Users of Amazon‘s Alexa digital assistant can now request that recordings of their voice commands delete automatically. Amazon says it saves such commands to improve the service. But the practice has raised concerns with privacy experts who say the recordings could get into the wrong hands, especially as Amazon and other companies use human reviewers […]
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Slow starts plagued Adam Scott last season, a prime reason the former No. 1 player in the world was winless despite solid overall numbers. After taking a brief break, the 39-year-old Australian is back and emphasizing quicker, more aggressive starts. Andrew Landry is just looking for a jump-start after missing the cuts in the first
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WASHINGTON — A crucial cache of evidence in hand, House Democrats moved quickly on Thursday with an impeachment inquiry they said would be focused tightly on President Trump’s dealings with Ukraine, using an incendiary whistle-blower complaint as a road map for their investigation. The complaint landed like a bombshell on Capitol Hill on Thursday morning
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Image copyright Chinnapong Hundreds of health professionals have written to the NI secretary expressing opposition to the liberalisation of NI’s abortion laws. The doctors, nurses and midwives say their consciences will not allow them to stay silent on the issue. They want reassurance as “conscientious objectors” that they will not have to perform or assist
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Two contestants on the new season of Fox’s “The Masked Singer” are already dressed up with nowhere to go. Wednesday’s Season 2 premiere of the goofy celebrity competition eliminated the entrants wearing Egg and Ice Cream costumes. (Identity spoilers below.) Panelists Jenny McCarthy, Ken Jeong, Robin Thicke and Nicole Scherzinger and the studio audience scooped
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They call him “the Terminator” after Hollywood star, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and now Kudakwashe Mapira has become one of the first disabled people to play football for his country. Kuda describes life growing up in Zimbabwe with a disability “as like living in jail”, but the 28-year-old, who was born without a left foot, is now
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“Investors are buying the future, so help them pencil out the future,” said Rett Wallace, whose firm, Triton Research, analyzes tech companies that are going public. “You can do that with Pinterest. You can’t do that with WeWork. You can’t do that with Uber or Lyft either.” Charles Kantor, a senior portfolio manager at Neuberger
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Stephen Strasburg was dominant in his final regular-season start and the Washington Nationals held their lead in the NL wild-card chase, beating the Philadelphia Phillies 6-3 on Thursday to sweep the five-game series. The Nationals remained one game ahead of Milwaukee, which topped Cincinnati 5-3, atop the wild-card race. Strasburg (18-6) allowed one run on
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WASHINGTON — As House Democrats push forward with an impeachment inquiry into President Trump, Republicans have largely rushed to Mr. Trump’s defense, or at least tempered their criticism to avoid his furious reprisals. Among the handful of exceptions, though, there has been none louder or more prominent than Senator Mitt Romney of Utah, a figure
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Image copyright Getty Images A no-deal Brexit presents risks to the NHS and care homes despite extensive government planning, a watchdog says. The National Audit Office praised the government for the “enormous amount of work” that had been done but said there were still “significant” gaps. The extra shipping capacity government was buying to bring
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