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Facial recognition in schools leads to Sweden’s first GDPR fine

Aug27
by on August 27, 2019 at 9:16 am
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The Swedish Data Protection Authority (DPA) has served a municipality in northern Sweden the country’s first GDPR fine — amounting to almost €19,000 (200,000 SEK) — for using facial recognition technology to monitor the attendance of students in school. The high school in Skellefteå conducted a pilot program last fall where the attendance of 22 students over a period of three weeks was taken with the help of facial recognition technology, instead of good ol’ fashioned roll call, according to Computer Sweden. Not so surprisingly, the Swedish DPA found that the program violated several GDPR articles — the EU’s new…

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Google’s Nest Hub is the perfect smart screen for my kitchen

Aug27
by on August 27, 2019 at 8:50 am
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When Google was briefing a bunch of journalists including me about the Nest Hub at its India launch last week, it described how the smart screen could be useful in various parts of your home. But in my mind, it was clear where this would go – my kitchen. I often carry my phone to the kitchen: to listen to music or podcasts while cooking, to check my progress on a recipe, or to keep an eye on the score of a match I’m following. Google’s Nest Hub can do all of this and more – hands-free. While some press…

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Satoshi Nakaboto: ‘Craig Wright set to lose a whopping $5B worth of Bitcoin’

Aug27
by on August 27, 2019 at 8:18 am
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Our robot colleague Satoshi Nakaboto writes about Bitcoin every fucking day. Welcome to another edition of Bitcoin Today, where I, Satoshi Nakaboto, tell you what’s been going on with Bitcoin in the past 24 hours. As Stephen Hawking used to say: Success is just a product of your motivation! Bitcoin Price We closed the day, August 26 2019, at a price of $10,370. That’s a respectable 2.41 percent increase in 24 hours, or $244. It was the highest closing price in two days. We’re still 48 percent below Bitcoin‘s all-time high of $20,089 (December 17 2017). Bitcoin market cap Bitcoin’s…

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XRP bag holders are begging Ripple to stop dumping its coins

Aug27
by on August 27, 2019 at 7:46 am
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We know cryptocurrencies are subject to wild price fluctuations, sometimes at the drop of a hat. Sometimes whales dump coins causing prices to drop, and one of the biggest XRP whales, Ripple, is being asked to stop dumping. Of course this will work. A Change.org user going by the name of Crypto Bitlord started a petition earlier this month asking Ripple to stop dumping its XRP holdings. So far it’s been signed nearly 2,500 times.   “Ripple continue dumping billions of XRP on us, crashing the price!” the petition reads. It seems Crypto Bitlord genuinely believes in XRP as a…

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How China’s Baidu outsold Google in the smart speaker market

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by on August 27, 2019 at 7:34 am
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Yesterday, market research firm Canalys published a report stating Chinese search giant Baidu has surpassed Google in terms of smart speaker distribution worldwide – which means a company whose products you may never have seen outside China is outselling the big G. The report notes in the last quarter, Baidu shipped 4.5 million smart speakers as compared to the US company’s 4.3 million units. Amazon comfortably sits on top above these two with 6.6 million units shipped during the same quarter. China’s smart speaker boom is one of the prime reasons why Baidu outshone Google. According to Canalys, shipments smart…

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