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| Josh Taylor / The Guardian: |
Fingerprints of 1M+ people and biometric info from a system used by banks, London police, and defense contractors, discovered on a publicly accessible database — Fingerprints, facial recognition and other personal information from Biostar 2 discovered on publicly accessible database
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| Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Facebook paid hundreds of contractors to transcribe user audio; FB says it's stopped the work, which affected users who wanted voice chats transcribed — - Social network says it paused human review of conversations — Apple, Amazon, Google have been scrutinized for similar work
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
WeWork files to raise $1B in an IPO, reports a $904M net loss on around $1.5B in revenue for first half of 2019 — WeWork on Wednesday filed to raise $1 billion in an initial public offering, although the ultimate offering amount is expected to be at least three times larger.
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FAA sent airlines a reminder to follow 2016 safety instructions that ban goods with recalled batteries, like recently recalled MacBook Pros, from the planes — - FAA says some MacBook Pros shouldn't be taken on airplanes — Apple recently recalled select laptops over battery fire risk
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Twitter to soon let users follow interests, starting with sports, and create separate timelines for different topics; topics will be curated by Twitter using AI — A new way to explore interests on Twitter — Twitter will begin letting users follow interests, the company said today …
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| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Microsoft patches four wormable BlueKeep-like bugs in Remote Desktop Service, two of which can be exploited remotely without authentication or user interaction — Most Microsoft Windows (ab)users probably welcome the monthly ritual of applying security updates about as much as they look forward …
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| John Timmer / Ars Technica: |
A closer look at what Neuralink, Elon Musk's brain-computer interface company, hopes to accomplish beyond the existing work in this field — Neuralink will probably fail in interesting and worthwhile ways. — When Elon Musk first started talking about launching a brain-computer interface company …
Tweets: @arstechnica and @arstechnica
| Ian Allison / CoinDesk: |
Sources: Coinbase and Barclays end UK partnership, started in early 2018; Coinbase partners with ClearBank, which may have asked the exchange to drop Zcash — The most prestigious banking relationship in crypto has ended. — Barclays, the London-based global bank, is no longer working …
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Tweets: @cryptosqueeze, @icodrops, @jswihart, and @murphsicles
| Ed Targett / Computer Business Review: |
Amazon says it has added “fear” to the range of emotions that its Rekognition facial recognition software can now detect — Release follows amid immigration protests — AWS has added “fear” to the range of emotions identified by its Amazon Rekognition facial analysis service …
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Interview with Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg on how the Tumblr acquisition came about, what's next for Tumblr, adult content in apps, and more — Blogging is back, hopefully — It's been a long and winding road for Tumblr, the blogging site that launched a thousand writing careers.| Ursula Perano / Axios: |
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Nvidia says it has broken records for real-time conversational AI, training the industry-standard BERT model in 53 minutes and then inferring responses in ~2ms — Nvidia's GPU-powered platform for developing and running conversational AI that understands and responds to natural language requests …
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Inquirer, VentureBeat, NVIDIA Developer Blog, and Neowin
Tweets: @ctnzr, @stanfordnlp, @piotrczapla, and @sanhestpasmoi
| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Boatsetter, a peer-to-peer boat rental marketplace, raises $10M Series A extension round led by WestCap Group and Valor Equity, bringing total raised to $31M — Obviously, not everyone owns their boat, and boat ownership is far more unique than car ownership - which makes it maybe … | Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
How a scammer ran a decade-long crowdfunding operation that raised ~$6M on Indiegogo and from other investors to build an ambitious phone/tablet/laptop device — The crowdfunded phone of the future was a multimillion-dollar scam — In 2014, Jeffrey Tschiltsch opened an email from Indiegogo and saw the future of computing.
Tweets: @ron_miller, @verge, @thedextriarchy, @tayvano_, and @chetfaliszek
| Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
AT&T and T-Mobile have started rolling out cross-network call authentication services to protect against spam and spoofed robocalls — AT&T and T-Mobile have started rolling out cross-network call authentication services for their subscribers. That means the companies will now be able notify … | Lauren Smiley / MIT Technology Review: |
A look at Senior Planet, a tech-themed community center that helps seniors and entrepreneurs over 65 use technology to work and make money — Inside Senior Planet, the tech-savviest retirement community on earth. — “All these microaggressions people talk about?” Tom Kamber says.
Tweets: @55fakingnormal
| Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: |
Scoop, which provides a carpooling service for enterprises, raises $60M round led by Activate Capital, bringing its total raised to $106M — Enterprise carpooling startup Scoop just closed a $60 million round led by Activate Capital with participation from Goldman Sachs, NGP Capital …
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| Kaya Yurieff / CNN: |
A look at Snapchat's community of about 100 official lens creators, who make custom AR lenses for people and brands, with Snap helping connect them to buyers — New York (CNN Business)Eighteen-year-old Ana Casciello couldn't find a filter she wanted for her Snapchat photo that matched her personal style.
Tweets: @tomemrich, @andrewmendez19, @cnnbusiness, @mariosundar, @basche42, @taylrn, @apocsnap, and @kyurieff
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Alegion, which provides labeling and annotation services for enterprise data science teams, raises $12M Series A led by RHS Investments — Alegion, an Austin, Texas-based provider of labeling and annotation services for enterprise data science teams, today announced that it has secured $12 million …
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| Jake Bright / TechCrunch: |
Kobo360, a Nigerian freight logistics startup, raises $20M Series A led by Goldman Sachs and $10M in working capital financing from Nigerian commercial banks — Nigerian freight logistics startup Kobo360 has raised a $20 million Series A round led by Goldman Sachs and $10 million …
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