Author: Tech Support

    • 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 (Chris Smith/Trusted Reviews)

    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 …

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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 California Sunday Magazine)

    The California Sunday Magazine: 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 … An in-depth

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    • 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 (Bruce Schneier/New York Times)

    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

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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 (Jeremy Bogaisky/Forbes)

    Jeremy Bogaisky / Forbes: 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  —  Deputy editor for Industry; eyes on the skies  —  The human finger is incredibly sensitive, with a dense array of receptors … GelSight raises M

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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 (Kate Clark/The Information)

    Kate Clark / The Information: 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 … Galvanize to

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    • Jeff Bezos’ girlfriend shared compromising texts with her brother, who sold them, WSJ reports

    Photo by SUJIT JAISWAL/AFP via Getty Images New York prosecutors have evidence suggesting that Jeff Bezos’ girlfriend, Lauren Sanchez, shared compromising texts about her affair with Bezos to her brother, Michael Sanchez, The Wall Street Journal reports. Michael then reportedly sold those photos to the National Enquirer, which then published a story about Lauren and

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    • 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" (Josh Constine/TechCrunch)

    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

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