Facebook and Twitter Dodge a 2016 Repeat, and Ignite a 2020 Firestorm

The companies have said they would do more to stop misinformation and hacked materials from spreading. This is what that effort looks like.

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Sources: GameStop will get a share of the lifetime digital sales revenue for any Xbox console they sell, but the specific cut is unknown and likely small (Kyle Orland/Ars Technica)

Kyle Orland / Ars Technica:
Sources: GameStop will get a share of the lifetime digital sales revenue for any Xbox console they sell, but the specific cut is unknown and likely small  —  But the size of the unprecedented revenue-sharing deal is up for debate.  —  In a seemingly unprecedented deal …

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Best Samsung Prime Day deals: Final hours to save $350 on Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra, plus discounts on Galaxy Watch, Tablet and more - CNET

It's the final hours of Amazon Prime Day and there are still incredible savings to be had on Samsung goods, including big reductions on Samsung's S20 Ultra flagship phone as well as the Galaxy Tab S7 and Note Plus.

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Prime Day 2020: Best car detailing deals - Roadshow

Amazon's Prime Day event has arrived and we've scoured everything on sale to find the best deals on car vacuums, detailing products, power washers and more.

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Pixel 5 vs. iPhone 11: Which sub-$700 phone is better? - CNET

Google takes aim at the iPhone 11 with its latest flagship phone, the Pixel 5.

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Best Prime Day 2020 deals: Final hours for $45 Echo Show 5, $68 SodaStream, $849 MacBook Air, $115 AirPods, $70 Ring Video Doorbell and more - CNET

It's the second and final day of Prime Day 2020. As we approach the end, here are the best deals still available.

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Apple doesn't seem to care that we're all stuck in masks - CNET

Commentary: Not being able to unlock your phone with your face while wearing a mask is a very 2020 problem. It's a shame the iPhone 12 didn't solve it.

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Best Prime Day deals on car maintenance and garage tools - Roadshow

Act fast before these phenomenal accessory deals disappear.

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Best Prime Day Instant Pot deals - CNET

Amazon has got you covered during the season for warming stew with multicooker Prime Day deals.

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QAnon: What you need to know as this unhinged, pro-Trump conspiracy theory grows - CNET

This scary and dangerous fringe movement surges as the presidential election nears.

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Volvo Smart Garage - Roadshow

Roadshow and Smart Home team up for a series of videos about PHEVs, presented by Volvo.

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Amazon Translate ranked as #1 machine translation provider by Intento

Customer obsession, one of the key Amazon Leadership principles that guides everything we do at Amazon, has helped Amazon Translate be recognized as an industry leading neural machine translation provider. This year, Intento ranked Amazon Translate #1 on the list of top-performing machine translation providers in its The State of Machine Translation 2020 report. We are excited to be recognized for pursuing our passion—designing the best customer experience in machine translation.

Amazon Translate is a neural machine translation service that delivers fast, high-quality, and affordable language translation. Neural machine translation is a form of machine translation that uses deep learning models to deliver more accurate and more natural sounding translation than traditional statistical and rule-based translation algorithms. Amazon Translate’s development has been fueled by customer feedback, leading to a steady stream of rich features that help you reach more people in more places—without breaking your translation services budget.

Intento is one of the leading organizations helping global companies procure and utilize the best-fit cognitive AI services. In this independent study, Intento evaluated 15 of the most prominent MT providers used by language service providers and localization services. The data used included examples from across 16 industry sectors, with 8 content types, including topics such as financial documentation, patents, sales and marketing material. These inputs were translated between 14 common language pairs to determine the best engine for a given translation scenario. It ranked the results of each MT engine based on how they compared to a reference human translation.

The results showed that no MT service is best in all language pairs across all industry sectors and content types. However, Amazon Translate had the highest number of instances in which it was rated “best.”

At Amazon, we strive to bring the most value to our customers and deliver the world’s best machine translation service! If your company is looking for machine translation, please contact us. We’d love to show you what Amazon Translate can do.

More information on the features and capabilities that Intento considered in its analysis of the top MT providers is available in the full report (registration is required).

 

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About the Author

Greg Rushing is a US Air Force Fellow in Amazon’s BRIDGE program. He is currently working with the Amazon Translate Product Management team, where he focuses on coordinating the activities required to bring Amazon Translate features to market. Outside of work, you can find him spending time exploring the outdoors with his family, doing auto repair, or woodworking.

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At GTC, Educators and Leaders Focus on Equity in AI, Developer Diversity

Not everyone needs to be a developer, but everyone will need to be an AI decision maker.

That was the message behind a panel discussion on Advancing Equitable AI, which took place at our GPU Technology Conference last week. It was one of several GTC events advancing the conversation on diversity, equity and ethics in AI.

This year, we strengthened our support for women and underrepresented developers and scientists at GTC by providing conference passes to members of professional organizations supporting women, Black and Latino developers. Professors at historically Black colleges and universities — including Prairie View A&M University, Hampton University and Jackson State University — as well as groups like Black in AI and LatinX in AI received complimentary access to training from the NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute.

A Forbes report last year named GTC as one of the U.S.’s top conferences for women to attend to further their careers in AI. At this month’s event, women made up better than one in five registered attendees — doubling last year’s count and an almost 4x increase since 2017 — and more than 100 of the speakers.

And in a collaboration with the National Society of Black Engineers that will extend beyond GTC, we created opportunities for the society’s collegiate and professional developers to engage with NVIDIA’s recruiting team, which provided guidance on navigating the new world of virtual interviewing and networking.

“We’re excited to be embarking on a partnership with NVIDIA,” said Johnnie Tangle, national finance chairman of NSBE Professionals. “Together, we are both on the mission of increasing the visibility of Blacks in development and showing why diversity in the space enhances the community as a whole.”

Panel Discussions: Paving Pathways for Equitable AI

Two power-packed, all-female panels at GTC focused on a roadmap for responsible and equitable AI.

In a live session that drew over 250 attendees, speakers from the University of Florida, the Boys and Girls Club of Western Pennsylvania and AI4All — a nonprofit working to increase diversity and inclusion in AI — discussed the importance of AI exposure and education for children and young adults from underrepresented groups.

When a broader group of young people has access to AI education, “we naturally see a way more diverse and interesting set of problems being addressed,” said Tess Posner, CEO of AI4All, “because young people and emerging leaders in the field are going to connect the technology to a problem they’ve seen in their own lives, in their own experience or in their communities.”

The conversation also covered the role parents and schools play in fostering awareness and exposure to STEM subjects in their children’s schools, as well as the need for everyone — developers or not — to have a foundational understanding of how AI works.

“We want students to be conscious consumers, and hopefully producers,” said Christina Gardner-McCune, associate professor and director of the Engaging Learning Lab at the University of Florida, and co-chair of the AI4K12 initiative. “Everybody is going to be making decisions about what AI technologies are used in their homes, what AI technologies their children interact with.”

Later in the week, a panel titled “Aligning Around Common Values to Advance AI Policy” explored ideas to pave the way for responsible AI on a global scale.

The webinar featured representatives from the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology, Scotland-based innovation center The Data Lab, and C Minds, a think tank focused on AI initiatives in Latin America. Speakers shared their priorities for developing trustworthy AI, and defined what success would like to them five years in the future.

Dinner with Strangers: Developer Diversity in AI

In a virtual edition of the popular Dinner with Strangers networking events at GTC, experts from NVIDIA and NSBE partnered to moderate two conversations with GTC attendees. NVIDIA employees shared their experiences and tips with early-career attendees, offering advice on how to build a personal brand in a virtual world, craft a resume and prepare for interviews.

For more about GTC, watch NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang’s keynote below.

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Khosla Ventures is seeking to raise $1.1B for its latest fund, according to an SEC filing (Jonathan Shieber/TechCrunch)

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Khosla Ventures is seeking to raise $1.1B for its latest fund, according to an SEC filing  —  Khosla Ventures, the eponymous venture firm helmed by longtime Silicon Valley rainmaker, Vinod Khosla, is raising $1.1 billion for its latest venture fund, according to documents from the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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[Thread] Twitter clarifies why it blocked the sharing of NY Post's Biden story, saying it contained private info and violated its Hacked Materials Policy (@twittersafety)

@twittersafety:
[Thread] Twitter clarifies why it blocked the sharing of NY Post's Biden story, saying it contained private info and violated its Hacked Materials Policy  —  We want to provide much needed clarity around the actions we've taken with respect to two NY Post articles that were first Tweeted this morning.

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PassiveLogic, whose platform enables customers without programming expertise to develop autonomous systems for buildings and projects, raises $16M Series A (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

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PassiveLogic, whose platform enables customers without programming expertise to develop autonomous systems for buildings and projects, raises $16M Series A  —  PassiveLogic, a startup developing a building controls platform, today raised $16 million.  A spokesperson says the proceeds …

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PS5 launch games: Every PlayStation 5 title you can buy on Nov. 12 - CNET

Demon's Souls, Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Assassin's Creed Valhalla and many more.

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The best Samsung Prime Day deals: Galaxy S20 Ultra, Galaxy Buds Plus, Galaxy Watch 3 and more - CNET

Samsung's S20 Ultra flagship phone is on sale. Plus, price cuts to the rest of Samsung's Galaxy line including the Note 20 and Galaxy Tab S7.

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Amazon Prime Day best laptop deals: $600 off Razer Blade 15 gaming laptop, plus savings on Asus, Microsoft, HP and more - CNET

Amazon Prime Day has unleashed a swathe in the biggest and best laptop deals from big name brands including HP, Microsoft, Asus and Razer. Here's what's available right now.

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Morning Brew, the business newsletter publisher for millennials, is in talks to sell itself to Business Insider

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A deal could value the 5-year-old company at more than $75 million

Two college students started Morning Brew five years ago. Now they’re in talks to sell their business newsletter company to Business Insider, according to sources familiar with the two companies.

It’s unclear how much Business Insider intends to pay for Morning Brew, which says it will turn a profit on revenues of $20 million this year. But people who have talked to the company’s founders believe they expect to sell it for more than $50 million, and possibly much more; the Wall Street Journal reports that the deal could be worth more than $75 milllion.

This is an interesting deal, if it gets completed. Business Insider is a digital publisher that got its start with a mix of high-volume clickbait and the occasional scoop, but has recently made a push into more sober journalism it wants to sell via subscriptions. Morning Brew is a business-focused publisher that reassembles news into bite-sized chunks for its millennial audience

You can imagine the logic behind this one: Business Insider gets a company with 2 million subscribers to its free newsletter, which it can try to convert into paying subscribers. And Morning Brews’ team of 50 people gets more resources to help it build out more iterations of its newsletter and other products, like a podcast arm.

A deal could be a huge windfall for Austin Rief and Alex Lieberman, Morning Brew’s co-founders, who started the company as undergrads at the University of Michigan. The two men said they’ve only raised $750,000 from friends and family over the course of the company’s history, which likely means they would keep the majority of the proceeds for themselves.

“I can’t confirm anything, but speaking hypothetically, we’d be happy to be in talks with them,” said Business Insider CEO Henry Blodget, via text message. “Alex and Austin are amazing entrepreneurs, and it’s a terrific company.”

The deal would also underscores the media industry’s current fascination with email newsletters, which are a very old distribution model that’s in favor once again.

For instance: Axios, the politics-focused startup that launched in 2017, is reportedly on track to do $58 million in revenue this year, largely on the backs of its popular newsletters. And Substack, a venture-backed company that helps individual writers launch and run their own newsletters, has generated a lot of media buzz, and has brought several high-profile writers into its stable. Two of them — Andrew Sullivan and Casey Newtown — used to work for Vox Media, which owns Recode.

Blodget founded Business Insider in 2007 by Henry Blodget, who had previously made a name for himself as Wall Street analyst during the dot com boom, but was later charged with securities fraud (Blodget settled with financial regulators without admitting or denying the charges). In 2015, he sold the company to German publisher Axel Springer in a deal that valued his company at more than $440 million. (Disclosure: I worked for Blodget at Silicon Alley Insider, a predecessor to Business Insider, and made money when he sold the company.)

In February, Axel Springer told investors that that Business Insider “expects significant growth in revenues,” and that in addition to ad revenues, its three-year-old subscription business would be a “key driver of revenue growth.” The company also said it would make make “extensive investments…especially in the areas of journalism and product & technology.”

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