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Twitter admits to more bugs that shared your data without permission

Aug08
by on August 8, 2019 at 6:28 am
Posted In: Around the Web


Twitter said it has fixed two more bugs related to how it uses personally identifiable information to target personalized ads on the platform. The flaws mean Twitter may have inadvertently shared your data with advertising partners even if you had explicitly not granted permission to do so. To that effect, the company said it “recently” found issues where users’ choices in the service’s settings may not have been honored, resulting in certain data like “country code, if you engaged with the ad and when, information about the ad” shared with its advertising partners. This transpired only if a Twitter user clicked or…

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Google’s Pixel 4 is reportedly getting a 90Hz display and a ‘DSLR-like’ camera attachment

Aug08
by on August 8, 2019 at 6:17 am
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Pretty much all of the Pixel 3’s hardware specs were leaked well before its launch last year. Google tried to get ahead of the story for its next phone by posting photos of the upcoming Pixel 4 in June, far ahead of its official unveiling. But alas, it couldn’t prevent the handset’s specs from leaking out. According to a report by 9to5Google, the search giant’s next phone will have a 90Hz display and a bump up to 6GB of RAM. Last month, Google posted a video that confirmed the phone will have face unlock capabilities along with the capability to…

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Forget qubits: Quantum physicists successfully teleported ‘qutrits’ in breakthrough experiments

Aug08
by on August 8, 2019 at 12:15 am
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Two independent research teams recently published studies indicating they’ve successfully teleported a qutrit — possibly within days of each other. Now, both await the scientific process of peer review to see which will ultimately get credit for being the first humans to do so. But what’s a qutrit? It’s a lot like a qubit, an entangled pair of particles used to carry information in a quantum computing system. Qubits are analogous to bits, the binary units of information used by classical computers like the one you’re reading this on. Where bits can be represented by the numbers zero and one, qubits…

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