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Apple releases first public beta for iOS 12. Here’s how to get it.

Jun25
by on June 25, 2018 at 11:02 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider


For those of you brave enough to take the plunge, today is the day you’ve been waiting for. Apple, earlier today, announced it’d be seeding the public’s first look at iOS 12. Bring on the Memoji. Prior to today’s public launch, the beta had only been available to iOS developers willing to fork over the $99/year for an account. But today, it’s everyone’s turn. With that, we should mention that those willing to install the public beta should be aware that, like all beta software, there will most certainly be frustrating glitches and bugs. According to 9to5 Mac, however, they’ve…

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Expert predicts ‘AI nationalism’ will change geopolitical landscape

Jun25
by on June 25, 2018 at 10:40 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, artificial intelligence


The US and China are leagues ahead of any other country when it comes to AI technology. And it’s because they know how to prioritize their own programs. Rather than waste time discussing the dangers of AI with the UN, or crafting global policy, the two countries have become AI nationalists. Artificial intelligence research was a dying field just a decade ago. Now, AI companies like Google and Baidu are among the richest in the world. Fortunes have changed for the industry, thanks in no small part to a political environment treating AI research like general purpose software development. This…

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Expert predicts ‘AI nationalism’ will change geopolitical landscape

Jun25
by on June 25, 2018 at 10:40 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, artificial intelligence


The US and China are leagues ahead of any other country when it comes to AI technology. And it’s because they know how to prioritize their own programs. Rather than waste time discussing the dangers of AI with the UN, or crafting global policy, the two countries have become AI nationalists. Artificial intelligence research was a dying field just a decade ago. Now, AI companies like Google and Baidu are among the richest in the world. Fortunes have changed for the industry, thanks in no small part to a political environment treating AI research like general purpose software development. This…

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Mozilla bakes ‘Have I Been Pwned’ into Firefox’s new privacy tool

Jun25
by on June 25, 2018 at 10:22 pm
Posted In: Around the Web


Mozilla today announced an exciting new feature coming to future versions of Firefox. The feature is a proposed security tool that uses Troy Hunt’s ‘Have I Been Pwned‘ (HIBP) database to scour the web looking for accounts included in known data breaches. We first learned of a similar feature last November, when Mozilla announced it would be alerting users when their accounts were breached by pulling from the freely accessible breach API on HIBP. This feature was merely a notification system that alerted users when they visited a breached site. Now, Mozilla is packing the full power of Hunt’s HIBP…

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Mozilla bakes ‘Have I Been Pwned’ into Firefox’s new privacy tool

Jun25
by on June 25, 2018 at 10:22 pm
Posted In: Around the Web


Mozilla today announced an exciting new feature coming to future versions of Firefox. The feature is a proposed security tool that uses Troy Hunt’s ‘Have I Been Pwned‘ (HIBP) database to scour the web looking for accounts included in known data breaches. We first learned of a similar feature last November, when Mozilla announced it would be alerting users when their accounts were breached by pulling from the freely accessible breach API on HIBP. This feature was merely a notification system that alerted users when they visited a breached site. Now, Mozilla is packing the full power of Hunt’s HIBP…

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