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If you’re worried about the end of privacy, don’t waste your outrage on Clearview AI

It’s easy to feel outrage at Clearview AI for creating facial recognition trained with 3 billion images scraped without permission from sites like Google, Facebook, and LinkedIn, but the company should be only one of the targets of your ire. Pervasive surveillance capitalism is designed to make you feel helpless, but shaping AI regulation is part of citizenship in the 21st century, and you’ve…
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Google releases Android 11 patch with Developer Preview 1.1

The Android 11 Developer Preview launched two weeks ago with six releases scheduled before the Q3 2020 launch. Google today announced a “patch” for Android 11 that’s being referred to as DP 1.1. Slotting in between the first and second previews, this update provides…
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Facebook reveals the AI tool it used to ban 6.6 billion fake accounts

Today, Facebook unveiled a machine learning tool that, in the last year, has removed more than six billion fake accounts. That’s in addition to the millions of new fake accounts that Facebook blocks from being created daily. According to Facebook, the tool has been in production for two years and it’s one of the most advanced methods Facebook has for fighting bogus accounts. The…
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New jailbreak hack lets you run Android on your iPhone 7

The Correlium team has today released a beta of a work-in-progress hack to get the Android operating system running on the iPhone. Using the checkra1n jailbreak exploit to gain access to the bootloader of older iPhone models, Project Sandcastle lets you install a…
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Google Assistant’s new ‘read this page’ command rolling out now on Android

At CES in January, Google previewed what’s coming to Assistant in 2020. A screen reader built in to Assistant and activated by “Hey Google, read this page” is now rolling out on Android. Think about how much you read on your phone every day: Catching up on the news, scanning a new recipe, finally reading the article that everyone is talking about. Some content may require a lot of text…
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Google Assistant now reads web pages aloud on Android devices

Google Assistant for Android has just become a lot more useful for people with vision and reading problems, as well as for those learning new languages. The tech giant has rolled out a new feature that gives it the capability to read web pages aloud. Google says the feature…
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Google Assistant can now read or translate websites and Android app content

Google Assistant is able to read web pages and news articles on Android devices worldwide today, a company spokesperson told VentureBeat. You can trigger the feature by simply saying “Hey Google, read it” or “Hey Google, read this page.” If you land on a webpage in a language you don’t understand, Google Assistant is also able to read and translate 42 languages into your preferred…
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