“#1: Ryan ToysReview. 2018 Earnings: $22 million. Ryan’s just like every other 7-year-old: He loves Legos, trains, cars—and his 17 million followers. His latest mini-mogul move: a line of collectibles and more, now selling at Walmart.”
Source : Highest-Paid YouTube Stars 2018: Markiplier, Jake Paul, PewDiePie And More
I never tire of looking at videos of Chinese click farms. It’s just so surreal to see hundreds of phones playing the same video for the purposes of fake engagment. pic.twitter.com/bHAGLqRqVb
— Matthew Brennan (@mbrennanchina) 10 décembre 2018
“Le ministère du Travail mène une expertise sur ces vidéos où des enfants sont mis en scène pour déballer ou tester des jouets. Le gouvernement cherche à distinguer ce qui relève du loisir conduit sous l’autorité parentale du travail où se manifeste un lien de subordination employé-employeur ”
“This isn’t a kind of fluffy charity providing free services. It’s is a very hard-headed international business and these big tech companies are essentially the world’s biggest global advertisers, that’s where they make their billions. […] these big companies, particularly where there are monopolies, can’t frankly reform themselves. It will have to come from outside.”
Source : Facebook could threaten democracy, says former GCHQ boss – BBC News
“Historically, it has provided only one translation for a query, even if the translation could have either a feminine or masculine form. So when the model produced one translation, it inadvertently replicated gender biases that already existed. For example: it would skew masculine for words like “strong” or “doctor,” and feminine for other words, like “nurse” or “beautiful.”
Source : Google is fixing gender bias in its Translate service
“Today, we’re taking the next step in our journey with the introduction of our commercial self-driving service, Waymo One. We’ll first offer Waymo One to hundreds of early riders who have already been using our technology. Over time, we hope to make Waymo One available to even more members of the public as we add vehicles and drive in more places. Self-driving technology is new to many, so we’re proceeding carefully with the comfort and convenience of our riders in mind. At first, Waymo-trained drivers will supervise our Waymo One vehicles. ”
Source : Waymo One: The next step on our self-driving journey
“Sadly, it’s nothing new that smartphone companies use DSLR photos to fake phone camera’s capabilities. Samsung did it before, so did Huawei. And I believe many more brands do it, we just haven’t found out about it yet. I’m pretty sure that Samsung at least bought my photo legally, even though I haven’t received the confirmation of it. But regardless, this is false advertising.”
Source : Samsung used my DSLR photo to fake their phone’s “portrait mode” – DIY Photography
“More than 200 manufacturers, including Tesla, Volkswagen, BMW, Daimler, Ford, General Motors, Nissan, Mitsubishi and U.S.-listed electric vehicle start-up NIO, transmit position information and dozens of other data points to government-backed monitoring centers, The Associated Press has found. Generally, it happens without car owners’ knowledge.”
Source : In China, Your Car Could Be Talking to the Government – The New York Times
“Today we’re announcing that we intend to adopt the Chromium open source project in the development of Microsoft Edge on the desktop to create better web compatibility for our customers and less fragmentation of the web for all web developers.”
Traduction personnelle : « cela nous coûte trop cher de développer notre propre moteur de rendu dès lors que notre navigateur n’intéresse personne, du coup, nous préférons profiter du travail et de l’ouverture de Google pour avancer à moindre frais et capter tout de même toute votre attention dans notre propre environnement ».
“Le géant américain a annoncé, vendredi 30 novembre, que le système de réservation de Starwood avait été piraté. Il s’agit d’un incident d’une ampleur rare dans l’histoire des fuites de données. Le piratage a en effet rendu accessibles pendant quatre ans les données de centaines de millions de clients. Entre 2014 et septembre 2018, les pirates avaient en effet accès à une base de données contenant des données personnelles de « 500 millions de clients qui ont fait une réservation » dans un des hôtels de l’entreprise Starwood. Cette dernière possède notamment les marques Westin, Sheraton, W Hotels ou Le Méridien.”
Source : Un piratage compromet les données de centaines de millions de clients du groupe hôtelier Marriott
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