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Apple has a new 2019 plan for its most powerful Mac yet – and the stakes are especially high

Apple has a new 2019 plan for its most powerful Mac yet – and the stakes are especially high

Posted by | Apr 6, 2018 | , |

Apple told TechCrunch that it plans to release a new Mac Pro computer in 2019 — a desktop computer that will set the tone for the developers and businesses that are critical to the company’s future. (The company later confirmed the plan to CNBC.) In fact, even if the new Mac Pro is one of Apple’s least popular computers, it could be one of the most strategically important. For consumers, Apple’s brand is all about sleek, small, quiet and simple. But as Apple looks to double the size of its software and services business and expand in schools and...

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Trump defends Mexican rapists claim during conspiracy-laden speech

Trump defends Mexican rapists claim during conspiracy-laden speech

Posted by | Apr 6, 2018 | , , |

The president threw out his script at West Virginia event, speaking of voter ‘conspiracy theory’ and referencing his infamous 2015 remarks. Donald Trump veered wildly off-script at an event intended to tout the Republican tax bill on Thursday, making false claims about voter fraud and darkly warning of the menace of predominantly Hispanic gangs. Trump, who spent much of the 2016 campaign alleging massive voter fraud, returned to the topic at the event in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. US primary elections: five races that could reshape the political landscape “In a lot of places, like California, the same...

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Dark matter isn’t interacting with itself after all

Dark matter isn’t interacting with itself after all

Posted by | Apr 6, 2018 | , |

Hints that a galactic collision knocked the invisible mass askew are disproven. Dark matter is still the shyest particle in physics. New observations show that dark matter in galaxy cluster Abell 3827 stubbornly ignores all other kinds of matter — including itself, astronomers reported April 6 at the European Week of Astronomy and Space Science in Liverpool, England. The research, also posted online at arXiv.org, negates an earlier finding that stars were separated from their dark matter in Abell 3827, a cluster including four colliding galaxies about 1.3 billion light-years from Earth (SN: 5/16/15, p. 10). At the time,...

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Why AI isn’t going to solve Facebook’s fake news problem

Why AI isn’t going to solve Facebook’s fake news problem

Posted by | Apr 6, 2018 | , , |

Moderation will always be a problem on a platform this huge. Facebook has a lot of problems right now, but one that’s definitely not going away any time soon is fake news. As the company’s user base has grown to include more than a quarter of the world’s population, it has (understandably) struggled to control what they all post and share. For Facebook, unwanted content can be anything from mild nudity to serious violence, but what’s proved to be most sensitive and damaging for the company is hoaxes and misinformation — especially when it has a political bent. So...

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Facebook Scans the Photos and Links You Send on Messenger

Facebook Scans the Photos and Links You Send on Messenger

Posted by | Apr 5, 2018 | |

Facebook Inc. scans the links and images that people send each other on Facebook Messenger, and reads chats when they’re flagged to moderators, making sure the content abides by the company’s rules. If it doesn’t, it gets blocked or taken down. The company confirmed the practice after an interview published earlier this week with Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg raised questions about Messenger’s practices and privacy. Zuckerberg told Vox’s Ezra Klein a story about receiving a phone call related to ethnic cleansing in Myanmar. Facebook had detected people trying to send sensational messages through the Messenger app, he said....

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