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Archives for 2019
When Shorter Video Means Engaging Customers Longer
Digital video is popular, particularly for customer-facing applications. Here is what managers should consider to make video usage effective and efficient.
PyTorch on Azure with streamlined ML lifecycle
It's exciting to see the Pytorch Community continue to grow and regularly release updated versions of PyTorch! Recent releases improve performance, ONNX export, TorchScript, C++ frontend, JIT, and distributed training. Several new experimental features, such as quantization, have also been introduced. At the PyTorch Developer Conference earlier this fall, we presented how our open source contributions to PyTorch […]
Unlocking Market Data, Amazon Introduces AWS Data Exchange
In a recent blog post, Amazon introduced a new market data publisher/subscriber service called AWS Data Exchange. This service is an add-on to the existing AWS Marketplace and contains more than 1000 licensable data products from more than 80 data providers. These data feeds include both free and paid offerings that span industries such as […]
Focus – Made in China: Samsung farms out more phones to fend off rivals
Samsung’s plan to outsource a fifth of its smartphone production to China next year may help it compete with low-cost rivals such as Huawei and Xiaomi but it’s a strategy fraught with risks, people with familiar with the move said.
Boeing says timing of 737 MAX return in hands of regulators
Boeing moved on Saturday to ease tensions with regulators over the return to service of its 737 MAX, saying it was up to the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration and its global counterparts to approve changes to the jet in the wake of two accidents.
South African Airways, unions meet for talks amid damaging strike
South African Airways (SAA) and unions on Saturday met for talks the troubled state-run carrier hopes can bring an end to a crippling strike that it says could push it to collapse.
Trade deal hopes, surging health stocks power Wall Street to highs
Wall Street’s main stock indexes closed at record levels on Friday, fueled by fresh optimism over a potential calming of U.S.-China trade tensions and by big gains in shares of healthcare companies.
Use of standard mileage rate, other rules are updated for TCJA
The IRS issued guidance on Thursday updating prior standard mileage rules to reflect provisions of the law known as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), P.L 115-97 (Rev. Proc. 2019-46). The TCJA suspended miscellaneous itemized deductions under Sec. 67 and deductions for moving expenses under 217(a) (except for members of the armed forces on […]
Equifax and FICO on Applying Machine Learning to Open Data
Credit rating organizations explore different approaches to understanding a flood of transaction information.