Facebook's new anti-clickbait algorithm buries bogus headlines
Facebook Pages and websites that frequently withhold, exaggerate or distort information in their link headlines will disappear from News Feed thanks to a new anti-clickbait algorithm that’s now rolling out. Facebook manually classified tens of thousands of headlines with a clickbaitiness score to train the new algorithm. Now it can detect headlines like “When She Looked Under Her Couch And Saw THIS… I Was SHOCKED!”; “He Put Garlic In His Shoes And What Happens Next Is Hard To Believe”; or “The..>> view originalStaring match: Galaxy Note 7 locks eyes on tougher security
The Galaxy Note 7 boasts a fingerprint sensor and an iris scanner as biometric methods for unlocking your phone. Sarah Tew/CNET It's OK to be a little afraid. Over the last few years, hackers have stolen customer data from household names like Target, Home Depot and T-Mobile. A hacker reportedly has 200 million Yahoo credentials for sale. You can't be blamed for feeling paranoid. That goes double when it comes ..>> view originalNext stop, the Moon: private company 'Moon Express' gets greenlight for 2017
Moon Express took one giant leap for private enterprise on Wednesday when it became the first company to receive permission from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to fly beyond Earth’s orbit.The company plans to fly a suitcase-sized robot to the moon for a two-week mission in 2017, said Bob Richards, the company's co-founder and chief executive officer, Reuters reported. The robot will conduct science experiments, send pictures and video to Earth, and travel with commercial cargo, inclu..>> view originalSun worshippers: watch how sunflowers can catch daily rays
True to their name, young sunflowers greet the sun each morning with their heads turned east to catch its rays. Throughout the day, they follow its movement until the sun sets in the west at night, and the cycle begins again.But just how sunflowers can do that has long been a mystery – until now. According to a new study published in the journal Science, the heliotropic sunflower uses both circadian rhythms and heliotropism (bending and turning toward the light) to enhance its performance in th..>> view originalThis could be exactly how the real iPhone 7 will look
We've reached a whole new stage of Apple iPhone 7 rumor management. For months we've watched as iPhone 7 rumors big and small have made their way from Apple's leaky cauldron(?) China(?), Foxconn(?) to the salivating public. They cover everything from size, shape, number of cameras and ports to memory and potential new colors. What if you synthesized all that into one idea, one simulacrum of the possible real thing? No, we're not talking about a 3D rendering. Instead, imagine someone made a phys..>> view originalSpotify's Release Radar is a personalized playlist of brand-new music
Over the last year the tech product that has brought the most joy into my life has undoubtedly been Discover Weekly, Spotify's playlist of tracks personalized for my taste. Today the company is rolling out another feature along the same lines: Release Radar gives you a weekly playlist of songs culled from new albums. Discover Weekly will kick things off each Monday, and Radar will take you into the weekend with a Friday release. It's actually a much more challenging task to get right, because u..>> view originalGlobal warming could 'unfreeze' waste buried in old Greenland military base
The Union of Concerned Scientists found that by 2050, half of the 18 East and Gulf Coast military installations it studied would see 270 or more floods a year — up from just 10 events annually today. (Note: The figure in the video is not to scale.) The northeast portal to Camp Century during construction in 1959.(Photo: U.S. Army)Global warming is slowly thawing out a once top-secret subterranean U.S. nuclear base in northern Greenland, potentially exposing the environment to radioactiv..>> view originalAmazon unveils cargo plane as it expands delivery network
Seattle-based Amazon is unveiling its first branded cargo plane, one of 40 jetliners that will make up the e-commerce giant's own air transportation network as it takes more control of its delivery process.The latest push to speed delivery of its products comes as the company ships an increasing number of packages worldwide. Amazon's parcel volume was an estimated 1 billion packages in 2015 — the same number that FedEx delivered three years earlier for hundreds of thousands of customers. Amazon..>> view originalApple announces invitation-only bug bounty program at Black Hat conference
An Apple security chief unexpectedly announced the company will pay for vulnerabilities found in certain aspects of iOS and iCloud. The program is invitation only, and payouts will be based on severity and category. The top fees across five areas range from $25,000 to $200,000, but could be much lower. The announcement came during a presentation by Ivan Krstić, Apple’s head of security engineering and architecture, at the Black Hat security research conference in Las Vegas. The presentation ..>> view original
Sunday, August 7, 2016
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