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Google And Friends Blamed For Blocking Vote On US Revenge Porn Bill
The New York state Senate failed to vote on a revenge porn bill on Wednesday and those advocating for the legislation blame Google and a tech lobbyist group for pressuring lawmakers to abandon it in the final hour.
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Trump Campaign Reportedly Adds Former Cambridge Analytica Employees To 2020 Efforts
Cambridge Analytica, the shady political consulting firm best known for obtaining a whole heap of personal information from Facebook users without their consent, might be dead and gone.
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CryptoKitties, Which Is Like Beanie Babies On The Blockchain, Seems To Be Crashing
Axiom Zen’s CryptoKitties, which is essentially a digital version of Beanie Babies based on the Ethereum blockchain, sucked in a massive amount of funding just a few months ago. But it looks an awful lot like people bought into CryptoKitties looking for a quick return on their investment and are finding that digital cats don’t…
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Most Deepfake Videos Have One Glaring Flaw
The rate at which deepfake videos are advancing is both impressive and deeply unsettling. But researchers have described a new method for detecting a “telltale sign” of these manipulated videos, which map one person’s face onto the body of another. It’s a flaw even the average person would notice: a lack of blinking.