Jun 28th 2017
Tech News Today 1799
Red Queen Situation
How Facebook censors its network
ProPublica posted a story that illustrates the challenges for Facebook's censors. Internal documents show a number of guidelines Facebook censors must follow to determine the difference between political expression and hate speech, showing in some cases that Facebook is more likely to side with elites and governments over activists and minorities because it's good for international business.
Google News got a much-needed design refresh with a cards-based layout, and a focus on fact checking with a fact-check widget on the right side of the homepage that lists sources like PolitiFact and Snopes to help debunk some of the more recent items of misinformation making the rounds.
Qualcomm is showing off its new fingerprint sensors that work through ultrasonic technology capable of detecting fingerprints, bloodflow, and heart rate through the display panel and even through metal.
Plus, Target Restock is treading on Amazon's turf, Apple wants its Music subscribers to Chill, IBM's Chef Watson is cooking up something good, and Iain Thomson from The Register joins KTLA's Rich DeMuro and me to take a closer look at the Petya ransomware attack.
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Links
- Facebook’s Secret Censorship Rules Protect White Men from Hate Speech But Not Black Children
- Google News launches a streamlined redesign that gives more prominence to fact checking
- Qualcomm’s under-display fingerprint sensors to be available in 2018, Snapdragon 450 and Wear 1200 revealed
- Vivo beats Apple to an under-display fingerprint scanner
- Security at your fingertips.
- Target launches Restock home delivery service, takes aim at Amazon
- Apple Music’s first new personalized playlist wants you to Chill
- Everything you need to know about the Petya, er, NotPetya nasty trashing PCs worldwide
- Petya.2017 is a wiper not a ransomware
- Lunch gets seriously weird when an AI decides what’s on the menu
- Ready to do some cognitive cooking?