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Amazon's Cloud Service Giant AWS

AWS is getting into the encrypted messaging business.

The company has just announced that it has acquired

Secure Communications Service Wicker, a messaging app that has geared itself

towards providing services to government and military groups and enterprises.

If you thought it was strange that an e-commerce company runs the world's biggest public

cloud service, it may feel even stranger that that same public cloud service just bought an encrypted messaging service.

But in the platform era, tech companies want to do everything, so we shouldn't be shocked.

Let's see what's going on in the world of startups.

Want to know what's new in deep science?

Devon Kaldaway has a digest of science work ranging from predicting liquid flow

based on still images to AI systems faking confidence.

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