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Calling machine learning "one of the most disruptive technologies we will ever encounter in our generation," Amazon Machine Learning Vice President Swami Sivasubramanian introduced  a bevy of new tools  Tuesday at AWS re:Invent . There will be nine new Amazon SageMaker capabilities, a HIPAA-eligible service for healthcare and life science organizations called Amazon HealthLake, and general availability for Amazon Neptune ML, he said. Read the full article at: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/amazon-unveils-dozens-of-machine-learning-tools/

Inc. today opened its largest campus building globally in the city of Hyderabad as it prepares for a furious expansion and battle with nemesis Walmart Inc. in one of the world’s fastest-growing retail markets. The Seattle-headquartered company is making an ambitious push in India, the last major retail frontier still primarily reliant on smallscale neighbourhood and mom-and-pop stores. “E-commerce is so small in India relative to the total consumption, less than 3%,” said Amit Agarwal, Amazon’s country manager for India. AFP■ The campus in Hyderabad was built over three years and can accommodate up to 15,000 workers. The largely untapped country is critical to the global domination plans of both Amazon and Walmart, the latter of which spent $16 billion last year to buy India’s biggest startup, retailer Flipkart. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has so far pledged $5.5 billion for its India operations. Built in Hyderabad over three years, the new campus is Amazon’s first owned building outsid...

Reporter Kashmir Hill spent six weeks blocking Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Apple from getting her money, data, and attention, using a custom-built VPN. Here’s what happened. To read the full story, visit  https://gizmodo.com/i-cut-the-big-five-tech-giants-from-my-life-it-was-hel-1831304194