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The Nokia 2.2 is a €99 Android One phone I’d buy my mum

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by on June 6, 2019 at 1:56 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Plugged


HMD Global, the company licensing the iconic Nokia marque, today announced it’s latest entry-level handset, the Nokia 2.2, which will retail for €99 (about $110). The Nokia 2.2 is an interesting duck, as it doesn’t seem overtly compromised. Sure, it’s not exactly blazing fast, but its internals should be eminently able to handle the rigors of daily smartphone-using life. And, uniquely for a phone in its price bracket, it’s overtly emphasizing low-light photography, which is something phones in its price range traditionally suffer with. But before we get into that, here’s the specs: Quad-core MediaTek Helio A22 2GB or 3GB…

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Naked protestors redress Facebook’s prude nudity policy

Jun06
by on June 6, 2019 at 1:22 pm
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Yesterday, the National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC) announced that Facebook will reconsider its nudity guidelines, which currently bans photographic nudity, and more controversially, “female nipples.” The news comes just days after activists stripped naked outside Facebook’s and Instagram’s New York headquarters to protest the platforms’ censorship regulations around artistic nudity. NCAC confirmed the social media giant had agreed to a meeting with a “group of stakeholders including artists, art educators, museum curators, activists, as well as Facebook employees.” During the meeting, which has no set date but is believed to happen some time this summer, they “will discuss the issue…

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Developers: Meet your new AI intern

Jun06
by on June 6, 2019 at 1:19 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, artificial intelligence, Design & Dev, syndication


Remember when software was eating the world? The trendy observation these days is that artificial intelligence (AI) is eating software. Even Google CEO Sundar Pichai has talked about software that “automatically writes itself.” And certainly if you consider software development to be little more than the creation of oft-repeated segments of code, then the rapid advances in AI would give software engineers pause. Traditionally, developers have written software as a series of hard-coded rules: If X happens then do Y. The human instructs the machine, line by line. That’s Software 1.0. But Software 2.0 recognizes that — with advances in deep learning — we can build a…

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Hackers hid malware in a fake trading app to steal your cryptocurrency

Jun06
by on June 6, 2019 at 1:16 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


Security researchers have uncovered a knock-off cryptocurrency trading website designed to steal the funds of unwitting victims. Cybercriminals have created a website that imitates the Cryptohopper cryptocurrency trading platform to distribute malware that could steal personal information, hijack your clipboard, and crypto-jack your system, Bleeping Computer reports. It appears to have helped hackers amass a trove of over $260,000 in various cryptocurrencies. When users visit the imitation Cryptohopper website, their system will automatically download and execute a file simply called Setup.exe. While on the surface it might appear legitimate, it’s actually a Trojan. On execution, the Trojan installs two further…

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New algorithm allows researchers to change what people say on video by editing transcript

Jun06
by on June 6, 2019 at 1:04 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, artificial intelligence


For better or worse, it’s getting easier than ever to doctor video footage, and the latest development in this field is as scary as it is impressive. A new algorithm developed by researchers from Stanford University, Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Princeton University, and Adobe makes it possible to alter human speech in a video, just by changing the text in its transcript. This method is said to alter the video while preserving the speaker’s characteristics. To accomplish this, the algorithm first reads the phonemes and pronunciation of letters and words from the original video, and creates a model of…

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