by ray | Aug 20, 2019 | Microsoft, General News
Earlier this week, Microsoft removed a database of more than 10 million faces, intended as a test and training dataset for facial recognition algorithms, according to a report by the Financial Times. Known as MS Celeb, the database contained more than 10 million...
by ray | Aug 20, 2019 | Tech News, General News
In case you hadn’t heard, Facebook’s working on a cryptocurrency. There have been plenty of rumors floating around on the secretive project, codenamed Libra, for a while now, but this week we saw the floodgates open with reports of a likely official launch on June 18....
by ray | Aug 20, 2019 | Google, Google Workspace
What’s changing We’re opening a beta program for Gmail confidential mode. With confidential mode, it’s easier to protect sensitive content in your emails by creating expiration dates or revoking previously sent messages, and removing options for recipients to...
by ray | Aug 20, 2019 | Microsoft
Microsoft has surprised many in the Linux developer community in recent years. Surprises have included bringing things like the Bash shell to Windows, or native OpenSSH in Windows 10, and even including Ubuntu, SUSE Linux, and Fedora in the Windows Store. Microsoft is...
by ray | Aug 20, 2019 | General News
If you go down the list of job openings among 2019 LinkedIn Top Companies, it’s not exactly hard to find positions that don’t require a college degree. Take an opening for a research manager at Facebook, or another for a live streaming engineer at Amazon....