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Bezos donates $33 million for ‘dreamers’ scholarship program — The Hill
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is donating $33 million to a scholarship program for certain young immigrants, The Hill's Max Greenwood writes. Here is the link: http://thehill.com/policy/technology/368679-bezos-donates-33-million-for-dreamers-scholarship-program
Home assistant adopter beware: Google, Amazon digital assistant patents reveal plans for mass snooping — Consumer Watchdog
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of privacy...
A study of patent applications associated with digital assistants reveal plans for massive surveillance of users’ homes, Consumer...
Intuit selects AWS for machine learning and AI
Intuit has selected Amazon Web Services (AWS) as its standard for machine learning and artificial intelligence workloads.
AWS launches GuardDuty managed threat detection
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched GuardDuty, a managed threat detection service that monitors account activity for malicious or unauthorized behavior.
AWS introduces new instances
Amazon has launched a bare metal instance offering for its Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), and introduced a new Storage Optimized instance family (H1 instances).