The decision comes as part of “a company-wide move to limit the use of facial recognition in our products,” Jerome Pesenti, Facebook’s VP of Artificial Intelligence, said on Tuesday. When the feature is discontinued, sometime “in the coming weeks,” more than a billion Facebook users who have opted in will have their …
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The regulator says the country’s international reserves rose by $4.9 billion from October 8, as a result of positive revaluation as well as foreign currency purchases within the budget rule. The holdings of monetary gold increased by 0.14% last month to 73.9 million ounces (2,298.547 tons) as of October 1, …
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User IDs, real names, email addresses, phone numbers, and locations are among the data of more than 1.5 billion Facebook customers that’s up for sale, according to a report on the cybersecurity news outlet Privacy Affairs on Monday. The going price has been quoted as $5,000 for a million names. …
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After mass complaints about the various platforms being down and users getting error messages, Facebook said it was working to resolve the issue. As the platforms have remained down for hours, more and more have piled onto Zuckerberg and gone to other social media apps that aren’t experiencing such issues, …
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That’s almost double the company’s previous forecast, in May, of $110 billion. It had initially projected some $60.6 billion in lost revenues at the beginning of the year, when automakers started cutting production at plants. “Of course, everyone had hoped that the chip crisis would have abated more by now, …
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The bill was passed by 420 votes to 9 on Thursday, a day after the legislation was introduced. The measure needed a minimum of 260 votes to become law. The $1 billion in funding to replenish the reserves of the defense system was initially incorporated into a must-pass bill that …
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Taking full advantage of the US pivot to telemedicine during the coronavirus pandemic, 43 individuals have been charged with paying off doctors and nurses to order overpriced and unnecessary medical equipment and tests – all without actually meeting or in some cases even speaking to the “patients” the procedures were …
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Trump opened his Saturday video message by calling 9/11 a day of “great sorrow for our country” and one for honoring the “the bravery of our police, fire and first responders of every kind.” “The job they did was truly unbelievable. We love them and we thank them,” the former …
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They grew by $17.1 billion, or 2.9%, since August 1. According to the regulator, the previous record was registered on August 27, when Russian international reserves amounted to $615.6 billion. These comprise highly liquid foreign assets including stocks of monetary gold, foreign currencies and Special Drawing Right (SDR) assets, which …
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By the time the last American plane left Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul a week ago, more than 120,000 people had been airlifted out of the Afghan capital. However, fewer than 6,000 of these were American citizens and their families. “The vast majority” were Afghan refugees and Special Immigrant …
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