AI Weekly: Amazon went wide with Alexa; now it's going deep

12 hours ago | Venture Beat

After putting Alexa everywhere it could, Amazon is focusing its efforts on going deep, with new Alexa capabilities, a new edge chip, and surveillance gear.
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Google launches AI Platform Prediction in general availability

18 hours ago | Venture Beat

Google today launched AI Platform Prediction in general availability, a managed service for cloud AI and machine learning workloads.
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Spotify's Daniel Ek wants to give €1 billion to Europe's tech startups. It won't help

20 hours ago | Fortune

Our mission to help you navigate the new normal is fueled by subscribers. To enjoy unlimited access to our journalism, subscribe today . Daniel Ek, the founder and chief...
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Terror probe opened after 2 wounded in Paris knife attack

23 hours ago | Politico | 7 articles

PARIS - French terrorism authorities are investigating a knife attack that wounded at least two people Friday near the former offices of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo...
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Dreamscape Education And Defense Business Surges In Lockdown

1 day ago | Forbes

The company set its sights on enterprise applications from day one.
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Alexa will soon gain more natural-sounding speech and recognize when multiple people are speaking

1 day ago | Venture Beat

Amazon announced a slew of new developer tools and resources for Alexa during its annual September hardware event.
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Inside the Social World of Shift-Scheduling Apps

1 day ago | NY Times

There's no such thing as remote restaurant work. But there is HotSchedules.
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UK govt unveils new job support scheme, but warns it ‘cannot save every business'

1 day ago | RT | 2 articles

Britain's Finance Minister Rishi Sunak has announced a new jobs support program to help firms employ people on shorter hours amid the coronavirus pandemic, with the current...
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Campus Conversation discusses student support during the pandemic, provides updates on racial justice initiatives

2 days ago | Stanford

President Marc Tessier-Lavigne and Provost Persis Drell were joined by Mona Hicks, senior associate vice provost and dean of students, and Shirley Everett, senior associate...
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The 3 steps to successfully scale digital transformations projects, according to one of consulting giant Capgemini's innovation chiefs

2 days ago | Business Insider

Summary List Placement Digital transformation became an even more buzzy concept in the last few months as the coronavirus pandemic upended nearly every industry , forcing...
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Judge removes President Trump's public lands boss for serving unlawfully

An acting director served unlawfully for 424 days without being confirmed to Read more ...

Supreme Court front-runner Amy Coney Barrett hailed by right, feared by left

Amy Coney Barrett, a devout Catholic, is hailed by religious conservatives and others on the right as an ideological heir to conservative icon Antonin Scalia, the late Supreme... Read more ...

First-term Rep. Sharice Davids faces Republican Amanda Adkins in Kansas' 3rd...

Summary List Placement First-term Democratic Rep. Sharice Davids looks to retain her House seat against Amanda Adkins in Kansas' 3rd Congressional District. The... Read more ...

Former congressman and presidential candidate Ron Paul hospitalized

Former GOP presidential candidate candidate Ron Paul says he's OK after video circulated online of him having an apparent medical issue during a livestream interview. Read more ...

Trump poised to nominate Amy Coney Barrett to fill Ginsburg's seat

President Donald Trump is expected to select Amy Coney Barrett to fill Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's vacant seat on the Supreme Court, according to multiple sources familiar... Read more ...

Stars, Lightning going to overtime in Game 4 of Cup Final

EDMONTON, Alberta - The Dallas Stars and Tampa Bay Lightning are going into overtime in Game 4 of the Stanley Cup Final on Friday night. Read more ...

Two officials charged with ‘deadly decision' that led to Covid-19 outbreak...

The Massachusetts attorney general is pressing criminal charges against two officials for a “deadly” decision that led to a Covid-19 outbreak in a veterans' health care... Read more ...

Kenosha shooting suspect Kyle Rittenhouse fighting extradition to Wisconsin

The Illinois teen accused of fatally gunning down two protesters during violent demonstrations sparked by the police shooting of Jacob Blake is fighting extradition to... Read more ...

Amy Coney Barrett Is Trump's Likely Supreme Court Pick. Here's What We Know...

Judge Amy Coney Barrett, 48, would be the youngest Supreme Court justice on the bench. Read more ...

'Erase them all': UFC title challenger Paulo Costa posts gory image of...

Paulo Costa cranked up the animosity with Israel Adesanya ahead of the pair's UFC 253 middleweight title showdown as the Brazilian challenger shared a decapitated image of his... Read more ...