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Profile of ObEN, which creates “personal artificial intelligences”, life-size holographic AI avatars, by modeling people's appearance and adapting their voice — In January 2019, when China Central Television, the largest broadcast network in the most populous nation in the world …
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Snapchat's popular new gender-changing filter provokes mixed reactions in the LGBTQ community, with some lauding the ability to safely explore themselves — A Snapchat photo filter that lets people see themselves in highly feminized or masculine form has proven wildly popular.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Physical storage startup Clutter, valued at $600M in its last raise, acquired the storage business of rival Omni, which is pivoting to rentals of personal items — On the heels of Clutter announcing a large growth round of $200 million earlier this year, the storage startup is cleaning up the competitive field.
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Google has a “Purchases” page that shows your purchases based on receipts you have in your Gmail inbox; Google says only you can view your purchases — KEY POINTS — Google saves years of information on purchases you've made, even outside Google, and pulls this information from Gmail.
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| Esha Vaish / Reuters: |
Swedish startup Einride's driverless truck T-pod gets a permit to make short trips on a public road in an industrial area in central Sweden at up to 5 km/hr — JONKOPING, Sweden (Reuters) - Resembling the helmet of a Star Wars stormtrooper, a driverless electric truck began daily freight deliveries …
| Sean Captain / Fast Company: |
Profile of Tall Poppy, which has raised $1M+ seed round to help companies protect employees against online threats from trolls and hackers — Anyone who's spent some time on Twitter knows that vilification and personal attacks-as extreme as threats of rape and murder-are a standard feature of some people's online lives.
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| Shirin Ghaffary / Vox: |
A look at various tools such as drones, sensors, and AI being deployed at the US-Mexico border, as a proposed “smart wall” garners bipartisan political support — Here's what a so-called “smart wall” of technology at the US-Mexico border looks like. — Graphics by Javier Zarracina/Vox| Lizzie O'Shea / Longreads: |
All harmful technologies are a product of unethical design, yet, like car companies in the '70s, today's tech companies would rather blame the user — an excerpt adapted from Future Histories: What Ada Lovelace, Tom Paine, and the Paris Commune Teach Us about Digital Technology |
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
IBM report attributes a 95% decline in attacks caused by hacktivist groups since 2015 to the disintegration of Anonymous and sustained law enforcement crackdown — Hacktivist scene collapses as Anonymous hacker collective dies a slow death. — Threat intelligence analysts have long …
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| Eric Feng: |
VC-backed consumer startups are outperforming enterprise startups at IPOs in this decade, going public more often at higher valuations, compared to the 2000s — On May 10th, ride hailing juggernaut Uber Technologies went public raising $8.1 billion at an initial valuation just over $75 billion.
Tweets: @efeng, @efeng, and @gavinsbaker
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Salesforce says faulty script deployment gave users access to all of their company's Salesforce data, forcing it to shut down much of its infrastructure Friday — Faulty production script gave users access to all their company's Salesforce data. — Salesforce is going through …
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| David Meyer / Fortune: |
Italy launches Google antitrust probe, says Google refused to integrate Italian energy giant Enel's app to find electric car charging stations into Android Auto — Google has been hit by yet another antitrust investigation in Europe, but this time it's not about well-worn complaints … Sponsor Posts
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