Microsoft Adds Live Captions And Subtitles In Skype Calls • WeRSM

https://wersm.com/microsoft-adds-live-captions-and-subtitles-in-skype-calls/

AI-powered live captions and subtitles in Skype calls, to help more people who are deaf or hard of hearing, use the service.

Threat to journalists at highest level in 10 years

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/dec/05/threat-journalists-highest-level-10-years-report

hostility towards the media is becoming normalised around the world, amid a proliferation of “strongman” populist leaders who have echoed the language of the US president and vilified journalists for simply doing their jobs.

Wing, Alphabet’s drone delivery business, to begin a pilot in Finland in Spring 2019 – TechCrunch

https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/04/wing-takes-flight-in-finland/

delivering goods and packages of up to 1.5 kilograms (about 3.3 pounds) within a distance of up to 10 kilometers (6.2 miles).

Canada arrests Huawei’s global chief financial officer in Vancouver - The Globe and Mail

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-canada-has-arrested-huaweis-global-chief-financial-officer-in/

Canada has arrested the chief financial officer of China’s Huawei Technologies, who now faces extradition to the United States on suspicion she violated U.S. trade sanctions against Iran.

Facebook knew Android call-scraping would be ‘high-risk’ - The Verge

https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/5/18127216/facebook-android-call-scraping-high-risk-emails-uk-parliament

Internal emails show Facebook weighing the privacy risks of collecting call records — then going ahead anyway

WHO-rapport: Helseeffektene gjør tiltak mot klimaendringer lønnsomme – NRK

https://www.nrk.no/urix/who-rapport_-helseeffektene-gjor-tiltak-mot-klimaendringer-lonnsomme-1.14326274

Den grunnleggende funnet i rapporten er at for hver krone verden bruker for å oppfylle klimatiltak, vil man spare inn to kroner i bedre helse

Quora Hacked

https://blog.quora.com/Quora-Security-Update

We recently discovered that some user data was compromised as a result of unauthorized access to one of our systems by a malicious third party.

Samsung used my DSLR photo to fake their phone’s “portrait mode” - DIY Photography

https://www.diyphotography.net/samsung-used-my-dslr-photo-to-fake-their-phones-portrait-mode/

Earlier this year, Samsung was busted for using stock photos to show off capabilities of Galaxy A8’s camera. And now they did it again – they used a stock image taken with a DSLR […]

Marriott says 500 million Starwood guest records stolen in massive data breach – TechCrunch

https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/30/starwood-hotels-says-500-million-guest-records-stolen-in-massive-data-breach/

contained a guest’s name, postal address, phone number, date of birth, gender, email address, passport number, […] arrival and departure information, reservation date […]

Forbrukerrådet: – Google fører brukerne bak lyset

https://nrkbeta.no/2018/11/27/forbrukerradet-google-forer-brukerne-bak-lyset/

– Vi mener forbrukere manipuleres til å overvåkes når de benytter Googles tjenester. Dette skjer gjennom en rekke ulike metoder som å tilbakeholde eller skjule informasjon, benytte villedende designgrep[…]