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Facebook contract workers look at your private posts to help train its AI

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by on May 6, 2019 at 3:07 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, artificial intelligence


A new report from Reuters has revealed how contract workers for Facebook and Instagram are looking at your private posts to help the social media platforms train their AI systems. Reuters suggests contractors are annotating the posts based on five “dimensions”: the content of the post (selfie, food, landmarks), the occasion of the post (life event, activity), expressive elements (opinion, feelings), author’s intent (to plan an event, making a joke, inspire others) and the post’s setting (home, school, work, outdoors). The content being captured also includes screenshots and posts with comments, at times even including user names and other sensitive information.…

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Reddit’s CTO Chris Slowe on the site’s speedy future

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by on May 6, 2019 at 3:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Events, Insider, TNW2019


Last year, Reddit went through a redesign. While it caused quite a stir among established users, it offered improved UX for a core target group: newcomers. Speaking at last year’s TNW Conference, Reddit’s founding engineer and CTO, Chris Slowe, explained how he rolled out the redesign with his team, and shared advice on how to evolve a website with a constantly growing user base. Next week, Slowe will return to TNW Conference. He’ll share his experiences over the past year and talk about his next projects. I had a chat with him about his upcoming TNW2019 keynote, and asked him about Reddit’s…

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Bitfinex is skewing Bitcoin’s price so much, it’s now being ignored by CoinMarketCap

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by on May 6, 2019 at 2:55 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


Cryptocurrency market information website CoinMarketCap is no longer including Bitfinex’s Bitcoin price in its weighted average due to skewed data. Bitcoin‘s weighted average price is $5,696.94 (at the time of writing). However, on Bitfinex, it’s listed at $6,009.98. To save you the math, that’s a difference of $313.04, or put otherwise, a 5.5-percent premium over the market average. The little asterix next to Bitcoin‘s Bitfinex price – spotted by Chepicap – denotes that it’s no longer being included in CMC’s calculation of the Bitcoin‘s average price, though. Being so much higher, it was skewing the average. Other exchanges generally report…

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Even I, a fool, could photoshop the coffee cup out of the latest GoT episode

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by on May 6, 2019 at 2:49 pm
Posted In: Around the Web


Don’t worry, there are no spoilers about the latest episode below. But, if you’re slightly behind the release schedule, there are some light reveals. Game of Thrones is a phenomenon. It’s a record-breaking, budget-busting entertainment behemoth that might well be the most popular TV show of all time. Yet despite all the money and effort that goes into the series, the creators couldn’t stop a coffee cup from entering Westeros (that’s the nerd land where all the nerd shit happens btw). Yep, in the fourth episode of the eighth and final season of Game of Thrones (titled, ‘The Last of the Starks’)…

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Activists are battling propaganda and voter apathy ahead of 2019’s EU elections

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by on May 6, 2019 at 1:31 pm
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For better or for worse, tech will play a pivotal role in this year’s European elections, which promise to be a heated and fraught affair, and have the potential for the same kind of foreign influence that marred the 2016 US Presidential Election. That’s not usually the case. European elections are frequently overlooked, as evidenced by their historically low voter turnout. Looking at 2014’s EU elections, for example, shows just 35 percent of eligible Brits casting a ballot for their MEPs. In Slovakia, the turnout rate was even more dismal, with just 13.5 percent voting. Things will be different this…

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