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A look at Clearview AI, a facial recognition app claiming it scraped 3B+ images from sites like Facebook, YouTube, and that 600+ law enforcement agencies use it — A little-known start-up helps law enforcement match photos of unknown people to their online images — and “might lead to a dystopian future or something,” a backer says.
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| Sundar Pichai / Financial Times: |
Google CEO Sundar Pichai says AI is too important not to be regulated and there are real concerns about the potential negative consequences of AI — The writer is chief executive of Alphabet and Google — Growing up in India, I was fascinated by technology. Each new invention changed my family's life in meaningful ways.| Bart Meijer / Reuters: |
TomTom says it has reached a deal with Huawei “some time ago” for the use of its maps, traffic information, and navigation software in Huawei phones — AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch navigation and digital mapping company TomTom on Friday said it has closed a deal …
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Amazon says it now partners with 20,000+ neighborhood stores across Tier 1, 2, and 3 cities in India to store and deliver goods under its “I have Space” program — Neighborhood stores dot tens of thousands of cities, towns and villages in India.
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| Scott Stein / CNET: |
AR startup Mojo Vision shows off the first prototype of Mojo Lens, its contact lenses that display text, have an eye-controlled interface, and work in the dark — Mojo Vision's smart contacts put text in my eye and let me see in the dark. They're aiming for even more than that.
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| Rupert Neate / The Guardian: |
Some analysts say Alphabet could double in value to become a $2T company in the near future, as the total market cap of FAANGs rose by $1.3T over the past year — As Alphabet becomes the latest firm to achieve a 13-figure market cap, analysts still forecast years of growth ahead| The Verge: |
Profile of Armslist, the “Craigslist of guns” that offers nearly any kind of gun imaginable and where all transactions are done peer to peer — Inside Armslist, the online ‘gun show that never ends’ — Thomas Caldwell was a veteran in his 60s with a soft physique, oval glasses …
Tweets: @momsdemand, @sean_kev, @ma_franks, @reckless, @geigernews, @giffordscourage, @colinlecher, and @kellymakena
| Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: |
Sources: ByteDance plans a foray into games, building a team of 1,000+ and buying game studios and title distribution rights; first big games coming this spring — - The TikTok proprietor shows ambition beyond short-form video — Hiring spree includes industry veterans and local game studios| Hindenburg Research: |
Research: Opera, known for its web browser, allegedly issues predatory loans in Kenya, Nigeria, and India via Android apps, likely violating Play Store policies — GET OUR LATEST REPORTS DELIVERED TO YOUR INBOX — Summary (NASDAQ: OPRA) — Opera went public in mid-2018 based largely on prospects for its core browser business.
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Tweets: @mengxilu, @aardrian, and @corbindavenport
| Nathaniel Popper / New York Times: |
An analysis of 40 studies finds that the link between social media use and both depression and anxiety among adolescents is small and inconsistent — A growing number of academics are challenging assumptions about the negative effects of social media and smartphones on children.
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Tweets: @caragsdale, @nytimesbusiness, @heyfeifer, @jasonfalter, @tolles, @nathanielpopper, @rossdawson, @aenclade, @aweissman, and @mattrosoff
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Instagram removes the IGTV button from its home page; Sensor Tower: IGTV's standalone app was downloaded 1.1M times in the US since its launch in June 2018 — TikTok saw 80X more installs — At most, 7 million of Instagram's 1 billion-plus users have downloaded its standalone IGTV app in the 18 months since launch.
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Tweets: @joshsternberg, @harrymccracken, @branded78_, and @joshconstine
| Dave Gershgorn / OneZero: |
US Army contracted two firms for $4.5M to create a facial recognition system that analyzes infrared images to identify people at a distance of 10 to 500 meters — Infrared cameras recognize the heat emitted from your face — he U.S. military is spending more than $4.5 million …
Tweets: @ozm, @offdutytiger, @a_bacci, @sophielgilbert, @ozm, @6eorge6, and @ozm. Thanks:@davegershgorn
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