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1. No, Steve Bannon should not speak at your journalism conference. Here's why.
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White Supremacist grifter Steve Bannon, formerly of Donald Trump's Presidential administration, has made quite the new career for himself as a lucrative speaker on the journalism and big thinker circuit. ...

2. Facebook hopes to prove AR is more than selfie filters and games
(English/engadget)

As I sit surrounded by software engineers in a conference room with no natural light, playing augmented reality games on an iPhone, I forget for a second that I'm in Seattle visiting Facebook. Not ...

3. NVIDIA focuses on AI in the internet and for industries
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NVIDIA's graphics technology is useful for a lot more than just lining up pixels on gamer's monitors, and in a presentation at the GPU Technology Conference, CEO Jensen Huang revealed a few more ...

4. Twitter expands its video programming in Asia-Pacific
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Twitter's quest for video dominance isn't confined in the US or even in the West, and its team up with a bunch of new partners prove that. At a conference in Singapore, the platform has revealed ...

5. Motorola patents a robocop autonomous car that brethalyzes, mirandizes you, calls your lawyer and collects your bail
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... by a law enforcement officer" that locks you up, administers a breathalyzer, reads you your rights, figures out who your counsel of record is, conferences you in with your lawyer, consults with a court ...

6. Linus Torvalds Books the Wrong Flight and They Decide to Move the Entire Conference
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Kernel Summit: Last Friday (just before Labor Day) I learned that Linus had gotten confused about when and where the Maintainer's Summit was going to be held this year. Read all

7. Papers sought for We Robot: Miami's eighth annual conference on robots and the law
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Michael Froomkin writes, "We Robot, now heading into its 8th year, is lots of fun -- and it's also the leading North American conference on robotics law and policy. The 2019 edition will be held at the ...

8. Magic Leap's first developer conference is coming to LA in October
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... a developer conference. The company is planning to host the eve... Read all  ...

9. eMeet OfficeCore M2 conference speakerphone review
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REVIEW – Conference calls may be problematic if the local telephone system ineffectively captures voices or is not loud enough for everyone to hear the remote party. The eMeet OfficeCore M2 is a portable ...

10. HP’s ear-cooling Mindframe headset will be available in September
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HP's Mindframe headset is a rad concept: Use a thermoelectric device in each cup to keep your ears cool during heated gaming sessions. Ahead of this weekend's Gamescom conference, the company ...

11. Wells Fargo closes account of Florida candidate for saying said she’d take donations from medical marijuana industry
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... the medical marijuana industry, Wells Fargo terminated her account. From The Washington Post: At a news conference on Monday, Fried said that “Wells Fargo’s actions against my campaign are emblematic ...

12. Salesforce faces boycott over Border Patrol contract
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... yearly conference. Lots of big tech companies have contracts with ICE and Border Patrol. Salesforce could be the first domino to fall." Read all  ...

13. Watch NVIDIA's GeForce RTX launch right here at 12PM ET!
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By holding a rare solo press conference at Gamescom 2018, NVIDIA is offering a pretty good clue about what it will announce. Thanks to the inevitable leaks, we know it'll likely take the wraps off ...

14. Antivirus maker Sentinelone uses copyright claims to censor video of security research that revealed defects in its products
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYEbhDXgElQ At this week's B-Sides Manchester security conference, James Williams gave a talk called "Next-gen AV vs my shitty code," in which he systematically revealed ...

15. Trump's Outrageous ITU Elections Gambit
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... placements holds a "plenipotentiary" conference among its 193 sovereign nation members. The next plenipotentiary begins on 29 October for three weeks. In addition to potentially altering treaty provisions ...

16. Award-winning security research reveals a host of never-seen, currently unblockable web-tracking techniques
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Who Left Open the Cookie Jar? A Comprehensive Evaluation of Third-Party Cookie Policies won the Distinguished Paper prize at this year's Usenix Security Conference; its authors, researchers at Belgium's ...

17. Insecure medical equipment protocols let attackers spoof diagnostic information
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https://vimeo.com/285024212 Douglas McKee of McAffee presented his research into the security of medical diagnostic equipment at last week's Defcon conference in Las Vegas. (more…) Read all ...

18. How To Install Asterisk on CentOS 7
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Asterisk is the most popular and widely adopted open source PBX platform that powers IP PBX systems, conference servers and VoIP gateways. Read all  ...

19. Dozens of kids hack election site replicas in just minutes
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The Def Con hacker conference has been demonstrating how vulnerable voting machines are to hacks through its Voting Village, wherein adults are given the chance to compromise various models of voting devices. ...

20. FCC Commissioner O'Reilly's Appalling Op-Ed on the ITU
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... the telephone networks. Around 1903 when radio internets became feasible, the U.S. government began participating. In 1920 the U.S. itself hosted the Washington Conference that led to the creation of the ...

21. Samsung unveils its first smart speaker, the Galaxy Home
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Samsung unveiled Galaxy Home, its first smart speaker powered by its own digital assistant Bixby at its Unpacked event today. The firm will share more details at its developer conference this year. Read ...