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November 2022

AWS now supports natural language forecasting queries in QuickSight Q

November 29, 2022

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced some notable new natural language querying capabilities that enable non-analysts to forecast future business outcomes. By way of a quick recap, AWS first introduced its QuickSight business intelligence service back in 2015, allowing customers to visualize their data through dashboards and reports without requiring the technical prowess of a […]

AWS now supports natural language forecasting queries in QuickSight Q by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCrunch

Amazon announces preview of new Inf2 instances designed for larger models

November 29, 2022

As companies build more complex machine learning models, the cost of training and running these models becomes a real issue. AWS has created a series of custom instances to help bring down the cost, and today it introduced a preview of an all-new Inf2 instance for EC2 designed to process data from larger workloads more […]

Amazon announces preview of new Inf2 instances designed for larger models by Ron Miller originally published on TechCrunch

Amazon Security Lake is a standards-based data lake for security data

November 29, 2022

AWS today announced Amazon Security Lake, a new purpose-built data lake for security-related data. It can aggregate data from cloud and on-premises infrastructure, firewalls and endpoint security solutions. It helps enterprises centralize all of their security data in a single data lake, using a standards-based format, and manage the lifecycle of this data. Security Lake […]

Amazon Security Lake is a standards-based data lake for security data by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch

Amazon takes a step towards a zero ETL future with two announcements at re:Invent

November 29, 2022

Amazon made a couple of announcements today at AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas that helps move data management towards a future without the need for ETL. ETL, extract transform load, is the bane of every data scientist and team as they try to get data into shape to put it to work. As AWS CEO […]

Amazon takes a step towards a zero ETL future with two announcements at re:Invent by Ron Miller originally published on TechCrunch

Twitter says it’s no longer enforcing COVID-19 misleading information policy

November 29, 2022

Twitter is no longer enforcing its policy against misleading information about COVID-19, per an update posted to an official company blog page. Reuters spotted the change earlier — which said the change was effective as of last Wednesday. “Effective November 23, 2022, Twitter is no longer enforcing the COVID-19 misleading information policy,” the social media […]

Twitter says it’s no longer enforcing COVID-19 misleading information policy by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch

AWS launches DataZone, a new ML-based data management service

November 29, 2022

At its re:Invent conference, AWS today announced Amazon DataZone, a new data management service that can help enterprises catalog, discover, share and — most importantly — govern their data. The nifty part here is that AWS is using machine learning to help businesses build these data catalogs and generate the metadata to make it searchable. […]

AWS launches DataZone, a new ML-based data management service by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch

Snapchat complies with the California Privacy Rights Act with a new toggle switch for users

November 29, 2022

Snapchat is adding a new privacy setting that enables users based in California to better protect their sensitive personal information. The company confirmed it’s rolling out a feature designed to comply with the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), which takes effect on Jan. 1, 2023, and applies to personal data collected on or after Jan. […]

Snapchat complies with the California Privacy Rights Act with a new toggle switch for users by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch

We review Abby, a sleek one-plant weed farm for your apartment

November 29, 2022

Abby started its journey selling 120 or so of its “All-In-One Smart Hydroponic Grow Box” on Kickstarter, with a relatively modest $100,000 raised on the crowdfunding platform. The device promises to help you make growing your favorite plants more or less foolproof, especially if your “favorite plants” are marijuana. In its marketing, the company is […]

We review Abby, a sleek one-plant weed farm for your apartment by Haje Jan Kamps originally published on TechCrunch