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    • How the firearms industry relies on female influencers to skirt the restrictions imposed by social media platforms on advertising guns and related services (Kaitlyn Tiffany/Vox)

    Kaitlyn Tiffany / Vox: How the firearms industry relies on female influencers to skirt the restrictions imposed by social media platforms on advertising guns and related services  —  Companies can’t advertise on social media — so they have female influencers do it for them.  —  When Kimberly Matte captions … How the firearms industry relies

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    AI and Art Appreciation

    In 2019, using AI to evaluate artwork is finally more productive than foolish. We all hope that someday soon our Roomba will judge our living habits and give unsolicited advice on how we could spruce things up with a few pictures and some natural light. There is already an extensive amount of Deep Learning dedicated

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    • A look at the blossoming machine-learning community in Africa, where IBM and Google are trying to use AI to tackle challenges like hunger, poverty, and disease (Karen Hao/MIT Technology Review)

    Karen Hao / MIT Technology Review: A look at the blossoming machine-learning community in Africa, where IBM and Google are trying to use AI to tackle challenges like hunger, poverty, and disease  —  In the last few years, the machine-learning community has blossomed, applying the technology to challenges like food security and health care. A

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    • Google was never really serious about tablets, with years of scattershot reboots; its decision to stop making tablets was rational but could be shortsighted (Dieter Bohn/The Verge)

    Dieter Bohn / The Verge: Google was never really serious about tablets, with years of scattershot reboots; its decision to stop making tablets was rational but could be shortsighted  —  Google’s getting out of the tablet hardware business, canceling two different tablets it was building and reassigning those employees to other projects. Google was never

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    • NASA says it was hacked in April 2018 via an unauthorized Raspberry Pi on the network; hackers had access for nearly a year, stealing Mars mission-related data (Catalin Cimpanu/ZDNet)

    Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: NASA says it was hacked in April 2018 via an unauthorized Raspberry Pi on the network; hackers had access for nearly a year, stealing Mars mission-related data  —  NASA described the hackers as an “advanced persistent threat,” a term generally used for nation-state hacking groups. NASA says it was hacked in

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    • FATF says its members, including US and EU countries, should adopt regulations within 12 months requiring crypto exchanges share customer info when moving funds (Anna Baydakova/CoinDesk)

    Anna Baydakova / CoinDesk: FATF says its members, including US and EU countries, should adopt regulations within 12 months requiring crypto exchanges share customer info when moving funds  —  A powerful intergovernmental organization devoted to combating money laundering and terrorism financing has finalized … FATF says its members, including US and EU countries, should adopt

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    • Leaked Microsoft memo says Slack, AWS, Google Docs, PagerDuty, and even GitHub are prohibited or discouraged from internal use, primarily over security concerns (GeekWire)

    GeekWire: Leaked Microsoft memo says Slack, AWS, Google Docs, PagerDuty, and even GitHub are prohibited or discouraged from internal use, primarily over security concerns  —  As Slack makes its stock market debut, there’s a major company that won’t be allowing its employees to use the business collaboration … Leaked Microsoft memo says Slack, AWS, Google

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