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• Our Brains Tell Us We've Done Something Before We Actually Do It

  24-04-2019 22:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  It's one of the most common arguments in basketball: Who hit that ball out of bounds? When two NBA players lunge for a ball end up tipping it out, neither wants to cop to the final touch. Refs are called in to arbitrate while both players deny their culpability, often in heated tones.There's an obvious motive behind wanting to avoid blame, but a new study shows that there might also be a neurological basis behind both players' belief that their opponent touched the ball last. Our brains
  
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• New Tech Converts Thoughts to Speech, Could Give Voice to the Voiceless

  24-04-2019 22:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  Throat cancer, stroke and paralysis can rob people’s voices and strip away their ability to speak. Now, researchers have developed a decoder that translates brain activity into a synthetic voice. The new technology is a significant step toward restoring lost speech.“We want to create technologies that can reproduce speech directly from human brain activity,” Edward Chang, a neurosurgeon at the University of California San Francisco, who led the new research, said in a press bri
  
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• Facebook warns that its U.S. privacy punishment could hit $5 billion

  24-04-2019 22:18 via nbcnews.com
  The FTC said last year it was investigating reports that the British consulting firm Cambridge Analytica improperly gained access to the data of tens of millions of Facebook users.
  
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• Mark Zuckerberg adds to his job description: Podcaster

  24-04-2019 20:39 via nbcnews.com
  The podcast appears to be an audio version of discussions the Facebook founder has been having as part of a 2019 resolution.
  
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• Eerie sounds from Mars reveal 1st evidence of this phenomenon on another planet - AccuWeather.com

  24-04-2019 20:30 via accuweather.com
  Eerie sounds from Mars reveal 1st evidence of this phenomenon on another planet  AccuWeather.comSee NASA's super soothing view of clouds rolling across Mars  CNETNASA captures Martian landslide in stunning pic  Fox NewsMars Has Earthquakes, but They're Called Marsquakes  The AtlanticMarsquake meaning: What is a marsquake? What does earthquake on Mars MEAN?  Express.co.ukView full coverage on Google News
  
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• Twitter makes it easier to report tweets that mislead Indian voters

  24-04-2019 19:09 via rss.cnn.com
  The world's biggest election has tech companies scrambling to try and put a lid on misinformation in India. Twitter is now trying to make it easier for users to flag fake news aimed at voters.
  
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• Playing God: Crispr’d GMO Food Will Stock Grocery Shelves Within 5 Years

  24-04-2019 17:49 via technocracy.news
  The FDA is lobbied and dominated by Big-Ag Technocrats who insist that GMO food is ‘substantially equivalent’ to its natural counterpart, so the GMO food race is full-speed ahead. This trend will substantially change the entire global food chain.  ⁃ TN EditorA geneticist at the University of California who helped invent the gene-editing tool Crispr told Business Insider she believes its most profound impacts will be on food.
  Several Crispr’d crops 
  
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• NYMTA Denies Facial Recognition, But 4,500 Cameras Watch NY Subway

  24-04-2019 17:27 via technocracy.news
  The NYMTA says it wants to catch fare evaders so it installs monitors with traveller pictures dynamically framed with yellow boxes, with a bold “recording in progress” message at the top of the screen; but they adamantly deny the use of facial recognition software. ⁃ TN EditorThe New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority has denied suggestions that it’s putting facial recognition cameras in the subway, saying that a trick designed to scare fare-dodgers was misinterpr
  
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• Bumble says it will soon detect lewd images sent on its app

  24-04-2019 17:13 via rss.cnn.com
  Bumble CEO and cofounder Whitney Wolfe Herd said the new feature, called Private Detector, is a "gesture" to show that it is "desperately trying to build safety products to engineer a more accountable internet."
  
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• Police State: Trashing The Fourth Amendment

  24-04-2019 16:50 via technocracy.news
  The next time you get stopped by a patrol car, a police blood draw van might roll up behind and demand to take your blood, and you might be strip-searched. All personal data harvested from the incident becomes the property of the Federal government, whether you did anything wrong or not.
  The Fourth Amendment states, “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall is
  
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• New Zealand and France urge Facebook and Google to do more to kick out terrorists

  24-04-2019 15:18 via rss.cnn.com
  New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and French President Emmanuel Macron are taking tech CEOs to task over terrorist content that has been posted on their platforms.
  
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• Sliding Backward on Tech? There Are Benefits

  24-04-2019 15:00 via nytimes.com
  Pamela Paul, editor of The New York Times Book Review, decided to downgrade her tech two years ago. It has worked out, with paper and DVDs instead of the latest apps and gizmos.
  
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• Fin24.com | Facebook says first-person Christchurch video foiled AI system

  24-04-2019 13:23
  
  Facebook said it struggled to identify the video of the New Zealand mosque shootings because of the use of a head-mounted camera by the gunman, which made it harder for its systems to automatically detect the nature of the video.
  
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• UK could give Huawei a limited role in building its 5G networks

  24-04-2019 13:15 via rss.cnn.com
  UK Prime Minister Theresa May has reportedly settled on a compromise over Huawei's role in the country's 5G networks that appears aimed at pleasing both Washington and Beijing.
  
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• Scammers turn Instagram into a showroom for luxury counterfeits

  24-04-2019 10:30 via nbcnews.com
  Many of the accounts on Instagram using those hashtags direct prospective buyers to contact them on encrypted messaging apps.
  
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• New Zealand and France to call for an end to online terror

  24-04-2019 07:49 via abcnews.go.com
  New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and French President Emmanuel Macron will host a meeting in Paris next month seeking to eliminate acts of violent extremism and terror from being shown online
  
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• Streaming movies still eligible for Oscars, academy says

  24-04-2019 07:46 via nbcnews.com
  Netflix and Amazon Prime films remain in Oscar contention so long as they are screened in theaters for at least seven days.
  
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• Trump meets with Twitter CEO amid bias complaints

  24-04-2019 07:20 via abcnews.go.com
  Trump meets with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey after bashing the company and accusing it of not treating him well because he's a Republican
  
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• Tesla CEO heads down perilous road in pursuit of profit

  24-04-2019 07:10 via abcnews.go.com
  Tesla CEO Elon Musk aims to make money by selling self-driving cars that become part of app-based ride-ailing service
  
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• Google's Wing Aviation gets FAA OK for drone deliveries

  24-04-2019 03:10 via abcnews.go.com
  Google affiliate Wing gets FAA approval to begin commercial deliveries by drone in Virginia
  
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• Tech firm VMware faces DACA discrimination lawsuit

  24-04-2019 03:04 via abcnews.go.com
  A recipient of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program is suing a Silicon Valley tech company, saying she was illegally denied a job she was qualified for despite being legally authorized to work in the United States
  
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• Mars lander picks up what's likely 1st detected marsquake

  24-04-2019 03:00 via abcnews.go.com
  NASA's InSight lander on Mars has picked up what's likely the 1st marsquake ever detected
  
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• Even light rain increases your risk of a deadly car crash

  24-04-2019 02:30 via abcnews.go.com
  A new study finds that even when the rain is just a drizzle it increases your risk of a fatal car crash by 27%
  
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• Snap starts adding users again

  24-04-2019 01:09 via rss.cnn.com
  Snap reported first quarter earnings results after the bell on Tuesday.
  
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• President Trump meets with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey after accusing platform of bias

  24-04-2019 01:09 via rss.cnn.com
  President Donald Trump met with Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey on Tuesday, hours after Trump erroneously accused the social media company of "discriminatory" behavior toward conservative users.
  
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• Ex-GE engineer charged with stealing trade secrets for China

  24-04-2019 00:40 via abcnews.go.com
  Federal prosecutors say a former General Electric engineer and his business partner in China stole the company's trade secrets from a New York plant for the Chinese government
  
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