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Amazon puts Fire TV Cube to work, repurposes streaming device for desktop computing

GeekWire

Amazon WorkSpaces , the company’s virtual desktop service, just unveiled its first device for end users, a $195 product created by directly repurposing the hardware design for Amazon’s Fire TV Cube. Muneer Mirza, AWS general manager of End User Computing. .”

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Microsoft alumni reunite in Redmond, look ahead to what’s next in AI and the world

GeekWire

Microsoft President Brad Smith, in a recorded video address at the outset of the conference, described the rise of AI as a moment equal or greater to the platforms and technologies that many people in the room pioneered — including the personal computer, the graphical user interface, the internet, and mobile computing.

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Cloud Technology: Beyond Data Storage

Galido

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS). The most popular service that cloud provides is IT infrastructure services. Data storage, networking, operating system services come under this category where users pay for the amount of resources they have utilized.

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12 most popular AI use cases in the enterprise today

CIO Business Intelligence

Meanwhile, companies such as Pentagon Credit Union (PenFed) are using chatbots and conversational AI to help customers get answers to common questions faster, reducing the load on customer service reps. AI can also be used for conducting initial video interviews. Unilever, which processes over 1.8

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Pay with your palm? Amazon unveils biometric ID, touting convenience and testing customer trust

GeekWire

. “We designed the service to be applicable for a variety of use cases,” said Dilip Kumar, Amazon’s vice president of physical retail and technology, discussing Amazon One in an interview with GeekWire this week. The Amazon One palm-scanning device. . So that was a super important consideration for us.”

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Secrets of successful strategies: How Amazon, Apple, Microsoft and others make winning bets

GeekWire

“Everything was mayhem,” recalls Brad Chase, the former Microsoft executive who was in charge of marketing the operating system. Example: Netflix capitalizing first on DVDs by mail and then the shift to video streaming.). Amazon Web Services is a great product. Change is always a strategic opportunity.

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Free Courses at Linux Academy – November 2019

Linux Academy

We’ll give a simple introduction to the concepts of Cloud Computing, Amazon Web Services, and its core services. In this course, we cover the basics of cloud services, the core components of Azure, and how companies are using it today. Linux Operating System Fundamentals. Why do we use AWS? Azure Concepts.

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