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Microsoft uses AI to provide live captions and subtitles in Skype calls
Microsoft Corp. today doubled down on its efforts to win back users to its Skype messaging service with the deployment of artificial intelligence technology to provide live captions and subtitles in Skype calls. The new feature is said to work on the latest version of Skype for both one-on-one calls as well as group calls. Launched ...
Tumblr announces ‘adult content’ ban in a move that could kill the service
Oath Inc.-owned microblogging site Tumblr today announced that it will be banning all “adult” content starting in mid-December in what effectively may be a decision by its owner to kill the longstanding service. Tumblr, founded in 2007 by David Karp, came of age in the early days of blogging as a company with a high ...
Bitcoin price starts to show signs of recovery after 37% drop in November
Bitcoin ended November down more than 37 percent in its worst performance in seven years, but after hitting a near two-year low, it’s now showing signs of a recovery. The cryptocurrency started November at $6,341, according to data from Coindesk, before hitting a low of $3,447.58 on Nov. 25. An end to the war over the future ...
Printers hacked to urge support for PewDiePie in battle against T-Series
A fight between YouTube star PewDiePie and an Indian YouTube channel has spilled into hacking, with an unknown person managing to print support messages on thousands of printers worldwide last week. For those unfamiliar with the battle, Felix “PewDiePie” Kjellberg has long been the most popular YouTube channel by number of subscribers. But in the last ...
Report: Uber is holding talks to acquire either Bird or Lime
Uber Technologies Inc. is in talks to acquire scooter-sharing startup Bird Rides Inc. and has also held talks with LimeBike Inc., according to an unconfirmed report. The Information, quoting several people briefed on the discussions, said in a report late Friday that the Bird acquisition talks may include a multibillion-dollar price tag. But in the event ...
Dell resets user passwords after a hacking attempt earlier this month
Dell Inc. has reset all customer passwords in response to a hacking attempt on Nov. 9. In a statement Wednesday, Dell said it had detected and disrupted unauthorized activity on its network attempting to extract Dell.com customer information, which was limited to names, email addresses and hashed passwords. Playing it safe, the computer systems maker added ...
Indonesia’s Go-Jek expands to Singapore as it takes on ride-hailing leader Grab
Southeast Asian ride-hailing startup Go-Jek is expanding as it looks to take on market-leader Grab Taxi Pte. Ltd, the victor in a war that saw Uber Technologies Inc. exit the region in return for partial ownership earlier this year. Founded in 2010, Go-Jek holds an estimated 80 percent of the Indonesian ride-hailing market that is ...
Lyft finalizes Motivate acquisition to become the largest US bike-sharing company
Ride-hailing startup Lyft Inc. has completed its acquisition of the core assets of Motivate International Inc., becoming the largest bike-sharing company in the U.S. The deal, first announced in July, saw Lyft acquire the bike-sharing business of Motivate for $250 million while the remainder of the business it didn’t acquire remains as a standalone bike maintenance and servicing ...
SEC settles with Floyd Mayweather for promoting fraudulent initial coin offering
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission today said it has settled charges with professional boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. (pictured) and music producer Khaled Khaled for not disclosing they were paid to promote a fraudulent initial coin offering. The fact that Mayweather (pictured), a former undefeated lightweight world champion boxer, was promoting an ICO is arguably ...
Misconfigured ElasticSearch server leaks records of 57M US citizens
An ElasticSearch B.V. server has been found leaking the details of nearly 57 million U.S. citizens online in the latest case of a misconfigured online server. The server, discovered by security researcher Bob Diachenko at Hacken and reported today, was found via the Shodan search engine and contained 73 gigabytes of data consisting of nearly ...