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Someone Please Save the Raccoon [Update: It’s Climbing Down]
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Apple’s New Privacy Guidelines May Get Facebook’s Awful Onavo VPN Off the App Store
Photo: AP Apple’s new App Store privacy guidelines restricting apps that collect data on users’ friends—specifically, the address books of iPhone users—already seemed to be in large part a response to Facebook’s sprawling Cambridge Analytica data scandal. But the company could also be targeting Facebook’s Onavo Protect VPN service, which poses as a way to…
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Trial Begins for Two Men, One a Pastor, Accused of Making Millions Off Hacked Press Releases
The Department of Justice headquarters in Washington, DC.Photo: AP The trial of two men who allegedly made $20 million in an insider trading scheme involving hackers who stole corporate press releases before they were public began in Brooklyn on Tuesday, Reuters reported, with prosecutors telling jurors they had “electronic communications, trading records and testimony from…
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Facebook records the movement of your lips and much other information
In response to the request of the U.S. Congress after the April scandal with Cambridge Analytica, company Facebook revealed all its ways of collecting information about users of the social network. This required to make the document of 222 pages. He describes different ways of collecting data from those which we knew as that we…
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#news high technology 247 | Conference the Apple and Russia’s first reusable booster
Every Monday in the new issue of “News of high technologies” we summarize the results of the last week, talking about some of the most important events, the key discoveries and inventions. This time we will talk about the conference Apple, the first Russian reusable launch vehicle. Pleasant viewing! #news high technology 247 | Conference…
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Robots have already replaced Barista coffee shops in San Francisco what it is?
A time when many people will be replaced by robots in their jobs, closer. But while such decisions cause surprise and interest. The coffee shop Cafe Barista X will make two drinks per minute. The thing is that he’s not human. Automated conveyors is ready to accept and release orders in the coffee shop, San…
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Deepfake Videos Are Getting Impossibly Good
The new system enables “full control over the target by transferring the rigid head pose, facial expression and eye motion with a high level of photorealism.” Here, a source actor (the input) is used to manipulate a portrait video of a target actor (the output). Image: H. Kim et al., 2018 But it’s more than…
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Woman Sues NASA to Keep Its Hands Off Her Precious Vial of Neil Armstrong Moon Dust
Photo: Christopher M. McHugh The question of who owns the moon is at the center of a new lawsuit filed against NASA by a woman who wants to keep a vial of lunar dust gifted to her by astronaut Neil Armstrong. The woman, Laura Murray Cicco, filed a lawsuit against the space agency last week…
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Now You Can Play the Switch With Just the Most Adorable Controller Ever
Photo: 8BitDo Playing classic 8-bit side scrollers with a touchscreen is awful, so 8BitDo’s releasing an updated version of its tiny, keychain-sized Zero gamepad with support for the Nintendo Switch, and motion controls, so it should be easier to be perpetually prepared for any retro gaming emergency. The original Zero gamepad featured a directional pad,…
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Instagram Is Somehow Even Less About Photos of Your Friends Now
Photo: Alexander Koerner (Getty Images) Like many Instagram users, I often scroll through my feed wondering why I’m not receiving more options to buy shit. Thankfully, Facebook’s constantly growing photo sharing app is looking out for me, the person whose endless appetite for special offers is instantly whetted by shaky cell phone footage. Today, Instagram…