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| Drew Harwell / Washington Post: |
How deepfakes, AI-generated videos that graft a person's face onto another's body, have been weaponized to harass and humiliate their subjects, mostly women — “Deepfake” creators are making disturbingly realistic, computer-generated videos with photos taken from the Web, and ordinary women are suffering the damage.
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| Frank Chaparro / The Block: |
Intercontinental Exchange subsidiary Bakkt raises $182.5M to build its cryptocurrency exchange; sources: regulatory hurdles delay its plans for bitcoin futures — Bakkt, the cryptocurrency venture by Intercontinental Exchange, has scored $182.5 million to build out its platform aimed …
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| Selim Chtayti / Agence France-Presse: |
Parents are often shocked by inappropriate videos on TikTok, a major hit with teens that Sensor Tower says was the most downloaded app on iOS in H1 2018 — TikTok's video-sharing app was the most downloaded on Apple's App Store in the first half of 2018, beating out Facebook, Instgram and Snapchat| Scott Scrivens / Android Police: |
Screenshots suggest Google is testing group calling and a low light mode in its Duo video chat app for Android — Group calling and a low light mode in Google Duo have been rumored for some time, but we now have our first glimpse of the features in action.
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SiliconANGLE, Engadget, Android and Me, Android Beat, BGR, and 9to5Google
| Wall Street Journal: |
Tech trends for 2019: foldable phones, 5G, cashierless retail, privacy legislation, autonomous delivery wagons, IoT edge computing, and more — From delivery wagons and foldable phones to privacy crackdowns and corporate health tracking, the coming year will make good on some of the tech industry's biggest promises
Tweets: @lars_ruud, @priyankamogul, @djg_media, @yunheekim22, and @msquinn
| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
All photos uploaded to Twinning, Popsugar's tool to match a user's photo with a celebrity's, were accessible from a public AWS storage bucket that is now locked — I thought the worst thing about Popsugar's Twinning tool was that it matched me with James Corden.
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Mashable, 9to5Mac, Gizmodo, Engadget, iPhone in Canada Blog, and Notes from Silicon Valley. Tweets: @mgsiegler
| Kenneth Li / Reuters: |
Source: Netflix to hire Activision Blizzard's Spencer Neumann as its new CFO starting in early 2019; Activision said it intended to fire Neumann in a filing — (Reuters) - Netflix Inc is expected to announce in the next few days that it has poached media finance veteran Spencer Neumann … | Simon Romero / New York Times: |
Since Waymo started testing driverless vans in Chandler, AZ in 2017, nearly two dozen attacks have been made on them including slashed tires and thrown rocks — CHANDLER, Ariz. — The assailant slipped out of a park around noon one day in October, zeroing in on his target …
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The Hill, Boing Boing, 9to5Google, and Quartz
Tweets: @nytnational, @kimmurphy, @pakman, @kressaty, @changeist, @alexstamos, @ivanski, @brooklynspoke, and @tjmisa8
| Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: |
Privacy International: popular Android apps like TripAdvisor, Kayak, Indeed, MyFitnessPal share data with Facebook without user consent, possibly violating GDPR — Some of the most popular apps for Android smartphones, including Skyscanner, TripAdvisor and MyFitnessPal …
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Privacy International, Android Police, SiliconANGLE, 9to5Google, Engadget, Mashable, BGR, TechSpot, Lifehacker, PYMNTS.com, iPhone in Canada Blog, and TechLifeWeb
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| Meng Jing / South China Morning Post: |
Beijing plans to adopt facial recognition-enabled smart locks in its public housing projects involving 120K tenants in 2019 to crack down on illegal subletting — - The smart lock is one of the latest hi-tech tools authorities are using to keep an eye on its citizens| Echo Huang / Quartz: |
China-owned spacecraft maker CASIC launches first of 156 satellites intended to provide internet service by 2022 to rural China and then to developing countries — Over the weekend, China launched a satellite into low-earth orbit, the first step of a plan to provide global satellite internet … | Katie Hafner / New York Times: |
Lawrence Roberts, who helped design the Arpanet and oversaw its implementation in 1969, dies at 81 — In late 1966, a 29-year-old computer scientist drew a series of abstract figures on tracing paper and a quadrille pad. Some resembled a game of cat's cradle; others looked like heavenly constellations … Sponsor Posts
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