by Asmawisham | Apr 29, 2017 | Technology
Earlier today, the NSA announced its intentions to limit a surveillance technique that had a nasty side effect of sweeping up communications to and from Americans.In a rare unprompted press statement, the NSA explained that it would halt “any upstream internet...
by Asmawisham | Apr 29, 2017 | Technology
Late on Friday, Amazon announced it will be shutting down its “Underground Actually Free” program, which offers customers free versions of Android apps that would typically cost money, including those that relied on in-app purchases but were otherwise free downloads....
by Asmawisham | Apr 29, 2017 | Technology
Jack Dorsey is at it again — after purchasing $7 million in Twitter stock back in February, the Twitter CEO bought another $9.5 million today. After making his purchase, Dorsey posted the news on Facebook Twitter, sparking a one percent gain in the company’s after...
by Asmawisham | Apr 29, 2017 | Technology
Apple today informed retail store employees and Apple Authorized Service Providers that it is extending the service coverage for first-generation Apple Watch models experiencing battery problems to three years.In an entry in Apple’s repair database (via...
by Asmawisham | Apr 29, 2017 | Technology
Tinder users have many motives for uploading their likeness to the dating app. But contributing a facial biometric to a downloadable dataset for training convolutional neural networks probably wasn’t top of their list when they signed up to swipe.A user of Kaggle, a...
by Asmawisham | Apr 29, 2017 | Technology
Chinese tech conglomerate Tencent will be opening a new AI research center in Seattle, according to The Information. The company has long had a core office in Palo Alto, but this will be its first major machine intelligence R&D effort in the country. Earlier this...