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Clearview AI, offers image recognition to law enforcement agencies based on a database of 3 billion images scraped from social media and online platforms. Clearview CEO Hoan Ton-That argued it had a "First Amendment" right to access data in the public domain. Is he right and just what are the legalities around harvesting images online?

Starring Tom Merritt, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang 

 

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Denis Shiryaev has upscaled the film classic "L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat: a 50-second silent movie of a train pulling into a station. Using DAIN and Topaz Labs' Gigapixel AI, he has transformed the original blurry footage into a 4K 60FPS clip. 

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang

 

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Iowa’s Democratic Party App to tally votes crashes during the party's caucus. Paper ballots saved the day but why did the App fail and what can be learned from this incident? 

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Patrick Beja, Justin Robert Young, Joe

 

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Tech companies are feeling the impact of the coronavirus with Foxconn declaring a "big" production impact, while Airbnb has activated its extenuating circumstances policy to help deal with the issue.

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Nate Lanxon

 

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Apple's has proposed a standardize format for one-time passcodes sent over SMS, used in two factor authentication, while Google launched OpenSK, an open source Rust-based firmware to turn Nordic chip dongles into FIDO U2F and FIDO2-compliant security keys. What will this mean for 2FA and online security?

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Shannon Morse, Roger Chang, Len Peralta

 

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Facebook's Zuckerberg wants his company to be understood not liked, Microsoft wants to spend $40 million for AI on health research, and what does Canalys smartphone metrics for 2019 mean for the industry.

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang

 

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Apple's valued net worth is greater than Germany DAX's. We sift through Apple's earning results and see what's working and what isn't.

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang

 

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Ars Technica's Lee Hutchinson describes how the site functions without a physical office. How does it work and what types of things are needed for it work for the company.

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Patrick Beja, Roger Chang.

 

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A recent post from WhiteSource identifies the trends in Open Source software licensing and makes predictions on what shape Open Source software will take down the road.

Starring Tom Merritt, Richard Stroffolino, Roger Chang 

 

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If you plan on getting a new gaming PC should you build or buy it? Lamarr Wilson shares his thoughts.

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Len Peralta, Lamarr Wilson

 

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