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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Remote exploit, successfully demoed on two fully-updated Samsung smart TV models in Feb., compromises TVs via maliciously-crafted digital video broadcast signal — Demo exploit is inexpensive, remote, scalable—and opens door to more advanced hacks. — A new attack that uses terrestrial radio signals …
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| Kirsten Korosec / Fortune: |
Carvana, online used car seller using vending machines for some sales, files for $100M IPO; firm had revenue of $130.4M in '15, $365M in '16 on loss of $93.1M — Carvana, the online marketplace for buying used vehicles, filed for an initial public offering on Friday.
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| Siddhartha Mukherjee / New Yorker: |
How deep learning algorithms can be used to augment doctors with diagnosis — In some trials, “deep learning” systems have outperformed human experts. — One evening last November, a fifty-four-year-old woman from the Bronx arrived at the emergency room at Columbia University's medical center with a grinding headache.
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| Ben Popper / The Verge: |
JetSmarter, “Uber for private jets”, faces member pushback over perk changes, price increases, non-disparagement clause, as it struggles with its cost structure — Tim Martz made his fortune in broadcast radio, but even as a wealthy man, the price of chartering a private jet always stung a bit.| Jason Del Rey / Recode: |
Industry insiders shed light on how pricing war between Amazon and Walmart is putting pressure on suppliers of consumer packaged goods — Grocery suppliers are feeling the squeeze — big-time. — Last month, Walmart gathered some of America's biggest household brands near its Arkansas headquarters for a tough talk.Thanks:@ravichandrans25
| Benedict Evans: |
Beyond obvious effects like better efficiency and safety, thoughts on the 2nd and 3rd-order consequences that electric and autonomous cars might have on society — There are two foundational technology changes rolling through the car industry at the moment; electric and autonomy.
| Landon Thomas Jr / New York Times: |
BlackRock, the largest fund company in the world, shifts away from actively managed mutual funds and starts relying more on algorithms and models to pick stocks — Score one for the machines. — From the moment Laurence D. Fink, the chief executive of BlackRock, created the largest fund company …
Tweets: @grady_booch and @aaronklein
| Ellen Rosen / New York Times: |
Facebook now requires women and ethnic minorities to make up at least 33% of law firms' teams working on the company's matters — Like other Silicon Valley giants, Facebook has faced criticism over whether its work force and board are too white and too male.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
New invite-only Amazon Influencer Program lets influencers with “large followings” earn affiliate revenue through their own curated selections on Amazon's site — Social media influencers - like Instagram stars or YouTube celebs - often promote products they like … | Steve Kovach / Business Insider: |
Samsung's Galaxy S8 facial recognition feature can be fooled with a photo; Samsung suggests using fingerprint or iris scanning for more security — Samsung's newest security feature can easily be fooled. — The Samsung Galaxy S8, which launches April 21, has a new facial recognition feature …
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YouTube, International Business Times, The Verge, Digital Trends, USA Today, and Forbes
| Asha McLean / ZDNet: |
IBM X-Force report: over 4B personal records leaked online in 2016, up 566% YoY; hackers increasingly targeting unstructured data such as email archives, IP — A report from Big Blue's security arm has found that the number of records compromised grew by 566 percent in 2016 to more than 4 billion.
| Tim Peterson / Marketing Land: |
Why chatbots on services like Messenger and Kik have struggled to live up to the hype, and how developers are trying to reverse their downward trend — Chatbots in apps like Facebook's Messenger and Kik have struggled to live up to the hype, but that might actually help them succeed.
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