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How to cancel your Amazon account

Engadget

Georgie Peru for Engadget After submitting the request, Amazon will send a confirmation message to your email or phone number. If you're sure you want to continue, select a reason for leaving from the drop-down menu. Check the box confirming: Yes, I want to permanently close my Amazon account and delete my data. Click Close My Account.

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Spotify brings real-time lyrics to 26 countries, not including the US

The Verge

The new feature uses lyrics provided by Musixmatch, and will be shown in the song’s language. Where available, users can access them by tapping the “lyrics” card at the bottom of the service’s “Now Playing” screen. Lyrics have a complicated history on Spotify.

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From bootstrapped to a $417M valuation, Chile’s Buk raises $50M for its HR management platform

TechCrunch

Buk says it also offers a “friendly” programming language that has many facilities “to quickly develop functionalities.” In September alone, Buk says it grew 7% in Chile, 20% in Colombia, and 23% in Peru month-over-month. . Image Credits: Buk. Buk also has a social good component. Today, the tool is used by 4,000 SMEs.

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UBITS snags $25M to create ‘the Netflix for corporate training’ in LatAm

TechCrunch

Over the years, UBITS has expanded to Mexico and Peru and, in fact, it now has dual headquarters in Mexico, where its two co-founders now live. “We’re personalizing the experience with algorithms based on AI so that we can recommend adequate courses and content to each person depending on their behavior on the platform,” Melo said.

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Y Combinator widens its bet in edtech in latest batch

TechCrunch

Prendea: Peru-based startup that offers live, online after-school classes for Spanish-speaking kids. Poliglota: A language school for Latin America. Manara: A marketplace to connect Middle East talent to tech jobs. Avion School: The education startup teaches Filipino students to be remote software engineers around the world.

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Google Research, 2022 & beyond: Research community engagement

Google Research AI blog

Through exploreCSR , we partner with universities to provide students with introductory experiences in research, such as Rice University’s regional workshop on applications and research in data science (ReWARDS), which was delivered in rural Peru by faculty from Rice.

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How Microsoft Flight Simulator returned to the skies

The Verge

I mean, I’ve never been to Peru, but it was real to me. Carefully,” Neumann says, repeating Bossard’s “sim for simmers” language. A demo called HoloTour, which let players fly around Rome and Machu Picchu, marked the first collaboration with Microsoft’s Bing Maps team. “I And even then, in early 2016 or something.

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