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Five major Hollywood studios join Disney's Movies Anywhere service, a digital locker that brings together movies from Amazon Video, Google Play, iTunes, Vudu — Disney-owned Movies Anywhere service gets backing from most of the majors, launches tonight — Stephanie's Most Recent Stories
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| Eric Boyd / Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit: |
Microsoft and Amazon AWS announce Gluon, a new open source deep learning interface to simplify deep learning models — New Open Source Interface Simplifies Deep Learning Development — At Microsoft we have a vision and passion to amplify human ingenuity with the transformative power of AI.
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| Dustin Volz / Reuters: |
In an interview, Sheryl Sandberg says Facebook is committed to helping Congressional investigators publicly release Russia-linked ads and info on user targeting — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Facebook Inc Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg said on Thursday the company was fully committed …
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| Dan Levine / Reuters: |
Sources: Waymo sought public apology, independent monitor on Uber's autonomous vehicle tech, and at least $1B in damages in settlement talks with Uber — SAN FRANCISCO(Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's Waymo sought at least $1 billion in damages and a public apology from Uber Technologies Inc …
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South Korean lawmaker says North Korea put malware into third-party antivirus tool to hack military database that was inadvertently left connected to internet — Hackers allegedly used antivirus software to access South Korea-U.S. military plans from network mistakenly connected to the internet for more than a year
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| Matt Weinberger / Business Insider: |
Google says it will permanently remove top touch functionality on Google Home Mini after report that device would repeatedly record, transmit audio to company — Google is permanently disabling a feature on the forthcoming Google Home Mini smart speaker, after a reviewer discovered …
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Facebook says it fixed a CrowdTangle “bug” that allowed a researcher to analyze the reach of Russia-linked account posts — Social media analyst Jonathan Albright got a call from Facebook the day after he published research last week showing that the reach of the Russian disinformation campaign … | Lauren Thomas / CNBC: |
Target customers can now shop on Google Express, including by voice with Google Assistant — - Other retailers on the Google Express platform include Wal-Mart, Costco, Kohl's and Ulta, according to Google's website. — Target shoppers nationwide will now be able to make purchases on Google Express …
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| Laura Stevens / Wall Street Journal: |
Q&A with Amazon CEO Worldwide Consumer Jeff Wilke on integrating Whole Foods despite cultural differences and the reasoning behind opening a second headquarters — Amazon's head of world-wide consumer talks about integrating Whole Foods—and what it is like to disagree with CEO Jeff Bezos
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Amazon's Alexa can now recognize different voices and give personalized responses — Your Echo just got smart enough to tell you apart from the people you live with — The battle of the smart speakers has become a constant back and forth between Amazon and Google.
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| John Mannes / TechCrunch: |
ROSS Intelligence raises $8.7M Series A to help legal teams search case law using machine learning — Armed with an understanding of machine learning, ROSS Intelligence is going after LexisNexis and Thomson Reuters for ownership of legal research. The startup, founded in 2015 by Andrew Arruda …
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| Aamna Mohdin / Quartz: |
Apple's VP of diversity Denise Young Smith says she is “a little” frustrated that “diversity” is “tagged to the people of color, or the women, or the LGBT” — Denise Young Smith is Silicon Valley's most powerful black woman. “My name was not talked about prior to maybe 5 years ago,” she says.
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