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Apple failed to warn about China and market saturation, the underlying conditions for its guidance downgrade, which were obvious to those paying attention — The company has reached the end of its denial phase. — The optimistic narrative about Apple Inc.'s iPhone business is falling apart in front of our eyes.| Steve Kovach / CNBC: |
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GM's self-driving unit Cruise partners with DoorDash to test a food delivery service in San Francisco starting in early 2019 — The pilot will commence in early 2019 in San Francisco — Cruise Automation, the self-driving unit of General Motors, is teaming up with DoorDash to test … | Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft adds two new Microsoft 365 security and compliance focused bundles and expands availability of its MyAnalytics “fitness tracker for work” service — Microsoft is adding new Microsoft 365 packages to its subscription-service roster, as well as expanding availability … | Campbell Kwan / ZDNet: |
USB-IF recommends a USB Type-C authentication program to protect against non-compliant USB chargers and USB malware risks, at the moment a connection is made — USB-IF announced it will roll out a USB Type-C authentication program to protect against non-compliant USB chargers and USB malware risks.| Nicole Lee / Engadget: |
Vuzix opens preorders for its $1,000 Vuzix Blade smart glasses that have a 8MP camera, micro-SD card slot, and are compatible with Alexa — Vuzix has been making smart glasses for well over a decade, primarily for enterprise use such as medical applications or stocking shelves in warehouses.| Brady Dale / CoinDesk: |
BitTorrent announces its own crypto tokens that users can pay or trade with other users for faster downloads — BitTorrent, which pioneered peer-to-peer technology for sharing files on the internet, is creating its own cryptocurrency. — Issued by the Singapore-based BitTorrent Foundation … | Jesse Damiani / The Verge: |
Netflix's interactive format for films like Bandersnatch makes content harder to pirate, increases viewer engagement, and generates insightful data about users — Light spoilers for Black Mirror's interactive episode Bandersnatch ahead. — On Friday, December 28th, after months of speculation … | Nellie Bowles / New York Times: |
Obituary of Karen Sparck Jones, a self-taught programmer whose 1972 research paper on natural language processing laid the groundwork for modern search engines — A pioneer of computer science for work combining statistics and linguistics, and an advocate for women in the field.| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft is testing a project codenamed “Bali” that lets users “visualize, manage, control, share, and monetize” data that the company collects about them — Microsoft Research is looking to provide users with access to their own ‘personal data bank’ via its ‘Project Bali’ effort.| Li Yuan / New York Times: |
Inside Beijing-based Beyondsoft and its “censorship factories”, with 4,000+ staff monitoring online content for media companies eager to please China's censors — Thousands of low-wage workers in “censorship factories” trawl the online world for forbidden content … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Voicebot data shows Alexa skills in the US grew to 56,750 in 2018, up 120% YoY; Amazon releases year-end list of Alexa's “top” skills made up of games and more — Amazon Alexa had a good year as a developer platform - at least in terms of the number of voice apps being built for Alexa …
Azure Content Understanding: Building on lessons from a decade of Document Intelligence — What a decade of teaching machines to read real-world documents taught us about what LLMs can and can't do.
The best sales leaders aren't job hunting. Here's how to reach them without months of cold outreach. — Our team came from Box, Square, and Brex, so we already know the GTM leaders worth meeting.
Ask an Expert: How to effectively recover stuck TDS refunds with reduced TDS reconciliation time — The 26AS/Form 168 gets updated quarterly and often gets checked only during the time of ITR filing.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
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