Author: Tech Support

Sources: Israeli surveillance vendors like Bsightful, backed by the US public company Verint, hook into ad exchange systems to siphon app location data (Thomas Brewster/Forbes)

Thomas Brewster / Forbes: Sources: Israeli surveillance vendors like Bsightful, backed by the US public company Verint, hook into ad exchange systems to siphon app location data  —  This year has seen a rush amongst government snoops for a new and sometimes contentious data set: location data grabbed by smartphone popular apps. Sources: Israeli surveillance

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Oracle says it is moving its corporate headquarters from Redwood City, CA to Austin, TX and will implement "a more flexible employee work location policy" (Jessica Bursztynsky/CNBC)

Jessica Bursztynsky / CNBC: Oracle says it is moving its corporate headquarters from Redwood City, CA to Austin, TX and will implement “a more flexible employee work location policy”  —  – Oracle is the latest tech company to relocate from California to Austin, Texas.  — HPE announced its move to Houston earlier this month. Oracle

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Some iPhone users say iOS 14 is not showing notifications when receiving SMS texts and iMessages (Chris Welch/The Verge)

Chris Welch / The Verge: Some iPhone users say iOS 14 is not showing notifications when receiving SMS texts and iMessages  —  An iOS 14 bug doesn’t show notifications when some new messages arrive  —  If you’ve noticed that you’re receiving SMS texts and iMessages from people but aren’t getting any notifications about them, you’re

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Filing: California is seeking to join DOJ's antitrust lawsuit against Google, making it the first Democratic state asking to join 11 GOP AGs in the suit (Lauren Feiner/CNBC)

Lauren Feiner / CNBC: Filing: California is seeking to join DOJ’s antitrust lawsuit against Google, making it the first Democratic state asking to join 11 GOP AGs in the suit  —  – California is seeking to join the Justice Department in its antitrust lawsuit against Google, according to a court filing the state submitted on

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Public records show school districts across the US are purchasing phone hacking tools from companies like Cellebrite to search students' personal devices (Gizmodo)

Gizmodo: Public records show school districts across the US are purchasing phone hacking tools from companies like Cellebrite to search students’ personal devices  —  In May 2016, a student enrolled in a high-school in Shelbyville, Texas, consented to having his phone searched by one of the district’s school resource officers. Public records show school districts

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A beginner’s guide to AI: The difference between human and machine intelligence

Welcome to Neural’s beginner’s guide to AI. This multi-part feature should provide you with a very basic understanding of what AI is, what it can do, and how it works. The guide contains articles on (in order published) neural networks, computer vision, natural language processing, algorithms, artificial general intelligence, and the difference between video game AI and real AI. 

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