The list of “skills” that Alexa, Amazon’s voice-enabled virtual assistant, is capable of performing keeps on growing,...
NBC becomes first broadcast network to launch a ‘skill’ on Amazon’s Alexa
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Former Microsoft engineer founds parent-focused social network Bloom
Tips on pregnancy abound online, from the food you should eat to what that weird pain in your foot means for the baby. But diving...
Anatomy and function of an excitatory network in the visual cortex
Circuits in the cerebral cortex consist of thousands of neurons connected by millions of synapses. A precise understanding of these local networks requires relating circuit activity with the underlying network structure. For pyramidal cells in superficial mouse visual cortex (V1), a consensus is emerging that neurons with similar visual response properties excite each other, but the anatomical basis of this recurrent synaptic network is...
Amazon’s delivery network continues to expand, retailer to offer two-hour delivery in Berlin, report says
Amazon plans...
“Drop Comcast today,” Yankees network tells baseball fans
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New York Yankees fans opening the newspaper this week may see an unusual full-page advertisement urging them to "Drop Comcast today and find another TV provider." The ad points fans to a website that suggests DirecTV, Frontier, and Verizon as alternatives.
It's the latest punch thrown in a fight between Comcast and the YES Network,...
A hippocampal network for spatial coding during immobility and sleep
How does an animal know where it is when it stops moving? Hippocampal place cells fire at discrete locations as subjects traverse space, thereby providing an explicit neural code for current location during locomotion. In contrast, during awake immobility, the hippocampus is thought to be dominated by neural firing representing past and possible future experience. The question of whether and how the hippocampus constructs...
Police department charging TV news network $36,000 for body cam footage
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As body cams continue to flourish in police departments across the nation, an ongoing debate has ensued about how much, if any, of that footage should be made public under state open-access laws.
An overlooked twist to that debate, however, has now become front and center: How much should the...
General Motors invests $500M in Lyft to create network of driverless cars
General Motors is investing $ 500 million in ride-hailing giant Lyft as both companies team up to develop a “network of on-demand autonomous vehicles.” The substantial investment announced on Monday will help San Francisco-based Lyft grow its transportation service and is...
When a single e-mail gives hackers full access to your network
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When you're a Fortune 500 company that's a favorite target of sophisticated hackers, it often makes sense to install security appliances at the outer edges of your network to stop attacks before they get far. Now, researchers say they have uncovered a vulnerability in such a product from security firm FireEye that...
Classmates turns 20: How the social network missed an opportunity to be Facebook
The 20-year mark for most class reunions is usually a biggie for most people — and this year, the site that is known for connecting classmates and helping plan reunions turns 20 itself. That’s right. Classmates.com is 20. Launched in 1995 by former Boeing manager Randy Conrads, the Seattle-based social networking company was one of the first...