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Gas Payment Solution PayByCar Launches In Massachusetts

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A first-in-the-nation payment solution that allows drivers to purchase gas from their cars without taking out cash, a credit card or a mobile app has launched in Westborough, MA. We chose the MetroWest area to launch this new technology — and Westborough, MA specifically — because the community matches our target market demography. “We

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Amazon To Shut Down Free Sample Program

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Ron Wyden of Oregon, Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, Ed Markey of Massachusetts, Chris Coons of Delaware and Gary Peters of Michigan sent a letter Wednesday (Nov. They asked whether the technology could be accessed by foreign entities and whether the technology posed a risk to national security.

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Amazon Discontinues Free Sample Program

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Ron Wyden of Oregon, Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, Ed Markey of Massachusetts, Chris Coons of Delaware and Gary Peters of Michigan sent a letter Wednesday (Nov. They asked whether the technology could be accessed by foreign entities and whether the technology posed a risk to national security.

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Regional Banks Guide Corporates To Future-Proof Accounts Payable

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People’s United Bank, which operates across Connecticut, southeastern New York state, Massachusetts, Vermont, Maine and New Hampshire, recently demonstrated the growing interest of community banks to collaborate with FinTechs to expand their product offering — just as larger national and multinational financial institutions (FIs) do.

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Amazon Supports Facial Recognition Tech Legislation

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Amazon supports a national legislative framework for the use of facial recognition that “protects civil rights and ensures that governments are transparent in their use” of the technology. Amazon said Rekognition wasn’t used correctly in those scenarios, and that it was confident the technology was viable.

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House to hold hearing on artificial intelligence

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Those issues include the potential for data sets used in AI to “contain errors, [be] incomplete, and/or contain data that reflects societal or historical inequities,” challenges in applying the existing legal framework (ECOA, FHA, FCRA) to AI technologies, and risks of “regulatory sandboxes.” Dr. Makada Henry-Nickie, David M.

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Lawmakers Question Amazon About Ring Smart Doorbell Data

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Ron Wyden of Oregon, Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, Ed Markey of Massachusetts, Chris Coons of Delaware and Gary Peters of Michigan sent a letter Wednesday (Nov. They asked whether the technology could be accessed by foreign entities, or whether the technology posed a risk to national security.

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