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1. Tickets for HOPE 2020 go on sale tomorrow!
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Aestetix writes, "Our 13th conference is taking place next summer in a brand new location as you've probably heard. We expect it to be bigger and better than ever with lots more activities and space - ...

2. China has 500+ Uighur camps and prisons and is holding far more than one million, activists say
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... conference in suburban Washington. Anders Corr, an analyst who formerly worked in US intelligence and who advised the group, said that around 40 percent of the sites had not been previously reported. China ...

3. Adobe will add livestreaming to apps so designers can share their skills
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The annual Adobe MAX conference -- where the company showcases its Creative Cloud applications -- always includes previews of upcoming features. One of this year's sneak previews gave users a glimpse ...

4. President tweets something dumb again, slurs 'three lowlife reporters' at Washington Post
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... hold a news conference. Never happened, and there were no sources! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 7, 2019 Bill Barr did not decline my request to talk about Ukraine. The story was ...

5. Netflix CEO says time spent streaming matters more than subscriptions
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... he shared at the New York Times' DealBook conference o... Read all  ...

6. Adobe's Project Awesome Audio cleans up recordings with a single click
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Adobe likes to show off crazy tools it has been working on in a special portion of its MAX conference each year. The not-quite-ready features are known as "sneaks," and while not all of them ...

7. Adobe brings Photoshop tricks directly to your smartphone camera
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Adobe has showed off a preview of a new app called Photoshop Camera at its Adobe Max conference that brings Photoshop editing tricks and AI directly to your smartphone's camera. Like most camera apps, ...

8. British far-right leader Dick Braine resigns
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... to waste time on internal conflict, but I have found myself powerless to prevent a purge of good members from the party. Things went badly for him from the outset, after snubbing his own party's conference ...

9. Interview with Kai Lan Egg, a Hong Kong protest artist who specializes in anime pro-democracy memes
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... Hong Kong government. However, they did not steal and destroy cultural relics, libraries, etc., and read the texts in the conference hall, which was recognized by most citizens. Besides, there have ...

10. When the HR department is a robotic phrenologist: "face-scanning algorithm" gains popularity as a job-applicant screener
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Hirevue is an "AI" company that companies contract with to screen job applicants: it conducts an hour-long videoconference session with applicants, analyzing their facial expressions, word-choices and ...

11. #NothingButDragnet: EFF calls on @Shaq to stop endorsing police partnerships with Amazon's creepy, surveilling Ring doorbells
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... Association of Chiefs of Police conference on October 27. O'Neal has served as a spokesman for Ring since 2016, thanks in part to his large stake in the company. His appearance at the conference will be ...

12. Adobe may reveal Illustrator for iPad in November
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... its MAX conference starting November 2nd. It wouldn't... Read all  ...

13. There will be another HOPE hacker con in 2020!
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... found a new location for the conference that's much, much better than what we had before. HOPE will take place at St. John's University in Queens from July 31st to August 2nd, 2020. It's still in New York ...

14. Grad student defended her dissertation while wearing a skirt made of rejection letters
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... normalizing rejection and taking pride in overcoming it: It took 17 rejection letters to make the skirt, rejections from scholarships, academic journals and conferences. To make the skirt, she printed ...

15. 'All roads lead to Putin' - Pelosi on Trump as House holds off on impeachment vote
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... “all roads lead to Putin.” “We are already doing an impeachment investigation,” said congressman Eric Swalwell on MSNBC shortly after the House speaker's press conference, referring to ongoing interviews ...

16. 'MURDER' — Aaron Dean, former Fort Worth TX police officer, charged with murder for fatal shooting of black woman
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“This man murdered someone,” the victim's brother, Adarius Carr, said at a news conference. “He should be arrested.” Aaron Dean, the former Fort Worth Texas police officer who fatally shot Atatiana Jefferson ...

17. China's new cybersecurity rules ban foreign companies from using VPNs to phone home
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... be had by targeting the growing Chinese middle-class. Businesses tied themselves in knots trying to reconcile this. Exactly 15 years ago, I challenged the Chairman of Google's Board at the Web 2.0 Conference ...

18. After banning working cryptography and raiding whistleblowers, Australia's spies ban speakers from national infosec conference
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... of armed raids on journalists who'd reported on leaks that revealed official corruption. So it's perhaps not surprising that the country's annual flagship cybersecurity conference, the annual conference ...

19. The weak spots that let journalists expose the finances of looters, organized criminals and oligarchs
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... a recent panel at the 11th Global Investigative Journalism Conference, Megan Clement distills the role that each species of enabler plays in hiding ill-gotten millions, and the techniques that can be used ...

20. Hong Kong bans makeup and masks so facial recognition cameras can identify protesters
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... imposed the emergency order this week, and it took effect at 0:00 local time yesterday. In her press conference, Lam cited bans in other countries to defend the legitimacy of the order. A police inspector ...

21. Schiff 'deeply concerned' as Pompeo potentially interferes with witnesses
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... effort now to potentially interfere with witnesses whose testimony is needed before our committee, many of whom are mentioned in the whistleblower complaint,” Schiff said at a press conference. His remarks ...

22. Microsoft embraces dual-screen computing with the Surface Neo
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... Neo at a press conference in New York, and it ess... Read all  ...

23. SpaceX's Starship halves comes together ahead of a big event
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... Musk is planning a press conference Saturday evening with upda... Read all  ...

24. Giuliani cancels paid appearance at Kremlin event
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... to attend the meeting. “I didn’t know Putin was going,” he said in a brief interview, adding in a text: “Discretion is the better part of valor.” Giuliani’s decision to take part in the conference astounded ...

25. Oculus CTO John Carmack on the VR challenges of the Quest and Rift S
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... Oculus Connect 6 conference, where the legendary... Read all  ...