Saturday, 20 January 2018

The Morning After: Weekend Edition

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It's Saturday, January 20, 2018.

Hey, good morning! You look fabulous.

It’s the weekend already? You might have a strange email from Twitter in your inbox, and if you’ve shopped with OnePlus lately then it might be time to cancel your card.

Ouch.

OnePlus says up to 40,000 customers affected in credit card breach

In a statement released Friday, OnePlus said credit card information belonging to up to 40,000 customers was captured by a malicious (and currently unknown) actor between November 2017 and mid-January 2018.

Finally.

Logan Paul forced YouTube to admit humans are better than algorithms

It took a video of a dead body for the company to finally reconsider its approach to content moderation.

Oh, good?

Twitter is notifying people exposed to Russian propaganda

Twitter announced its ongoing investigation found thousands of additional accounts associated with the Russian government-linked Internet Research Agency (IRA). Now, it’s emailing notifications to everyone in the US who inadvertently followed one or retweeted or liked one of their messages -- which is some 677,775 people.

For best results, grow a beard.

Google's museum app finds your fine-art doppelgänger

If you've ever wondered if there's a museum portrait somewhere that looks like you, and you're ready to have your ego crushed, there's now an app for that. Google Arts & Culture's latest update now lets you take a selfie, and using image recognition, finds someone in its vast art collection that most resembles you. Let’s try!

You crazy.

Nintendo unveils Labo, DIY cardboard add-ons for the Switch

Behold Labo, a set of DIY tools built on cardboard sheets that turns the console into a powerhouse of play. Make a piano with the Switch's screen for music. No, wait, a motorcycle game with cardboard handlebars. A house with the Switch displaying an interior you can customize. Now is the era of the Toy-Con -- and it involves a recyclable robo-suit. Yay!

But wait, there's more...

1. Netflix orders a weekly show hosted by Joel McHale

2. Bad Password: Facebook's fake war on fake news

3. Nissan: Leaf EV pre-orders are over 13,000

4. The most eye-catching cars and tech from NAIAS 2018 in Detroit

5. Watch the first footage from Kodak's reborn Super 8 film camera

6. There's a point to Hasselblad's crazy 400-megapixel camera

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Friday, 19 January 2018

E-Commerce Minute

E-Commerce Minute: Friday -- January 19, 2018

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Headline Scan
Google to Ding Sluggish Sites in Mobile Search Rankings
New Google Service Makes Machine Learning More Accessible
Infrastructure as an Anchor
Facebook's Move to Dial Back News Ratchets Up Drama
Salesfusion Launches Spiffy New Marketing Automation Tool

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Google to Ding Sluggish Sites in Mobile Search Rankings

Google has announced that page speed will be a ranking factor for mobile
searches, starting in July. Speed already has been a factor in desktop
search rankings. Soon, as part of Google's new "Speed Update," page
loading time will be factored in when ranking mobile search results as
well. The change will affect only pages that deliver what the slowest
experience to users, according to Google.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/85075.html

New Google Service Makes Machine Learning More Accessible

Google on Wednesday released its Cloud AutoML Vision service in Alpha.
It is the first in a planned series of Cloud AutoML services designed to
help people with limited machine learning expertise build their own
custom models using advanced techniques such as learning2learn and
transfer learning. Learning2learn is a process for automating machine
learning
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/85073.html

Infrastructure as an Anchor

Oracle's race to the cloud has offered multiple successes to its
investors and some disappointment as well. No transition of this
magnitude can be expected to run like clockwork, but the difference
between revenues for Oracle's Software as a Service apps for last
quarter, $1.1 billion, and those for its Infrastructure as a Service
apps, at $396 million, should at least get you thinking.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/85074.html

Facebook's Move to Dial Back News Ratchets Up Drama

Facebook once again has found itself at the center of a media storm,
following Mark Zuckerberg's recent announcement of plans to shift its
focus away from news and business content and toward interactions
between friends and family. The shift follows more than a year of heavy
criticism directed against Facebook, including blame for failing to
combat fake news during the 2016 presidential election.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/85070.html

Salesfusion Launches Spiffy New Marketing Automation Tool

Salesfusion has launched version 12 of its marketing automation
solution. It rebuilt Salesfusion 12 from the ground up to provide an
architecture robust enough to support "the easiest-to-use, most modern
campaign creation tools available to marketers today," said Greg
Vilines, VP of product and engineering. It provides enterprise-grade
power and features without the typical price tag, he added.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/85069.html

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The Morning After: 'Little Ripper' drone's ocean rescue

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It's Friday, January 19, 2018.

Hey, good morning! You look fabulous.

Drone rescues, our warming planet and a $48,000 camera were part of yesterday’s news highlights, but the big question of the day is whether or not a $70 cardboard toy is overpriced.

For the target audience, $48,000 is reasonable.

There’s a point to Hasselblad's crazy 400-megapixel camera

If you judge cameras by megapixels and dollar signs, then Hasselblad just introduced the ultimate model. The H6D-400c can shoot 400-megapixel photos and will cost you $48,000, the price of a well-equipped Tesla Model 3. It does so by combining up to six different exposures from its 100-megapixel, medium-format 53.4 X 40.0mm sensor in a process it calls Multi Shot. Each image is shifted by a pixel, resulting in a much-higher resolution image.

Perhaps, both?

Nintendo Labo: overpriced or innovative?

Nintendo is reinventing imagination, and charging you for the cardboard. While a room of cynical Engadget editors is probably not the target audience (we had one submission from a parent), we have thoughts on the Labo. For better and worse.

The geo-fencing system alerts authorities when targets stray beyond a "safe area."

China uses facial recognition to monitor ethnic minorities

China is adding facial recognition to its overarching surveillance systems in Xinjiang, a Muslim-dominated region in the country's far west, which critics claim is under abusive security controls. The geo-fencing tools alert authorities when targets venture beyond a designated 300-meter safe zone, according to an anonymous source who spoke to Bloomberg.

Managed by a state-run defense contractor, the "alert project" matches faces from surveillance camera footage to a watchlist of suspects. The pilot forms part of the company's efforts to thwart terrorist attacks by collecting the biometric data of millions of citizens aged between 12 to 65, which is then linked to China's household registration ID cards.

Australia's 'Little Ripper' UAV swooped in to save two teens sucked out to sea.

Lifeguard drone completes world-first ocean rescue

Australia's Little Ripper drone has saved a pair of swimmers caught in rough seas in what's thought to be a world-first rescue operation. Lifeguards were busy testing the UAV off Lennox Head as part of New South Wales' $250,000 shark-spotting strategy when the distress call came in. Within 70 seconds, the aerial helper had tracked down the stranded duo and dropped them a flotation pod, which they used to safely make their way to shore.

The top five warmest have all been since 2010.

NASA: 2017 was Earth’s second-warmest year since 1880

After careful analysis, NASA has declared that 2017 was the second-warmest year since the end of the 19th century. In a separate study using different analytical methods, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) ranked last year as the third warmest in their records. But both agree that, since 2010, the globe has experienced its five hottest years.

Behave.

Facebook and YouTube are removing Tide Pod Challenge videos

Apparently, adults need intervention to stop people from eating (drinking?) laundry detergent. As a result, YouTube and Facebook have committed to taking down videos of people willingly ingesting Tide pods. It's apparently gotten bad enough that in the first 15 days of 2018, the American Association of Poison Control Centers received as many calls about intentional consumption of laundry pods as it did in the entirety of 2016.

But wait, there's more...

1. EFF and Lookout release report on Dark Caracal hacking linked to Lebanese intelligence

2. YouTuber wins damages in landmark UK revenge-porn case

3. NASA tests small nuclear reactor that could power a habitat on Mars

4. Apple will fix the chaiOS text-message bug next week

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Thursday, 18 January 2018

Tech News Flash

Tech News Flash: Thursday -- January 18, 2018

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Headline Scan
IBM, Maersk Announce Global Blockchain Shipping Venture
Tech Takes Front Seat at Detroit Auto Show
Gadget Ogling: CES Edition

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IBM, Maersk Announce Global Blockchain Shipping Venture

IBM and Maersk have announced a joint venture to create a platform based
on Hyperledger Fabric 1.0, with the goal of creating huge efficiencies
in the global supply chain. The goal is to use blockchain tech provide a
more efficient method of standardizing shipping logistics. The
partnership "has the potential to remake the shipping sector landscape,"
said Brian Behlendorf of The Linux Foundation.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/85071.html

Tech Takes Front Seat at Detroit Auto Show

In recent years, CES largely has usurped the Detroit Auto Show as the
"first auto show of the year." Automakers have used the annual Las Vegas
shindig to highlight the latest technology in vehicles. So perhaps it
was fitting that this year the NAIAS looked a bit more like a technology
trade show than a car show, featuring sessions on AI, autonomous vehicle
systems, vehicle security and mobility.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/85067.html

Gadget Ogling: CES Edition

Roader's Time Machine Camera is designed to hang around your neck and,
for up to seven hours of battery life, constantly capture what it sees.
When you hit a button, it saves the last 10 seconds of footage and the
following 10. You can send a low-resolution version of that 20-second
clip to your smartphone immediately, and if you'd like to save a high-
resolution version, you can grab that too.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/85068.html

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