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How Devumi uses its 3.5M+ automated Twitter accounts, sometimes based on stolen social identities, to sell followers and retweets to 200K+ customers — Everyone wants to be popular online. — Some even pay for it. — Inside social media's black market.
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
AI advances are now making automated analysis of live surveillance video possible, presaging useful applications while raising serious questions about privacy — What happens when digital eyes get the brains to match? — We usually think of surveillance cameras as digital eyes …
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| Robert Draper / National Geographic: |
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| Ryne Hager / Android Police: |
Google's AI-powered Clips camera is now available in the US Google Store for $249, with first deliveries expected in March — Three months ago Google announced the Google Clips, a tiny clip-on camera powered by some impressive machine learning technology. The idea behind it was that rather … | Josh Lovejoy / Google Design: |
Google details human-centered UX approach for its Clips camera, says AI for capturing memorable moments was trained with the help of professional photographers — Using Google Clips to understand how a human-centered design process elevates artificial intelligence
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ZDNet, The Verge, Digital Trends, Digital Photography Review, and Engadget
Tweets: @mvitazko, @thesignoffive, and @jdlovejoy
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
YouTube served ads containing Coinhive's cryptocurrency-mining and CPU-draining JavaScript, likely via Google's DoubleClick; Google says ads now blocked — Ad campaign lets attackers profit while unwitting users watch videos. — YouTube was recently caught displaying ads …
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Tweets: @diegobetto and @drevilgames
| Wall Street Journal: |
Profile of Brandon Chez, owner of CoinMarketCap, a source for price data on cryptocurrencies that has become one of the world's most heavily trafficked sites — How a top source of bitcoin data contributed to a sudden plunge in digital currencies — The drop was swift … | Ben Hubbard / New York Times: |
Billionaire Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, investor in companies including Twitter and Lyft, is released after November arrest amid corruption crackdown — BEIRUT, Lebanon — Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, Saudi Arabia's most prominent and flamboyant investor, has been released from detention …
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Engadget, BBC, Reuters, The Daily Beast, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Financial Times, Bloomberg, Associated Press, Philip Elmer-DeWitt, and Deadline. Tweets: @nytben
| Evan Blass / VentureBeat: |
Renders of upcoming Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9+ leak, both look similar to their S8 predecessors — EXCLUSIVE: — Having opted against what would have been an uncharacteristic debut at the recent Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas — in teaser capacity or otherwise …
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| Theodore Schleifer / Recode: |
Sources: a16z and USV, who have cryptocurrency experience, are passing on Telegram's ICO; firms newer to crypto like KPCB, Sequoia, and Benchmark are investing — The investors are not who you'd expect. — Some of the most prominent investors in cryptocurrency are passing …
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Financial Times, PYMNTS.com, and Business Insider
Tweets: @staska, @rmac18, @kylesamani, and @malloc8
| Nitasha Tiku / Wired: |
Diversity advocates inside Google, including queer and transgender staff, say they are being targeted by a small group of coworkers with doxxing and harassment — FIRED GOOGLE ENGINEER James Damore says he was vilified and harassed for questioning what he calls the company's liberal political orthodoxy …
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The Hill, USA Today, NewCo Shift, Business Insider, Android Central, SiliconBeat, Vanity Fair, and New York Magazine
Tweets: @anamatics, @propublica, @antoniogm, @marlenac, @pegobry, @ericajoy, @epsalon, @emilygorcenski, @wired, @louisgray, @nitashatiku, and @nitashatiku
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook will allow fans of game streamers to tip creators a minimum of $3 as part of its new gaming creator pilot program — Facebook Live is launching monetization for video gameplay streamers, allowing users to tip creators a minimum of $3 via the desktop site.
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Facebook for Developers, Mashable, Tech Times, Social Media Today, Engadget, Gizmodo, Variety, Recode, VentureBeat, and The Verge
Tweets: @mattnavarra, @kantrowitz, and @joshconstine
| Yuji Nakamura / Bloomberg: |
Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck says it will repay all 260K users who lost money in Friday's theft of ~$400M in NEM coins — Users will receive 88.549 yen for each coin that was stolen — Japanese exchange will compensate clients using internal fundsSponsor Posts
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In-depth bounce reports now in ZeptoMail — The ultimate aim of any email sender is to deliver emails to the right recipient's inbox—but even when taking measures to ensure successful delivery, bounces still occur.
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