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Leaked cellphone data from the siege at the Capitol demonstrates how advertising IDs can be used to identify and track the movement of specific individuals — Times Opinion was able to identify individuals from a trove of leaked smartphone location data. — Mr. Warzel and Mr. Thompson are writers in Opinion.
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| Julian Chokkattu / Wired: |
A look at Metalenz, which aims to replace multiple lens elements in smartphone cameras with a single lens system that utilizes optical metasurfaces technology — The optics in your smartphone have been pretty much the same for more than a decade. That's about to change.
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| Will Oremus / OneZero : |
Unlike established social media platforms, Clubhouse is built to replicate real world social structures, norms, and status hierarchies rather than collapse them — The hot new social app has found success by replicating real-world social structures rather than exploding them
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| Mark Stenberg / Medialyte: |
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| Financial Times: |
Analysis: Vision Fund, which posted a record annual loss last March, returned ~$18B to investors by the end of 2020, up from $13.4B it reported in Q3 2020 — After posting a record loss last year, fortunes have changed for the Saudi-backed tech investment fund
Tweets: @arashmassoudi
| Karen Hao / MIT Technology Review: |
Study of 130+ facial recognition data sets compiled over 43 years: driven by ML's data needs, researchers gradually abandoned asking for people's consent — The largest ever study of facial-recognition data shows how much the rise of deep learning has fueled a loss of privacy. — hide
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
As protests grow in Myanmar, NetBlocks says the country's internet connectivity fell to 16% of ordinary levels, indicating a near-total internet shutdown — Myanmar's military leaders are extending their — internet restrictions in a bid to limit protests against their coup.
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
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| Frank Bajak / Associated Press: |
Some experts raise concerns about the US Election Assistance Commission's proposed security standards that would allow voting machines with wireless hardware — BOSTON (AP) — Leaders of the federal agency overseeing election administration have quietly weakened a key element …
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| Washington Post: |
Jody Williams, the owner of TheDonald's domain name, explains why he pulled the plug on the pro-Trump forum that became a staging ground for the Capitol attack — The Army veteran, a site moderator who owned its domain, watched with growing alarm as racism, threats and QAnon references flourished on the pro-Trump site.
Tweets: @tracyjan, @marissa_jae, @brianstelter, @nuclearfootie, and @washpostpr
| Ashley Gold / Axios: |
Microsoft suspends contributions for the rest of the 2022 election cycle to all members of Congress who voted to object to the presidential election results — Microsoft announced Friday it will suspend contributions for the rest of the 2022 election cycle to all members of Congress who voted …
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Microsoft On the Issues, MUO, OnMSFT.com, Neowin, The Verge, and CNBC
| Adam Ciralsky / Vanity Fair: |
Profile of BitMEX cofounder Arthur Hayes, who remains at large after the CFTC filed a suit against BitMEX for allegedly running an unregistered trading platform — The BitMEX cofounder created a cryptocurrency exchange that has traded trillions. Now he's wanted by U.S. authorities … | Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
Andy Jassy is said to be “warmer and fuzzier” than Bezos, but as Amazon's next CEO, he faces many hurdles if he wants its tech to manage workers more humanely — One secret of Amazon's ability to grow rapidly: software and algorithms that manage its millions of employees and marketplace sellers …
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Insider, BBC, and Associated Press
Tweets: @jensmithwsj, @wsj, @shashib, @profgalloway, @mims, @smulpuru, @mims, @mims, and @mims
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: CEO of Robinhood, which had 20M users in 2020 and recently raised $3.4B, told investors that he still plans to take the company public in H1 2021 — The firm that set out to bring investing to the masses has run into the reality of Wall Street regulations
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theblockcrypto.com. Tweets: @onelinders, @greatquarter, @joshuatopolsky, @morganhousel, @elerianm, @rudegeair, @jason, @alex, @compound248, @samanthaladuc, @davidboboy, @fintechfrank, @mims, and @hkanji
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