BetterHelp sold customer data while promising it was private, says FTC

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Online counseling company BetterHelp has agreed to pay $7.8 million to settle charges from the Federal Trade Commission that it improperly shared customers’ sensitive data with companies like Facebook and Snapchat, even after promising to keep it private. The proposed order, announced by the FTC on Thursday, … Read more

Accelerate hyperparameter grid search for sentiment analysis with BERT models using Weights & Biases, Amazon EKS, and TorchElastic

Financial market participants are faced with an overload of information that influences their decisions, and sentiment analysis stands out as a useful tool to help separate out the relevant and meaningful facts and figures. However, the same piece of news can have a positive or negative impact on stock prices, which presents a challenge for … Read more

Search for answers accurately using Amazon Kendra S3 Connector with VPC support

Amazon Kendra is an easy-to-use intelligent search service that allows you to integrate search capabilities with your applications so users can find information stored across data sources like Amazon Simple Storage Service , OneDrive and Google Drive; applications such as SalesForce, SharePoint and Service Now; and relational databases like Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS). Using … Read more

Tesla’s Investor Day was kind of a dud — that’s okay

Image: Tesla Elon Musk isn’t ready to pull back the curtain quite yet. During the Q&A portion of Tesla’s Investor Day event in Austin, Texas, last night, Musk was repeatedly asked about the company’s next-generation low-cost electric vehicles. For years, Musk has been promising smaller, cheaper vehicles made possible by a more efficient, less expensive … Read more