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Read MoreEmily Birnbaum / The Hill: YouTube says it removed 7.8M+ videos between July and September because they broke community guidelines and deleted 1.6M+ channels and 224M+ comments — YouTube removed 58 million videos between July and September this year because they broke community guidelines. YouTube says it removed 7.8M+ videos between July and September because
Read MoreTo many YouTubers, the video felt like evidence that YouTube the company was snubbing YouTube the community. The Shift: How YouTube’s Year-in-Review Video Set Off a Civil War Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreWhen asking the question “Do humans dream of machines?”, it’s natural to think of the feverish excitement ahead of an iPhone or Playstation launch, followed by lines around the block of enthusiastic campers, eager to get their hands on the latest hardware as soon as is humanly possible. However, it’s also the title of an
Read MoreThis year’s YouTube Rewind just surpassed a Justin Bieber song to become the most-disliked video ever made on the platform. With over 10 million dislikes, the like-to-dislike ratio would seem to be a message from the fans to the company that the squeaky-clean, frenetically scripted attempt at positivity isn’t what they want. Within hours of
Read MoreIn a country where consumers (read: taxpayers) already have little-to-no privacy, it seems outrageous that billion-dollar technology companies can make closed-door deals with law enforcement agencies without US Congressional oversight. Yet here we are. Amazon has reportedly committed to providing ICE with “the best technology,” which sounds like it should be a good thing. ICE,
Read MoreRichard Branson’s company got ahead in the race for commercial spaceflight once its manned spacecraft reached more than 50 miles high above California’s Mojave Desert. Virgin Galactic launches the first manned U.S. spacecraft to reach space since 2011 Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreRichard Branson’s company got ahead in the race for commercial spaceflight once its manned spacecraft reached more than 50 miles high above California’s Mojave Desert. Virgin Galactic launches the first manned spacecraft to reach space since 2011 Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreDieter Bohn / The Verge: Google expands its parental control app Family Link to Chromebooks, gives Chromebooks with supervised accounts access to Android apps from the Play store — The kids can now use Android apps — Google has had an app called Family Link for a little over a year now, designed to give
Read MoreJason Del Rey / Recode: Instacart says it will end its partnership with Whole Foods starting in February; source: move is expected to reduce Instacart’s revenue by less than 5 percent — Instacart will begin pulling the first group of workers out of Whole Foods locations in February. Instacart says it will end its partnership
Read MoreSure, everyone shops there, especially at this time of year. But critics are finding plenty to complain about. Amazon's 2019 challenges include Donald Trump, HQ2 protesters – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreJeremy Hong knows a secret or two about things you shouldn’t do with radio frequency (RF), but he’s not sharing. That seems an odd foundation upon which to build one’s 2018 Hackaday Superconference talk, but it’s for good reason. Jeremy knows how to do things like build GPS and radar jammers, which are federal crimes.
Read MoreVolvo is using a new lidar and AI to guess your next move by scanning your arms and legs. Luminar lidar can tell what you're thinking – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreNASA congratulates Richard Branson and Virgin Galactic for sending two humans nearly space-high on a commercial launch. Virgin Galactic plane touches edge of space in historic test flight – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreYou’ll get a heads-up on your phone if an Echo device in your home detects a worrisome sound. Amazon's Alexa Guard can alert you if an Echo detects smoke alarm, breaking glass – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreMicrosoft has morphed into an interesting blend of practicality and aspiration these days. Here’s what that meant for the company in 2018 and how it could shape Redmond in 2019. What makes Microsoft tick? Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreNew York Times: Inside France’s plan to teach children about the downsides of internet, including spotting trustworthy info on Twitter, with 30,000 teachers trained per year — VAULX-EN-VELIN, France — A group of teenagers recently swarmed into a room at Collège Henri Barbusse near Lyon, France … Inside France's plan to teach children about the
Read MoreSales robots will replace salespeople. Machines will sell machines to other machines. Efficiency will peak, and humans will no longer be necessary to the sales process. That’s what the technology evangelists would have people believe, at least. The truth is far more nuanced. As dramatic as the effects of better sales tools are, humans will
Read MoreYouTube removed 7.8 million videos and 1.6 million channels in the third quarter of this year, mostly for spreading spam or posting or inappropriate adult content, the company said in a report Thursday. Hateful and violent videos are a sliver of the content YouTube removes Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreJulia Alexander / The Verge: YouTube’s annual Rewind video received 10M dislikes in about eight days, overtaking Justin Bieber’s Baby to be the most disliked video — Creators help explain why — To say that this year’s YouTube Rewind didn’t go over well with the YouTube community would be quite an understatement. YouTube's annual Rewind
Read MoreA Redditor recently recognized what appears to be Lyle and Erik Menendez, brothers convicted of murdering their father and stepmother, in the background of an NBA trading card. News spread quickly in the collector’s community prompting a rush on eBay, where the company’s dubious take-down strategy has listers scratching their heads. The card, a 1990-1991
Read MoreTom Arnold / Reuters: Payments and foreign exchange company UAE Exchange says it is partnering with Ripple to launch cross-border remittances to Asia via blockchain by Q1 2019 — DUBAI (Reuters) – United Arab Emirates-based UAE Exchange and U.S. startup Ripple plan to launch cross-border remittances … Payments and foreign exchange company UAE Exchange says
Read MorePour combattre la désinformation et la radicalisation, la France propose l’un des plus grands efforts au monde pour apprendre aux jeunes à identifier les « fake news ». Dans les écoles françaises, la leçon du jour : à quel tweet se fier ? Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreLooks like [Sam Zeloof] got bored on his Thanksgiving break, and things got a little weird in his garage. Of course when your garage contains a scanning electron microscope, the definition of weird can include experimenting with electron-beam lithography, resulting in tiny images etched into silicon. You’ll probably remember [Sam] from his 2018 Hackaday Superconference
Read MoreYesterday, Razer announced the launch of its SoftMiner program which uses a computer’s redundant resources to mine cryptocurrency when the user is “away from keyboard” (AFK). Only the user doesn’t get any of the mined cryptocurrency, all they get is store credit at Razer, known as Razer Silver. When a person runs the SoftMiner program
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