by Dr. Alpha A | Dec 9, 2016 | Pre-Market
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1. ECB Said to Reject Monte Paschi Bid for More Time on Capital
The European Central Bank rejected Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena SpA’s request for more time to ready a 5 billion-euro ($5.4 billion) capital increase, boosting the likelihood of a state bailout that would impose losses on shareholders and bondholders, according to people briefed on the matter.
2. Trump Team’s Memo Hints at Broad Shake-Up of U.S. Energy Policy
Advisers to President-elect Donald Trump are developing plans to reshape Energy Department programs, help keep aging nuclear plants online and identify staff who played a role in promoting President Barack Obama’s climate agenda.
3. Exclusive: ECB rejects Monte Paschi’s request for more time to raise cash – source
The European Central Bank has rejected a request by ailing Italian lender Monte dei Paschi di Siena (BMPS.MI) for more time to raise capital, a source said on Friday, in a move that piles pressure on the Italian government to bail out the bank.
4. Lilly and AstraZeneca to Develop Second Potentially Disease-Modifying Treatment for Alzheimer’s Disease (NYSE:LLY)
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5. Year’s Best Miner Cliffs Says Trump to Keep Good Times Rolling
The head of Cliffs Natural Resources Inc. was preparing for a “worst-case scenario” next year. Instead, he got Donald Trump.
6. Early movers: LVS, MGM, WYNN, RH, AFL, MTN & more
Some of the names on the move ahead of the open.
7. OPEC Oil Deal Faces Test as Cartel Tries to Pin Down Russia on Details of Cuts
OPEC members meet Saturday with at least four nonmembers whose pledges to coordinate production cuts have propelled prices higher. But thorny details still have to be ironed out.
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Critics including more than a dozen former top Google executives who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they signed nondisclosure agreements describe a company having trouble balancing innovation and its core business search advertising.
Two years earlier for instance Google had spent billion to buy Nest explaining the acquisition as part of a plan to create an ambitious hardware division led by Fadell the former Apple engineer known for building the original iPod prototype.
Wearing several earrings two hair scrunchies Rollerblades and a shirt with a pattern that improbably combines paisley and plaid Teller describes a between discipline and freedom disputing the contention that the Other Bets have been subjected to unwanted scrutiny from Porat and denying that losing steam.
Several musicians including Katy Perry shown performing at a gala during the Cannes Film Festival this year have complained bitterly about YouTube and the copyright laws that apply to Andreas Images YouTube the latest target of the music battle over royalties and control has taken steps this week to mend fences and show that it is a good partner.
The settlement is estimated to be worth more than million according to two people with knowledge of the agreement who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private terms.
Also this week YouTube announced that over the last months it had paid billion in royalties from advertising revenue which it shares with people and companies that upload content to its platform.
For years Markoff had delivered one epochal scoop after another for the Times the first significant computer virus the emergence of the web browser the rise of artificial intelligence the menace of the hacker the problems with the Clipper bylines each one thoroughly reported crisply rendered and gloriously drenched with quiet authority.
heard that the Times will be keeping him on contract for more stories he will also be a writer in residence at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing at the University of California at Berkeley next year and is writing a biography of Stewart Brand.
Last weekend the Times feted its star tech reporter with a farewell event at the UC Berkeley Journalism School.
Facebook has more or less dismissed the idea of letting the workers who review pornography and bullying content assess the truthfulness of news articles largely because of the difficulty in establishing clear standards.
some hoaxes can be completely debunked a greater amount of content including from mainstream sources often gets the basic idea right but some details wrong or Moreover most people believe the fake news that they say is true undermining efforts to use them to report bad links.
Today the company says it links that many users have reported as false but the penalty appears to be minor in many cases it prevented fake stories from racking up tens of thousands of shares and millions of page views.
For years Markoff had delivered one epochal scoop after another for the Times the first significant computer virus the emergence of the web browser the rise of artificial intelligence the menace of the hacker the problems with the Clipper bylines each one thoroughly reported crisply rendered and gloriously drenched with quiet authority.
heard that the Times will be keeping him on contract for more stories he will also be a writer in residence at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing at the University of California at Berkeley next year and is writing a biography of Stewart Brand.
Last weekend the Times feted its star tech reporter with a farewell event at the UC Berkeley Journalism School.
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For years Markoff had delivered one epochal scoop after another for the Times the first significant computer virus the emergence of the web browser the rise of artificial intelligence the menace of the hacker the problems with the Clipper bylines each one thoroughly reported crisply rendered and gloriously drenched with quiet authority.
heard that the Times will be keeping him on contract for more stories he will also be a writer in residence at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing at the University of California at Berkeley next year and is writing a biography of Stewart Brand.
Last weekend the Times feted its star tech reporter with a farewell event at the UC Berkeley Journalism School.
For years Markoff had delivered one epochal scoop after another for the Times the first significant computer virus the emergence of the web browser the rise of artificial intelligence the menace of the hacker the problems with the Clipper bylines each one thoroughly reported crisply rendered and gloriously drenched with quiet authority.
heard that the Times will be keeping him on contract for more stories he will also be a writer in residence at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing at the University of California at Berkeley next year and is writing a biography of Stewart Brand.
Last weekend the Times feted its star tech reporter with a farewell event at the UC Berkeley Journalism School.
Making a decent conversational bot is hard so Google is suggesting services like its own which is meant to simplify the process for developers.
Google has a lot of education to do surrounding these actions a weird and new kind of audio thing that sits somewhere between a website a chat bot and an app.
But those philosophical ecosystem concerns feel especially urgent at this early stage Google just needs to get the new actions for Home working and out the door to consumers.
by Alpha | Dec 8, 2016 | Pre-Market
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2. Facebook’s Investors Criticize Marc Andreessen for Conflict of Interest
In a lawsuit, shareholders say Andreessen was advising Facebook’s CEO when he was supposed to be representing investors.
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5. ECB to scale back asset buys as it extends to end-2017
The European Central Bank caught financial markets off-guard on Thursday by announcing it would trim asset buys from April next year, even as it reserved the right to increase purchases again if the euro zone’s recovery faltered.
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With Project Evo Microsoft and Intel will deliver ways for devices to light up with the latest in advanced security artificial intelligence and Cortana mixed reality and gaming.
Joining those partners the leading hardware developer for HMDs will bring the Windows experience to their device in the first half of reaching more than million monthly active customers in China.
We look forward to seeing these new devices with integrated cellular connectivity and the great experiences people love like touch pen and Windows Hello in market as early as next year.
This riddle appeared in in SIDtoday the internal newsletter of the Signals Intelligence Directorate or SID and it was classified It announced the emergence of a new field of espionage that had not yet been explored the interception of data from phone calls made on board civil aircraft.
The spoils of war observed phone uses are proudly listed in the GCHQ presentation voice communication data SMS Webmail Webchat social networks Facebook Twitter etc.
GCHQ notes that the Russian company Aeroflot has set up a system of specific connections for GSM phones on its aircraft for legal intercept as the agency remarks in a technical memo.
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So if you juggle identical phones with work and personal numbers you can stop paying for two devices two plans and two times the network access fees a practice that costs US wireless customers an extra BILLION every year.
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Some studio executives have been pushing to allow home rentals as early as two weeks after theatrical debuts and are considering a deal with iTunes as one option said the people who asked not to be identified because the discussions are private.
Hollywood studios typically give theaters exclusive rights to new movies for days or more before issuing them on DVD or making them available for online purchase.
You will now receive the Game Plan newsletter Those talks may have gained momentum after Sean Parker the founder of Napster said in March he was trying to create a new service called Screening Room that would offer viewers movies on the same day they were released in theaters.
Researchers say among the reasons Apple has failed to keep pace is its unwillingness to allow its AI engineers to publish scientific papers stymieing its ability to feed off wider advances in the field.
You will now receive the Game Plan newsletter That policy has now changed Russ Salakhutdinov an Apple director of AI research said Monday at the Neural Information Processing Systems conference in Barcelona according to Twitter posts from those present.
To compensate for the hiring difficulties Apple has bought a series of AI startups spending million on Turi earlier this year to add to half a dozen other acquisitions.
Supplied to Quartz Apple unsurprisingly is working on a lot of the same problems as other companies that are exploring machine learning recognizing and processing images predicting user behavior and events in the physical world modeling language for use in personal assistants and trying to understand how to deal with uncertainty when an algorithm make a decision.
However two attendees of the presentation who asked not to be identified due to the sensitive nature of the content both stressed that the company made no mention of cars or automotive ambitions.
By slimming down the neural network iPhones and iPads can identify faces and locations in photos or understand changes in a heart rate without needing to rely on remote servers.
Apple also streamed Chance The Rapper Coloring Book which made history on Tuesday by becoming the first album to be nominated for the Grammys without being available in shops or download stores.
Apple Music UK top songs of streaming and downloads Drake One Lukas Graham Calvin Harris This Is What You Came For feat Rihanna Justin Timberlake Ca Stop The Calum Scott Dancing On My Own.
It wo come as a surprise when I tell you that I think Beats and Apple Music have played a really valuable role in bringing an artist like Christine to a global audience.
Some studio executives have been pushing to allow home rentals as early as two weeks after theatrical debuts and are considering a deal with iTunes as one option said the people who asked not to be identified because the discussions are private.
Hollywood studios typically give theaters exclusive rights to new movies for days or more before issuing them on DVD or making them available for online purchase.
You will now receive the Game Plan newsletter Those talks may have gained momentum after Sean Parker the founder of Napster said in March he was trying to create a new service called Screening Room that would offer viewers movies on the same day they were released in theaters.
by Alpha | Dec 7, 2016 | Pre-Market
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1. Cascadian Therapeutics enlarges breast cancer pill study to meet FDA registration standards
Cascadian’s tucatinib delays regrowth of breast cancer by median of 7.8 months in newly updated study results presented this week.
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TRUMP IN TRANSITIONTrump nominee for health secretary Price vows change Donald Trump nominated fierce Obamacare critic Tom Price as health secretary indicating he plans to fulfill a campaign promise to tear up the divisive healthcare reform law.
TRUMP IN TRANSITIONKellyanne Conway publicly slams Mitt Romney as potential Secretary of Donald Trump senior adviser Kellyanne Conway says she has personal concerns with the prospect of Mitt Romney being selected as secretary of state.
TRUMP IN TRANSITIONPriebus Tapped as White House Chief of Staff Donald Trump has chosen Republican Party Chairman Reince Priebus as his White House chief of staff and conservative media executive Stephen Bannon as his senior counselor.
He announced the deal after meeting with SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son a Japanese billionaire and technology investor at Trump Tower in New York.
The pair did not give details on what specific investments SoftBank would make though Son suggested the Japanese company would target the technology sector.
I do believe that some manufacturing may come back to the United States primarily because of the fact that Donald Trump is going to twist Apple arm Colin Gillis an analyst at BGC Partners told CNBC Power Lunch on Tuesday.
But Samsung took the matter to the Supreme Court saying it should not have had to make million of that payout for copying the patented designs of the iPhone front face bezel and colorful grid of icons that represent programs and applications.
Tuesday ruling followed a ferocious legal battle between the world top two smartphone manufacturers that began in when Apple sued Samsung for patent and trademark infringement.
The justices nevertheless refused to devise a test for juries and lower courts to use to discern what a relevant article of manufacture is in a particular case a task that could be fraught with difficulty when considering products.
I realized that I wanted to fully engage myself with a single role that would use all my skills and that Fog Creek legacy of leading the industry made it the perfect place to try and push things forward again.
Many geeks of my cohort came of age building things on the desktop using HyperCard or Visual Basic or by using View Source in their browser to tweak HTML pages that they uploaded to Geocities.
still just getting started you might have seen the earlier preview release under the name but out in beta today and I think if you have ever edited a spreadsheet or just tweaked the HTML in a blog post immediately understand how Gomix can help you create.
Fitbit the fitness band maker is close to buying software assets from struggling smartwatch startup Pebble Technology in a bid to better compete with Apple according to people familiar with the matter.
The deal is mainly about hiring the software engineers and testers and getting intellectual property such as the Pebble operating system watch apps and cloud services the people said.
The Pebble fire sale is the result of financial struggles in a smartwatch market that failed to grow as quickly or as large as initially hoped and hyped.
NEW YORK Venture capitalist Peter Thiel has poured money into efforts to boost the digital currency bitcoin funded startups that aid insurance enrollment under Obamacare and invested in technology that powers new surveillance tools at agencies like the CIA.
In an industry valued globally at more than billion SpaceX competes aggressively for key NASA contracts against longtime aviation giants and lobbied for years for new opportunities for commercial space providers to perform missions that long have been funded and completed by government.
And Founders Fund is an original backer of giants like Airbnb and Lyft which for years and in multiple states and even continents have been fighting for the permission to operate while warding off housing labor and safety regulations that might raise their costs of business.
NEW YORK Venture capitalist Peter Thiel has poured money into efforts to boost the digital currency bitcoin funded startups that aid insurance enrollment under Obamacare and invested in technology that powers new surveillance tools at agencies like the CIA.
In an industry valued globally at more than billion SpaceX competes aggressively for key NASA contracts against longtime aviation giants and lobbied for years for new opportunities for commercial space providers to perform missions that long have been funded and completed by government.
And Founders Fund is an original backer of giants like Airbnb and Lyft which for years and in multiple states and even continents have been fighting for the permission to operate while warding off housing labor and safety regulations that might raise their costs of business.
Apple scored wins with two lower courts ultimately walking away with million stemming from infringement found on different smartphone models.
At the very least a little silver lining for what has otherwise been a pretty rough year for Samsung and should give other handset makers a bit more wiggle room when it comes to design language.
We thank our supporters from the leading technology companies the intellectual property professors and the many public policy groups who stood with us as we fought for a legal environment that fairly rewards invention and fosters innovation.
Artificial intelligence researchers at Apple are going to start publishing some of their work and engaging more with the wider academic community.
The Californian tech giant has traditionally kept research breakthroughs to itself seeing any developments as valuable intellectual property IP so this is a major change in direction.
Apple is developing AI to make products like Siri the personal assistant that sits inside iPhone iPad and Mac that bit smarter.
NEW YORK Venture capitalist Peter Thiel has poured money into efforts to boost the digital currency bitcoin funded startups that aid insurance enrollment under Obamacare and invested in technology that powers new surveillance tools at agencies like the CIA.
In an industry valued globally at more than billion SpaceX competes aggressively for key NASA contracts against longtime aviation giants and lobbied for years for new opportunities for commercial space providers to perform missions that long have been funded and completed by government.
And Founders Fund is an original backer of giants like Airbnb and Lyft which for years and in multiple states and even continents have been fighting for the permission to operate while warding off housing labor and safety regulations that might raise their costs of business.
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1. Donald J. Trump on Twitter
“Boeing is building a brand new 747 Air Force One for future presidents, but costs are out of control, more than $4 billion. Cancel order!”
2. Updated KEYTRUDA® (pembrolizumab) Data in Small Cell Lung Cancer and Mesothelioma Presented at 17th World Conference on Lung Cancer
Findings in Small Cell Lung Cancer and Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma Show Overall Response Rates of 33.3 Percent and 20.0 Percent, Respectively, in KEYNOTE-028 Long-Term Data Demonstrate Durable Responses in Difficult-to-Treat Cancers Merck (NYSE:MRK), known as MSD outside the United States and Canada , today announced that updated findings from the phase 1b KEYNOTE-028 study investigating the use of KEYTRUDA ® (pembrolizumab), the company’s anti-PD-1 therapy, in previously treated patients with advanced small cell lung cancer (SCLC) and malignant pleural mesothelioma, showed clinical activity and durable responses in some patients. These data were featured in oral presentations at the 17 th World Conference on Lung Cancer hosted by the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer . “As data from our initial trials exploring KEYTRUDA mature, we are encouraged to see durable clinical activity in difficult-to-treat cancers such as small cell lung cancer and malignant pleural
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“This is exceptionally bad for $CMG”
4. DEALTALK-Trump’s corporate tax holiday could spur pharma M&A
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s planto incentivize U.S. companies to repatriate their swellingoverseas cash piles could spur a new wave of dealmaking in apharmaceutical industry seeking to buy its way into growth.
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Our shopping experience is made possible by the same types of technologies used in cars computer vision sensor fusion and deep learning.
We offer delicious breakfast lunch dinner and snack options made fresh every day by our chefs and favorite local kitchens and bakeries.
Our selection of grocery essentials ranges from staples like bread and milk to artisan cheeses and locally made chocolates.
The tech giant has built a convenience store in downtown Seattle that deploys a gaggle of technologies similar to those used in cars to allow shoppers to come in grab items and walk out without going through a register.
The Wall Street Journal has reported citing people familiar with the matter that success in its experiments could lead Amazon to open more than stores in various formats.
One example is Starbucks a global retail empire been banking on an increasingly robust smartphone app to lure consumers into its loyalty program and payment system.
Of course they also predicted Bill Clinton will die this year said are violent and generally impulsive but they are not all bad and also claimed that financier George Soros instructs and influences every layer of US government.
A conspiracy theorist who pulled these things into a post and used them to claim has emerged from the Clinton email investigation that a massive child trafficking and pedophile sex ring operates in.
Ending the Fed is the website that briefly achieved fame when Trending algorithm promoted its false report about Fox News host Megyn Kelly being fired.
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.
This hub will operate much like Google Brain the team that drives AI research for the search giant and FAIR lab which does much the same thing for Mark Zuckerberg and company.
What is has done is assemble a team of fifteen researchers who can be very useful to Uber including Stanford professor Noah Goodman who specializes in cognitive science and a field called probabilistic programming and University of Jeff Clune an expert in deep neural networks who has also explored robots that can themselves.
Deep neural pattern recognition systems that can learn tasks by analyzing vast amounts of data rapidly reinvented the likes of Google and Facebook.
Eighteen months ago Recode spotted an Amazon patent that laid out the vision for a new type of retail store with no lines and no cashiers.
Amazon says it is using a combination of AI computer vision and data pulled from multiple sensors to allow customers to only be charged for the stuff they grab.
The computer vision part seems to indicate that there are cameras being used to track you in the store which some shoppers could find.
founded the company on the premise that many of our complex social problems are becoming increasingly stuck he said referring to issues like climate change and access to food.
it comes to imagining what the future will be like a lot of that is fun and entertaining but it bear a great deal of resemblance to the systems that we are building he said.
The company is working with the National Health Service NHS in the UK on a project around the early detection of acute kidney injuries.
The tech giant has built a convenience store in downtown Seattle that deploys a gaggle of technologies similar to those used in cars to allow shoppers to come in grab items and walk out without going through a register.
The Wall Street Journal has reported citing people familiar with the matter that success in its experiments could lead Amazon to open more than stores in various formats.
One example is Starbucks a global retail empire been banking on an increasingly robust smartphone app to lure consumers into its loyalty program and payment system.
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.
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Amazon Go is a new kind of store featuring the most advanced shopping technology.
No lines no checkout just grab and go.
by Alpha | Dec 5, 2016 | Pre-Market
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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.
2. Tara Lachapelle on Twitter
“Is it time for Disney to break up with ESPN?
3. Chesapeake to sell Haynesville asset for $450 million
U.S. natural gas producer Chesapeake Energy Corp said it would sell a part of its acreage in the Haynesville Shale area for $450 million to a private company.
4. Oil tops $55 for first time in 16 months as OPEC deal fuels buying
Brent crude oil prices rose above $55 a barrel on Monday, trading at a fresh 16-month high, on rising prospects of a tightening market after OPEC members agreed on a landmark deal to cut production last week.
5. BAT Said to Plan Increased Bid for Reynolds as Soon as This Week
British American Tobacco Plc is planning to increase its offer for Reynolds American Inc. as early as this week after the U.S. cigarette maker rejected its last bid as too low, said people familiar with the matter.
6. Oil Market Turns Upside Down as Shale Rushes to Hedge Post-OPEC
U.S. shale oil companies are using the post-OPEC rally to hedge their oil price risk for next year and 2018 above $50 a barrel, bankers, merchants and brokers said, pushing the forward oil curve upside down.
7. Cerecor Announces Top-Line Results from CERC-501 Phase 2 Study for Nicotine Withdrawal
Cerecor Inc. , a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing treatments to make a difference in the lives of patients with neurological and psychiatric disorders, today announced top-line clinical …
8. After two years, why an OPEC deal now? Kemp
OPEC has finally agreed to cut production, but only after two years of fruitless negotiations. So what changed to make an agreement possible now, after it had eluded negotiators at previous OPEC meetings?
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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.
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It will maintain its playful empathic and curious attitude read their story of how the acquisition came to be.
In the following months with their input introduce new integrations to help companies reach passionate customers.
Lenovo Moto today confirmed that it will not be releasing a new smartwatch for the launch of Android Wear due early next year.
The company had earlier said it would not be releasing a new smartwatch in but it is now saying that it plan to put out a new device timed to the arrival of newest wearable platform either.
Smartwatches and Android Wear devices in particular have lost a lot of their steam over the past year as few companies have updated their products.
A decade ago TV commercials listing the fictional achievements backed by a jingle heavy on Spanish guitar helped turn Dos Equis from a fringe beer into a.
In October CFO Anthony Noto told analysts on an earnings call that the ads played during NFL Thursday Night Football streaming exclusives had been especially successful with many people watching them in their entirety with the sound turned on.
Dos Equis has ads featuring the new guy that air on TV but also a version meant for social media one that cuts straight to a shot of the Most Interesting Man barreling down a sand dune in an airboat a disarming and slightly weird grin on his face.
Technology is more influential than ever before an extension of how we literally see and experience the become easier for anyone with a computer to help shape this future thanks to decreasing hardware costs affordable hosting open source free resources and online education.
Naval Ravikant the CEO of AngelList has dedicated much of his life to supporting startups since the early days of Venture Hacks a blog focused on educating founders on the process of fundraising and building a company.
we can provide so much more value to the tech ecosystem and makers a place to raise your next round find great teammates discover awesome products and connect with a global community of enthusiastic about the celebration of this acquisition hosting a meetup in San Francisco after the new year.
hackers have conducted a series of destructive attacks on Saudi Arabia over the last two weeks erasing data and wreaking havoc in the computer banks of the agency running the airports and hitting five additional targets according to two people familiar with an investigation into the breach.
Unlike the Aramco attack or the one by North Korea against Sony Pictures in the latest was perpetrated by detonating a cyber weapon inside the networks of several targets at once the people said.
Thousands of computers were destroyed at the headquarters of General Authority of Civil Aviation erasing critical data and bringing operations there to a halt for several days according to the people familiar with the investigation.
A botnet that has served up phishing attacks and at least different malware families to victims for much of this decade has been taken down in a coordinated effort by an international group of law enforcement agencies and security firms.
More than different malware families using multiple Domain Generation Algorithms DGAs and operating criminal infrastructure in countries and US states impacted over registries worldwide required unprecedented levels of effective international partnership a Shadowserver Foundation spokesperson reported.
As the investigation grew the Luneburg police and the public prosecutor office for the district of Verden Germany were joined by law enforcement organizations from more than countries including the FBI Pittsburgh Division and the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section of the United States Department of Justice Europol and Eurojust.
A Twitter spokesperson declined to comment on deal terms but Yes is shutting down its two mobile apps wyd for sharing status updates sounds familiar and Frenzy for making plans with friends so this is clearly a talent acquisition.
Coleman will take on what has become one of the toughest jobs in Silicon Valley running core product which is often held up as the main reason the company has struggled to grow its user base over the past two years.
As a result VP of product role has been a revolving door ever since its IPO in late.
Facebook artificial intelligence could be applied to some of its most pressing problems company executives said if the social network creates policies to guide use of the technology.
Yann LeCun director of artificial intelligence or AI research said technology could be used to help stamp out fake news or detect violence in live videos by filtering the content on the site.
Lenovo Moto today confirmed that it will not be releasing a new smartwatch for the launch of Android Wear due early next year.
The company had earlier said it would not be releasing a new smartwatch in but it is now saying that it plan to put out a new device timed to the arrival of newest wearable platform either.
Smartwatches and Android Wear devices in particular have lost a lot of their steam over the past year as few companies have updated their products.
Product Hunt has become somewhat of a Silicon Valley darling since even before it was accepted to prominent seed accelerator Y Combinator.
Product Hunt have a real revenue stream and some of its ideas like connecting users with job openings at interested startups are things AngelList is already doing.
report directly to AngelList CEO Naval Ravikant who was also a Product Hunt investor.
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