Daily Archives: October 28, 2019

A report by campaign group Avaaz examining how Facebook’s platform is being used to spread hate speech in the Assam region of North East India suggests the company is once again failing to prevent its platform from being turned into a weapon to fuel ethnic violence. Assam has a long-standing Muslim minority population but ethnic […]

Facebook is failing to prevent another human rights tragedy playing ...

This entry was posted in AI Apps artificial intelligence Asia hate speech india Mark Zuckerberg Social TC and tagged facebook social media on October 28, 2019 by Natasha Lomas

Nearly a year and a half after the Cambridge Analytica scandal reportedly scuttled Facebook’s fledgling attempts to enter the healthcare market, the social media giant is launching a tool called “Preventive Health” to prompt its users to get regular checkups and connect them to service providers. The architect of the new service is Dr. Freddy […]

Facebook unveils its first foray into personal digital healthcare tools

This entry was posted in Health Social TC and tagged facebook on October 28, 2019 by Jonathan Shieber

Google and NASA have demonstrated that quantum computing isn’t just a fancy trick, but almost certainly something actually useful — and they’re already working on commercial applications. What does that mean for existing startups and businesses? Simply put: nothing. But that doesn’t mean you can ignore it forever. There are three main points that anyone […]

Will the quantum economy change your business?

This entry was posted in Gadgets hardware IBM TC and tagged google on October 28, 2019 by Devin Coldewey

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Apple’s New AirPods, Tesla’s New Solar Roof, and More News

This entry was posted in Gear on October 28, 2019 by Alex Baker-Whitcomb

Submit campaign ads to fact checking, limit microtargeting, cap spending, observe silence periods, or at least warn users. These are the solutions Facebook employees put forward in an open letter pleading with CEO Mark Zuckerberg and company leadership to address misinformation in political ads. The letter, obtained by the New York Times’ Mike Isaac, insists […]

Facebook staff demand Zuckerberg limit lies in politcal ads

This entry was posted in Advertising Tech Apps Government Mark Zuckerberg Media Mobile Opinion payments Policy Social and tagged facebook on October 28, 2019 by Josh Constine

As robots and gadgets continue to pervade our everyday lives, they increasingly need to see in 3D — but as evidenced by the notch in your iPhone, depth-sensing cameras are still pretty bulky. A new approach inspired by how some spiders sense the distance to their prey could change that.

Spider eyes inspire a new kind of depth-sensing camera

This entry was posted in Gadgets hardware TC on October 28, 2019 by Devin Coldewey

The next version of Apple's white ear-dongles enter a crowded wirefree headphone market on October 30.

Apple AirPods Pro: Price, Details, Release Date

This entry was posted in Gear on October 28, 2019 by Lauren Goode

Apple has released iOS 13.2 and iPadOS 13.2 for the iPhone and iPad. This update features the usual bug fixes and security improvements. But Apple is also adding a handful of new features to its operating system. First, iOS 13.2 brings a ton of new emojis. The company now officially supports Unicode 12.0. You can […]

Apple releases iOS 13.2 with Deep Fusion

This entry was posted in Apps Gadgets iOS Mobile and tagged apple on October 28, 2019 by Romain Dillet

According to Reuters, Google parent Alphabet is looking to acquire publicly traded wearables company Fitbit. Reuters says the deal is still being negotiated and could still fall apart, but if it came together, it would surely strengthen Google’s position in the wearables space, an area where it has struggled despite its efforts around smartwatches and […]