Washington Post : Facial recognition may be coming to a police body camera near you
Thursday, 26 April 2018 15:30
The country’s biggest seller of police body cameras on Thursday convened a corporate board devoted to the ethics and expansion of artificial intelligence, a major new step toward offering controversial facial-recognition technology to police forces nationwide. Axon, the maker of Taser electroshock weapons and the wearable body…
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Washington Post : Facebook didn’t read the terms and conditions for the app behind Cambridge Analytica
Thursday, 26 April 2018 14:18
Facebook told British lawmakers on Thursday that it never read the terms and conditions for an app that ultimately allowed Cambridge Analytica to access 87 million users’ names, “likes” and other personal information. The admission from Mark Schroepfer, the chief technology officer for the social media giant,…
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Washington Post : Google is promoting the DEA’s ‘Take Back Day’ on its homepage to help combat the opioid crisis
Wednesday, 25 April 2018 04:01
Google said that it will use its homepage and maps starting Wednesday to promote a Drug Enforcement Administration project to help combat the opioid epidemic, as regulators and lawmakers call for more direct intervention by Silicon Valley to address the drug crisis. Underneath the Google search bar, the…
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Washington Post : The new Gmail sends self-destructing emails — and nudges you to reply to mom
Wednesday, 25 April 2018 13:38
Gmail is getting major update starting Wednesday. A certain amount of hyperventilation is to be expected when a service used by 1.4 billion people changes anything. I’m here to report it’s going to be okay. Truth be told, when Google first showed me the redesign, I thought:…
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Washington Post : What Comcast’s $31 billion offer for a U.K. TV company tells us about the cable giant’s ambitions
Wednesday, 25 April 2018 15:34
Comcast said Wednesday that it's offering $31 billion to buy the British TV provider Sky, officially starting a bidding war between the U.S. cable giant and 21st Century Fox, which has offered $16.5 billion for the company. But why is a U.K.-based television company such a sought-after piece of…
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Washington Post : Here’s why President Trump invited Apple CEO Tim Cook to the White House
Wednesday, 25 April 2018 18:41
President Trump huddled Wednesday with Apple chief executive Tim Cook to discuss trade as the White House forges ahead with tariffs on China and other trade policies that have provoked sharp rebukes from the iPhone giant and its tech-industry peers. Ahead of the meeting, Trump tweeted that he…
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Washington Post : Global police just shut down world’s largest marketplace that allegedly disrupted millions of sites
Wednesday, 25 April 2018 19:13
An international police operation recently shut down the world's largest for-hire service that allegedly slowed and disrupted millions of websites using malicious cyber tools, officials said Wednesday. Law enforcement officials say that administrators of Webstresser.org were arrested Tuesday, in Britain, Croatia, Canada and Serbia. The service was taken offline…
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Washington Post : Facebook profit hits an all-time high, unaffected by recent scandals — so far
Wednesday, 25 April 2018 23:43
SAN FRANCISCO — The crisis of public trust confronting Facebook has yet to affect the company’s bottom line — at least for the time being. On Wednesday, Facebook said its first-quarter revenue, which is dominated by advertising, grew by 49 percent to $12 billion. Net profit jumped…
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Washington Post : Amazon’s Alexa will soon be teaching your child manners
Thursday, 26 April 2018 01:34
Amazon.com's Alexa has a little something to teach your kids about manners. After receiving feedback from some parents concerned about how voice assistants are affecting their kids' attitudes, the company updated Alexa to reward children who ask for things nicely. Kids are some of the biggest fans of voice assistants,…
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Liberty Blitzkrieg: The Road to 2025 (Part 4) – A Very Bright Future If We Demand It
Tuesday, 24 April 2018 17:54
Whenever all government, domestic and foreign, in little as in great things, shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power, it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another, and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we…
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