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MLCommons debuts with public 86,000-hour speech dataset for AI researchers

If you want to make a machine learning system, you need data for it, but that data isn’t always easy to come by. MLCommons aims to unite disparate companies and organizations in the creation of

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Teachers deserve two screens, and Two Screens for Teachers aims to get them just that

The pandemic has caused K-12 classrooms, chaotic at the best of times, to descend into Zoom call chaos. What’s more, thousands of teachers who must wrangle this new, weird system are doing so wi

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U.S. equities eke out modest weekly gains amid economic data, stimulus stalemate

Children play on the Charging Bull at Wall Street in New York, the United States, July 29, 2020. (Xinhua/Wang Ying)"We're in a moment in history where few things seem normal, and there are many unknow

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Millions face cuts to emergency unemployment benefits in the U.S.

01:49 COVID-19 has forced millions of unemployed Americans to make impossible choices to make ends meet.And they’re facing even harder times as lawmakers wrangle over a second huge sti

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As remote work booms, Everphone grabs ~$40M for its ‘device as a service’ offer

The latest startup to see an uplift in inbound interest flowing from the remote work boom triggered by the coronavirus pandemic is Berlin-based Everphone, which sells a ‘mobile as a service̵

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Global stocks dip as ECB chief calls for quick action from Brussels

Global stocks fell Thursday following mixed U.S. economic data and earnings, and as the European Central Bank (ECB) chief called on EU leaders to quickly agree on a huge recovery plan.The pullback ca

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Global Business Daily: ECB urges crisis fund move, China growth

"It is important for the European leaders to quickly agree on an ambitious package."That was Christine Lagarde, speaking in Frankfurt today. The European fiscal capital was the setting for the latest

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Spanish prosecutors file tax fraud suit against Carlo Ancelotti

Everton's Italian head coach Carlo Ancelotti during the English Premier League match between Everton and Liverpool in Liverpool, northwest England, June 21, 2020. /VCG Prosecutors in Madrid sa

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DNAnexus raises $100M for a cloud-based analytics platform aimed at genomics and other clinical big data

DNAnexus, which provides a cloud platform for governments, universities, doctors, and pharmaceutical companies to tap into DNA and other clinical datasets and collaborate on scientific research projec

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Xinhua Headlines: Behind grim milestone of 100,000 coronavirus deaths in U.S.

-- With 4.25 percent of the world population, the United States has suffered over 28 percent of global pandemic deaths so far. Its death toll is more than double the number of deaths reported in any

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Serie A full training delayed as La Liga starts group exercises

Ndary Adopo (L) and Wilfried Singo of Torino FC after individual training sessions in Turin, Italy, May 8, 2020. /VCG The start of full training at Italy's professional soccer clubs has been p

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How ‘The Mandalorian’ and ILM invisibly reinvented film and TV production

“The Mandalorian” was a pretty good show. On that most people seem to agree. But while a successful live-action Star Wars TV series is important in its own right, the way this particular s

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Trump's impeachment trial is little more than political theater

U.S. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff speaks at a press conference during the Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, January 25, 20