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Windows 10 now lets you pull out USB drives without ‘safely removing’ them

Apr09
by on April 9, 2019 at 5:37 am
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We all know that one person who annoyingly reminds you to use “Safely Remove Hardware” before pulling the USB drive out of the slot. They shouldn’t bother you anymore. As Betanews first noted, Microsoft has introduced a new policy that allows you to remove the device without using the Safely Remove Hardware process – as long as you’re not writing data to it. To be sure, you could actually do this even back when Windows 7 was around – but the OS was set to enable ‘Better performance’ by default for USB drives, instead of ‘Quick removal.’ So you couldn’t just…

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New York vows to keep trying after Orwellian facial recognition program fails

Apr08
by on April 8, 2019 at 10:35 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, artificial intelligence


New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s driver recognition pilot program has yielded perfect results: it works zero percent of the time. Congratulations would be in order, but despite this fantastic failure the state intends to continue building it’s privacy-smashing facial recognition program. The program, according to The Wall Street Journal, suffered from abject failure due to the current technology’s inability to detect faces at high speeds. The Journal reports a November document related to the New York Metro Transit Authority’s oversight of the program states: Initial period for the proof of concept testing at the RFK for facial recognition has been…

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Ian Goodfellow’s hiring hints at what Apple’s next ‘one more thing’ could be

Apr08
by on April 8, 2019 at 8:35 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, artificial intelligence, Google


Apple recently scored the hottest free agent in AI when it managed to lure Ian “The GANfather” Goodfellow away from his highly-salaried perch at Google. His hiring indicates Apple’s placing a higher priority on machine learning technology. And it may tell us a little about the Cupertino company’s next big product. What’s a GAN? Read our primer on neural networks to learn more. Little is currently known about the circumstances surrounding Goodfellow’s move from Google, where he worked twice with a stint at OpenAI in between, to Apple. Neither company, to the best of our knowledge, has publicly commented on the…

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