AWS Greengrass brings Lambda to IoT devices

 Amazon today announced the launch of Greengrass, a new service that will be built into IoT devices to bring them better and smarter compute capabilities. As AWS CEO Andy Jassy noted in today's keynote at Amazon's re:Invent developer conference, Amazon expects that the majority of on-premises hardware will soon be IoT devices as enterprises move their servers into the cloud.… Read More

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Preet Bharara Agrees to Stay on as U.S. Attorney

U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Preet Bharara speaks at Trump Tower after meeting with the president-elect on Wednesday. (Source: Bloomberg)

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Overwhelmed Border PatrolAgents Stuck Serving Burritos to Illegal Immigrants

Border Patrol agents are reporting being overwhelmed by a massive uptick in the illegal immigration of unaccompanied foreign children, leaving some members of the patrol force stuck serving food to kids and ordering various supplies such as baby wipes, according to Mark Morgan, chief of the U.S. Border Patrol, which operates under the Department of Homeland Security.

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Jeh Johnson gives Michael McCaul vote of confidence on border security

Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson gave one of his potential successors a stamp of approval on Wednesday, saying Rep. Michael McCaul is the strongest member of Congress when it comes to border security.

Mr. Johnson and Mr. McCaul were responding to criticisms reported in The Washington Times from advocates for ...

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Dayton's stormy Tuesday

(Scott Johnson) In 1994 or so one of my daughters was in school with one of Mark Dayton's sons. Dayton was serving his last year as state auditor. At a silent auction to raise funds for the school, Dayton contributed Power Lunch for 3 with Mark Dayton at the Minneapolis Club. As the auction was winding down, I noticed that not a single person had entered a bid on it. So I

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Gett secures $100M loan from Sberbank to expand its on-demand ride service

 After raising $300 million from Volkswagen earlier this year, on-demand ride service Gett is getting another tranche of financing. Today the company announces that it has secured a $100 million, seven-year loan facility from Russia's Sberbank. Gett said that it will use this to further expand the service with the bank — one of its big corporate customers — as well more… Read More

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SUSE buys HPE's OpenStack and Cloud Foundry assets

 SUSE, which probably is best known for its Linux distribution, has long been a quiet but persistent player in the OpenStack ecosystem. Over the last few months, though, the German company has also emerged as one of the stronger competitors in this world, especially now that we are seeing a good bit of consolidation around OpenStack. Today, SUSE announced that it is acquiring OpenStack and… Read More

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EPA: Gender Is 'Male, Female, a Blend of Both, or Neither'

The Environmental Protection Agency is entering its second phase of a data project to collect information on the sexual orientation of its employees.

The Sexual Orientation Gender Identity (SOGI) pilot program allows EPA employees to voluntarily disclose their gender identity and sexual orientation, information that the agency says is "crucial" to an "inclusive" workplace.

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Early-bird ticket sales to Disrupt London end December 5

  Are you planning on heading to the UK for Disrupt London next week? If so, you might as well save a few hundred quid in the process by getting early-bird tickets for just £950 apiece, a full £250 less than they'll be if you wait to buy them at the door. You can get your early bird tickets here. Your wallet will thank you. That ticket gets you an all-access pass to everything… Read More

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Baidu doubles the reach of its maps service to tap into China's global travel boom

 Baidu is giving its maps service, China's most popular mobile mapping app with 348 million active users, a massive expansion to 106 new countries. Read More

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Ex-Watergate investigators urge Obama to show leniency to Edward Snowden

 President Obama has been urged to show leniency to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden by 15 intelligence experts, who were part of a 1970s congressional committee that investigated the CIA during the Watergate era. Read More

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A reservation about Betsy DeVos

(Paul Mirengoff) Donald Trump's selection of Betsy DeVos for Secretary of Education has met with considerable praise from conservatives, and for good reason. She has been excellent on school choice issues. However, the Secretary of Education is not in much of a position to affect school choice policy. Perhaps DeVos will help persuade some Republicans at the state and local level to be less resistant to school choice. Other than that, I'm

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These Photos Of Tom Brady's Wife Are The Greatest Thing On The Internet [SLIDESHOW]

Scorching hot...

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Trump Said to Continue Auditions for Secretary of State

President-elect Donald Trump plans to continue his auditions for secretary of state, and will bring back one of the top contenders for the job on Wednesday, according to a person familiar with the transition.

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Peyton Manning Visited The Giants Practice To Give Younger Brother Eli Advice

Have the Giants found a new QB coach?

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Oura Ring raises €5 million to take its smart jewelry mainstream

 A Finnish startup called Ōura Ring has closed a series A round of €5 million to ramp up production of its smart, health-monitoring jewelry. Oura Ring's Series A backers included MIT Media Lab Director Joi Ito, Jaan Tallinn who was Skype's founding engineer and a cofounder of Kazaa and the Future of Life Institute, along with other finance professionals and tech entrepreneurs… Read More

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