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Instagram influencers almost duped me into using ineffective fertility apps

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by on August 2, 2018 at 10:55 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Lifestyle, Social Media


Influencers promote almost anything on social media from holidays to makeup to discount codes, and even fertility apps. Our feeds are flooded with #ad posts from influencers who are “loving” a recently released product. But how much trust should we put into a #sponsored post? Especially when that product is contraception. I am usually blasé about Instagram influencers. They’re pretty harmless when it comes to promoting Dior’s latest lipstick for a 10 percent cut. However, some influencers on social media don’t know enough about a certain product that they’re promoting, which could be why companies are so attracted to them.…

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Musical.ly is merging with Tik Tok’s short video platform

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by on August 2, 2018 at 10:04 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web


Musical.ly, the popular lip-sync video app, is being folded into a similar platform called Tik Tok. The merger will see Musical.ly’s brand and app disappear, and its community is being automatically migrated to Tik Tok with an app update. Bytedance, the Chinese firm that owns Tik Tok, acquired Musical.ly for $1 billion back in November 2017. At the time, the company was happy to let Musical.ly run as an independent platform. In a press release, its co-founder Alex Zhu noted that combining the two apps ” is a natural fit given the shared mission of both experiences – to create…

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Indian police bust $4M ‘Ripple Future’ cryptocurrency scam

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by on August 2, 2018 at 9:49 am
Posted In: Around the Web, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) ruling may have killed legitimate cryptocurrency businesses in the country, but it seems the regulatory clampdown hasn’t deterred local fraudsters and con artists. In the latest crypto-bust, Indian police arrested two suspects for allegedly duping 300 million Indian Rupees ($4 million approximately) from 1,800 people, Press Trust of India (PTI) reports. The accused were running a fake cryptocurrency company named ‘Ripple Future,’ which promised to triple investor money in 250 days, and also ran daily and weekly payment schemes. The Ripple Future management team claimed the company was headquartered in the US, but Indian police found…

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An AI that ‘hears’ machine failure might soon be used for roller coasters

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by on August 2, 2018 at 8:51 am
Posted In: Around the Web, IOT Lab


How do we know when the things we own or the items we use everyday need maintenance? In most cases, people only take corrective measures when things stop working. For some organizations, periodic maintenance checks are the order of the day; however, these can be costly as planned downtime is needed to carry these out. And what about items that are used on a much larger scale? Like theme park rides? One such theme park, Netherlands-based Efteling, is working at providing a solution to preventing downtime. Initially originating as a sports park in 1952, Efteling has since grown into an…

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An AI that ‘hears’ machine failure might soon be used for roller coasters

Aug02
by on August 2, 2018 at 8:51 am
Posted In: Around the Web, IOT Lab


How do we know when the things we own or the items we use everyday need maintenance? In most cases, people only take corrective measures when things stop working. For some organizations, periodic maintenance checks are the order of the day; however, these can be costly as planned downtime is needed to carry these out. And what about items that are used on a much larger scale? Like theme park rides? One such theme park, Netherlands-based Efteling, is working at providing a solution to preventing downtime. Initially originating as a sports park in 1952, Efteling has since grown into an…

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