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• Amazon dumps AI recruiting tool that showed bias against women

  10-10-2018 23:56
  Amazon.com's machine-learning specialists uncovered a big problem: their new recruiting engine did not like women.
  
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• Chipmaker Micron to invest $100 million in artificial intelligence companies

  10-10-2018 23:41
  Micron Technology said on Wednesday it planned to invest up to $100 million in startup companies working on artificial intelligence technologies for use in self-driving vehicles, factory automation and other growing fields.
  
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• Square CFO Sarah Friar to join Nextdoor as CEO

  10-10-2018 22:48
  Jack Dorsey-led Square Inc said on Wednesday its financial head Sarah Friar will step down to become the chief executive officer of social networking service provider Nextdoor.
  
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• Apple plans to give original content for free to device owners: CNBC

  10-10-2018 22:19
  Apple Inc is planning a new digital video service that will provide original content free to its device owners, CNBC reportedon Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter.
  
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• Huawei launches machine learning microchips to power new AI strategy

  10-10-2018 22:00
  Huawei has unveiled an AI strategy and a portfolio of supporting products built on two new microchips, designed for a range of deployment scenarios.
  
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• Facebook's WhatsApp says has fixed video call security bug

  10-10-2018 21:22
  Facebook Inc's WhatsApp messenger service said on Wednesday it has fixed the latest bug on its platform that allowed hackers to take over users' applications when they answered an incoming video call.
  
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• SoftBank upping bet on loss-making WeWork with possible majority stake: source

  10-10-2018 21:08
  Japan's SoftBank Group Corpis in discussions to buy a majority stake in U.S. shared office space provider WeWork Cos, a source said, potentially doubling down on one of its biggest bets on a loss-making startup.
  
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• Pentagon says memo asking for Broadcom-CA deal review is likely fake

  10-10-2018 20:18
  The U.S. Department of Defense said on Wednesday that a memo purporting to show the Pentagon asking for a national security review of chipmaker Broadcom Inc's$19 billion deal to buy software company CA Technologieswas likely fake.
  
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• Israeli tech women protest men-only meeting with Merkel

  10-10-2018 20:02
  Women working in high-tech companies posed around a cardboard cutout of German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday to protest against a meeting she held with an all-male group of entrepreneurs in Israel last week.
  
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• Optus acquires Aussie start-up Hivint, boosts security play

  10-10-2018 20:00
  Optus has unveiled plans to acquire Australian start-up Hivint, in a move designed to enhance cyber security capabilities across Asia Pacific.
  
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• Digital-only banks take sizeable share in France but lose money: regulator

  10-10-2018 19:33
  A new breed of digital-only banks has spread in France but still struggles to make any money, a report by France's banking regulator ACPR said on Wednesday.
  
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• How to boost Wi-Fi performance: Experts talk planning, troubleshooting

  10-10-2018 12:00
  Wi-Fi experts from Cisco, Aruba, Ekahau, Extreme and Mist share best practices for Wi-Fi performance optimization, focused on three major phases of large-scale Wi-Fi installation: planning and pre-installation, post-installation performance testing and verification, and troubleshooting Wi-Fi performance issues.
  
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• 5 best practices to boost Wi-Fi performance

  10-10-2018 12:00
  Wi-Fi experts share best practices for establishing and maintaining optimal WLAN performance
  
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• AI ethics is a political issue that businesses need to consider

  10-10-2018 01:52
  This morning, I asked my phone’s smart assistant, “Do you have ethics?”Its response? “The engineers that designed me do. They never let me download illegally.”
  
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• Companies expected to face first GDPR fines this year

  10-10-2018 01:17
  Regulators are set to exercise their new powers by handing out fines and even temporary bans on companies that breach a new EU privacy law, with the first round of sanctions expected by the end of the year, the bloc's privacy chief said.
  
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• Google challenges record EU antitrust fine

  10-10-2018 01:13
  Google has challenged a record 4.34-billion euro (US$5 billion) fine imposed by European Union antitrust regulators three months ago for using its popular Android mobile operating system to thwart rivals.
  
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• Labor’s Rowland warns against rushing encryption bill

  10-10-2018 00:33
  Shadow communications minister Michelle Rowland has called for the government to “engage directly” with industries and stakeholder bodies likely to be affected by its proposed encryption bill “regarding the significant concerns they have raised about the measures in this bill, with a view to developing workable solutions.”
  
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