picket signs in the warehouse’s truck lane. ashley robinson, a senior amazon public relations manager, had flown in from seattle and was greeting reporters at the warehouse. outside, as the temperature hit 91, the air was thick with humidity. torrential storms were predicted for later that ...
Alex. Brown then parlays this interest into informal negotiating sessions with 3 of the top 10 Web portals, and Ben is flying off to Seattle and Boston. Within a month, Ben has five major companies poking him with a stick and has conducted a technical due-diligence session, while another ...
If you’ve already been working on your storytelling skills, you’ve probably come across nonprofit marketing gurus likeJulia CampbellandVanessa Chase Lockshin. (If not, add them to your reading list!) But there are some additional folks we think you should know for their insightful storytelling...
shawn bush travis jones never thought of himself as college material. he stopped showing up for school midway though the 10th grade, having realized he could no longer pretend to care about reading novels or memorizing the root causes of wars. his worried parents switched him to an online ...
“let me ask you a question, alexa. yesterday there was a huge storm, a big windstorm here in seattle.” “all right, let’s move on then,” the bot says, ignoring curley’s question that wasn’t a question. “tell me, are you more interested in reading books or watching movies?
Marshall is based in Seattle, where she’s learning to love rain. ... Read more Staff Writer Paresh Dave is a senior writer for WIRED, covering the inner workings of Big Tech companies. He writes about how apps and gadgets are built and about their impacts while giving voice to the ...
Forums where crowd workers gather to gripe and swap tips reveal that it’s a collaboration between Carnegie Mellon University and the Allen Institute for AI in Seattle. Like Twenty Billion, they are gathering crowd-acted videos by the thousand to try and improve algorithms’ understanding...
The guy who invented the Smiley face is running for mayor of Seattle - for real. It was in the news.Mom phoned the minute I entered my office. She visited the garage this morning - a hot, dry Palo Alto morning, with white sunlight screaming in through the cracks around the garage ...
facebook put gibbs at the head of a new team, based in seattle, known initially as careml. the new group quickly proved its worth. gibbs and his engineers embraced a technology called deep learning , an approach to training algorithms with example data that had recently become muc...
They were restless and uneasy and then saw the violent disorder of Seattle—“and people here have very strong opinions on Seattle,” Hull says. Once the antifa rumor began, “They had a target where they could focus their armchair rage. It was a perfect storm of stupidity.” In the ...