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Kim Dotcom pushes token sale to build a blockchain content network… but why?

Sep24
by on September 24, 2019 at 11:02 am
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


Controversial internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom is back, and he’s selling tokens to build a blockchain-powered content network. Dotcom’s proposed platform, K.IM, is pitched “secure and dynamic ecosystem” where consumers and publishers of digital content can easily transact (without the middleman). Cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex will facilitate Dotcom’s fundraiser via its revamped token issuance platform, Bitfinex Token Sales (formerly Tokinex). The firm markets the platform as a more sustainable solution to Initial Exchange Offerings. The token (also named KIM) will be issued via Blockstream’s Liquid network, a Bitcoin sidechain. KIM’s main use-cases will be purchasing content, allowing content creators to offer buyers “perks and…

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This AI reads privacy policies so you don’t have to — and it’s actually pretty good

Sep24
by on September 24, 2019 at 10:51 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web


Don’t you absolutely hate how dense and confusing privacy policies are? Considering they’re full of gotchas and intentionally obscure legalese, it’s no surprise that hardly anyone bothers to even read them — we’ve simply accepted we’re giving up our data, and with it, our sense of privacy. But thanks to this new policy-reading AI, things won’t have to be this way for much longer. Guard is a recurrent neural network-based app that reads and analyzes privacy terms, so you don’t have to. While it can’t yet examine policies on request, the AI has rated the privacy terms of a slew of…

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Kik fires staff and shuts down messaging app but won’t stop fighting the SEC over its ICO

Sep24
by on September 24, 2019 at 10:01 am
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


Following an embroiled relationship with the US Securities and Exchange Commission over its cryptocurrency come security token Kin, it appears that messaging app Kik‘s days are numbered. Kik‘s CEO, Ted Livingston, said in a blog post this morning that the ongoing fight with the SEC has left the company with no other decision but to shut down its messaging app. “…all is not well,” Livingston said. “This is a direct impact from the [SEC’s] legal action.” Kik is also reducing its staff of hundreds down to an “elite 19 person team,” – brutal – and says it will now focus…

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EU top court rules Google doesn’t need to apply the ‘right to be forgotten’ globally

Sep24
by on September 24, 2019 at 9:46 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Google


Google just won a case in Europe’s top court (CJEU) over the EU‘s right to be forgotten. The court confirmed that the search engine giant would only need to remove reported links from search results in Europe — not globally — the BBC reports. The case started back in 2016, when French privacy watchdog CNIL fined Google €100,000 for not removing pages with damaging or false information about a person globally. Google challenged the fine as it believed its geoblocking feature — which removed delisted links from search results within the EU — sufficed to comply with the law. Google…

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This AI can pass an 8th grade science exam — but is it really ‘learning’ science?

Sep24
by on September 24, 2019 at 8:42 am
Posted In: Around the Web, artificial intelligence, syndication


Last week, the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) introduced Aristo, an artificial intelligence model that scored above 90 percent on an 8th grade science test and 80 percent on a 12th-grade exam. Passing a science test might sound mundane, if you’re not familiar with how deep learning algorithms, the current bleeding edge of AI, work. After all, AI is already performing tasks such as diagnosing cancer, detecting fraud and playing complicated games, which are much more complicated than answering simple science questions about the moon and squirrel populations. But despite its fascinating achievements, deep learning struggles when it comes to tackling problems…

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