AI & RoboticsNews

Facebook AI can 'hide' people from facial recognition

October 27, 2019
Facebook has already stopped using facial recognition by default, but now it might have a way for people to dodge facial recognition altogether. Its researchers have developed an AI system that can “de-identify” people in real time, including live videos. The approach pairs an adversarial auto-encoder with a trained face classifier to ever-so-slightly distort a person’s face…
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MobileNews

Google Messages trick enables RCS on any Android phone and carrier

October 26, 2019
This has been a big week for Rich Communicator Services with the four largest US carriers announcing (a Google-less) plan to roll out the SMS/MMS successor. Today, a trick has emerged that appears to enable RCS on any Android device and carrier. Posted to Reddit (u/NashRadical, u/sh0ch, u/LinkofHyrule), this trick to enable RCS in Messages appears reliant on Google’s implementation. The…
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ComputersNews

Microsoft leak reveals Windows 10X will be coming to laptops

October 25, 2019
Microsoft has accidentally published an internal design document for its upcoming Windows 10X operating system. Spotted by WalkingCat, the document was briefly available online today and provides some more detail about Microsoft’s plans with Windows 10X. The software giant originally unveiled Windows 10X as the operating system powering the company’s new Surface Neo hardware, but it will…
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MobileNews

Apple highlights iPhone privacy with new ‘Simple as that’ ad

October 25, 2019
Apple has shared a new one-minute ad focused on iPhone privacy. The video highlights how much private information we have stored on smartphones and that it should belong to “you.” The new privacy on iPhone ad features an opening scene of a city at night as the narrator…
GamingNews

Steam Remote Play Together sometimes stutters

October 25, 2019
Valve launched Remote Play Together for its Steam gaming service earlier this week. This feature enables you to stream a live local multiplayer session with your friends. So even if a game doesn’t have online multiplayer, you can still hop on with a buddy across the country to play it. But is Remote Play Together any good? Sometimes. Remote Play Together works by broadcasting the hosts screen to…
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