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Safari security breach can expose user browsing history, already fixed in iOS 14 beta

August 26, 2020
A new security breach found in iOS 13 and macOS Catalina can lead anyone to get the user’s navigation history in Safari. Due to an unexpected behavior, Safari Web Share API is able to access internal system files such as the browsing history database, which can be easily shared through other apps. As explained by the specialized cybersecurity blog , hackers can implement a modified button…
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Oppo Watch hands-on: It’s not an Apple Watch clone — it’s what’s next

August 26, 2020
It’s easy to see why people have pegged the Oppo Watch as an Apple Watch clone. Squint your eyes and it looks like an Apple Watch. Say the name fast enough and it sounds like Apple Watch. Elements of the UI and packaging were clearly inspired by the Apple Watch, too. That said, “clone” is a loaded word, intended to immediately bias people against something as inappropriately derivative. Once…
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Android 101: How to stop location tracking

August 26, 2020
Location tracking can be very handy — it’s convenient when an app can tell you, say, where the near restaurants or gas stations are — but it’s also a privacy issue. Do you want all your wanderings registered by Google? Are you comfortable knowing that Mark…
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iPhone shipments prevail despite 20% decline of global smartphone market

August 26, 2020
A new analyst note from Gartner today estimates how the global smartphone market performed during the June quarter. While we already knew Apple’s iPhone shipments were likely close to flat based on the company’s reported quarterly revenue, today’s analyst note underscores how well iPhone performed relatively speaking as the global market saw a big 20% decline. Apple had a record-breaking…
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AI & RoboticsNews

LinkedIn open-sources toolkit to measure AI model fairness

August 26, 2020
LinkedIn today released the LinkedIn Fairness Toolkit (LiFT), an open source software library designed to enable the measurement of fairness in AI and machine learning workflows. The company says LiFT can be deployed during training and scoring to measure biases in training data sets, and to evaluate notions of fairness for models while detecting differences in their performance across…
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