Wednesday, November 6, 2019
Redmi 8 to Go on Sale in India via Flipkart, Mi.com; Price, Specifications
SoftBank changes strategy after WeWork bet implodes
Qualcomm reports fiscal Q4 revenue of $4.8B, profits of ~$500M, beating estimates on strong income from licensing division which generated ~$1.16B in revenue (Kif Leswing/CNBC)
Qualcomm reports fiscal Q4 revenue of $4.8B, profits of ~$500M, beating estimates on strong income from licensing division which generated ~$1.16B in revenue — - Qualcomm stock shot up 6% in extended trading after the company beat revenue and earnings estimates.
Avaaz: false stories on Facebook had 158M views in 2019, greater than before the 2016 election, with 86M views in the last 3 months, up 3x over the prior 3 (Chris O'Brien/VentureBeat)
Avaaz: false stories on Facebook had 158M views in 2019, greater than before the 2016 election, with 86M views in the last 3 months, up 3x over the prior 3 — Facebook has already powered 158 million views of fake U.S. political news in 2019 and is poised to see an explosion of disinformation next year …
RBI to submit WhatsApp's data localisation compliance report to SC soon
India's demand on WhatsApp traceability 'strengthened' after snooping scandal
Tuesday, November 5, 2019
WeWork flop: SoftBank's Masayoshi Son is now $6 billion poorer
Uber driver ferries male stranger with pregnant IT executive, suspended
Facebook says ~100 app developers might have had improper access to Groups member data even after the company announced restrictions to Groups API last year (Adi Robertson/The Verge)
Facebook says ~100 app developers might have had improper access to Groups member data even after the company announced restrictions to Groups API last year — At least 11 accessed data in the last two months — Facebook says that even after it locked down its Groups system last year …
USPS to adopt Nvidia's AI tech via Nvidia GPU-accelerated servers from HPE to process package data 10x faster with higher accuracy, operational by spring 2020 (Dylan Martin/CRN)
USPS to adopt Nvidia's AI tech via Nvidia GPU-accelerated servers from HPE to process package data 10x faster with higher accuracy, operational by spring 2020 — 'They believe that by using GPUs from Nvidia, by using software we have enabled over the last 10 years, and [by using] …
Broadcom completes acquisition of Symantec's enterprise business for $10.7B and Symantec rebrands as NortonLifeLock after transferring Symantec name to Broadcom (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)
Broadcom completes acquisition of Symantec's enterprise business for $10.7B and Symantec rebrands as NortonLifeLock after transferring Symantec name to Broadcom — Symantec Corp. is no longer Symantec, as the company changed its name following the completion today of Broadcom Inc.'s acquisition …
IT parliamentary panel chief Shashi Tharoor takes up snooping issue
Tencent ramping up India play with early stage bets
CCI urges ecommerce platforms to be transparent
An in-depth look at the UK's AI Safety Institute, whose researchers test AI systems for risks and for capabilities that might become dangerous in the future (Billy Perrigo/Time)
Billy Perrigo / Time : An in-depth look at the UK's AI Safety Institute, whose researchers test AI systems for risks and for capabili...
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Jake Offenhartz / Gothamist : Since October, the NYPD has deployed a quadruped robot called Spot to a handful of crime scenes and hostage...
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Lorena O'Neil / Rolling Stone : A look at the years of warnings about AI from researchers, including several women of color, who say ...
