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    • Documents and interviews reveal Amazon's in-house medical staff at US warehouses are often discouraged by managers from seeking outside help for worker injuries (H. Claire Brown/The Intercept)

    H. Claire Brown / The Intercept: Documents and interviews reveal Amazon’s in-house medical staff at US warehouses are often discouraged by managers from seeking outside help for worker injuries  —  Earlier this year, a falling object struck a worker’s head at an Amazon fulfillment center in Robbinsville, New Jersey. Documents and interviews reveal Amazon's in-house

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    • Parents who depend on glucose monitoring alerts from Dexcom say the company put kids at risk by waiting hours to notify them about a weekend service outage (Anahad O'Connor/New York Times)

    Anahad O’Connor / New York Times: Parents who depend on glucose monitoring alerts from Dexcom say the company put kids at risk by waiting hours to notify them about a weekend service outage  —  Parents who use the Dexcom G6 depend on alarms on their phones if their children’s blood sugar levels are dangerous.  They

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    Building a Mechanical Oscillator, Tesla Style

    Before Tesla devised beautifully simple rotary machinery, he explored other methods of generating alternating current. One of those was the mechanical oscillator, and [Integza] had a go at replicating the device himself. (Video, embedded below the break.) Initial attempts to reproduce the technology using 3D-printed parts were a failure. The round cylinder had issues sealing,

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    • First Black Widow trailer finally puts Scarlett Johansson’s Marvel hero in the spotlight

    The Avengers’ main storyline may have come to an end in Avengers: Endgame this past April, but the first trailer for Scarlett Johansson’s Black Widow is a reminder that Marvel Studios isn’t done with its original crew. Black Widow is the highly anticipated stand-alone movie focusing on Natasha Romanoff’s blood-stained past. The movie takes place

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    • Amazon unveils musical AI keyboard that teaches humans about machine learning

    Last night, Amazon announced an AI-powered musical keyboard called for developers at its re:Invent 2019 conference in Las Vegas. The keyboard, called AWS Deepcomposer, is available in physical and emulator form for folks to try their hand at machine learning. It has 32-keys in two octaves and pre-trained AI models in classical, jazz, rock, or pop genres to get started.

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    • Atomico: European startups are likely to receive a record $34.3B in VC investments in 2019, with US-based VCs accounting for about $10B (Alex Konrad/Forbes)

    Alex Konrad / Forbes: Atomico: European startups are likely to receive a record $34.3B in VC investments in 2019, with US-based VCs accounting for about $10B  —  ndex Ventures partner Danny Rimer always planned to move back to London from Silicon Valley.  But when Rimer returned to England a year ago … Atomico: European startups

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    Fun With A 200-kW Fiber Laser

    We’ve all heard the “Do not stare into laser with remaining eye” joke. It’s funny because it’s true, as pretty much any laser a hobbyist can easily come by permanent damage to eyes unless the proper precautions are taken. But a fiber laser with 200kW peak power is in another hazard class entirely. Granted, outsized

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    • Inside the struggles of Larry Page-backed flying car company Kitty Hawk as sources suggest it may have ceded control of its self-flying taxi program to Boeing (Jeremy Bogaisky/Forbes)

    Jeremy Bogaisky / Forbes: Inside the struggles of Larry Page-backed flying car company Kitty Hawk as sources suggest it may have ceded control of its self-flying taxi program to Boeing  —  Deputy editor for Industry; eyes on the skies  —  In 2017, success seemed to be just around the corner for Kitty Hawk … Inside

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    • Wide-ranging interview with AWS CEO Andy Jassy on the future of the cloud, the competition, market shifts, changing customer requirements, and more (John Furrier/SiliconANGLE)

    John Furrier / SiliconANGLE: Wide-ranging interview with AWS CEO Andy Jassy on the future of the cloud, the competition, market shifts, changing customer requirements, and more  —  In an exclusive one-on-one conversation, Amazon’s cloud chief reveals how he views the future of the cloud, the competition, market shifts, customer demands and controversies Wide-ranging interview with

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