Daily Archives: July 29, 2020

Amazon expands its grocery service in head-to-head battle with U.K. supermarkets 

Amazon is expanding its online grocery service ahead of its second-quarter earnings this week, in a major offensive to win more customers in the fiercely competitive U.K. grocery market.

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BRICS plan a separate meet of foreign ministers, NSA ahead of September Summit 

Meetings of the five foreign ministers and NSA are important to shape the agenda of any BRICS Summit. This year’s meet has acquired extra significance as two of five members of the BRICS – India and China – were involved in a bitter standoff.

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‘Do Not Hold Grudges.’ Joe Biden’s Notes Reveal Talking Points About Kamala Harris 

Biden’s talking points suggest that he wants to defuse any tensions around his relationship with California Sen. Kamala Harris

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How to trick deep learning algorithms into doing new things 

Two things often mentioned with deep learning are “data” and “compute resources.” You need a lot of both when developing, training, and testing deep learning models. When developers don’t have a lot of training samples or access to very powerful servers, they use transfer learning to finetune a pre-trained deep learning model for a new task. At this year’s I […]

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New Zealand to start charging some travellers for coronavirus quarantine 

Costs set at NZ$3,100 for the first adult, $950 for each additional adult and $475 for each childCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageSome travellers returning to New Zealand will have to pay the costs of their quarantine, after the government partially backed down from a controversial plan to bill all arrivals for their two-week isola […]

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Blue Apron turns profit as more Americans cook at home during coronavirus pandemic 

Blue Apron added 20,000 customers during the three months through June, helping increase the order count by 389,000.

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Coronavirus: Which countries have confirmed cases? 

More than 16.7 million infections confirmed in 188 countries and territories, including more than 660,000 deaths.

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Man admits to securities scheme that netted more than $17M 

A New Jersey-based securities trader admitted Tuesday to orchestrating a massive, long-running market manipulation scheme and tax fraud that netted more than $17 million in illegal profits, federal prosecutors said.

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UK mortgage approvals rise four-fold; stocks struggle ahead of Fed decision – business live 

Bank of England lending data show housing market gathers paceDollar sell-off slows as Fed is expected to maintain ultra-supportive monetary policy to help economy 12.05pm BST Here’s more analysis of the Bank of England lending data, from Paul Dales, chief UK economist at Capital Economics.The signs that firms did not rush quite as fast to take on more debt i […]

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After A 30% Rally This Year, Akamai Stock Headed Down? 

Akamai stock (NASDAQ: AKAM) is up 29% since the beginning of this year, and at the current price of around $112 per share, we believe Akamai stock has a significant downside. Why is that? Our belief stems from the fact that Akamai stock remains about 72% higher than the low seen in early 2018…

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Allowing asylum seekers to work could raise £100m in tax revenues, report finds 

If people seeking asylum had the right to work six months after making their initial claim it would lead to increased income tax and National Insurance as well as fewer support payments, research suggests

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Holocaust survivors urge Facebook to remove denial posts 

Holocaust survivors are lending their voices to a campaign targeting Facebook head Mark Zuckerberg, urging him to take action to remove denial of the Nazi genocide from the social media site

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In Search Of The Next 1000: The Entrepreneurs Creating Their Own American Dreams 

Forbes launches our next big franchise to spotlight and accelerate self-funded, self-driven overachievers, providing a platform for under-represented communities.

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Virgin Galactic shows off passenger spaceship cabin interior 

Virgin Galactic has revealed what the interior of the rocket ship will look like that will carry passengers on suborbital flights into the space’s lower reaches

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Service that uses AI to identify gender based on names looks incredibly biased 

Image: Genderify Some tech companies make a splash when they launch, others seem to bellyflop. Genderify, a new service that promises to identify someone’s gender by analyzing their name, email address, or username with the help AI, looks firmly to be in the latter camp. The company launched on Product Hunt last week, but has picked up a lot of attention on […]

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