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Facebook paid people to listen to and transcribe your voice clips

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by on August 13, 2019 at 9:28 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider


Facebook doesn’t need any more bad press, but here we go again. According to a report by Bloomberg, the company paid hundreds of contractors to transcribe audio snippets from your conversations within its services – without making it sufficiently clear these clips were being recorded. Other tech giants have done similar, but that doesn’t make the practice any less problematic. The employees interviewed by Bloomberg say they do not know where the audio was recorded or how it was obtained, only that they were supposed to transcribe them. These clips sometimes included “vulgar content.” Facebook confirmed to Bloomberg it had…

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Review: Akaso’s V50 Pro SE 4K action camera is a GoPro alternative at half the price

Aug13
by on August 13, 2019 at 8:57 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, photography, Plugged


Akaso’s V50 Pro Special Edition action camera is a wallet-friendly little action shooter that punches well above its weight class. If you’ve been searching for a decent-quality 4K cam you can  use underwater, but you don’t want to spend GoPro money for it, keep reading. The V50 Pro takes aim at the GoPro Hero 7 Black, but costs half as much. The Special Edition brings 4K video at 60 frames per second and more batteries and accessories to the table. And it’s worth mentioning that a portion of every sale benefits The Center For Outdoor Ethics’ “Leave No Trace” campaign.…

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Snap’s new Spectacles capture 3D video and aim for the luxury crowd

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by on August 13, 2019 at 8:21 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Plugged


When Snap first revealed its Spectacles in 2016, they were something of a mini-phenomenon. Here was a pair of wacky sunglasses sold through wacky vending machines that could record video in a circular format. At the time, some thought pivoting into hardware could be the company’s defense against increasing encroachment from Facebook. Now we know that’s not the case. Despite Snapchat’s waning popularity after Facebook’s properties copied all its best features, the company isn’t totally giving up on Spectacles. Today it announced the Spectacles 3, introducing a second camera for better AR and pivoting to appeal a more luxury crowd.…

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Masked ‘TV Head’ serial-pranksters left vintage TVs in front of 60 residences and nobody knows why

Aug13
by on August 13, 2019 at 6:02 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, distract, Insights


About 60 residents in a Virginia neighborhood awoke Sunday morning to find vintage TV sets had been left on their property. Footage obtained from several homeowners’ security cameras show a person wearing a mask in the shape of a TV casually setting the appliances down and walking away. Police believe it to be the work of teenage pranksters. We’ll start with an obvious disclaimer: don’t go sneaking around at night leaving box-shaped objects on people’s property. More than forty-percent of US households have at least one firearm and Virginia is a stand your ground state. If police are correct and…

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Another chunk of the Bitcoin stolen from Bitfinex has mysteriously moved

Aug13
by on August 13, 2019 at 3:44 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


Another chunk of the 119,756 Bitcoin stolen from cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex has been mysteriously moved. Twitter-based transaction monitor @whale_alert signaled the transfer late yesterday, when the hackers’ wallet suddenly transferred just over 30 BTC ($351,000) to a fresh, previously unused Bitcoin address. ⚠ 30.667542 #BTC (351,015 USD) of stolen funds transferred from Bitfinex Hack 2016 to unknown wallet Tx: https://t.co/ipfik2Tpd2 — Whale Alert (@whale_alert) August 12, 2019 In 2016, hackers succeeded in stealing 119,756 BTC from seminal cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex. Back then, that loot amounted to just $350 million, but today it’s worth more than $1.3 billion. Pretty much all of the…

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