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Chinese police deploy mobile facial-recognition units mounted on eyeglasses for surveilling crowds — Police are donning the devices as hundreds of millions of Chinese begin traveling for the Lunar New Year holiday — BEIJING—As hundreds of millions of Chinese begin traveling for the Lunar … | Cody Toombs / Android Police: |
APK teardown suggests Google may be preparing to launch an Android Messages web interface, enabling texting from the desktop — There's a new version of Android Messages rolling out to our phones. So far, we haven't seen any significant changes to the UI, but huge things are happening under the surface.| James Risen / The Intercept: |
Sources: US officials tweeted from @NSAGov to prove to Russians that US government was indeed behind secret negotiations to buy stolen NSA documents — The United States intelligence community has been conducting a top-secret operation to recover stolen classified U.S. government documents …
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| Brian Barrett / Wired: |
Inside the prerecorded drone light show at the Winter Olympics opening ceremony, which used 1,218 Intel drones; medal ceremonies to feature live 300-drone acts — THE OPENING CEREMONY of any Olympics provides pageantry at a global scale, a celebration that, at its best … | Steve Lohr / New York Times: |
Study: facial recognition systems of Microsoft, IBM, and China's Megvii had 21%-35% error rate for dark-skinned women versus below 1% for light-skinned men — Facial recognition technology is improving by leaps and bounds. Some commercial software can now tell if a person in a photograph is male or female 99 percent of the time.
Tweets: @upulie, @nytimesbusiness, @dtunkelang, @tressiemcphd, @lesliefeinzaig, and @ceciliakang
| Sarah Scoles / Wired: |
US government controls access to sensitive satellite imagery by regulating sales and buying exclusive imagery rights, driving business to other countries — DURING THE COLD War, on the vast, barren flatland around Area 51's dried-up Groom Lake, the military developed a stealth spy plane code-named Project Oxcart.
Tweets: @digitalglobe
| Paul Vigna / Wall Street Journal: |
Italian cryptocurrency exchange BitGrail says it lost 17M tokens of Nano/XRB cryptocurrency, worth about $170M, suspends withdrawals for all cryptocurrencies — BitGrail says it lost about 17 million tokens of Nano — An Italian cryptocurrency exchange called BitGrail said on Friday …
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| Alyssa Abkowitz / Wall Street Journal: |
Profile of Tencent's Palo Alto-based “chief exploration officer” David Wallerstein, responsible for finding moonshot investments such as air-taxi company Lilium — David Wallerstein is guiding Chinese internet giant's investments in electric flying cars, agriculture startups
Tweets: @jrichlive, @preetatweets, and @mdudas
| Kerry Flynn / Mashable: |
Periscope's users dwindle and future seems uncertain as Twitter fails to invest in the app, communicate clearly, or handle the ongoing child pornography issue — When Twitter announced it had acquired Periscope in March 2015, the app was full of promise. It was one of the first to let … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
UK-based Android smartphone maker Wileyfox, an early Cyanogen adopter, confirms it's gone into administration; at least 20 employees laid off — It's been more than a year since the well-funded startup Cyanogen announced that it would shut down its mobile OS development, and since pivoted to self-driving technology.| Pavan Rajam / the rajam report: |
The rise of subscription streaming services shows Apple's video strategy should focus more on developing original content than building premium TV products — It's been over 2 years since Apple and the TV Market was published, before Apple TV 4's launch. With Apple TV 4K's release in 2017 …
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
YouTube says creators posting videos harmful to users may lose their monetization options and eligibility to be recommended on the platform — After barring Logan Paul earlier today from serving ads on his video channel, YouTube has now announced a more formal and wider set of sanctions it's prepared …
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Engadget, 9to5Google, SlashGear, USA Today, Neowin, Polygon, HYPEBEAST, NBC News, YouTube Creator Blog, The Verge, and The Verge
Tweets: @ytcreators and @phillyd
| Theodore Schleifer / Recode: |
History of estimated Uber valuations, including the latest $1.25B financing round from SoftBank in January; sources: Uber was valued at $72B in Waymo settlement — That's the new claim in the settlement agreement between Uber and Waymo. — How much a company is worth is always a bit of an artificial question in Silicon Valley.
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