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• How Facebook deals with the fact AI is a mess on smartphones

  28-12-2018 23:21 via zdnet.com
  Facebook has a whole set of internal tools to try and optimize its neural networks to run on mobile devices. Still, the company finds it difficult to navigate a smartphone market that is byzantine in its complexity, with thousands of different chipsets, most of poor performance, and software stacks that aren't quite up to the job.
  
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• PewDiePie versus T-Series silliness reveals battle for the soul of YouTube

  28-12-2018 22:02 via zdnet.com
  Swedish YouTube sensation PewDiePie and his supporters feel threatened by the rapid creep of corporatism that they think is sullying a platform that was built for and has been nurtured by individual expression.
  
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• Pewdepie versus T-Series silliness reveals battle for the soul of Youtube

  28-12-2018 22:02 via zdnet.com
  Swedish Youtube sensation Pewdepie and his supporters feel threatened by the rapid creep of corporatism that they think is sullying a platform that was built for and has been nurtured by individual expression.
  
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• Forget Go, Google helps AI learn to book flights on the web

  28-12-2018 21:52 via zdnet.com
  Researchers at Google's AI labs created a couple of novel neural networks that can succeed in navigating web forms, such as an online flight-booking site. Although baby steps at the moment, the program succeeds as well or better than some models trained using human demonstrations of pointing and clicking.
  
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• How drone forensics can reveal pilot identity

  28-12-2018 21:43 via zdnet.com
  Even if investigators find a damaged drone, they can still take it apart to reveal personal details about the pilot.
  
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• Google and Facebook put ads in child sex abuse discovery apps

  28-12-2018 19:32 via bbc.co.uk
  Google and Facebook's ad networks placed promotions for major brands before apps were banned.
  
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• Bandersnatch: The critics' verdicts on Black Mirror's interactive adventure

  28-12-2018 18:46 via bbc.co.uk
  Some say the Netflix show's interactive episode is a masterpiece, some say it's a mis-step.
  
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• Tesla adds Larry Ellison to its board

  28-12-2018 17:15 via bbc.co.uk
  Tesla beefs up its board with executives from Oracle and Walgreens to reassure investors.
  
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• Apple Watch Series 4 back on my wrist: Unnecessary, but indispensable

  28-12-2018 15:47 via zdnet.com
  I try out a lot of wearables, but keep coming back to the Apple Watch for my smartwatch needs. It's not quite enough to replace my Garmin for serious run tracking, but does everything else better than all the other smartwatches so it is back on my left wrist.
  
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• Hackers steal personal info of 1,000 North Korean defectors

  28-12-2018 15:33 via zdnet.com
  Hackers stole names, addresses, and dates of birth of 997 North Korean defectors.
  
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• Microsoft will end 2018 as America’s most valuable company

  28-12-2018 15:09 via zdnet.com
  Barring any further stock market shocks, Microsoft will finish the year ahead of Apple and Amazon as America’s most valuable publicly-quoted company, despite never making it to $1 trillion.
  
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• Security firm hijacks high-profile Twitter accounts

  28-12-2018 15:02 via bbc.co.uk
  Louis Theroux, Eamonn Holmes and others' accounts were targeted to highlight a Twitter vulnerability.
  
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• Couple have baby after Facebook group pays for IVF

  28-12-2018 15:01 via bbc.co.uk
  The couple, who both had cancer as teenagers, wanted to have a second baby but could not afford IVF.
  
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• The biggest storage trends of 2018

  28-12-2018 15:00 via zdnet.com
  The storage industry is evolving faster than ever before in the 40 years I've been following it. While I tend to focus on the cutting edge, this is a good time to look back on the two biggest trends of the year.
  
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• Defense contractor: IT must embrace ‘radical transparency and culture change’

  28-12-2018 14:24 via zdnet.com
  A senior executive from the Fortune 500 company, L3 Technologies, explains how to use data to change corporate culture and innovate. Be inspired by her practical advice!
  
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• CenturyLink outage takes down several 911 emergency services across the US

  28-12-2018 14:11 via zdnet.com
  Downtime caused by network issue affecting 15 of CenturyLink's data centers.
  
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• Huawei: China accuses UK of 'pride and prejudice'

  28-12-2018 12:51 via bbc.co.uk
  Beijing was responding to claims it might use Huawei's 5G kit to act "in a malign way".
  
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• North Korea defector hack: Personal data of almost 1,000 leaked

  28-12-2018 12:29 via bbc.co.uk
  A personal computer at a resettlement centre in South Korea was found to have been infected.
  
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• Brazilian bank Inter pays fine over customer data leak

  28-12-2018 12:00 via zdnet.com
  Following the exposure of data from nearly 20 thousand customers, institution achieves a final settlement.
  
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• Windows is coming to your Chromebook

  28-12-2018 11:00 via zdnet.com
  If there's are a couple of Windows applications holding you back from using a Chromebook, Google will soon let you run Windows 10 on your high-end Chromebook.
  
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• The inside story of Bandersnatch, the weirdest Black Mirror tale yet

  28-12-2018 09:01
  
  To create the first choose-your-own-adventure episode of Black Mirror, Charlie Brooker and his team had to reinvent how television is made
  
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• To tackle violent crime, Glasgow is treating it like a health epidemic

  28-12-2018 07:00
  
  An innovative approach to gangs has turned Glasgow from the crime capital of Europe to one of the safest cities in the UK. It's down to a new initiative: treat violence like a health epidemic
  
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• How London can solve its violent crime problem by copying Glasgow

  28-12-2018 07:00
  
  Glasgow had the highest murder rate of any western European city: 63 victims per million. An innovative approach to gangs turned it into one of the safest cities in the UK. With high levels of violent crime, there's a lot London could learn
  
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• Here are some entirely serious predictions about 2019 in tech

  28-12-2018 07:00
  
  What will happen in 2019? After this year, we're not even sure we want to know
  
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• Decentralised AI has the potential to upend the online economy

  28-12-2018 07:00
  
  Analysing big data on the edge will outclass offerings by more cumbersome centralised systems
  
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• India issues new e-commerce rules to check Amazon and Flipkart

  28-12-2018 02:45 via zdnet.com
  Reeling from recent electoral losses, the BJP government’s latest e-commerce stance is an attempt to woo back small retail traders, say industry observers.
  
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• White House mulls using emergency powers to ban Huawei and ZTE

  28-12-2018 02:16 via zdnet.com
  The Trump administration is considering an executive order that would bar US companies from using telecommunications equipment made by China's Huawei and ZTE.
  
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