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Data science dominates what we do as developers. Whether you’re managing, modelling or storing data, the latest data science news at Packt Hub will help you stay on top of new developments. We provide news, insights and tutorials around tools and topics like tensorflow, machine learning, deep learning, artificial intelligence and big data.

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A brief list of drafts bills in US legislation for protecting consumer data privacy

US Lawmakers have initiated drafting privacy regulations and also encouraging the enforcement agencies to build a privacy framework which they can easily follow. Last week,...
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Facebook AI research introduces enhanced LASER library that allows zero-shot transfer across 93 languages

Yesterday, the team at Facebook’s AI research announced that they have expanded and enhanced their LASER (Language-Agnostic SEntence Representations) toolkit to work with more...
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Blizzard set to demo Google’s DeepMind AI in StarCraft 2

Blizzard, an American video game development company is all set to demonstrate the progress made by Google’s DeepMind AI at StarCraft II, a real-time...
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Google may pull out Google news from Europe: Bloomberg Report

According to a report  published by Bloomberg yesterday, Google may pull its Google News service from Europe. This decision is dependent on a controversial...

Do you need artificial intelligence and machine learning expertise in house?

Developing artificial intelligence expertise is a challenge. There’s a huge global demand for practitioners with the right skills and knowledge and a lack of...
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Trick or Treat – New Facebook Community Actions for users to create petitions and...

Yesterday, Facebook launched a petition feature called Community Actions, which enables community users to request changes from their local and national elected officials and...
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Russia opens civil cases against Facebook and Twitter over local data laws

On Monday, Russian’s popular watchdog, Roskomnadzor said that it opened a civil case against Twitter and Facebook for failing to explain how they plan...
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Announcing W3C Publishing Working Group’s updated scope and goals

On 18th January, W3C Publishing Working Group published their updated scope and goals The PWG will be focusing on two things: how to define an...
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WhatsApp limits users to five text forwards to fight against fake news and misinformation

Yesterday, Facebook Inc’s WhatsApp decided to put a global limit on the number of times a user can forward a message, as per Reuters’...
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TiDB open sources its MySQL/MariaDB compatible data migration (DM) tool

TiDB, an open source cloud-native distributed database, made its data migration platform (DM)  available as open source today. Data Migration (DM) by TiDB is an...

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Advocacy groups push FTC to fine Facebook and break it up...

Lately, Facebook has been in news for its data breaches and issues related to its illegal data sharing. To add to its sorrows, yesterday,...

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