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Image copyrightAWSImage caption Andy Jassy heads up Amazon's most profitable division

Andy Jassy may not be famous like his boss Jeff Bezos, but he runs Amazon Web Services (AWS), perhaps the most important part of the Amazon empire.

AWS sells data storage and processing for companies that don't want the headache

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Image copyrightGetty ImagesImage caption Affect-recognition systems claim to be able to detect a person's underlying emotional state

A leading research centre has called for new laws to restrict the use of emotion-detecting tech.

The AI Now Institute says the field is "built on markedly shaky foundations".

Despite

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A New York man has died after being crushed by an empty car accidentally started by remote control.

Michael Kosanovich, 21, had been standing between two parked 2002 Lexus IS300s, on 6 December, when one of them had been started remotely by its owner, police said.

The car rolled forward and he was pinned between the two

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Image copyrightYouTube/ThirtyVirus Image caption Researchers tried to teach AI agents how to look for diamonds on Minecraft using a technique called imitation learning

It takes minutes for most new Minecraft players to work out how to dig up the diamonds that are key to the game, but training artificial

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Image copyrightAmazonImage caption Ring offers cameras that allow people to keep an eye "on what is happening at home"

Video showing a hacker talking to a young girl in her bedroom via her family's Ring camera has been shared on social media amid warnings people need to secure the devices better.

The hacker tells

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This is the cheapest 1TB microSD right nowThis is the cheapest 1TB microSD right now

Amazon has cut the price of the SanDisk 1TB Extreme MicroSDXC UHS-I Memory Card from $450 to $250 in a standout storage deal; that’s a savings of about 44%.

Announced earlier this year, this is currently the only way to get a 1TB memory card into a smartphone and compares favorably with the $246 Lexar Professional 633X 1TB version also on the

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