According to Capital One, that data includes approximately 120,000 Social Security numbers and approximately 77,000 bank account numbers #CapitalOne #Databreach https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-29/capital-one-data-systems-breached-by-seattle-woman-u-s-says

Great! I’ve been asking and waiting for this digital membership card scan feature for quite sometime from #Costco Still not a complete cardless solution at their gas stations yet. #CostcoiOSApp

My guess is someone who wrote code must either logging all HTTP requests or user objects and passwords were accidentally included in diagnostic logs, but who knows! And it valued at $7.6 billion earlier this week 🤦‍♂️ #Robinhood #RobinhoodPassword

Big deal for enterprise technology and Seattle tech. Tableau Software will remain based in Seattle and will continue to operate independently under the Tableau brand. ‬ Read More

Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft. “Together with Spektacom and Star Sports, we are bringing the power of Azure and Azure Sphere to one of the world’s most celebrated games – cricket – transforming how it’s played, coached and watched.” Read More

Amazon Go rivals on the rise. ‘Standard Cognition’ appears to be first to announce a deal in actual stores. Other startups, Accel Robotics and Caper Lab, are using a similar system. Microsoft is in line next? Read More

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Long Nose of Innovation: Every “wow” moment is preceded by a long period of slowly building innovation. Read More: https://www.wsj.com/articles/we-were-promised-mind-blowing-personal-tech-whats-the-hold-up-1525356604

Apple said the investments — including a brand new US campus, data centres and more than 20,000 new jobs — would help it make a $350b “direct contribution” to the US economy over the next five years. Some of that is new investment, but some is just taxes. Read More

They have beaten us at chess, co-written a pop album. Now computers are taking a step ahead into human world: the reading comprehension test. In the test administered last week, Microsoft and Alibaba subjected their artificial intelligence systems to queries from the Stanford Question Answering Dataset, which assessed reading comprehension. The computers’ answers were compared against average human responses and ranked. Read more