[ad_1] This is legal, but there are concerns that Spotify is not only tolerating excessive data collection with pre-saves, but isn’t completely transparent. The permission request section requires that you tap a “learn more” link to see exactly what a label wants, and there’s a good chance listeners will simply skip that so they can […]
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Alphabet’s cybersecurity company Chronicle will join Google Cloud
[ad_1] Chronicle got its start as a project inside X, Alphabet’s “moonshot factory,” and it quickly spun into a standalone company. When Chronicle introduced Backstory this spring, the company compared it to Google Photos for cybersecurity. Users dump in data from various security products, and Backstory organizes the alerts and scans for legitimate threats. It’s […]
Oppo’s under-screen camera kills phone notches
[ad_1] There’s room for improvement, though.Oppo’s under-screen camera is real and taking photos in Shanghai Probably the best way to remove the notch or pinhole from our smartphones is to make the camera invisible. And that’s what under-screen cameras promise. Several Chinese phone makers are hustling to make this a reality, and Oppo was the […]
The FIDO Alliance wants to bring password-less security to IoT devices
[ad_1] The first group FIDO formed, called Identity Verification and Binding Working Group, will define criteria for remote ID verification and develop a certification program for manufacturers. FIDO previously determined that asking for biometric details and government-issued IDs when onboarding new accounts or recovering old ones “greatly improve the quality of identity assurance.” It’s possible […]
Amazon Prime Day adds a July 10th concert headlined by Taylor Swift
[ad_1] Everyone from Walmart to Target to eBay is coming for Amazon’s online shopping crown, and now its Christmas-in-July event is adding yet another wrinkle: a concert. Leading up to to the two-day Prime Day 2019 on July 15th and 16th, Amazon Music will put on a show — streamed live via Prime Video of […]
Canada reveals measures to tackle online extremism
[ad_1] Last month, the nation joined other countries and tech companies in adopting a pledge to eradicate online violent extremist and terrorist content in the wake of mosque shootings in Christchurch, New Zealand. The shooter livestreamed the attack, and copies of the footage spread like wildfire. Meanwhile, Canada will host a youth summit to help […]
The White House may host a social media summit next month
[ad_1] News of the summit comes shortly after President Trump told Fox Business Network that the US should sue tech giants like Google and Facebook and alleged that Twitter makes it hard for him to get his message out. Trump has already held private meetings with both Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Google CEO Sundar […]
EA patched Origin security flaws that put millions of users at risk
[ad_1] The vulnerabilities took advantage of abandoned subdomains, EA Games’ use of authentication tokens and single sign-on and TRUST mechanisms built into the user login process. Had an attack been carried out, it could have been devastating, given that EA is the world’s second largest gaming company and millions of user accounts would have been […]
Apple News debuts a guide to the 2020 Democrat hopefuls
[ad_1] The guide won’t simply be a hodgepodge of random headlines, but rather curated specifically by a team of Apple news editors, and as candidates drop out of the race, the guide will evolve to give more coverage to those still in the running. According to Apple, the 2020 Democratic field is “complex,” and the […]
Facebook, Google and others come together to set benchmarks for AI
[ad_1] The benchmarks, named MLPerf Inference v0.5, center around three common machine learning tasks: image classification, object detection and machine translation. Given the different processing abilities of different devices, there are separate benchmarks for AI across various platforms, such as smartphones, servers and chips. As well as providing best practice guidance for companies in the […]