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Amazon debuts AWS AI services Amazon Comprehend, which analyzes sentiment, phrases in text; Amazon Transcribe, supporting English, Spanish; and Amazon Translate — - Amazon Web Services is coming out with new tools for recognizing people and other content in videos, converting recorded audio into text … | Blair Hanley Frank / VentureBeat: |
Amazon debuts AWS graph database service called Amazon Neptune, an Aurora Serverless offering for more efficient computing, and new backup feature for DynamoDB — Amazon Web Services updated its portfolio of database services today to provide customers with increased reliability, scale, and ease of use.
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Amazon debuts AWS Fargate to let customers run containers without managing infrastructure — At the AWS re:Invent conference today in Las Vegas, the company introduced AWS Fargate, a new service that lets you run containers without having to worry about the underlying infrastructure.
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Apple releases macOS High Sierra security fix for critical root vulnerability, says it's auditing its development processes to prevent future flaws — If you're running macOS High Sierra, it's time to update your Mac as soon as possible. Apple has released a security update that addresses …
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| Evan Spiegel / Axios: |
Evan Spiegel says social media fueled fake news and Snapchat is “separating the social from the media” in its upcoming redesign — The personalized newsfeed revolutionized the way people share and consume content. But let's be honest: this came at a huge cost to facts, our minds and the entire media industry.
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| Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
Snapchat's big redesign splits personal content from friends and content from professional creators in separate tabs, will be rolled out globally in a few weeks — The refreshed app is not that different, but now the personal and the professional part ways.
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Tweets: @sarahfrier, @sarahfrier, @joshconstine, @joshconstine, and @w7voa
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
YouTube announces Reels, a version of the Stories format available in a separate tab that lets creators post shorter videos, available in beta — Even YouTube is adding Stories. The popular format introduced by Snapchat, then adopted by Instagram, Skype, Facebook, Messenger and even some dating apps …
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Tweets: @baekdal and @susanwojcicki
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Interview with Bahtiyar Duysak, the Twitter contractor who deactivated Trump's account earlier this month, who calls the incident a “mistake” — s Twitter tries to figure out how to lock down the parts of its platform that enable harassment, as well as the spread of misleading information …
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Tweets: @shanepang, @waxpancake, @dmac1, @sarahnemerson, @traciemac_bmore, @ellenhuet, and @caseynewton. Thanks:@mjburnsy
| Reed Albergotti / The Information: |
Sources: Andy Rubin left Google in 2014 after internal inquiry found he had an inappropriate relationship with a subordinate, has now taken leave from Essential — Andy Rubin, the creator of Android and a key executive at Google Inc. for nine years, left the company in 2014 shortly …
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| Becky Peterson / Business Insider: |
Winklevoss' Gemini exchange and Coinbase suffer extended service outages, citing “all-time high traffic”; bitcoin dropped to $9.4K from all time high of ~$11.4K — - Two of the biggest cryptocurrency exchanges, Coinbase and Gemini, crashed on Wednesday morning … | Alana Wise / Reuters: |
Pilots union says a computer glitch on bidding system for holidays means 15K+ American Airlines flights between December 17-31 have no pilot — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Thousands of December flights on American Airlines (AAL.O) do not yet have pilots scheduled to work because of a system scheduling error …
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| Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
Apple countersues Qualcomm, alleging that Snapdragon chips, which power a variety of Android devices, infringe on Apple's patents — (Reuters) - Apple Inc on Wednesday filed a countersuit against Qualcomm Inc, alleging that Qualcomm's Snapdragon mobile phone chips that power a wide variety … | CNBC: |
Sources: Nokia is in talks to buy Juniper Networks; one source says the deal would value Juniper at ~$16B — - The offer would value Juniper at $16 billion, above its market capitalization of around $11.12 billion, headed into Wednesday's close. — Nokia is in talks to buy Juniper Networks …
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Tweets: @levynews, @cnbc, and @michaelsantoli
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Waze adds support for routing with carpool lanes, a mode for motorcycles, and hands-free “OK Waze” voice commands — The navigation app also now supports carpool lanes — Waze is releasing a trio of new features for its popular turn-by-turn navigation app on Android and iOS today.| Kate Conger / Gizmodo: |
Uber: whistleblower whose letter was entered as evidence in Waymo case tried to extort firm, settled for $4.5M, now works as consultant for Uber's investigation — The drama surrounding an explosive letter written by former Uber employee Richard Jacobs keeps heating up …
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Uber says 2.7M UK users affected by 2016 data breach, with names, mobile numbers, and email addresses exposed — Uber's October 2016 data breach affected some 2.7 million UK users, it has now been revealed. On Friday the government said it had been informed by Uber that UK users were affected …
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