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| Siddhartha Mukherjee / New Yorker: |
How deep learning algorithms can be used to augment doctors in diagnosis — In some trials, “deep learning” systems have outperformed human experts. — One evening last November, a fifty-four-year-old woman from the Bronx arrived at the emergency room at Columbia University's medical center with a grinding headache.
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| Ellen Rosen / New York Times: |
Facebook now requires women and ethnic minorities to make up at least 33% of law firms' teams working on the company's matters — Like other Silicon Valley giants, Facebook has faced criticism over whether its work force and board are too white and too male.
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| Landon Thomas Jr / New York Times: |
BlackRock, the largest fund company in the world, shifts away from actively managed mutual funds and starts relying more on algorithms and models to pick stocks — Score one for the machines. — From the moment Laurence D. Fink, the chief executive of BlackRock, created the largest fund company …
Tweets: @aaronklein
| Steve Kovach / Business Insider: |
Samsung's Galaxy S8 facial recognition feature can be fooled with a photo; Samsung suggests using fingerprint or iris scanning for more security — Samsung's newest security feature can easily be fooled. — The Samsung Galaxy S8, which launches April 21, has a new facial recognition feature …
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Comcast, AT&T, and Verizon say they don't sell customers' personal web browsing history, in response to cancellation of new FCC privacy rules — Comcast, AT&T, and Verizon published blog posts this morning responding to the backlash they've been receiving since Congress voted to revoke …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
New invite-only Amazon Influencer Program lets influencers with “large followings” earn affiliate revenue through their own curated selections on Amazon's site — Social media influencers - like Instagram stars or YouTube celebs - often promote products they like … | Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Roundup of April Fools' Day gags by tech companies — Topsy-turvy day — April 1st — a day colloquially known as “April Fools' Day” or “the worst holiday ever” — isn't even until tomorrow, but because the month of April starts on a Saturday this year, all the #brands are already …
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| Agam Shah / PCWorld: |
Memory standards organization JEDEC says DDR5 DRAM specification will be finalized next year and be twice as fast as DDR4 — More DDR memory is on the way, despite many predictions that its time would soon be up. — Development of specifications for the new DDR5 DRAM has started …
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| Tim Peterson / Marketing Land: |
Why chatbots on services like Messenger and Kik have struggled to live up to the hype, and how developers are trying to reverse their downward trend — Chatbots in apps like Facebook's Messenger and Kik have struggled to live up to the hype, but that might actually help them succeed.
Tweets: @mgsiegler, @joshconstine, and @caseynewton
| Asha McLean / ZDNet: |
IBM X-Force report: Over 4B personal records leaked online in 2016, up 566% YoY; hackers increasingly targeting unstructured data such as email archives, IP — A report from Big Blue's security arm has found that the number of records compromised grew by 566 percent in 2016 to more than 4 billion.
| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Founder Andy Baio relaunches Upcoming.org, his site for finding local events and organizing impromptu gatherings, four years after Yahoo shut it down — Before events were posted on Facebook, the place to find social activities on the internet (back in the early 2000s) was Upcoming.org.
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Daring Fireball, Kickstarter, and Laughing Squid
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| Marlee Tart / The Netflix Tech Blog: |
Netflix unveils HERMES, an online test for vetting professional subtitlers; each Netflix subtitler will be required to have a HERMES test score by summer — Since Netflix launched globally, the scale of our localization efforts has increased dramatically. It's hard to believe that just 5 years ago …
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