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A look at Clearview AI, a facial recognition app claiming it scraped 3B+ images from sites like Facebook, YouTube, and that 600+ law enforcement agencies use it — A little-known start-up helps law enforcement match photos of unknown people to their online images — and “might lead to a dystopian future or something,” a backer says.
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Amazon says it now partners with 20,000+ neighborhood stores across Tier 1, 2, and 3 cities in India to store and deliver goods under its “I have Space” program — Neighborhood stores dot tens of thousands of cities, towns and villages in India.| Rupert Neate / The Guardian: |
Some analysts say Alphabet could double in value to become a $2T company in the near future, as the total market cap of FAANGs rose by $1.3T over the past year — As Alphabet becomes the latest firm to achieve a 13-figure market cap, analysts still forecast years of growth ahead| Nathaniel Popper / New York Times: |
An analysis of 40 studies finds that the link between social media use and both depression and anxiety among adolescents is small and inconsistent — A growing number of academics are challenging assumptions about the negative effects of social media and smartphones on children.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Instagram removes the IGTV button from its home page; Sensor Tower: IGTV's standalone app was downloaded 1.1M times in the US since its launch in June 2018 — TikTok saw 80X more installs — At most, 7 million of Instagram's 1 billion-plus users have downloaded its standalone IGTV app in the 18 months since launch.
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| Dave Gershgorn / OneZero: |
US Army contracted two firms for $4.5M to create a facial recognition system that analyzes infrared images to identify people at a distance of 10 to 500 meters — Infrared cameras recognize the heat emitted from your face — he U.S. military is spending more than $4.5 million …
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| Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
Insurance comparison shopping startup Insurify raises $23M Series A led by MTech Capital and Viola Fintech — The venture-backed insurance world is more than the Lemonades and MetroMiles of the world. There's more room in the industry for startups to shake things up.| The Verge: |
Profile of Armslist, the “Craigslist of guns” that offers nearly any kind of gun imaginable and where all transactions are done peer to peer — Inside Armslist, the online ‘gun show that never ends’ — Thomas Caldwell was a veteran in his 60s with a soft physique, oval glasses …
Tweets: @momsdemand, @sean_kev, @ma_franks, @reckless, @geigernews, @giffordscourage, @colinlecher, and @kellymakena
| The Intercept: |
Court docs: after a search warrant, Facebook gave Puerto Rico private info from student news outlets; some fear it was a politically motivated search for crimes — As seven University of Puerto Rico students prepare to face trial in February for participating in a nonviolent protest more than two years ago …
Tweets: @lilialuciano, @kaitlin_sb, @schock, @bruno_j_navarro, @clauirizarry, and @theintercept
| Bart Meijer / Reuters: |
TomTom says it has reached a deal with Huawei “some time ago” for the use of its maps, traffic information, and navigation software in Huawei phones — AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch navigation and digital mapping company TomTom on Friday said it has closed a deal …
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| AnnaMaria Andriotis / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Amazon is working with Visa to test checkout terminals that let consumers pay for purchases with their palms — Tech giant plans terminals to let consumers link credit card information to their hands — Amazon.com Inc. AMZN -0.70% wants to make your hand your credit card.
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft knows about an actively exploited bug in Internet Explorer on all Windows versions, but likely won't have a fix until the next Patch Tuesday on Feb 11 — Microsoft has confirmed a security flaw affecting Internet Explorer is currently being used by hackers, but that it has no immediate plans to fix.
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