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An account of the rise and untimely death of Vine and HQ Trivia cofounder Colin Kroll, based on interviews with and documents from friends, police, and others — Self-taught coder Colin Kroll shot to startup fame, allowing him to live life in a fast lane — Colin Kroll, a college dropout …
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| Laura Hautala / CNET: |
Report: 17K Android apps, some with 100M+ installs, collect info that can be used to create a permanent record of user's activity on the device for ad targeting — Some apps may track your activity over time, even when you tell them to forget the past. And there's nothing you can do about it.
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Seattle startup Xnor unveils a 100% solar-powered prototype AI camera with 320x320 resolution, an FPGA chip, and an object recognition algorithm loaded on board — Stick it in sunlight and it can transmit data pretty much indefinitely — A big trend in AI is the transition from cloud to edge computing.
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| Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post: |
Records obtained via FOIA requests and interviews with local officials reveal the unusual lengths Google goes to keep its data center construction plans secret — Last May, officials in Midlothian, Tex., a city near Dallas, approved more than $10 million in tax breaks for a huge …
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| Bogdan Petrovan / Android Authority: |
Leaked images of the V50 ThinQ, LG's first 5G phone, show similar design to V40 with triple camera system and rear fingerprint sensor, likely launch on Feb. 24 — We've known for a while that LG would reveal a 5G phone in early 2019, just like every other OEM apparently.
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| Jason Koebler / Motherboard: |
Kids YouTube star Blippi on how he abused DMCA takedown requests to keep Harlem Shake Poop, an embarrassing viral video he starred in 2013, hidden on the web — Someone claiming to represent Blippi filed DMCA copyright takedown requests to Google in order to get an embarrassing viral video hidden.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
US Government Accountability Office issues a report that calls on Congress to consider developing comprehensive legislation on internet privacy — Government officials, academia, and advocacy groups say it's time for the US to get its own GDPR-type law. — An independent report authored …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Elroy Air, a maker of delivery drones that can carry up to 500 lbs, raises $9.2M in seed funding from new and existing investors Catapult, Precursor, and others — The dozens of companies vying for a foothold in the $11.2 billion drone industry — and by extension the $400 million same … | Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: |
Vicarious Surgical, which is building minimally invasive surgical tech that combines VR with miniature robots, has closed $10M round led by Gates Frontiers Fund — In an operating room in rural Idaho, doctors prep a patient for surgery. They make a tiny, thumb-sized incision into the patient …
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A look at the debate surrounding the economics of popular open source software like OpenSSL, as an ever-increasing workload on maintainers risks causing burnout — A look at the complicated business of funding open source software development. — It was just before midnight on New Years Eve …
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| Duncan Cooper / Pitchfork: |
While some artists whose music is used in TikTok videos are compensated through their labels' sales of blanket licenses, others forgo payment for exposure — The company behind lip-sync app TikTok is reportedly worth three times as much as Spotify, but the artists whose music powers the platform are seeing very little of that money.
Tweets: @crispinhunt, @getalternative, and @mattnavarra
| Mark Sullivan / Fast Company: |
Facebook engineers on how they developed intelligent video framing for Portal devices by combining computer vision tech with expertise of Hollywood filmmakers — Facebook's Portal home camera has its drawbacks-privacy concerns not least among them-but it does have one undeniably cool feature … Sponsor Posts
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