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NetApp | August 04, 2020

NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP), the leader in cloud data services, today announced the availability of Azure NetApp® Files in the government region data centers on Microsoft Azure. This expansion of Azure NetApp Files, one of the only Azure native, high-performance file storage services, offers the TCO, performance, management, and confidence demanded by critical applications for federal, Department of Defense, and state and local agencies that have strict government security and regulatory complianc...

Facebook | January 30, 2020

Facebook has agreed to pay $550 million to settle a class-action lawsuit over its use of facial recognition technology in Illinois Under the agreement, the amount will go to eligible Illinois users and legal fees.

VentureBeat | March 12, 2020

Amazon is using AI and machine learning to predict context from customers’ queries. In a preprint paper accepted to the ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval scheduled to take place this month, Amazon researchers describe a system that predicts activities like “running” from queries like “Adidas men’s pants.” It could help to improve the quality of search results on Amazon.com, which could enhance the overall Amazon shopping exper...

VentureBeat | March 11, 2020

This week, a team of scientists at Salesforce published a study detailing an AI system — ProGen — they say is capable of generating proteins in a “controllable fashion,” such that it could unlock new approaches to protein engineering. If their claims pan out, it could lay the groundwork for meaningful advances in synthetic biology and material science — a highly desirable outcome in the midst of the devastating coronavirus outbreak. As Salesforce research scientist ...