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| Carole Cadwalladr / The Guardian: |
One of top Google autocomplete suggestions for “are Jews” is “evil”, with 9 of top 10 search results saying “yes”; similar answers for many topics worry experts — Tech-savvy rightwingers have been able to ‘game’ the algorithms of internet giants and create …
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| Jeremy Kahn / Bloomberg: |
Google DeepMind open sources its AI training platform, releases entire source code on GitHub for researchers and developers to experiment — Company is increasingly embracing open-source initiatives — Move comes after rival Musk's OpenAI made its robot gym public
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WIRED UK, DeepMind, TechCrunch, OpenAI, Engadget, Android Authority, The Drum, Business Insider, bit-tech.net, The Tech Portal, and Quartz
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| Rupert Jones / The Guardian: |
Researchers guessed valid Visa card expiry dates and CVV codes in seconds via queries to multiple commercial websites; Visa failed to detect the attack — Academics say working out card number, expiry date and security code of Visa card takes ‘as little as six seconds’
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The Independent, Schneier on Security, The Next Web, The Register, Fortune, Neowin, Daily Mail, ITV, SC Magazine US, PCWorld, BBC, Inquirer, and Slashdot
Tweets: @brianroemmele, @samkya, @independent, @sub8u, and @ukcyberforum
| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Uber acquires AI startup Geometric Intelligence; its cofounders Gary Marcus and Zoubin Ghahramani will be co-directors of Uber's new research arm A.I. Labs — SAN FRANCISCO — Uber envisions a future in which a fleet of vehicles can make the most complex maneuvers while carting passengers around without the help of a driver.
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Wired, Wall Street Journal, VentureBeat, BBC, Bloomberg, MIT Technology Review, The Tech Portal, and The Next Web. Tweets: @garymarcus
| Andrew Zaleski / Backchannel: |
Why MakerBot failed to live up to the hype: competition, flawed printers, backlash over its move to closed source, consumer 3D printer market never materialized — was October 2009 when Bre Pettis—his unmistakable sideburns and dark-rimmed rectangular glasses framing his face …
Tweets: @carl_franklin
| Lucian Armasu / Tom's Hardware: |
Canadian government seeks public comment after explaining need for backdoors, mandatory decryption, longer storage of phone and ISP records, and more — The new Canadian government is looking to further expand its surveillance powers by requiring decryption capabilities for all services …
Tweets: @billsourour, @realrakhmetov, and @counternotions
| Max Chafkin / Bloomberg: |
How a journalist became a men's fashion influencer on Instagram: hashtags, like and comment bots, and lots of help from professionals — I used to post cat photos. Then a marketing agency made me a star. — Subscribe Reprints — I've always been well-liked. At least, I think that's the case.
Tweets: @tomgara, @copromote, and @pkafka
| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
US Consumer Review Fairness Act passes, voids ToS gag clauses under which companies could sue or impose penalties for users who post negative reviews — Consumer Review Fairness Act bans customer gag clauses, awaits Obama signature. — Congress has passed a law protecting the right … | Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
Netflix says its custom video encoding method and use of VP9 and H.264/AVC High codecs are saving 36% bandwidth on Android and 19% on iOS for offline downloads — When Netflix introduced the ability to download content onto mobile devices for offline viewing earlier this week … | Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Amazon launches a beta of Go, a cashier-free, app-based retail shopping experience — The straight-forwardly named “Just Walk Out” technology ought to give you a pretty good idea of what Amazon Go is all about. Launching in beta this year to Amazon employees at a single 1,800 square foot location …
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The Verge, VentureBeat, and Engadget
| Biz Carson / Business Insider: |
SEC filings show peer-to-peer insurance startup Lemonade has raised another $33.1M — Two months after launching out of stealth to take on the peer-to-peer insurance industry, New York-based Lemonade has raised $33 million in funding, according to an SEC filing from December 2nd.
Tweets: @tadhgmccarthy
| Nitasha Tiku / BuzzFeed: |
Snapchat avoids the fake news epidemic by vetting publishers who appear in Discover, hiring human editors for Live Stories, and limiting re-sharing — Evan Spiegel, Snapchat CEO and cofounder — Facebook emerged during the U.S. election as a central political and news source …
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New York Times, Ubergizmo, Marketing Land, Social Media Today, and VentureBeat
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