app going anywhere except to the Windows Store for free.
Amidst commentary around MS Paint we wanted to take this opportunity to set the record straight clear up some confusion and share some good news.
MS Paint is here to stay it will just have a new home soon in the Windows Store where it will be available for free.
Photograph Samuel Gibbs for the Guardian basic graphics editing program used throughout childhoods since the has been marked for death.
Starting life as a monochrome licensed version of PC Paintbrush it until Windows that Paint could save in JPEG.
The most recent version of Paint for Windows and later was much improved but still considered feature poor compared to other free alternatives such as the.
Now the makers plan to sell that data to smart home device manufacturers turning the friendly robot into a creeping creepy little spy.
Angle told Reuters that iRobot which made Roomba compatible with Alexa voice assistant in March could reach a deal to sell its maps to one or more of the Big Three in the next couple of years.
And while Amazon seems like an obvious kind that would pay huge money to shut out its forget that Apple has its Siri speaker coming and it has a lot of catching up to do.
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We believe that both management and investors benefit from referring to these financial measures in assessing our performance and when planning forecasting and analyzing future periods.
GeekWire met with Lewis and his Grant Goodale this week at the bustling downtown Seattle office that houses employees its workforce has doubled in eight months and could reach by the end of this year.
He was fascinated with how Amazon invested in warehouses to help optimize their supply chain and ultimately change consumer shopping behavior by offering fast shipping at a low cost.
am still putting a good chunk of money in my pocket too you know said Sanderson who hails from Tampa Florida and was driving a load of military supplies to the Seattle area with his wife Sandra by his side.
Reuters reported on Sunday that KKR was nearing a deal to buy the online health information provider.
Founded in WebMD has grown into one of the most popular health websites for consumers and medical professionals attracting more than million monthly unique visitors in according to analytics company comScore Inc.
WebMD also owns medical news and education brand Medscape which accounted for around percent of its advertising revenue in.
ET Foxconn Technology Group which assembles Apple iPhones is nearing a decision to invest in Wisconsin and could hold an event in Washington as soon as this week to discuss investment plans people familiar with the matter said.
In Wisconsin Foxconn is looking at producing display panels that can be used in.
Microsoft Paint has been in the news since yesterday when Redmond announced that the software is being deprecated with the upcoming Windows Fall Creators Update.
In addition to the new capabilities many of the MS Paint features people know and love like photo editing and creation are in Paint the new app for creativity available for free with the Windows Creators update.
Microsoft provide us with a date for the release of Microsoft Paint on the Windows Store but imagine not too far away and will likely make an appearance shortly after the release of the Windows Fall Creators Update later this.
Total worldwide spending on television and radio commercials newspaper ads and other measured advertising grew by about billion from to according to figures from Magna Global.
And other Google digital hangouts particularly YouTube are too popular to ignore for companies that are eager to sell movie tickets running shoes or auto insurance.
Facebook has warned its revenue growth will slow considerably beginning later in because it ca maintain the increase in the number ads it crams into its news feed.
Google announced on Friday that it has purchased the music licensing company RightsFlow for its detailed information about who should get paid when any of over million songs get played.
RightsFlow pictured here now belongs to Google which will use it to simplify royalty accounting on YouTube and possibly other music services.
Once Google has identified songs uploaded to YouTube using its Content ID fingerprinting technology it should be able to figure out more easily which publishers and songwriters to pay.
by Alpha | Jul 24, 2017 | Pre-Market
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1. Sarepta Therapeutics Announces Proposed $250 Million Public Offering of Common Stock
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 24, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Sarepta Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: SRPT ), a U.S. commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and development of unique RNA-targeted therapeutics for the treatment of rare neuromuscular diseases, today announced that it is offering to sell, subject to market and other conditions, $250 million in shares of its common stock in an underwritten public offering. Sarepta also intends to grant the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase an additional $37.5 million in shares of its common stock offered in the public offering.
2. WebMD to be acquired by KKR for $66.50 a share in cash
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3. Genocea Reports Positive Top-Line 12-Month Phase 2b Data for GEN-003 in Genital Herpes
– Statistically significant result on expected Phase 3 primary endpoint with Phase 3 dose – – Positive results on multiple secondary clinical endpoints – – Potentially the first new treatment in more than 20 years for the millions infected with genital herpes – – Conference call today at 8 a.m. ET –
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The plan comes with China preparing a national investment initiative to support projects and academic research in according to two professors who consulted with the government about the effort.
In the final stage by China will the premier artificial intelligence innovation center which in turn will a new national leadership and establish the key fundamentals for an economic great.
While the language in Chinese industrial policy can sound stodgy and the targets overly ambitious Beijing takes its economic planning seriously.
ET Dubbed by shipping executives the of the Seas the Yara Birkeland now under development is scheduled in late to start sailing fertilizer miles down a fiord from a production facility to the port of Larvik.
The Birkeland is being jointly developed by agriculture firm Yara International ASA and Kongsberg Gruppen AS A which builds guidance systems for civilian and military uses.
Petter Ostbo head of production who leads the project said the company would look to invest in bigger ships and use them for longer routes once international regulations are in place for crewless vessels.
The plan comes with China preparing a national investment initiative to support projects and academic research in according to two professors who consulted with the government about the effort.
In the final stage by China will the premier artificial intelligence innovation center which in turn will a new national leadership and establish the key fundamentals for an economic great.
While the language in Chinese industrial policy can sound stodgy and the targets overly ambitious Beijing takes its economic planning seriously.
Current height Current Median Time July UTC Best Block Hash Previous Block Hash Has Experienced a Blockchain Reorganization No Has not forked but is behind other nodes No.
Current height Current Median Time July UTC Best Block Hash Previous Block Hash Has Experienced a Blockchain Reorganization No Has not forked but is behind other nodes No.
This website is for warning users if the Bitcoin blockchain has experienced a chain split due to the various fork proposals such as and BIP UASF.
Barry Silbert a venture capitalist who spearheaded the above agreement claims to have the support of many companies who will run the software as their primary bitcoin client starting at the end of July.
Despite a substantial number of companies being cited via the New York Agreement as intending to replace Bitcoin Core and run there does not appear to be any developer on the or teams with a full time commitment to maintaining the software.
If the majority of all of the code contributions to software are made by one person is it worth the gamble to place the weight of a billion dollar economy on one back.
Ann Lai a former employee said in her lawsuit filed in San Mateo Superior Court in California that she had complained to her bosses about sexism discrimination and inappropriate behavior in the workplace and that Binary used the nondisparagement provision in her employment contract to threaten her and prevent her from talking about why she had quit her job.
Lai a former employee of Binary contends that after she complained to her bosses about sexism and inappropriate behavior in the workplace the company used the provision in her employment contract to threaten her and prevent her from talking about why she had quit her job.
The company and Lake signed a mutual nondisparagement agreement in Christie Hemm Klok for The New York Times wonder how I may have disserviced other women working in tech including my female colleagues with my silence she said.
The White Hat Group used the same exploit to secure the other compromised wallets within Ethereum with the stated intention of returning control to the original owners.
All code changes undergo at least one peer review which we manage through a largely manual system of tracking and tagging commonly found in open source projects.
The first and biggest change will be to ensure that any alterations to the codebase that involve live contract code which can be generally identified through files be reviewed by Solidity experts.
Fans and artists alike loudly complained but SoundCloud which was busy fighting an existential threat from major record labels address the abuse for nearly three years.
took away so much value from blogs and networks as it allowed for people to start and create pages and with minimal With reposts it was now trivially easy for artists and promoters to artificially boost the number of streams a song had received.
was purpose built for Artists often tolerate the duplicates because in most cases they would rather get the exposure to their work and support the free version with the higher play count even if it leaves them grumbling about product.
Last month a bipartisan group of senators announced that it was working toward its own version of an autonomous vehicle bill which would prioritize fixing outdated rules and clarifying the role of federal and state in regulating cars.
While engineers race to bring cars to market Silicon Valley companies and Detroit automakers have been lobbying Congress for federal laws that would replace many of the existing regulations and allow them to experiment more freely with new autonomous systems.
Elon Musk the chief executive of Tesla recently told a National Governors Association meeting that within years he expected new cars produced in the United States would be fully autonomous.
by Alpha | Jul 20, 2017 | Pre-Market
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1. ECB Leaves Guidance Unchanged as Anticipation for Autumn Builds
The European Central Bank deferred the delicate decision of how and when to venture the next step toward policy normalization until later this year.
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3. Blackstone Profit Rises as Market Buoys Real Estate, Buyouts
Blackstone Group LP rode a widespread market advance in the second quarter, earning 36 percent more than a year earlier. The results fell short of analysts’ estimates as a downturn in energy prices hit private equity holdings.
4. The Man Behind the Site that Tanked Chipotle Wants to Profit From Food Poisoning
Ex-banker Patrick Quade’s website sent the burrito chain’s stock price into a tailspin this week.
5. ECB holds interest rates steady as traders eye Draghi comments on QE ‘tapering’
The European Central Bank (ECB) held interest rates steady Thursday, amid speculation that the bank will start to scale back its ultra-loose monetary policy in the fall.
6. Goldman’s rotten trading quarter is a familiar smell on Wall Street
Big Wall Street banks have spent billions of dollars and untold man-hours in recent years transforming their trading desks from hedge-fund like operations trading on their own account into market-making businesses offering a price based on what customers want to buy or sell.
7. Spark Therapeutics Receives Rare Pediatric Disease Designation for Investigational LUXTURNA™ (voretigene neparvovec) from FDA
PHILADELPHIA, July 20, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Spark Therapeutics (NASDAQ: ONCE ), a fully integrated gene therapy company dedicated to challenging the inevitability of genetic disease, announced today that the Offices of Orphan Products Development and Pediatric Therapeutics of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have designated investigational LUXTURNA TM (voretigene neparvovec) as a drug for a rare pediatric disease. Under FDA’s Rare Pediatric Disease Priority Review Voucher program, companies who receive approval for a new drug application or Biologics License Application (BLA) for a rare pediatric disease may be eligible to receive a voucher for a Priority Review of a subsequent marketing application for a different product. The Priority Review Voucher may be used by the company or sold to a third party.
8. BP Said to Approach Possible Buyers for North Sea Assets
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However to achieve high accuracy the training sets need to be large diverse and accurately annotated which is costly.
To help close this performance gap developed a method for refining synthetic images to make them look more realistic.
We show that training models on these refined images leads to significant improvements in accuracy on various machine learning tasks.
But even with a sharper focus on abuse in a concerning number of reports of harassment still seem to slip through the cracks and return a form email telling the victims that their case did not rise to a level Twitter considers to be a violation of its terms of service.
In a cursory search over the last seven months BuzzFeed News turned up examples of clear rules violations including the unauthorized publishing of personal information such as addresses and screenshots of apartment buildings of journalists threats of physical violence and extensive targeted harassment that were met with a not response from the social network.
for example persists despite a number of abusive tweets including statements like follow you home an sic leave my children inside of hateful conduct policy explicitly forbids threats noting that may not promote violence against or directly attack or threaten other.
Delivers Record Results in Download During the earnings call on Wednesday July in Bellevue President and CEO John Legere left CFO Braxton Carter center and Chief Technology Officer Neville Ray celebrate unprecedented network expansion which is planned to cover million people by year end allowing the to compete in every corner of the country.
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Delivers Record Results in Download During the earnings call on Wednesday July in Bellevue President and CEO John Legere left CFO Braxton Carter center and Chief Technology Officer Neville Ray celebrate unprecedented network expansion which is planned to cover million people by year end allowing the to compete in every corner of the country.
ET European top court is set to decide whether the to be policy stretches beyond borders a test of how far national laws when regulating cyberspace.
The case stems from France where the highest administrative court on Wednesday asked the Court of Justice to weigh in on a dispute between Alphabet Google and privacy regulator over how broadly.
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But even with a sharper focus on abuse in a concerning number of reports of harassment still seem to slip through the cracks and return a form email telling the victims that their case did not rise to a level Twitter considers to be a violation of its terms of service.
In a cursory search over the last seven months BuzzFeed News turned up examples of clear rules violations including the unauthorized publishing of personal information such as addresses and screenshots of apartment buildings of journalists threats of physical violence and extensive targeted harassment that were met with a not response from the social network.
for example persists despite a number of abusive tweets including statements like follow you home an sic leave my children inside of hateful conduct policy explicitly forbids threats noting that may not promote violence against or directly attack or threaten other.
Summary A vulnerability in Parity Wallet variant of the standard contract has been found.
Affected users Any user with assets in a wallet created in Parity Wallet prior to CEST.
Mitigation steps Immediately move assets contained in the wallet to a secure address.
But even with a sharper focus on abuse in a concerning number of reports of harassment still seem to slip through the cracks and return a form email telling the victims that their case did not rise to a level Twitter considers to be a violation of its terms of service.
In a cursory search over the last seven months BuzzFeed News turned up examples of clear rules violations including the unauthorized publishing of personal information such as addresses and screenshots of apartment buildings of journalists threats of physical violence and extensive targeted harassment that were met with a not response from the social network.
for example persists despite a number of abusive tweets including statements like follow you home an sic leave my children inside of hateful conduct policy explicitly forbids threats noting that may not promote violence against or directly attack or threaten other.
In our aggregate analysis ten subjects chose the correct label five hundred seventeen times out of one thousand trials meaning they were not able to reliably distinguish real images from refined synthetic ones.
In Figure we compare the gaze estimation error with other methods and show that improving the realism significantly helps the model generalize on real test data.
In Figure twelve we compare the gaze estimation error with other methods and show that improving the realism significantly helps the model generalize on real test data.
Lester Holt gets minutes to bring his viewers the latest headlines on Nightly The NBC News anchor team delivering a new broadcast via Snapchat will get only a fraction of that.
Savannah Sellers and Gadi Schwartz pictured above will starting today help deliver Tuned a new newscast that is slated to run twice each weekday and once a day on weekends on the outlet.
Its debut is the latest effort by traditional outlets to make sure their chief product video news reports remain relevant to a rising generation that is more prone than ever to seek out information and entertainment from screens.
