Facebook is again at the center of a privacy controversy after revealing today that it had been inadvertently sharing private posts publicly for some 14 million users. When attempting to test a feature on users’ profiles, developers introduced a bug that exposed the posts of some individuals who thought they were posting privately, Facebook revealed. The company told TechCrunch the glitch happened while testing a new “featured items” option on profiles that allows users to highlight photos and other content. In new accounts, and most others, posts are public by default. Every Facebook user, though, has the ability to change…
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Google’s London-based sister company, DeepMind, recently developed a training method for teaching AI how to play video games. Rather than painstakingly feed it data, they just leave it alone with some YouTube videos. DeepMind’s latest training method is designed to solve a problem AI faces in exploration. AI pretty much sucks at exploring new places or figuring out which way to go. And AI developers struggle to find ways to reward AI in environments where there’s little to achieve. DeepMind’s AlphaGo AI, for example, was designed to win at Go — a game with very specific rules. But when you…
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By this point, it seems pretty clear the Pixel 3 XL will include a notch. Android P includes native support for notches, a leaked screen protector shows a cutout at the top of display, and a Bloomberg report practically confirms it. Now we’re getting what appears to be the first look at the device itself, courtesy of a post on by meraz9000 on XDA. Here’s the front: And here’s the back: I’m conflicted. A necessary disclaimer: this is an uncomfirmed leak of a prototype. For all we know, this could be one of several test designs, and the device could…
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