At its annual re:Invent conference, AWS announced four new storage services and capabilities aimed at delivering more choice, reducing costs and helping customers better protect their data.
The first option is a new Amazon S3 Glacier storage class that is designed to offer milliseconds access...
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Tel Aviv-based Frontegg, which helps SaaS companies track user data, raises a $25M Series A led by Insight Partners — Frontegg, a Tel Aviv-based startup that provides SaaS companies with the core user management tools they need to build their own services...
It’s just over a year since the European Union’s executive proposed legislation aimed at encouraging widespread sharing and reuse of industrial data and protected public sector data-sets — such as health data, environment, energy, agriculture, mobility, finance, manufacturing, public...
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Vancouver-based Klue, which uses data to help companies improve sales, raises a $62M Series B led by Tiger Global, following a $15M Series A in September 2020 — Klue, an AI-powered competitive enablement platform, has raised $62 million in Series B funding led by...
Jack Dorsey was Twitter’s first CEO — and also its fourth.
He led the platform from its launch in 2006 until he passed the torch to co-founder Ev Williams two years later. In 2015, Dorsey returned to the role after Dick Costolo’s stint, even though he was simultaneously serving as CEO of...
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Goldman Sachs partners with AWS to provide its market data and software tools to hedge funds and asset managers as a new service, GS Financial Cloud for Data — - The bank is opening up access to its trove of market data and software tools to hedge funds and asset managers in...
Developers often build machine learning models with the help of a third-party data set, which they add to their model, and they’re done. But data isn’t always static. That means building some sort of pipeline to collect the data at regular intervals, creating extra work.
Today at AWS re:Invent...
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FIFA will use 10 to 12 cameras, collecting up to 29 data points per player 50 times per second, to make semi-autonomous offside decisions at the Arab Cup — The use of technology to help officials make more accurate offside decisions will be tested at the Fifa Arab Cup, which starts on...
Controversial facial recognition company Clearview AI is facing a potential fine in the UK.
It has also been handed a provisional notice to stop further processing of UK citizens’ data and to delete any data it already holds as a result of what the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO)...
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Citing “alleged serious breaches” of data protection laws, UK's ICO notifies Clearview AI of its provisional intention to fine the company £17M+ — Controversial facial recognition company Clearview AI is facing a potential fine in the UK.
Japanese tech giant Panasonic has confirmed a data breach after hackers gained access to its internal network.
Panasonic said in a press release dated November 26 that its network was “illegally accessed by a third party” on November 11 and that “some data on a file server had been accessed...
Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, e-commerce has been on a tear. Lockdowns, a move to remote work and other impacts of COVID pushed a great number of global citizens to spend more of their money online through e-commerce sites and on-demand services.
For companies like Shopify, the...
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A look at the challenges spies face with biometrics, smartphones, and surveillance cameras, and how AI sifting through data changes espionage — U.S., rivals seek ways to adapt spycraft to a changing world; being on the grid can blow your cover, but so...
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Apple and Google have been fined €10 million apiece by Italy’s competition and market authority (AGCM) which has found they did not provide their users with clear enough information on commercial uses of their data — in violation of the country’s consumer code.
The regulator also accuses the...
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Italy fines Apple and Google €10M each for “aggressive” data practices and not providing users with clear enough information on commercial uses of their data — Apple and Google have been fined €10 million apiece by Italy's competition and market authority (AGCM) …