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Scam victims warn fake accounts will ruin Facebook’s dating site

Aug16
by on August 16, 2018 at 6:24 pm
Posted In: Around the Web


Two well-meaning Facebook vigilantes are in a battle against scam accounts, and Facebook‘s response seems to be “Yeah, good job. Now keep doing it.” Kathy Kostrub-Waters and Bryan Denny are spending some of their precious free time finding fake accounts on the site — not the kind created by Russian trolls during the fake news blitz a few years ago, but the kind that use stolen photos to convince lonely hearts to send money to people they’ve never met. Kostrub-Waters and Denny told Buzzfeed they regularly present Facebook with their findings, and each time are disappointed to find Facebook hasn’t changed their…

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Scam victims warn fake accounts will ruin Facebook’s dating site

Aug16
by on August 16, 2018 at 6:24 pm
Posted In: Around the Web


Two well-meaning Facebook vigilantes are in a battle against scam accounts, and Facebook‘s response seems to be “Yeah, good job. Now keep doing it.” Kathy Kostrub-Waters and Bryan Denny are spending some of their precious free time finding fake accounts on the site — not the kind created by Russian trolls during the fake news blitz a few years ago, but the kind that use stolen photos to convince lonely hearts to send money to people they’ve never met. Kostrub-Waters and Denny told Buzzfeed they regularly present Facebook with their findings, and each time are disappointed to find Facebook hasn’t changed their…

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Scientists just ‘proved’ that it’s easier to influence children with robots than adults

Aug16
by on August 16, 2018 at 6:09 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, artificial intelligence


A much-ballyhooed study published yesterday indicates children are more easily influenced by robots than adults. Perhaps next we’ll discover that robots find it easier to take candy from babies than grown-ups. I’m a parent. When a study titled “Children conform, adults resist: A robot group induced peer pressure on normative social conformity,” starts making the tech news rounds, I pay attention. On the surface it seems scary — especially if you live most of your life immersed in news coming out of the field of artificial intelligence. It’s not. The research was conducted at the University of Plymouth where a…

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Scientists just ‘proved’ that it’s easier to influence children with robots than adults

Aug16
by on August 16, 2018 at 6:09 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, artificial intelligence


A much-ballyhooed study published yesterday indicates children are more easily influenced by robots than adults. Perhaps next we’ll discover that robots find it easier to take candy from babies than grown-ups. I’m a parent. When a study titled “Children conform, adults resist: A robot group induced peer pressure on normative social conformity,” starts making the tech news rounds, I pay attention. On the surface it seems scary — especially if you live most of your life immersed in news coming out of the field of artificial intelligence. It’s not. The research was conducted at the University of Plymouth where a…

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Twitter: ‘We killed our legacy dev tools because nobody used them’

Aug16
by on August 16, 2018 at 4:05 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Design & Dev


Twitter has deprecated three of its legacy developer APIs. As of today, the Site Streams, User Streams, and its REST Direct Message Endpoints are officially retired. Shakeups are seldom welcome, and bracing itself for an angry developer backlash, Twitter has published a blog post explaining its reasioning behind the cull of its APIs. In short, it’s all about the numbers. According to Rob Johnson, Senior Director or Product Management at Twitter, two of the legacy developer tools being retired today are only used by about one percent of third-party developers. Most developers, it seems, have migrated to the newer APIs…

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