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Better Business Bureau A series of major winter storms in the beginning of 2017 have caused flooding, evacuations, road closures and mudslides throughout Northern and Central California and Nevada. This flooding has affected hundreds of homes. More rain may be coming, but after the waters recede, residents will be...
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Shelly Palmer If you let your imagination run wild in the world of automatic speech recognition (ASR) and natural language understanding (NLU), and you throw in a little fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD), you can come up with several illegal uses for systems such as Alexa Voice Service, Google...
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The Divisional Round is over, and four lucky football teams are heading to the Conference Championships this weekend. Then, on February 5th, two will move on to the Super Bowl! If you’re cheering one on and want to show it, you might be thinking of buying a hat or...
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El “Divisional Round” ha terminado, y cuatro equipos de fútbol americano afortunados se dirigen al “Conference Championships” este fin de semana. Luego, en el 5 de febrero, ¡dos van a ir al “Super Bowl”¡ Si está animando a uno y quiere mostrarlo, es posible que está pensando en comprar...
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Shelly Palmer The superstar of CES® 2017 was not a car, or a robot, or even a TV; it was Alexa Voice Service (AVS), the software that allows you to control compatible devices with your voice. Various reports estimated there were 700–1,100 Alexa-controllable products at the show. I can’t...
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BBB anuncia llama para entradas para la anual competencia Premios Antorcha para la Ética ¿Es su negocio comprometido con la confianza en el mercado? BBB ahora está aceptando entradas de negocios locales para los Premios Antorcha en go.bbb.org/sf-torchawards/. Cualquier negocio con fines de lucro que este en los 13...
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BBB announces ‘call for entries’ for annual Torch Awards for Ethics competition Is your business committed to marketplace trust? BBB is now accepting Torch Awards entries from local businesses at go.bbb.org/sf-torchawards/. Any for-profit business headquartered in BBB’s 13-county service area that has been in business for at least three...
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Just How Dangerous Is Alexa? Shelly Palmer The “willing suspension of disbelief” is the idea that we (the audience, readers, viewers, content consumers) are willing to suspend judgment about the implausibility of the narrative for the quality of our own enjoyment. We do it all the time. Two-dimensional video...
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Logan Pollard California News Service PASADENA, Calif. – Low-wage workers won a victory with California’s minimum-wage increase, in effect starting this week. The increases will be yearly and incremental, this year, it’s 50 cents, bringing worker pay to $10.50 an hour and ultimately, to $15. But for many, it...
Better Business Bureau A series of major winter storms in the beginning of 2017 have caused flooding, evacuations, road closures and mudslides throughout Northern and Central California and Nevada. This flooding has affected hundreds of homes. More rain may be coming, but after the waters recede, residents will be...
Shelly Palmer If you let your imagination run wild in the world of automatic speech recognition (ASR) and natural language understanding (NLU), and you throw in a little fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD), you can come up with several illegal uses for systems such as Alexa Voice Service, Google...
The Divisional Round is over, and four lucky football teams are heading to the Conference Championships this weekend. Then, on February 5th, two will move on to the Super Bowl! If you’re cheering one on and want to show it, you might be thinking of buying a hat or...
Shelly Palmer The superstar of CES® 2017 was not a car, or a robot, or even a TV; it was Alexa Voice Service (AVS), the software that allows you to control compatible devices with your voice. Various reports estimated there were 700–1,100 Alexa-controllable products at the show. I can’t...
BBB anuncia llama para entradas para la anual competencia Premios Antorcha para la Ética ¿Es su negocio comprometido con la confianza en el mercado? BBB ahora está aceptando entradas de negocios locales para los Premios Antorcha en go.bbb.org/sf-torchawards/. Cualquier negocio con fines de lucro que este en los 13...
Just How Dangerous Is Alexa? Shelly Palmer The “willing suspension of disbelief” is the idea that we (the audience, readers, viewers, content consumers) are willing to suspend judgment about the implausibility of the narrative for the quality of our own enjoyment. We do it all the time. Two-dimensional video...
Logan Pollard California News Service PASADENA, Calif. – Low-wage workers won a victory with California’s minimum-wage increase, in effect starting this week. The increases will be yearly and incremental, this year, it’s 50 cents, bringing worker pay to $10.50 an hour and ultimately, to $15. But for many, it...