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Craig Newmark donates $500k to reduce harassment on Wikipedia
Grant supports development of more advanced tools for volunteers and staff to reduce harassing behavior on Wikipedia and block harassers from the site.
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Microsoft Appoints Kevin Scott as CTO
REDMOND, Wash. – Jan. 24, 2017 – Microsoft Corp. has named Kevin Scott to a newly created role of chief technology officer (CTO) for the company. This is an expansion of Scott’s new role at LinkedIn as senior vice president of Infrastructure. As Microsoft’s CTO, Scott will drive strategic, cross-company initiatives to…
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Supreme Court Should Block Printer Company’s Ploy to Undermine Consumer Rights
San Francisco - When you buy a printer cartridge, is it yours? Or can the company control what you do with it, even after you pay your bill and take it home? The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) urged the U.S. Supreme Court today to protect consumers’ property rights in a court case centering...
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Galaxy Note7: What We Discovered
To find the cause of the Galaxy Note7 incidents, Samsung examined every aspect of the Gala
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Lavabit Reloaded
There is nothing here so move right along.
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Mozilla launches a new identity
We’re working to put control of the internet back in the hands of the people using it.
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Mozilla launches new brand identity
Seven months since setting out to refresh the Mozilla brand experience, we’ve reached the summit. Thousands of emails, hundreds of meetings, dozens of concepts, and three rounds of research later, ...
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Monetize Your APIs in AWS Marketplace Using API Gateway
Shiva Krishnamurthy, Sr. Product Manager Amazon API Gateway helps you quickly build highly scalable, secure, and robust APIs. Today, we are announcing an integration of API Gateway with AWS Marketplace. You can now easily monetize your APIs built with API Gateway, market them directly to AWS customers, and reuse AWS…
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VR
About a month and a half ago I tried the new Oculus and was completely blown away. Even though there were clear rough points – expensive computer, not wireless, limited apps – I was amazed. The next morning I had two thoughts: 1. Because VR games are so physical, gaming will no longer be perceived as an unhealthy…
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Microsoft acquires deep learning startup Maluuba
Today is an exciting day for the advancement of AI at Microsoft. We have agreed to acquire Maluuba, a Montreal-based company with one of the world’s most impressive deep learning research labs for natural language understanding. Maluuba’s expertise in deep learning and reinforcement learning for question-answering and…
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Flickr – A Year Without a Byte
One of the largest cost drivers in running a service like Flickr is storage. We’ve described multiple techniques to get this cost down over the years: use of COS , creating sizes dynamically on GPUs and perceptual compression . These projects have been very successful, but our storage cost is still significant. At the…
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The Google Brain Team – Looking Back on 2016
Posted by Jeff Dean, Google Senior Fellow, on behalf of the entire Google Brain TeamThe Google Brain team's long-term goal is to create more intell...
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Georgia Tech Offers Online Master of Science in Analytics Degree for Under $10K
Georgia Tech Professional Education