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Researchers: Anonymized data does little to protect user privacy

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by on July 30, 2019 at 12:10 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider


Providing third-parties with data is a necessary cost of living in the 21st century. Whether it’s securing auto insurance, undergoing a routine examination at the dentist, or chatting up friends and relatives on Facebook, each of us will hand over about 1.7MB of data per second next year, according to one recent report. While our anxiety around how this data will be used has grown considerably in recent years, culminating with the launch of a federal probe by the DOJ in recent weeks, it’s done little to stop the flow of information from individuals to companies, or from one company to…

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Rockstar Games reportedly claimed GTA V was ‘culturally British’ to skimp on taxes

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by on July 29, 2019 at 8:48 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, gaming


A British think tank has revealed in a new study that Rockstar Games has apparently ducked taxes in the UK and received millions of pounds in subsidies — the latter by claiming at least one of its games, Grand Theft Auto V, to be a British game. Tax Watch UK this week published a report titled “Gaming the System.” It claims that, through offshoring of profits, Rockstar North (the primary development studio of GTA V) has not paid any UK taxes in ten years. In the five years after GTA V’s release, Rockstar and parent company Take-Two’s UK-based studios claimed a profit…

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Watch Samsung’s AI render photorealistic scenes from video

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by on July 29, 2019 at 8:39 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, artificial intelligence


A trio of Samsung AI researchers recently developed a neural network capable of rendering photorealistic graphical scenes with a novel viewpoint from a video. In the above video we see a 3D rendering of a complex scene. It was created by turning a video input into a bunch of points representing the geometry of the scene. The points, which form a cloud, are then fed to a neural network that renders them as computer graphics. TNW reached out to Dmitry Ulyanov, a researcher at Samsung and one of the authors on the team’s paper, to find out more about the project.…

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Watch what happens when you bend a foldable phone past its breaking point

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by on July 29, 2019 at 8:32 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Plugged


YouTuber JerryRigEverything‘s claim to fame is his collection of phone torture tests – especially the parts where he tries to break a phone by bending it with his beefy arms. But what happens when that phone is actually meant to bend? At first, it seems the perfect foible, until you remember bendable phones are only meant to bend one way. The star of this most recent bit of tech gore is the Royole Flexpie, a phone that beat Samsung and Huawei to the punch in making the world’s first foldable phone.  You can watch the whole thing below before reading on…

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