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Chinese police deploy mobile facial-recognition units mounted on eyeglasses for surveilling crowds — Police are donning the devices as hundreds of millions of Chinese begin traveling for the Lunar New Year holiday — BEIJING—As hundreds of millions of Chinese begin traveling for the Lunar … | Reuters: |
Alibaba is investing $486M for 38% stake in Beijing Shiji Retail Information Technology Co., a big data firm focused on hotels and retailers such as Starbucks — SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China's biggest e-commerce company Alibaba Group Holding Ltd will invest $486 million for a stake …
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| Yang Ge / Caixin Global: |
Alibaba is investing about $865M for 15% stake in Beijing Easyhome Furnishing Chain Store Group Co., which operates 223 home improvement stores across China — E-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. said on Sunday it will pay 5.45 billion yuan ($865 million) for 15% …
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| James Risen / The Intercept: |
Sources: US officials tweeted from @NSAGov to prove to Russians that US government was indeed behind secret negotiations to buy stolen NSA documents — The United States intelligence community has been conducting a top-secret operation to recover stolen classified U.S. government documents …
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| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Qualcomm last announced a new smartwatch chip two years ago, allowing the Android Wear ecosystem to stagnate — This weekend will mark two years since Qualcomm's last smartwatch chip was announced. — Ars Technica would like to wish a very special second birthday to the Qualcomm Snapdragon Wear 2100 SoC.
Tweets: @kevinctofel, @dcseifert, and @rdr0b11
| David Pierce / Wired: |
Profile of Google's SVP of hardware Rick Osterloh, who restructured its hardware organization and is tasked with integrating Google Assistant into devices — IT'S EARLY IN the morning on October 4, 2016, and in a few seconds, Rick Osterloh will present Google's latest gadget portfolio to the world.
Tweets: @kevinctofel and @nxthompson
| Libby Watson / Splinter: |
Advertisers can promote Tweets that aren't linked to any Twitter profile, allowing fake organizations to run policy ads while obscuring their bankrollers — A few weeks ago, Bloomberg published a damning piece about how the DCI Group, a D.C.-based consulting firm, creates phony echo chambers to help push its clients' interests.
Tweets: @thesixler, @profcarroll, @medvidekpu, and @russellbrandom
| Bloomberg: |
Hon Hai's Foxconn Industrial Internet files for an IPO in China, says it will spend $4.3B on next generation projects like cloud computing, IoT, AI, and 5G tech — Smart manufacturing, data centers, AI among areas for growth — Hon Hai unit Foxconn Industrial Internet plans IPO in China
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| Steve Lohr / New York Times: |
Study: facial recognition systems of Microsoft, IBM, and China's Megvii had 21%-35% error rate for dark-skinned women versus below 1% for light-skinned men — Facial recognition technology is improving by leaps and bounds. Some commercial software can now tell if a person in a photograph is male or female 99 percent of the time.
Tweets: @fivefifths, @nytimestech, @dtunkelang, @tressiemcphd, @upulie, @nytimesbusiness, @lesliefeinzaig, and @ceciliakang
| Cody Toombs / Android Police: |
APK teardown suggests Google may be preparing to launch an Android Messages web interface, enabling texting from the desktop — There's a new version of Android Messages rolling out to our phones. So far, we haven't seen any significant changes to the UI, but huge things are happening under the surface.| Sarah Scoles / Wired: |
US government controls access to sensitive satellite imagery by regulating sales and buying exclusive imagery rights, driving business to other countries — DURING THE COLD War, on the vast, barren flatland around Area 51's dried-up Groom Lake, the military developed a stealth spy plane code-named Project Oxcart.
Tweets: @digitalglobe
| Brian Barrett / Wired: |
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