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 …
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.
Clayton Christensen, the author of the theory of disruptive innovation, dies at 67
Apple's Steve Jobs, Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Netflix's Reed Hastings and Intel's Andy Grove looked to influential management thinker — SALT LAKE CITY — Clayton Christensen, whose theory of disruptive in...
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.
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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
Sources: US withdrew proposed rules which would have made it harder for US firms to sell to Huawei from overseas facilities, following DOD, Treasury objections
depriving them of money for research and development needed to maintain a technological edge, the people said.” https://www.wsj.com/... Dustin Volz / @dnvolz : Commerce officials have withdrawn propos...
Sources: Accenture has sent a form to Facebook content moderators working at a European facility requiring them to acknowledge that their job could cause PTSD
or else Mehreen Kasana / Input : Report: YouTube moderators forced to sign legal documents acknowledging possibility of PTSD BeauHD / Slashdot : YouTube Moderators Are Being Forced To Sign PTSD Forms ...
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 … Tweets: @calsunday , @joejerome , @calsunday , @calsunday , @privacyproj...
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
Google has started charging law enforcement agencies fees for legal demands of user information such as emails, location tracking information and search queries
The tech giant has begun charging U.S. law enforcement for responses to search warrants and subpoenas. Tweets: @gabrieldance , @danielle_ivory , and @larakiara Tweets: Gabriel Dance / @gabrieldance : ...
Google confirms that I/O 2020 will take place from May 12 to May 14 at the Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View
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Galvanize to be acquired by education company K12 Inc. for $165M in cash, according to an email to shareholders; some shareholders won't get proceeds
A wave of consolidation in the education technology market appears set to continue this year. — K12 Inc., a publicly-traded education company … Tweets: @jhtscherck , @frankcatalano , @kateclarktweet...
LA-based commercial real estate marketplace CRExi raises $29M, says it had $700B worth of transactions on its platform
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GelSight raises $10M Series B for its imaging system that uses an elastomeric-based sensor and computer vision to produce highly accurate 3D maps of surfaces
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CloudKnox Security, which lets companies protect their private and public clouds from insider threats via “least privilege” policies, raises $12M Series A
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Beacon Platform, an application development platform designed for capital markets, raises $20M Series B
Shopify's new AI commerce stack
Their VP of Product digs into just-launched products to help entrepreneurs and developers build with the latest AI and tech.
Email fatigue is real: Here's how smart email tools help you regain control
Picture this: It's Monday morning. You walk into the office feeling energized and ready to take on the week.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.