AWS brings Verified Access security to the Apple enterprise

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AT&T becomes first big mobile carrier to accept Bitcoin payments

Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Fri, 24 May 2019 09:47:00 -0700

AT&T will allow customers to pay their mobile bills using Bitcoin, adding its name to a short list of major businesses and government agencies that allow the blockchain-based cryptocurrency to be used as a form of payment.

While not directly accepting cryptocurrency, AT&T is the first major U.S. mobile carrier to let customers pay in Bitcoin through a third-party service provider.

Customers using its online bill pay service or the myAT&T app will be able to choose BitPay, a cryptocurrency payment processor for payments. The customer pays in Bitcoin and BitPay verifies the funds and accepts the Bitcoin on behalf of the business.

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Amazon launches patient data-mining service to assist docs

Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2018 02:59:00 -0800

Amazon this week announced its latest data analytics product, one aimed at scouring unstructured data within electronic medical records (EMRs) to offer up insights that physicians can use to better treat patients.

Amazon’s new Comprehend Medical AWS cloud service is a natural-language processing engine that purports to be able to read physician notes, patient prescriptions, audio interview transcripts, and pathology and radiology reports – and use machine learning algorithms to spit out relevant medical information to healthcare providers.

Amazon’s Comprehend Medical software service is one of 13 new machine learning software products the company announced on Tuesday.

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