Intelligent Machines 430

A wave of technopanic is sweeping the world. Or is it intelligent concern over the power wielded by internet giants like Facebook and Google? Plus,Uber's flying cars, Trump's DOJ tells Time-Warner to sell CNN, Marissa Mayer apologizes to Congress, and Facebook wants your nude pictures (for security's sake).

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• ADT wins temporary injunction against Ring’s new security system
• U.S. Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Samsung's Appeal in Years-Old 'Slide to Unlock' Lawsuit With Apple
• Report: U.S. will only approve AT&T-Time Warner deal if CNN is sold
• The NY Times demonstrates the new Twitter character limit with an article written entirely in tweets
• Indeed, DOJ demands Time-Warner sell CNN for AT&T merger to go through
• Ex-Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer apologizes at Senate hearing for data breach and blames Russian agents for stealing users' data
• To prevent revenge porn of you being posted, Facebook wants you to share your nude photos with them.
• Facebook Workers, Not an Algorithm, Will Look at Volunteered Nude Photos First to Stop Revenge Porn
• How Facebook Figures Out Everyone You've Ever Met
• Gamification of personal interaction degrades human health
• The Ugly Business of Beauty Apps
• The weird (and disturbing) world of algorithmically generated YouTube Kids videos
• We must not let big tech threaten our security, freedoms and democracy
• Google Is Adding Wait Times For Restaurants Because It Follows You Everywhere
• A rogue Twitter employee shut down Donald Trump’s account - The Verge
• Las Vegas is expanding its self-driving shuttle experiment - The Verge
• Disney Ends Ban on Los Angeles Times Amid Fierce Backlash - The New York Times
• Flying cars, coming to LA in 2020? Can't wait for the first high-speed chase.
• Billionaire Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, who holds large stakes in Twitter, Lyft, and Apple, arrested
• Should snapchat be easier to use? Kids say no, oldsters say "what?"
• Texas church shooting: Gunman's cellphone is locked - CBS News
• Wife uses sleeping husband's thumb to unlock phone during long flight; discovers affair; has fit; plane has to be diverted.
• What happens when a company kills a cloud IoT device? Logitech kills Harmony Link.
• Greta van Susteren to launch new app called Sorry.
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• Trump's campaign said it raised $280m via FB
• 7 trans people elected yesterday