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Paul G. Allen Family Foundation giving $1.4M in COVID-19 relief aimed at underserved communities

GeekWire

The foundation, originally founded by the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and his sister Jody Allen, said Monday the new funding focuses on food security and child care, among other needs, and builds on previous aid totaling $12 million from the foundation. Allen Family Foundation is giving an additional $1.4 Pride Foundation ?

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This could be the next big game for Microsoft’s Xbox platform

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Microsoft is banking on it to be the next big “killer app” for the Xbox platform. It’s also in an interesting position where it’s both an important release for Microsoft and a potential participant in a major setback for the company. Before then, Bethesda was all in on Elder Scrolls and the occasional licensed game.

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Microsoft's Docs.com is sharing dangerously sensitive personal files and information

Network World

If you use Microsoft’s Docs.com to store personal documents, stop reading this and make sure you aren’t inadvertently leaking your private information to the world. Microsoft sets any documents uploaded to the document sharing site as public by default—though it appears that many users aren’t aware of it.

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Former Amazon exec inherits Microsoft’s complex cybersecurity legacy in quest to solve ‘one of the greatest challenges of our time’

GeekWire

Charlie Bell, a former Amazon Web Services executive, is now the leader of Microsoft’s newly formed, 10,000-person security engineering organization. Microsoft Photo). And the security of Microsoft’s software is still falling well short of Gates’ vision. “Your code will be attacked.”

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Peer-to-peer banking - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

The principle is simple – you lend to individuals at interest rates based on their credit rating, and since you’re cutting out the bank as middleman, both lender and depositer get more attractive interest rates than they can get commercially. Banks are the archetypical intermediary, in this case between depositers and lenders.

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Microsoft enters enterprise social network software - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

This squarely puts Microsoft into a space – enterprise social network software – that has previously been populated by Spoke , Visible Path , Contact Networks , and Tacit. It will then allow people to request to be connected to others in their organization that have specific expertise. See some screenshots here.

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What is data science? Transforming data into value

CIO Business Intelligence

Examples include credit card fraud monitoring solutions used by banks, or tools used to optimize the placement of wind turbines in wind farms. TensorFlow: Developed by Google and licensed under Apache License 2.0, TensorFlow is a software library for machine learning used for training and inference of deep neural networks.

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