“I was fascinated with computers at an early age,” Lopez said. “And throughout high school, I helped the physics, chemistry, and math teachers and even the baseball coach with a wide range of computing projects. After high school, I earned computer science degrees from MIT (bachelor’s), Brown (master’s), and the University of Washington (PhD). Prior to Amazon, I worked at Bell Labs and NorthWestNet.”
“Anybody here know how much Amazon paid in taxes last year?” Sanders said at a campaign event in New Hampshire, according to The Huffington Post and other coverage. “See, I talk about that all of the time. And then I wonder why The Washington Post … doesn’t write particularly good articles about me. I don’t know why. But I guess maybe there’s a connection.”
“In just the last few months, we’ve added dozens of new features to Alexa that enhance your entertainment experience—control of Amazon Fire TV and your home entertainment systems via Echo; music lyrics,?Amazon?Video, and movie trailers on?Echo Show; and activity-based music searches—and we’re just getting started,” said?Toni Reid, Amazon Alexa vice president, in the news release announcing the feature. “Today, we’re making Alexa even smarter with an all-new feature that lets you play music synchronized on multiple Echo devices to provide room-filling music throughout your home.”
“I am proud to be Chinese, and I hope my achievements will help encourage more ethnic Chinese to dream bigger and achieve their full potential.”
“Estimates are, autonomous vehicles will be here in five to seven years and when fully implemented, 20 million Americans will lose their jobs overnight,” Durkan said. “Good paying jobs. Jobs that support families. What happened in the Rust Belt — Michigan and car manufacturers — will be nothing compared to what happens just from that one kind of technology.”
“If 8 is naturally occurring, such as a floor number, a street or building address, that could be considered lucky. Having said that, Chinese buyers are sophisticated, and they are not interested in contrived marketing concepts such as the pricing trick.”
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“If you’re the President of the United States or a governor of a state or whatever, you don’t take that job thinking you’re not going to get scrutinized,” he said. “You’re going to get scrutinized and it’s healthy. What the president should say is, this is right, this is good. I’m glad I’m being scrutinized. And that would be so secure and confident. But it’s really dangerous to demonize the media.”
“I think this is just another platform for us to give back to our communities, to our customers,” Rhoads said. “For an event like today it is truly important to us to raise awareness for childhood cancer. We have a number of employees and customers whose families have been impacted by the horrible disease and this is just a small way of us being able to leverage our platform like this, fly around the country and raise awareness.”
“Amazon’s adoption of a 100% renewable energy goal, while potentially significant, lacks basic transparency and, unlike similar commitments from Apple, Facebook or Google, does not yet appear to be guiding Amazon’s investment decisions toward renewable energy and away from coal,” the report said.
“Amazon has raised the game in terms of the basics of commerce,” Paul Todd, the head of strategy for eBay Marketplaces, said at The Atlantic’s Silicon Valley Summit this morning.