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Credit to Author: Ankita Rao| Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2017 15:00:00 +0000

Florida is trying to undo decades of damage to the Everglades.

November 4, 2017 admin

Critics are wrong to slam iPhone X’s new face tech

Credit to Author: Mike Elgan| Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2017 03:00:00 -0700

Apple’s new iPhone X reads faces. And privacy pundits are gnashing their teeth over it.

The phone’s complex TrueDepth image system includes an infrared projector, which casts 30,000 invisible dots, and an infrared camera, which checks where in three-dimensional space those dots land. With a face in view, artificial intelligence on the phone figures out what’s going on with that face by processing locations of the dots.

Biometrics in general and face recognition in particular are touchy subjects among privacy campaigners. Unlike a password, you can’t change your fingerprints — or face.

Out of the box, the iPhone X’s face-reading system does three jobs: Face ID (security access), Animoji (avatars that mimic users’ facial expressions), and also something you might call “eye contact,” to figure out if the user is looking at the phone (to prevent sleep mode during active use).

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November 3, 2017 admin

2nd Breach at Verticalscope Impacts Millions

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2017 22:00:26 +0000

For the second time in as many years, hackers have compromised Verticalscope.com, a Canadian company that manages hundreds of popular Web discussion forums totaling more than 45 million user accounts. Evidence of the breach was discovered just before someone began using that illicit access as a commercial for a new paid search service that indexes consumer information exposed in corporate data breaches.

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November 3, 2017 admin