Google today launched a new technology to help news organizations and online platforms identify and swiftly remove abusive comments on their websites. The technology, called Perspective, will review comments and score them based on how similar they are to comments…
Tech Breakthroughs Take a Backseat in Upcoming Apple iPhone Launch
Stephen Nellis, reporting for Reuters: The new iPhone is expected to include new features such as high-resolution displays, wireless charging and 3-D sensors. Rather than representing major breakthroughs, however, most of the innovations have been available in competing phones for…
Most Scientists 'Can't Replicate Studies By Their Peers'
Science is facing a “reproducibility crisis” where more than two-thirds of researchers have tried and failed to reproduce another scientist’s experiments, research suggests. From a report: This is frustrating clinicians and drug developers who want solid foundations of pre-clinical research…
Inside Uber's Aggressive, Unrestrained Workplace Culture
Excerpts from Mike Isaac’s report for the New York Times: Interviews with more than 30 current and former Uber employees, as well as reviews of internal emails, chat logs and tape-recorded meetings, paint a picture of an often unrestrained workplace…
Microsoft Creates Skype Lite Especially For India
There’s a new Skype app in town, and it is made just for India. According to a report on CNET: Microsoft is the latest US tech giant to help keep Indians connected. Skype Lite is a new version of the…
Border agents could be forced to get a warrant before searching devices
Senator warns that border agents’ ‘digital dragnets’ are distracting them from actual threats
Google outs Windows flaw after Microsoft misses a patch deadline
Google’s move is the latest in a round of spats with Microsoft over its Project Zero initiative to nudge vendors into fixing flaws
Sure, you might have bought the car, but does someone else control it?
A researcher who was able to control his so-called ‘smart’ car three years after he sold it raises concerns about secondhand IoT devices
Facebook rapped for dragging its feet on pictures stolen for ‘like-farming’
As Facebook drags its feet over removing stolen images of a child for like-farming clickbait, what does this mean for the platform’s commitment to tackling ‘fake news’?
News in brief: pushback on Pirate Bay ban; course in fake news; autonomous Ubers get passengers
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