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Sources: Facebook paid hundreds of contractors to transcribe user audio; FB says it's stopped the work, which affected users who wanted voice chats transcribed — - Social network says it paused human review of conversations — Apple, Amazon, Google have been scrutinized for similar work
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| Josh Taylor / The Guardian: |
Fingerprints of 1M+ people and biometric info from a system used by banks, London police, and defense contractors, discovered on a publicly accessible database — Fingerprints, facial recognition and other personal information from Biostar 2 discovered on publicly accessible database
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Twitter to soon let users follow interests, starting with sports, and create separate timelines for different topics; topics will be curated by Twitter using AI — A new way to explore interests on Twitter — Twitter will begin letting users follow interests, the company said today …
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| Bloomberg: |
FAA sent airlines a reminder to follow 2016 safety instructions that ban goods with recalled batteries, like recently recalled MacBook Pros, from the planes — - FAA says some MacBook Pros shouldn't be taken on airplanes — Apple recently recalled select laptops over battery fire risk
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
WeWork files to raise $1B in an IPO, reports a $904M net loss on around $1.5B in revenue for first half of 2019 — WeWork on Wednesday filed to raise $1 billion in an initial public offering, although the ultimate offering amount is expected to be at least three times larger.
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| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Microsoft patches four wormable BlueKeep-like bugs in Remote Desktop Service, two of which can be exploited remotely without authentication or user interaction — Most Microsoft Windows (ab)users probably welcome the monthly ritual of applying security updates about as much as they look forward …
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| Ed Targett / Computer Business Review: |
Amazon says it has added “fear” to the range of emotions that its Rekognition facial recognition software can now detect — Release follows amid immigration protests — AWS has added “fear” to the range of emotions identified by its Amazon Rekognition facial analysis service …
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| Ian Allison / CoinDesk: |
Sources: Coinbase and Barclays end UK partnership, started in early 2018; Coinbase partners with ClearBank, which may have asked the exchange to drop Zcash — The most prestigious banking relationship in crypto has ended. — Barclays, the London-based global bank, is no longer working …
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Nvidia says it has broken records for real-time conversational AI, training the industry-standard BERT model in 53 minutes and then inferring responses in ~2ms — Nvidia's GPU-powered platform for developing and running conversational AI that understands and responds to natural language requests …
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| John Timmer / Ars Technica: |
A closer look at what Neuralink, Elon Musk's brain-computer interface company, hopes to accomplish beyond the existing work in this field — Neuralink will probably fail in interesting and worthwhile ways. — When Elon Musk first started talking about launching a brain-computer interface company …
Tweets: @arstechnica
| Kaya Yurieff / CNN: |
A look at Snapchat's community of about 100 official lens creators, who make custom AR lenses for people and brands, with Snap helping connect them to buyers — New York (CNN Business)Eighteen-year-old Ana Casciello couldn't find a filter she wanted for her Snapchat photo that matched her personal style.
Tweets: @andrewmendez19, @cnnbusiness, @mariosundar, @basche42, @taylrn, @apocsnap, and @kyurieff
| Sijia Jiang / Reuters: |
Tencent beats estimates with Q2 profit of $3.44B, up 35% YoY, on revenue of $12.65B, up 21% YoY, with smartphone gaming revenue up 26% YoY to $3.16B — HONG KONG (Reuters) - Tencent Holdings (0700.HK) on Wednesday posted a better-than-expected 35% rise in quarterly net profit …
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| Ana Wolsztajn / Tech.eu: |
Berlin-based PaulCamper, a sharing platform for renting and lending RVs, raises €7M Series A led by Adevinta — PaulCamper, a sharing platform for renting and lending RVs, has closed a Series A financing round of €7 million. The round was led by Adevinta with participation …
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| Lauren Smiley / MIT Technology Review: |
A look at Senior Planet, a tech-themed community center that helps seniors and entrepreneurs over 65 use technology to work and make money — Inside Senior Planet, the tech-savviest retirement community on earth. — “All these microaggressions people talk about?” Tom Kamber says.
Tweets: @55fakingnormal
| Daniel Strauss / Business Insider: |
JD.com reports Q2 revenue of ~$22B, up 23% YoY, and net income of ~$90.1M, beating analyst expectations of a $6.3M net loss on $20.9B revenue — - Shares of JD.com rose as much as 8% in early trading on Tuesday after the company posted a surprising profit. Analysts had projected a quarterly loss.
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Verizon sues Rochester, NY to avoid paying fees the city levied over its 5G deployments, uses the FCC's controversial order limiting such fees to argue its case — Verizon lawsuit against Rochester relies on FCC vote to cap city-imposed fees. — Verizon has sued the City of Rochester …
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| Hollywood Reporter: |
Netflix is quickly expanding its global property portfolio, which includes 30+ offices and studios, as it ramps up its global content production — From sizable investments in studio facilities to high-end office spaces in some of the world's priciest neighborhoods, the company is quickly building …
Tweets: @constancejamet, @thrglobal, and @thrmattbelloni
| The Information: |
Sources: Spotify is discussing a plan with Apple to let iPhone users tell Siri to play songs, playlists, albums with voice commands, as anti-trust battle looms — An issue that has long vexed many iPhone users—the inability to play music from Spotify using Siri, Apple's voice assistant—may soon be a thing of the past.| Reuters: |
Trump delayed tariffs for some products like laptops and cellphones, sending Apple's stock up, but Airpods, Watches, and more were not included in the reprieve — WASHINGTON and SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc's (AAPL.O) AirPods, Apple Watch and HomePod, which have helped the company …
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The Verge, CNET, TechSpot, iPhone Hacks, Cult of Mac, and iPhone in Canada Blog. Tweets: @backlon
| Jake Bright / TechCrunch: |
Kobo360, a Nigerian freight logistics startup, raises $20M Series A led by Goldman Sachs and $10M in working capital financing from Nigerian commercial banks — Nigerian freight logistics startup Kobo360 has raised a $20 million Series A round led by Goldman Sachs and $10 million …
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| Dara Kerr / CNET: |
Property owners and hosts, including eight people who dealt with bedbugs in their rentals, say Airbnb doesn't have a systematic procedure to handle outbreaks — Waking up with bedbug bites can be a nightmare. It's also a costly and traumatic problem for Airbnb guests and hosts.
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