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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Interviews with Facebook content moderation contractors in US show they make ~$28K/year, some develop PTSD, and a few are even radicalized by what they see — The secret lives of Facebook moderators in America — She spent the past three and a half weeks in training …
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| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
The SD Association unveils microSD Express format for mobile with data transfer speeds of up to 985 Mb/s, lower power consumption, and backwards compatibility — The SD Association has unveiled microSD Express, a new format that will bring speeds of up to 985 Mb/s to the tiny memory cards used in smartphones and other devices.
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Microsoft debuts ARM-powered HoloLens 2: more comfortable, lighter, and with a field of view twice as wide as its predecessor's; preorder for $3,500 — Designed to get work done — I am in a tiny room in a basement somewhere in Microsoft's Redmond, Washington headquarters, wearing an early version of the HoloLens 2 headset.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft unveils Azure Kinect, a new depth-sensing camera for enterprises that uses Azure cloud; pre-orders for the dev kit are open now for $399 in China, US — It's for developers to build AI algorithms — Kinect originally debuted as an Xbox 360 accessory for motion sensing so you could control games with your hands or body.
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| Jimmy Westenberg / Android Authority: |
Google says it is bringing Assistant to Android Messages and it will utilize on-device AI so that no conversations will be sent to Google — The Google Assistant is everywhere. To access it on your Android phone, you can either long-press your phone's home button, use the “Okay, Google” …
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| Manuel Bronstein / The Keyword: |
Google Assistant now works in eight Indic languages, gets multilingual support for more languages, is coming to feature phones and Google Maps in more languages — Vice President of Product, Google Assistant … In most countries around the world, phones are the primary way people interact with the Google Assistant.
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Google says Android One activations grew 250% YoY, 50%+ of new entry-level Android devices are Android Go, and Digital Wellbeing tools are coming to more phones — Android's mission has always been to work closely with a broad and open ecosystem of partners to push the boundaries of hardware and software …
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Researchers find new flaws in 4G and 5G letting hackers perform a targeted denial of service attack on a phone and track its location using ~$200 in equipment — A group of academics have found three new security flaws in 4G and 5G, which they say can be used to intercept phone calls and track the locations of cell phone users.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Target launches Target+, a curated, third-party marketplace initially selling home, toys, electronics, and sporting goods products — Target this morning announced Target+, a new initiative designed to expand the assortment on Target.com with merchandise from third-party sellers.
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Sony unveils 6.5-inch Xperia 1 with a cinematic 21:9 4K HDR OLED display, Snapdragon 855, 6GB RAM, triple 12MP cameras, and a 3,330mAH battery — The tall phones are coming — Sony has long struggled to get its phones noticed in the sea of top-tier Android devices, so at MWC 2019 …
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| Frank Chen / Andreessen Horowitz: |
Real-world examples of how AI can augment human powers, help us be more creative, make better decisions, be safer, understand others better, and more — This is a written version of a presentation I gave live at the a16z Summit in November 2018. You can watch a video version on YouTube.| Tom Simonite / Wired: |
A look at Wikidata, a sister project of Wikipedia, whose bot-friendly database supports many AI assistants like Alexa — HUMANS PRICKED BY info-hunger pangs used to hunt and peck for scraps of trivia on the savanna of the internet. Now we sit in screen-glow-flooded caves and grunt, “Alexa!”
Tweets: @wikimediauk, @wired, and @lilianedwards
| Natt Garun / The Verge: |
With latest version of Google Play Services, Android 7.0 and up now supports the FIDO2 standard which lets users login to services using fingerprints or PIN — Here's a good reason to update to your latest version of Google Play Services: Android devices running version 7. and later can now log …
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| Chris Velazco / Engadget: |
LG's 6.1" G8 ThinQ has a speaker embedded in the screen and a front camera that scans the user's palm to unlock and enables non-touch mid-air gesture controls — A palm scanner? AirMotion gestures? What's going on here? — Once upon a time, a few years ago, LG came to Mobile World Congress …
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| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Among foldables unveiled in 2019, Huawei's Mate X feels the most complete compared to Royole FlexPai or Galaxy Fold, but questions about their software remain — A foldable that folds without a gap — Samsung's Galaxy Fold announcement isn't even a week old yet, and we already have a competitor …
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