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Amazon’s Halo disappears: Tech giant discontinues health devices and service, promises refunds

GeekWire

The company today also started notifying employees impacted by its latest round of job cuts in Amazon Web Services, HR, Twitch and Amazon Advertising. The surprise announcement Wednesday afternoon is part of a broader wave of cutbacks at the company that started late last year. The subscription was $3.99/month,

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Tech Moves: Convoy names general counsel; startup founders land new gigs after shutdowns

GeekWire

Acting head of legal Megan Lutes departed in July to join 3D printing startup Glowforge as its general counsel. Former Amazon Web Services VP Steven Shure relocated to the San Francisco Bay Area from Seattle to join alternative search engine Neeva as chief business officer. Founded in 2015, Convoy’s last valuation was $2.7

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Tech Moves: AWS product head joins Faculty; Bezos Earth Fund hires BlackRock leader; and more

GeekWire

Sullivan was previously head of product for the AI DevOps group at Amazon Web Services, where he led teams helping customers build and manage cloud-based applications. — Edwin Miller was appointed CEO of Seattle-based advertising analytics company Marchex. million in seed funding but later shut down. based Data I/O.

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Official launch of the Top 100 Australian Web 2.0 Applications list

Trends in the Living Networks

Description: Web service application that creates 'attention profiles' of users, and enables these to be used in customising services and content for users. Description: Service for restaurants to take online bookings without needing a computer. Person/Company: Faraday Media (Chris Saad/ Ashley Angell). MyVirtualHome.

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What is the metaverse, and do I have to care?

The Verge

It’s partly a dream for the future of the internet and partly a neat way to encapsulate some current trends in online infrastructure, including the growth of real-time 3D worlds. Neal Stephenson famously coined the term “metaverse” in his 1992 novel Snow Crash , where it referred to a 3D virtual world inhabited by avatars of real people.

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Best AI tools: 100+ alternatives for all needs

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It can help users, advertisers, and publishers identify and avoid low-quality or harmful content such as hate speech, propaganda, clickbait, or fake news. Diffbot uses computer vision and natural language processing to identify and categorize the content of any web page, such as articles, products, images, videos, etc.

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