
This Camera App Uses AI To Erase People From Your Photographs
Finally, you can take a selfie without yourself.
June 27, 2019 at 07:02AM
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This Camera App Uses AI To Erase People From Your Photographs
Finally, you can take a selfie without yourself.
June 27, 2019 at 07:02AM
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Why Are Phones So Good But Batteries Are Still So Terrible?
The curse of external battery packs isn’t going away anytime soon.
June 26, 2019 at 04:21PM
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I Scraped Millions Of Venmo Payments. Your Data Is At Risk
Venmo makes sending and receiving money a social affair. But those emoji-laden payment descriptions leave you exposed to cyberattacks.
June 26, 2019 at 10:31AM
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Black Market T-Mobile Location Data Tied To Spot Of A Triple Murder
In 2017, two bounty hunters and a fugitive died in a chaotic shoot-out. Shortly after their deaths, someone started tracking one of the bounty hunter’s phones.
June 26, 2019 at 10:31AM
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Venmo Users Have Feelings About Your Crappy Etiquette
To help navigate the thorny marriage of Venmo’s financial and social functionalities, the company commissioned a survey for some insight into what its users believe is good etiquette.
June 25, 2019 at 02:39PM
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Google warns its employees that Pride protests are against the company’s code of conduct
A leaked internal memo has Googlers concerned about whose free speech the company is protecting.
June 25, 2019 at 06:59AM
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Data brokers are selling your secrets. Some states are trying to stop them. It isn’t easy.
Vermont’s new data broker registry highlights the difficulties of regulating dozens of secretive firms that buy and sell the personal information of millions of Americans.
June 25, 2019 at 12:19AM
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Data brokers are selling your secrets. Some states are trying to stop them. It isn’t easy.
Vermont’s new data broker registry highlights the difficulties of regulating dozens of secretive firms that buy and sell the personal information of millions of Americans.
June 25, 2019 at 12:19AM
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Bill Gates accidentally makes the case to regulate the hell out of platform companies
There’s a reason so many tech markets tend toward monopoly or duopoly, like Android and iOS, or Google search, or Facebook, or Uber and Lyft — the network effect makes it basically impossible to build a competitor because you can’t populate the network.
June 24, 2019 at 07:32PM
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Falcon Heavy rocket set to attempt SpaceX’s “most difficult launch ever”
SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket will attempt its most technically demanding mission yet on Monday night, with a rideshare flight organized by the US Air Force.
June 24, 2019 at 01:55PM
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