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Microsoft contractors are listening to your translated Skype calls

Aug07
by on August 7, 2019 at 4:25 pm
Posted In: Around the Web


An explosive article in Motherboard alleges that contractors working for Microsoft are listening to the conversations of Skype users conducted through the app’s real-time translation service. The piece, penned by cybersecurity reporter Joseph Cox, cites a trove of internal documentation, screenshots, and audio recordings obtained by the publication. Audio of captured recordings depict deeply personal conversations whose subject matter touches on several sensitive topics, including relationship woes, ongoing struggles with weight loss, and even exchanges that resemble phone sex. According to Motherboard, the recordings last between five and ten seconds, although some snippets are somewhat larger. Motherboard also alleges, based…

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Smart cities need to take people with disabilities into account from the get-go

Aug07
by on August 7, 2019 at 3:25 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, syndication


As technology and urban design march into the future, more and more urban centers will begin looking like the “smart cities” science fiction began promising us many decades ago: City infrastructure that talks to cars, cars that talk to each other, sensors everywhere, high-speed wireless communications, self-driving and self-parking cars and much, much more. But what is the cost of such a city? Not just the price tag, or even the value such investments promise to deliver, but the actual human cost? Will anybody be left behind by smart cities, including the elderly or the disabled? Urban development is already…

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You can now get 100,000s of books for FREE — thanks, confusing copyright law

Aug07
by on August 7, 2019 at 3:07 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider


Book lovers, rejoice — hundreds of thousands of works are now online for free! Free! FREE! How? The exciting, rock and roll world of the public domain and US copyright law. Oh dear Oh yes. Basically, before the 1976 US Copyright Act, American works only had a copyright length of 28 years, according to Motherboard. Once this period was up, the books would have to be registered again. And you know what you can bet on in these sort of situations? No… Human laziness. Loads of people didn’t bother to re-register their copyright, meaning the work fell into the public domain. Which, for…

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How to build an innovation hub that’s actually innovative

Aug07
by on August 7, 2019 at 1:23 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Future of Finance


Innovation hubs created by corporations have grown in popularity in the past decade. But with a growing number of failed innovation hubs helping fuel the criticism they have garnered over the years, it makes one wonder if that criticism is warranted or if there’s something else causing them to fail. Move fast and fail often Innovation hubs are often created by a startup, established company, or a group of companies. The goal is to apply the startup “move fast and fail often” approach to deliver new innovations that can spin back to the company. In other words, how can big companies launch…

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Coinbase faces negligence suit after mishandling its launch of Bitcoin Cash

Aug07
by on August 7, 2019 at 12:57 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


Long-standing cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase will face a negligence lawsuit after allegedly mismanaging the launch of Bitcoin Cash on its platform, a judge has ruled. However, court documents released on Tuesday show that US District Judge Vince Chhabria threw fraud and unfair competition charges relating to the case. Bitcoin Cash was borne out of a Bitcoin fork in 2017  and then split off into two subsequent cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin Cash (BCH) and Bitcoin Cash SV, the following year. This move marks the latest advance in a protracted lawsuit filed by Jeffery Berk in the aftermath of BCH’s launch. The issue resides around the fact…

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