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Popular DNA testing service reports breach affecting 92 million users

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by on June 5, 2018 at 9:21 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider


One of the largest DNA testing services recently uncovered a breach that affects more than 90 million customers. A security researcher found, on a private server, the email addresses and hashed passwords of every customer that signed up for the service before October 26 of last year. MyHeritage, an Israel-based DNA testing service, reported the breach in a blog post yesterday: Today, June 4, 2018 at approximately 1pm EST, MyHeritage’s Chief Information Security Officer received a message from a security researcher that he had found a file named myheritage containing email addresses and hashed passwords, on a private server outside…

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MIT made a psychopathic AI based on a Hitchcock thriller

Jun05
by on June 5, 2018 at 9:14 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, artificial intelligence


A team of mad scientists from MIT’s ghoulish Media Lab have created an AI-powered version of Alfred Hitchcock’s mother-loving murderer Norman Bates. Norman is an intentionally-biased neural network designed to caption images. We’ve covered similar AI projects (this one was hilarious, and here’s one that fools humans) but MIT’s wasn’t trained like they were. It was, for lack of a better term, abused. Rather than feed it good wholesome data obtained with the purest of intent, MIT researchers “exposed it to the darkest corners of Reddit” where it developed a macabre world view: We trained Norman on image captions from an…

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Review: Wunder360’s C1 makes shooting and editing 4K 360 videos easy

Jun05
by on June 5, 2018 at 6:01 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, artificial intelligence, Gadgets, Reviews, virtual reality


There’s something special about reliving your memories through 360-degree images or videos, but for those of us who aren’t professional photographers the necessary gear can be a bit daunting. The Wunder360 C1 from Evomotion tries to bridge the gap as an affordable gadget that’s easy to use while still providing a robust set of features. Only recently launched, the C1 is an interesting device. It’s a sort of in between offering meant to appeal to the selfie crowd as much as the action sports crowd. The camera comes with dual lenses capable of recording 360 images and videos in a…

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Review: Wunder360’s C1 makes shooting and editing 4K 360 videos easy

Jun05
by on June 5, 2018 at 6:01 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, artificial intelligence, Gadgets, Reviews, virtual reality


There’s something special about reliving your memories through 360-degree images or videos, but for those of us who aren’t professional photographers the necessary gear can be a bit daunting. The Wunder360 C1 from Evomotion tries to bridge the gap as an affordable gadget that’s easy to use while still providing a robust set of features. Only recently launched, the C1 is an interesting device. It’s a sort of in between offering meant to appeal to the selfie crowd as much as the action sports crowd. The camera comes with dual lenses capable of recording 360 images and videos in a…

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Firefox tests two new features: color customization and split-screen tabs

Jun05
by on June 5, 2018 at 4:51 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider


Firefox has two new experimental features for you to try out today. One lets you theme your browser with colors of your choosing, the other lets you view two websites within one tab. Both are part of Firefox’s Test Pilot program, which allows you to try new features in the form of extensions and help decide whether they’ll make their way to the public. Simply called Firefox Color, the first feature allows you to customize various visual elements of the browser, “including background texture, text, icons, the toolbar and highlights.” There are few presets, or you can make your own.…

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