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    • CTRL-labs raises another $28M for its armband and SDK that translate impulses, that go from brain to hand muscles, into digital signals for gesture control (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

    Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: CTRL-labs raises another $28M for its armband and SDK that translate impulses, that go from brain to hand muscles, into digital signals for gesture control  —  Ctrl-labs, a New York startup that’s developing a device capable of translating electrical muscle impulses into digital signals … CTRL-labs raises another M for its

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    • OpenAI's recent decision to limit the release of its new text generator algorithm has sparked a debate among AI researchers over ethics (James Vincent/The Verge)

    James Vincent / The Verge: OpenAI’s recent decision to limit the release of its new text generator algorithm has sparked a debate among AI researchers over ethics  —  Nonprofit lab OpenAI withheld its latest research, but was criticized by others in the field  —  A recent decision by research lab OpenAI to limit … OpenAI's

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    • Circle, which makes a screen time management tool, raises $20M Series B from Netgear, T-Mobile, and others, bringing the total raised To $30M (Matt Burns/TechCrunch)

    Matt Burns / TechCrunch: Circle, which makes a screen time management tool, raises $20M Series B from Netgear, T-Mobile, and others, bringing the total raised To $30M  —  Circle makes a fantastic screen time management tool and today the company announced a round of funding to help fuel its growth. Circle, which makes a screen

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    • BMW and Daimler merge 14 services into five joint ventures including Reach Now for multimodal services, Free Now for ride-hailing, and Share Now for car-sharing (Grace Dobush/Fortune)

    Grace Dobush / Fortune: BMW and Daimler merge 14 services into five joint ventures including Reach Now for multimodal services, Free Now for ride-hailing, and Share Now for car-sharing  —  When Daimler and BMW announced a plan to fuse carsharing services Car2Go and DriveNow in March 2018, it was largely … BMW and Daimler merge

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    • Duo Security survey of 120K+ Chrome extensions finds 35.4% ask users for permission to access and read all their data on any site, 84.7% had no privacy policy (Catalin Cimpanu/ZDNet)

    Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: Duo Security survey of 120K+ Chrome extensions finds 35.4% ask users for permission to access and read all their data on any site, 84.7% had no privacy policy  —  Eighty-five percent of all Chrome extensions don’t have a privacy policy.  —  More than a third of all Google Chrome extensions ask

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    • Blackmailers made $332,000 in Bitcoin during ‘sextortion’ scam

    Cybercriminals raked in more than $300,000 in Bitcoin payments during a ‘sextortion’ email-based blackmail campaign, which was first spotted in 2017 but saw increased activity mid-last year. According to a report by UK firm Digital Shadows, which tracked a sample of 792,000 emails as part of their analysis, criminals received some $332,000 from more than 3,100 unique sender Bitcoin

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    • Why Japan’s mission to bring space rocks to Earth is so incredible

    A spacecraft launched by the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) in 2014 successfully touched down on a speeding near-Earth asteroid, and has collected samples to bring back for scientists to study. Everyone, we did it!!! #haya2_TD Thank you so much for your support from all over the world! pic.twitter.com/cHkeTCBgcs — HAYABUSA2@JAXA (@haya2e_jaxa) February 22, 2019

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