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.
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 …
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 …
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.
Researchers used a series of auctions to find that it would take on average $1,000+ to entice users to deactivate their Facebook accounts for a year
Some users required more than $1,000 to deactivate their account for one year. … A series of auctions revealed that Facebook users value …
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 constellation...
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.
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 …
Malware attack on Tribune Publishing's network disrupts the printing and distribution of Saturday editions of LA Times, WSJ, NYT, and other papers
disable their ability to print newspapers!” http://www.latimes.com/... Matt Pearce / @mattdpearce : Some new details on the Ryuk malware attack that crippled newspapers across the U.S., and the workar...
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
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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
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
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 …
Chinese online brokerage Futu Securities files for a US IPO, seeking to raise up to $300M, and says it had $92M in revenue for the year ending September 2018
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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 , @yunhe...
Der Spiegel: Volkswagen is planning to write off over $300M it invested in Gett, as the Israeli startup struggles to compete with Uber, Lyft, Didi, and others
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Inside Uber's serious incident team for US where ~130 investigators deal with reports of crashes, physical altercations, sexual misconduct, theft, and stalking
continuing to improve in this area is essential for @Uber. Learn more about what our SRT does and our preparations for a transparency report in 2019 in @financialtimes http://www.ft.com/...
Aadhaar, India's biometric ID program, had its constitutional status upheld in a year of breaches, food rations being denied due to scanning failures, and more
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Inside digital music piracy and sharing in the 2000s via P2P networks like Napster, LimeWire, Gnutella, as well as IRC and internet music service Audiogalaxy
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AI image processing for computer vision, facial recognition, image generation, and other applications saw marked improvements in 2018
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RBC Capital Markets: 41% of US consumers now own a smart speaker, compared to 21.5% in 2017; the growth was mostly driven by Alexa and Google Home devices
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How Amazon is opening tiny stores, adding local language descriptions, and accepting cash payments to target the 800M people living outside India's big cities
some were calling it the ping-pong paddle—it added pop-up descriptions and recommendations in Hindi. http://www.wsj.com/... http://twitter.com/... Shannon Mattern / @shannonmattern : As Amazon targets...
In a formerly undisclosed memo from March, a top FTC enforcement official said Facebook wasn't at fault for Cambridge Analytica's abuses; FTC says probe ongoing
New York Times : Tweets: @nytimesbusiness , @kyweise , @nickconfessore , @justinhendrix , @jake_bernstein , @themoko , @nickconfessore , @nytimes , @nickconfessore , and @matthewstoller See also Medi...
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