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Interview with Sen. Warren on her plan to break up big tech, including Apple, which she says shouldn't both run the App Store and distribute its own apps in it — Under Warren's plan, Amazon would not be able to sell Amazon Basics products on the Amazon retail store, Google would not be able …
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| Chris Ip / Engadget: |
How Foursquare, which tracks the location of millions via their smartphones and has 100K+ clients including Snapchat and Uber, makes sure its data isn't misused — It seems counter-intuitive that, in the thick of a backlash against Big Tech's data privacy abuses, Dennis Crowley … | Dennis Crowley / Foursquare Intersections: |
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| Manish Singh / VentureBeat: |
Google launches Bolo, an Android app for school children in India to improve reading and vocabulary skills in Hindi and English, using speech recognition — Google, which already dominates India's smartphone, search, and online video market, today launched a learning app for primary school children …
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| Katia Moskvitch / WIRED UK: |
Inside CERN's quest to build a reliable quantum computing device, as it'll need 50-100 times more computing power to process Large Hadron Collider data by 2026 — Quantum computers could help explain some of the most fundamental mysteries in the universe and upend everything from finance to encryption … | Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica: |
Tesla is dealing with the failure to achieve full self-driving by shifting goalposts, as it continues using its customers as unpaid safety drivers for its tech — Tesla just shifted the goalposts for “full self-driving” technology. — An overhaul to Tesla's Autopilot webpage might represent …
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| Tova Cohen / Reuters: |
Report: after Intel reportedly offered $6B for Mellanox in January, Nvidia has now submitted a competing bid for the Israeli chip designer — TEL AVIV (Reuters) - Nvidia Corp has submitted an offer to buy Israeli chip designer Mellanox, the Calcalist financial news website said on Sunday.
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In this month's parliamentary elections in Estonia, 44% of about 561K votes counted were cast online using the e-voting system, setting a new digital record — In this month's Estonian parliamentary elections, a whopping 44 percent of the ballot was cast using e-voting.| Oscar Schwartz / The Guardian: |
AI-based emotion detection has become a $20B industry, but some experts say the foundational science behind the tech is flawed and can adversely affect society — Machines can now allegedly identify anger, fear, disgust and sadness. ‘Emotion detection’ has grown from a research project to a $20bn industry
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| Will Oremus / Slate: |
By shifting focus to private messaging, Facebook is getting closer to emulating WeChat, which has made Apple's control of iOS largely irrelevant in China — The social network's “pivot to privacy” puts iOS in its crosshairs. Welcome to tech's next big rivalry.
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| Tom Simonite / Wired: |
A look at NIST's Facial Recognition Vendor Test program for facial recognition algorithms, which influences purchasing decisions of US agencies and business — LAST YEAR, CHINESE police arrested a man at a pop concert after he was flagged as a criminal suspect by a facial recognition system installed at the venue.
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| Mars Woo / DealStreetAsia: |
Ruhnn Holding, a Chinese e-commerce platform which operates online stores for social media influencers, files for a $200M IPO on Nasdaq — Ruhnn Holding, an Alibaba-backed Chinese e-commerce platform for social media influencers, has filed for a Nasdaq initial public offering (IPO) …
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| Susie Cagle / OneZero: |
The sharing economy, once touted as community-building, sustainable, and a salvation from capitalism, has in fact only ushered in a precarious economic future — ‘Sharing’ was supposed to save us. Instead, it became a Trojan horse for a precarious economic future.
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