UPDATE 1-Merck receives FDA approval for Ebola vaccine
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* Companies mentioned: MRK, FB, OnePlus, AMZN, and GOOG
UPDATE 1-Merck receives FDA approval for Ebola vaccine
MRK (Merck & Company Inc) | Reuters
REUTERS/Brendan McDermid(Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Thursday it approved drugmaker Merck & Co’s (MRK.N) Ebola vaccine Ervebo, making it the first FDA-authorised vaccine against the deadly virus. The vaccine was used by the World Health Organization and Democratic Republic of the Congo as an investigational vaccine to help reduce Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreaks in few West African countries from 2014 to 2016.
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Facebook’s Ban on Political Ads Could Backfire on the Left
FB (Facebook Inc) | OZY
A week after Twitter unveiled the final details of its political ad ban in mid-November, Google followed suit with restrictions on microtargeting that severely hamper candidates’ ability to reach potential voters. Still, Facebook is the real ballgame for political advertisers: The social media giant has had nearly 6 million ads (worth almost $1 billion) in that same time frame. First, left-leaning experts worry that posts promulgated by dark money groups and shady for-profits would flourish in the space left in the absence of campaign ads. Others, including the Trump campaign, argue that Republicans — with the more robust digital network of the two parties — have more to lose once that edge is blunted. Eric Wilson, a Republican digital strategist who runs the Learn Test Optimize industry blog, is more concerned that restrictions on political ads would help only Trump.
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Despite its late entry, OnePlus has found a niche in India that it won’t let go
OnePlus | Quartz
India’s premium smartphone market was mostly a duopoly between Samsung and Apple until around four years ago, when OnePlus entered the scene. OnePlus India Vikas Agarwal, general manager, OnePlus IndiaThe Shenzhen-based brand’s meteoric rise in India is often cited as a key reason for the erosion of Apple’s market share in the country. OnePlus as a brand started as an online-only brand globally so we have focussed on e-commerce till now. On Amazon, we have a dominating share in the premium smartphone segment, probably in excess of 60%. Now, we’ve started investing in traditional media channels like print and even television to reach new audiences.
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Amazon's AI creates synthesized singers
AMZN (Amazon.com Inc.) | Venture Beat
AI and machine learning algorithms are quite skilled at generating works of art — and highly realistic images of apartments, people, and pets to boot. It taps a Google-designed algorithm — WaveNet — to synthesize the mel-spectrograms, or the representations of the power spectrum of sounds, which another model produces using a combination of speech and signing data. The frontend performs linguistic analysis on the score lyrics, allowing for three possible vowel levels of stress and ignoring punctuation. (An additional 40 hours of recordings was used to train the WaveNet model and the baseline systems.) The model indeed sang in tune, and it performed best on simpler songs that didn’t include extremely high or low-pitched notes.
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Phone location tracking is frighteningly real: how to protect yourself
GOOG (Alphabet Inc.) | Slash Gear
Phone location tracking is frighteningly real: how to protect yourselfA new report reveals something that we probably already know, perhaps in jest. There isn’t a panacea but we do have means to at least mitigate the effects of smartphone location tracking. Flip that switchFortunately, smartphone platforms do have facilities to curb the number of data apps and services gather, particular about location. This does, of course, require digging into each app and turning location permissions for those that have no business knowing your location. Online services are also culpable of storing location data, with Google and Facebook as the biggest offenders.
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* Companies mentioned: MRK, FB, OnePlus, AMZN, and GOOG
UPDATE 1-Merck receives FDA approval for Ebola vaccine
MRK (Merck & Company Inc) | Reuters
REUTERS/Brendan McDermid(Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Thursday it approved drugmaker Merck & Co’s (MRK.N) Ebola vaccine Ervebo, making it the first FDA-authorised vaccine against the deadly virus. The vaccine was used by the World Health Organization and Democratic Republic of the Congo as an investigational vaccine to help reduce Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreaks in few West African countries from 2014 to 2016.
Read More
Facebook’s Ban on Political Ads Could Backfire on the Left
FB (Facebook Inc) | OZY
A week after Twitter unveiled the final details of its political ad ban in mid-November, Google followed suit with restrictions on microtargeting that severely hamper candidates’ ability to reach potential voters. Still, Facebook is the real ballgame for political advertisers: The social media giant has had nearly 6 million ads (worth almost $1 billion) in that same time frame. First, left-leaning experts worry that posts promulgated by dark money groups and shady for-profits would flourish in the space left in the absence of campaign ads. Others, including the Trump campaign, argue that Republicans — with the more robust digital network of the two parties — have more to lose once that edge is blunted. Eric Wilson, a Republican digital strategist who runs the Learn Test Optimize industry blog, is more concerned that restrictions on political ads would help only Trump.
Read More
Despite its late entry, OnePlus has found a niche in India that it won’t let go
OnePlus | Quartz
India’s premium smartphone market was mostly a duopoly between Samsung and Apple until around four years ago, when OnePlus entered the scene. OnePlus India Vikas Agarwal, general manager, OnePlus IndiaThe Shenzhen-based brand’s meteoric rise in India is often cited as a key reason for the erosion of Apple’s market share in the country. OnePlus as a brand started as an online-only brand globally so we have focussed on e-commerce till now. On Amazon, we have a dominating share in the premium smartphone segment, probably in excess of 60%. Now, we’ve started investing in traditional media channels like print and even television to reach new audiences.
Read More
Amazon's AI creates synthesized singers
AMZN (Amazon.com Inc.) | Venture Beat
AI and machine learning algorithms are quite skilled at generating works of art — and highly realistic images of apartments, people, and pets to boot. It taps a Google-designed algorithm — WaveNet — to synthesize the mel-spectrograms, or the representations of the power spectrum of sounds, which another model produces using a combination of speech and signing data. The frontend performs linguistic analysis on the score lyrics, allowing for three possible vowel levels of stress and ignoring punctuation. (An additional 40 hours of recordings was used to train the WaveNet model and the baseline systems.) The model indeed sang in tune, and it performed best on simpler songs that didn’t include extremely high or low-pitched notes.
Read More
Phone location tracking is frighteningly real: how to protect yourself
GOOG (Alphabet Inc.) | Slash Gear
Phone location tracking is frighteningly real: how to protect yourselfA new report reveals something that we probably already know, perhaps in jest. There isn’t a panacea but we do have means to at least mitigate the effects of smartphone location tracking. Flip that switchFortunately, smartphone platforms do have facilities to curb the number of data apps and services gather, particular about location. This does, of course, require digging into each app and turning location permissions for those that have no business knowing your location. Online services are also culpable of storing location data, with Google and Facebook as the biggest offenders.
Read More
Download Folo, add stock symbols to your watchlist, and get notified.
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