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Facebook Buys Confirm.io, Snags IBM’s Chief AI Exec

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Executives from Facebook’s Artificial Intelligence Research group ( FAIR ) and its Applied Machine Learning group will report to Pesenti. In September, the social media company disclosed it was opening an AI lab in Montreal. Pesenti was most recently at the European company BenevolentAI. Confirm.io

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Baby Boomers Vs. Millennials: Eerily Similar?

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Interestingly enough, recent Pew Research Center research shows these two groups are slowly becoming more similar to one another in terms of finance, living situations and their online presence. This may be due to the fact that major cities throughout the country, like Boston and New York City, are seeing significant rental price surges.

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Crypto 2020: One Step Up; Two Steps Back

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The Federal Reserve said this year that its Boston bank is working with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to explore the possibility of issuing digital currency. For now, simply exploring the feasibility of digital fiat is top of mind. and international sanctions, and decrease America’s influence in the global marketplace.

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Upcycling Dog Treats Into Sustainable Snacks With eCommerce

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Co-founder James Bello initially worked at the headquarters of a major retail chain, and then moved to Boston to serve in their innovation group. Its core group is couples and singles , but tends to skew more female. Bello said their demographic is essentially “groups who don’t have children at home, but who have dogs.”

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Finding Falafel Success On Main Street

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Years later, when he found an opportunity to open the restaurant’s first franchise, D’Alessio was ecstatic about bringing the taste he loved during his college days to Boston. The restaurant brought falafel to Boston in a whole new style. as an 18-year-old George Washington University student. Much like Washington, D.C.,

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SMB Profile: Looking Forward To Christmas In Connecticut

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On March 24, on what would have usually been a busy day at the start of spring, the state ordered all nonessential retail shops on the green to shut down, as the pandemic crept its way north from New York City and south from Boston. Burns has been more focused on social media.

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Kombucha, Bingeing, Legos And Wine: How We’ll Keep Busy In Quarantine

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The phrase has since been uttered quite a few times, by many, many sports luminaries: Magic Johnson, Nancy Kerrigan, Michael Jordan, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the 2004 World Series Boston Red Sox. And then there were our favorite responses, all from PYMNTS staff, a group whose answers were unique in two ways. Americans are brave people.