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Facebook “multicultural affinity” ad targeting guesses user's race based on behavior, used to serve different Straight Outta Compton film trailers — Facebook's ad platform now guesses at your race based on your behavior — Company profiles users so Facebook can sell against their “ethnic affinity.”
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How the White House, initially receptive to Apple's arguments for strong encryption, came to support the FBI — The Behind-the-Scenes Fight Between Apple and the FBI — On June 2, 2014, Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook took the stage at the company's Worldwide Developers Conference … | Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post: |
Johns Hopkins researchers find an iMessage bug that allows attackers to decrypt photos and videos on older iOS versions — Johns Hopkins researchers poke a hole in Apple's encryption — Apple's growing arsenal of encryption techniques — shielding data on devices as well as real …
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Geoffrey Hinton, the “godfather of neural networks” on the importance of AlphaGo's use of intuition, why humans shouldn't fear AI, and what AI can take on next — The meaning of AlphaGo, the AI program that beat a Go champ — In the right circles, it had all the buzz …
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| Michael Weissenstein / Associated Press: |
Airbnb in Cuba now available to all, not just US-based travelers, after special authorization from the Obama administration — Online Lodging Service Airbnb Opens Cuba Listings To World — HAVANA (AP) — Online lodging service Airbnb is allowing travelers from around the world to book stays …
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| Chris O'Brien / VentureBeat: |
How 21-year-old Opera sold for $1.2B and why CEO Lars Boilesen and CTO Håkon Wium Lie are ambivalent about it — Opera's $1.2B sale: Shocking underdog victory or cruel twist of fate 21 years in the making? — FEATURE: — The news that Norway's Opera Software accepted … | Lee Gomes / IEEE Spectrum: |
Google's Chris Urmson envisions decades-long incremental rollout of self-driving cars, beginning in locations with good weather and easy driving conditions — Google Self-Driving Car Will Be Ready Soon for Some, in Decades for Others — If you're one of the millions of people pining …
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Mattermark announces $7.3M Series B at a $42M valuation, led by Foundry Group, which also led their Series A; company now emphasizing sales intelligence service — Sales research startup Mattermark raises $7.3 million, now valued at $42 million — Mattermark, which has evolved rapidly … | Chris Ziegler / The Verge: |
NHTSA and IIHS: 20 automakers, representing more than 99% of US auto market, have agreed to make automatic emergency braking standard in US cars by 2022 — Automatic emergency braking will be standard in most US cars by 2022 — The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) … | John Callaham / Windows Central: |
Microsoft plans to offer tool to port Chrome extensions to Edge browser — Windows Insider members can try out a few extensions in Microsoft Edge on the PC version of Windows 10, with more promised in the future. However, a lot more could find their way to Edge if Microsoft sticks to a plan …
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| Angela Doland / Ad Age: |
GroupM: 49.7% of total ad spend in China will go toward the Internet this year, up 30% year-over-year; 31% of worldwide ad spend will go toward the Internet — Half of China's Ad Spending Will Go Toward the Internet This Year, GroupM Says — The Flipside: Spending on TV is Expected to Drop 4.5% in 2016| John Kennedy / Silicon Republic: |
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