Author: Tech Support

    • August View wireless video doorbell unveiled with 1440p recording, 24/7 live video streaming, and rechargeable battery, available for $230 from March 28 (Megan Wollerton/CNET)

    Megan Wollerton / CNET: August View wireless video doorbell unveiled with 1440p recording, 24/7 live video streaming, and rechargeable battery, available for $230 from March 28  —  August just introduced a new device to its lineup — the $230 August View.  Available in the United States beginning March 28 … August View wireless video doorbell

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    • Russia is pushing "Sovereign Internet", a draft law designed to create a single command post from which data flows can be managed across Russian cyberspace (Bloomberg)

    Bloomberg: Russia is pushing “Sovereign Internet”, a draft law designed to create a single command post from which data flows can be managed across Russian cyberspace  —  When anti-government protests erupted on Russia’s side of the Caucasus Mountains in October, authorities did something … Russia is pushing "Sovereign Internet", a draft law designed to create

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    • RackTop Systems, which provides network-attached storage products with built-in security and compliance features, raises $15M Series A (Manish Singh/VentureBeat)

    Manish Singh / VentureBeat: RackTop Systems, which provides network-attached storage products with built-in security and compliance features, raises $15M Series A  —  As companies get more serious about their security and make investments in protecting their networks, wouldn’t it make more sense to protect data exactly where it lives and rests: the data centers? RackTop

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    • Apple acquired the patent portfolio of failed smart home security startup Lighthouse AI, including those related to visual authentication, late last year (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)

    Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: Apple acquired the patent portfolio of failed smart home security startup Lighthouse AI, including those related to visual authentication, late last year  —  Apple has recently acquired a handful of patents from Lighthouse AI, a defunct home security camera company. Apple acquired the patent portfolio of failed smart home security startup

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    • Report: 40% of 2,830 AI startups in Europe do not use AI programs in their products; ~8% of EU startups were AI companies in 2018, up from ~3% in 2015 (Aliya Ram/Financial Times)

    Aliya Ram / Financial Times: Report: 40% of 2,830 AI startups in Europe do not use AI programs in their products; ~8% of EU startups were AI companies in 2018, up from ~3% in 2015  —  Two-fifths of Europe’s artificial intelligence start-ups do not use any AI programs in their products, according to a report

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    • Amazon's hard bargaining helps it squeeze as much as possible out of cities, but the NYC pullout exposed its limited experience building community relationships (New York Times)

    New York Times: Amazon’s hard bargaining helps it squeeze as much as possible out of cities, but the NYC pullout exposed its limited experience building community relationships  —  SEATTLE — When Texas officials pushed Amazon to pay nearly $270 million in back sales taxes in 2010, Amazon responded by closing … Amazon's hard bargaining helps

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    • Eight years after the Fukushima nuclear meltdown, a look at the disaster recovery tech used there, from an array of robots to 3D glasses for remote control (Roger Cheng/CNET)

    Roger Cheng / CNET: Eight years after the Fukushima nuclear meltdown, a look at the disaster recovery tech used there, from an array of robots to 3D glasses for remote control  —  My nose itches.  I instinctively reach up, but my fingers, wrapped in three gloves — one made of cloth, two of latex …

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    • Roblox tries to make the kid's game safer through a digital civility initiative, moderators, more, after a character was virtually sexually assaulted last year (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)

    Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: Roblox tries to make the kid’s game safer through a digital civility initiative, moderators, more, after a character was virtually sexually assaulted last year  —  Roblox has more than 80 million monthly players on its Lego-like virtual world platform for teens, and it only takes a few bad apples to ruin

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