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Report: Samsung's upcoming foldable smartphone, possibly called Galaxy Z Flip, to use “Ultra Thin Glass” with a Dynamic AMOLED display underneath — Samsung is preparing to launch its second foldable smartphone next month, and if you can believe it, more leaks are coming out for the device.
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Leila Janah, founder and CEO of Samasource, an SF-based machine learning training data company with a large workforce in East Africa, dies at 37 — The startup community has lost another moral leader today. — Leila Janah, a serial entrepreneur who was the CEO and founder …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Vine co-founder Dom Hofmann launches Byte, a Vine-like short-form video app, on iOS and Android, aims to start its partner program to pay creators “soon” — Two years after Vine's co-founder Dom Hofmann announced he was building a successor to the short-form video app, today Byte makes its debut on iOS and Android.
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| Lauren Goode / Wired: |
How adding wireless chips, motion and pressure sensors, displays, and machine learning to products like toothbrushes is changing our oral hygiene habits — It's easy to bristle at a $200 AI-powered toothbrush, but not for the reasons you might think. — In Las Vegas a couple weeks ago … | Bruce Schneier / New York Times: |
Laws that ban facial recognition miss the larger point: we need laws on all tech used for identification and to decide how much of our data should be surveilled — The whole point of modern surveillance is to treat people differently, and facial recognition technologies are only a small part of that.
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An in-depth look at facial recognition technology, with a primer on how it works, who is using it in the US, and how to avoid it online and in public — The controversial and nearly ever-present technology that could replace the fingerprint — From iPhones and Snapchat filters …
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London police announce they will use live facial recognition cameras within a month for five to six hours at a time with bespoke lists of suspects each time — The Metropolitan Police has announced it will use live facial recognition cameras operationally for the first time on London streets.
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
YouTube gains exclusive streaming rights to Activision Blizzard's big esports events like Overwatch League, which was a Twitch exclusive for the past two years — As part of a multiyear partnership between the game publisher and Google — Video game publisher Activision Blizzard has entered …
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| Anshika Jain / Counterpoint Research: |
India's smartphone market surpassed the US, becoming the second-largest smartphone market globally, reaching 158M shipments in 2019, up 7% YoY — - realme (255%), Vivo (76%), Asus (67%) and OnePlus (29%) were the fastest-growing smartphone brands on an annual basis.
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A federal jury in California reduces the damages Apple has to pay Canadian IP licensing company WiLan for infringing on two wireless patents from $145M to $85M — - Federal jury trial was limited to damages after 2018 verdict — Verdict is latest in decade-long saga over royalties| Chris Smith / Trusted Reviews: |
UK's science minister Chris Skidmore says the UK won't implement EU's Copyright Directive, which includes Article 13, after the country leaves the EU — One of the most intriguing aspects of Britain's departure from the European Union will be which elements of EU law will be dropped and retained … | Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Google is backtracking on desktop search redesign which made it hard to distinguish ads from organic results, will experiment with favicon placements — The company says it will experiment with favicon placement — Google is backtracking on a controversial search engine redesign …
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