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How Devumi uses its 3.5M+ automated Twitter accounts, sometimes based on stolen social identities, to sell followers and retweets to 200K+ customers — Everyone wants to be popular online. — Some even pay for it. — Inside social media's black market.
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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 … | 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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Tweets: @mvitazko, @thesignoffive, and @jdlovejoy
| 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: |
Tweets: @susanbgoldberg, @dirka, @model_the_world, @stevecase, @natgeomaps, @natgeomaps, and @natgeomaps
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
YouTube served ads containing Coinhive's cryptocurrency-mining and CPU-draining JavaScript, likely via Google's DoubleClick; Google says ads now blocked — Ad campaign lets attackers profit while unwitting users watch videos. — YouTube was recently caught displaying ads …
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Tweets: @diegobetto and @drevilgames
| Yuji Nakamura / Bloomberg: |
Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck says it will repay all 260K users who lost money in Friday's theft of ~$400M in NEM coins — Users will receive 88.549 yen for each coin that was stolen — Japanese exchange will compensate clients using internal funds
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| Bloomberg: |
Twitter says Russian-linked bots retweeted @realDonaldTrump 469,537 times and @HillaryClinton 47,846 times in weeks prior to election from Sep. 1 to Nov. 15 — Russian-linked accounts spurred 50,000 retweets of Clinton — Information comes in response to questions from Congress
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United States Senate Committee …, CNNMoney, The Hill, and Haystack.vc
Tweets: @anthony and @selina_y_wang
| Wall Street Journal: |
Profile of Brandon Chez, owner of CoinMarketCap, a source for price data on cryptocurrencies that has become one of the world's most heavily trafficked sites — How a top source of bitcoin data contributed to a sudden plunge in digital currencies — The drop was swift …
Tweets: @jchengwsj and @wsj
| Jan Wolfe / Reuters: |
New Copyright Royalty Board ruling requires streaming services to give 15.1%, up from 10.5%, of revenue to songwriters and music publishers over next five years — (Reuters) - U.S. copyright authorities on Saturday decided to increase over the next five years the royalty payments music streaming companies …
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| Ben Casselman / New York Times: |
Economists worry that the tax incentive competition solicited by Amazon for HQ2 will divert taxpayer funds from education, infrastructure, and other priorities — When New Jersey announced a $7 billion package of tax incentives to try to lure Amazon's second headquarters to Newark …
Tweets: @richard_florida
| 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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BBC, Deadline, Engadget, Reuters, Philip Elmer-DeWitt, The Daily Beast, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Associated Press, Washington Post, Bloomberg, and Reuters. Tweets: @nytben
| Jenny Anderson / Quartz: |
Inside Bridge International Academies, a controversial for-profit company using tablets to send scripted lesson plans to teachers in developing nations — On a Monday morning in October, Faith stands before her class of kids, ages 10 and up. She looks down at her tablet computer, which details the day's lessons.
Tweets: @nadianavi and @andrewrsorkin
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