The Meaning of All Caps—in Texting and in Life

WHEN YOU WRITE IN ALL CAPS IT SOUNDS LIKE YOURE SHOUTING. All caps to indicate strong feeling may be the most famous example of typographical tone of voice. But there are several kinds of strong feelings. Linguist Maria Heath asked a cross-section of interne…

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Google updates its speech tech for contact centers

Last July, Google announced its Contact Center AI product for helping businesses get more value out of their contact centers. Contact Center AI uses a mix of Google’s machine learning-powered tools to help build virtual agents and help human agents as they do…

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How to Share Books and Movies Through Amazon Household

Amazons first step in its plan for world domination seems to be making sure that every single person alive is a shopper with an Amazon Prime account. But if you live with a partner or roommate and you're both separately paying for Prime, you're just wasting m…

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Lyft opens autonomous driving dataset from its Level 5 self-driving fleet to the public

Lyft is offering a set of autonomous driving data to to the public that it calls the “largest public dataset of its kind,” containing over 55,000 3D frames of captured footage, hand-labeled by human reviewers, data collected by 7 cameras and as many as 3 lida…

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Could Feds Force Companies to Support Your Right to Repair?

Last Tuesday in Washington DC, while Facebook executive David Marcus was getting grilled by the Senate Banking Committee about the companys foray into cryptocurrency, the Federal Trade Commission was hosting another tech-related panel a mile and a half away. …

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CircleCI closes $56M Series D investment as market for continuous delivery expands

CircleCI launched way back in 2011 when the notion of continuous delivery was just a twinkle in most developer’s eyes, but over the years with the rise of agile, containerization and DevOps, we’ve seen the idea of continuous integration and continuous deliver…

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Teen Love for Snapchat Is Keeping Snap Afloat

When 17-year-old Emma Logan wants to make plans with her friends, she turns to Snapchat. At this point its just the easiest way to contact everyone, she wrote via text. I use it if Im trying to get them to respond. All her friends have Snapchat, and they all …

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Ford Will Make an Electric F-150 Pickup, but Won’t Say When

On July 10, a Ford crew showed up at a Canadian National Railway yard in Montreal with 43 F-150 pickup trucks. They loaded 42 trucks into 10 double-decker rail cars. The 43rd, they left outside. This was a special version of the vehicle that has outsold every…

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Inventables raises $11.5M for its desktop milling technology

Inventables announced this morning that it has raised an $11.5 million Series C. The round, led by Cue Ball, alongside True Ventures, Greycroft, Pipeline Capital and Draper Associates, brings the Chicago-based startups total funding cup to 21 million, per Cru…

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