In a statement YouTube said, starting today it will remove content uploaded to its platform containing allegations that fraud or widespread errors altered the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. The video platform said content “that misleads people by alleging that widespread fraud or errors changed the outcome” of theContinue Reading
Today the cybersecurity firm FireEye disclosed that they were the victim of a sophisticated hack. The hackers accessed FireEye’s internal network and seem to have stolen hacking tools FireEye uses to text client’s networks. In a disclosure published on the FireEye website, CEO Kevin Mandia said a “highly sophisticated threat actor”Continue Reading
Uber Sells Its Self-driving Unit To Aurora “Uber’s self-driving unit, Advanced Technologies Group (ATG), is being acquired by its start-up competitor Aurora Innovation, the companies announced Monday. The deal, expected to close in the first quarter of 2021, values ATG at approximately $4 billion. The unit was valued at $7.25 billion inContinue Reading
DeepMind’s Improved Protein-Folding Prediction AI Could Accelerate Drug Discovery “DeepMind now asserts that AlphaFold has outgunned competing protein-folding-predicting methods for a second time. In the results from the 14th CASP assessment, a newer version of AlphaFold — AlphaFold 2 — has average error comparable to the width of an atomContinue Reading
Twitter announced it plans to once again start taking applications for verification in 2021. While Twitter never really stopped handing out “blue ticks” the company discontinued the open application process in 2017 after being criticized for verifying Jason Kessler, an organizer of the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville. The company says they plan toContinue Reading
Expanding on an existing feature that shows users a warning when they try to ReTweet content the social media company has flagged as containing “misleading information”. Twitter will now show users more or less the same warning when they try to Like Tweets with a misinformation label. “Giving context on whyContinue Reading
Research Shows iOS Covid Apps Are A Privacy Mess “Jonathan Albright, director of the Digital Forensics Initiative at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism, recently released analysis he did into 493 COVID-19 related iOS apps across dozens of countries. The results are…not great, and highlight how such apps routinely hoover up farContinue Reading
The end of web publishers being handcuffed to Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) is in sight. In May of 2021, Google will roll out an algorithm update using a new set of page experience signals to help determine rankings. these new guidelines will no longer give preferential treatment to sites usingContinue Reading
First reported by Variety the November 18th update of YouTube’s terms of service, adds a section saying users grant the service “the right to monetize your Content on the Service (and such monetization may include displaying ads on or within Content or charging users a fee for access).” However, the agreement “does notContinue Reading
AliveCor, a startup developing algorithms to detect health issues from heart rate readings, announced a $65 million raise in series E financing, led by existing investors OMRON, Khosla Ventures, WP Global Partners, Qualcomm Ventures and Bold Capital Partners. The company says they will use the funds to support growth ofContinue Reading