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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
AI advances are now making automated analysis of live surveillance video possible, presaging useful applications while raising serious questions about privacy — What happens when digital eyes get the brains to match? — We usually think of surveillance cameras as digital eyes …
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| Robert Draper / National Geographic: |
A deep look at the evolution of visual surveillance technology, where it is headed, and what its continuing rise will mean for security, transparency, privacy — London authorities were early adopters of widespread closed-circuit television (CCTV) — surveillance after the city was targeted …
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
YouTube served ads containing Coinhive's cryptocurrency-mining, CPU-draining JavaScript, likely via Google's DoubleClick ad server; Google says ads now blocked — Ad campaign lets attackers profit while unwitting users watch videos. — YouTube was recently caught displaying ads … | Yuji Nakamura / Bloomberg: |
Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck says that 500M NEM cryptocurrency tokens, worth ~$400M, have been “illicitly” transferred out of the exchange — Coincheck Inc., one of Japan's biggest digital exchanges, said that about $400 million of the NEM cryptocurrency was lost after it was sent …
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| Ryne Hager / Android Police: |
Google's AI-powered Clips camera is now available in the US Google Store for $249, with first deliveries expected in March — Three months ago Google announced the Google Clips, a tiny clip-on camera powered by some impressive machine learning technology. The idea behind it was that rather …
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| Josh Lovejoy / Google Design: |
Google details human-centered UX approach for its Clips camera, says AI for capturing memorable moments was trained with the help of professional photographers — Using Google Clips to understand how a human-centered design process elevates artificial intelligence
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| Nitasha Tiku / Wired: |
Diversity advocates inside Google, including queer and transgender staff, say they are being targeted by a small group of coworkers with doxxing and harassment — FIRED GOOGLE ENGINEER James Damore says he was vilified and harassed for questioning what he calls the company's liberal political orthodoxy …
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| Evan Blass / VentureBeat: |
Renders of upcoming Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9+ leak, both look similar to their S8 predecessors — EXCLUSIVE: — Having opted against what would have been an uncharacteristic debut at the recent Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas — in teaser capacity or otherwise …
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| Theodore Schleifer / Recode: |
Sources: VCs with long Bitcoin experience like a16z, USV, are passing on Telegram's ICO; VCs newer to cryptocurrencies like KPCB, Sequoia, Benchmark, investing — The investors are not who you'd expect. — Some of the most prominent investors in cryptocurrency are passing …
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| Ben Hubbard / New York Times: |
Billionaire Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, investor in companies including Twitter and Lyft, is released after November arrest amid corruption crackdown — BEIRUT, Lebanon — Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, Saudi Arabia's most prominent and flamboyant investor, has been released from detention …
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt, BBC, Reuters, Associated Press, Financial Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Bloomberg, and The Daily Beast. Tweets: @nytben
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook will allow fans of game streamers to tip creators a minimum of $3 as part of its new gaming creator pilot program — Facebook Live is launching monetization for video gameplay streamers, allowing users to tip creators a minimum of $3 via the desktop site.
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Facebook for Developers, Mashable, Social Media Today, Tech Times, Engadget, Gizmodo, Variety, VentureBeat, Recode, and The Verge
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| Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land: |
CIRP: Amazon has 69% of smart speaker market in US with 31M units, Google has 31% with 14M; Google gained share this holiday season with 40% of units sold — According to new survey-based data from Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP), Google Home has gained some ground on Amazon's Alexa device universe.Sponsor Posts
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