HTC’s Exodus smartphone is about much more than Bitcoin by https://ift.tt/2IGcEnj

“That was my first reaction when I read about the HTC Exodus last year. It felt like a wild, foolish bet from a company that’s struggling for sales and relevancy in the mobile space. But then I spoke with Phil Chen, the company’s “Decentralized Chief Officer.”

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HTC’s Exodus smartphone is about much more than Bitcoin by https://ift.tt/2IGcEnj

“That was my first reaction when I read about the HTC Exodus last year. It felt like a wild, foolish bet from a company that’s struggling for sales and relevancy in the mobile space. But then I spoke with Phil Chen, the company’s “Decentralized Chief Officer.”

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Seeking ground rules for AI by https://ift.tt/2ThDyH5

“About seven years ago, three researchers at the University of Toronto built a system that could analyze thousands of photos and teach itself to recognise everyday objects, like dogs, cars and flowers.”

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French tax on internet giants could yield 500 million euros per year: Le Maire by https://ift.tt/2Tcmu5f

“PARIS (Reuters) – A three percent tax on the French revenue of large internet companies could yield 500 million euros (568.5 million pounds) per year, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Sunday.”

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This chat room charges you a penny for every character you type by https://ift.tt/2HiLKzV

“Entrepreneur Marc Köhlbrugge has launched Expensive Chat, a web-based chat service where every character typed costs a penny.”

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The Rocky Mountain News shut down a decade ago. A look back at the death of an American publishing powerhouse. by https://ift.tt/2IFISzg

“But 2008 was a maelstrom for newspapers, and a tipping point in American media. The precipitous loss of print advertising dollars, the challenges of digital media, and the country’s biggest economic crisis since the Great Depression proved disastrous for the industry.”

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10 Ways to Boost Your Wi-Fi Signal by https://ift.tt/2IJJ6FG

“Browsing slowing to a crawl, the inability to stream, dropped Wi-Fi signals, wireless dead zones—every one of these problems is maddening in a world where getting online has become, for some, as necessary as breathing. (Well, maybe not that critical…but important.”

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How “dirty data” from civil rights violations leads to bad predictive policing by https://ift.tt/2IEvDyU

“In March 2015, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Illinois published a report on the Chicago Police Department’s (CPD) stop and frisk practices.”

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Wireshark 3 Released with New Npcap Windows Packet Capturing Driver by https://ift.tt/2H90MYW

“Wireshark 3.0.0 was released today, replacing the no longer maintained WinPcap packet capture library with the Npcap packet sniffing and sending library for Windows, created by Gordon Lyon the founder of the Nmap project.”

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