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TikTok to pay $400 million to settle claims it violated children’s online privacy laws
The Department of Justice said on Friday that TikTok and China's ByteDance have agreed to...
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Woman covertly filmed by Meta AI smart glasses raises privacy and consent concerns:
A woman discovered she had been secretly filmed by a man wearing Meta's AI-powered smart glasses when friends and people she hadn't talked to in years sent her a video posted on social media. "It went...
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This IEEE Senior Member Develops AI Tools for E-Commerce Sites
Balaji Ingole rarely saw televisions while growing up in Udgir, India. No one in the small Maharashtra village had computers or phones. Only one household owned a television, and neighbors often gathered there to watch shows together.Ingole never even...
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Meta’s Big Reckoning Is Here
My colleague Paresh Dave and I each spent a day in federal court in Oakland, California, this week, monitoring the latest Meta child safety trial.In case you missed it in the spring, Meta (along with YouTube) lost a landmark...
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Looking into the privacy safeguard features of AI smart glasses
Looking into the privacy safeguard features of AI smart glasses - CBS News ...
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How landscape gardening is being electrified
Part of the soundtrack to a day in southern California is the drone of petrol-powered gardening equipment.Noise is one of the main reasons that cities around the US, external are banning petrol landscaping tools or encouraging electric alternatives.These alternatives...
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Watching TikTok Videos and Instagram Reels Deactivates the Brain’s Cognitive Control Network – Slashdot
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from RathBiotaClan: Millions of people finish short video after short video every day; a new brain-scan study shows that the very act of finishing a clip they like temporarily quiets the brain...
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Coinbase CEO says CLARITY Act will protect crypto users from another FTX collapse
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong is making the case for a new bipartisan cryptocurrency bill backed by President Trump, telling CBS News on Thursday that it will broaden consumer protections and prevent a repeat of the...
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One-third of the web is showing signs of AI authorship, thanks to ChatGPT
The internet has been filling up with AI-generated content ever since ChatGPT arrived, but a new analysis from Pew Research Center puts just how widespread it has become into perspective. According to the study, roughly one-third of web pages...
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Is Vine back? Short-form video-sharing app Divine opens to public
A new app seen as a spiritual successor to short-form video service Vine has been released to the public.Much like the original, Divine lets users create and share videos which are just six seconds long and repeat on a...
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Ed Sheeran addresses Macklemore controversy at Philadelphia show
British singer Ed Sheeran opened his latest concert alone onstage and spoke for the first time about the controversy...