Day: July 5, 2019

Firm fat-fingered G Suite and deleted its data, so it escalated its support ticket to a lawsuit

Google told startup its files are gone for good An interior design tools startup called Mosss on Wednesday sued Google to get it to restore its data after someone at the startup accidentally deleted the firm’s G Suite account.… …read more Source:: TheRegister


Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp repaired without a real explanation

Facebook and friends are back. What happened? We don’t know. …read more Source:: ZDNet


Intelligent Authentication Market Grows to Meet Demand

Confidence in user identity is critical to prevent fraud and theft, and companies are looking for new ways to get the necessary assurance. …read more Source:: DarkReading


Five Couples Have Lined Up for CRISPR Babies To Avoid Deafness

Five Russian couples who are deaf want to try the CRISPR gene-editing technique so they can have a biological child who can hear, biologist Denis Rebrikov told New Scientist. He plans to apply to the relevant Russian authorities for permission in “a couple of weeks.” From a report: The case for using CRISPR for this…


Is this AI developing a sense of time?

Researchers at Heidelberg’s Ruprecht-Karls-Universität, the Max-Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, and Montreal’s prestigious MILA develop a neural network model that computes whether states of affairs are reversible or irreversible. They hope it adds up to giving a computer a sense of the “arrow of time.” …read more Source:: ZDNet


Google Maintains a List of Everything You Ever Bought Using Gmail, Even if You Delete All Your Emails

Todd Haselton, reporting for CNBC: In May, I wrote up something weird I spotted on Google’s account management page. I noticed that Google uses Gmail to store a list of everything you’ve purchased, if you used Gmail or your Gmail address in any part of the transaction. If you have a confirmation for a prescription…


Best Steam summer sale 2019 deals: Borderlands 2, PUBG and more discounted games – CNET

These are some of the best deals on the best games during the current Steam summer sale. We’ll keep this updated with new picks daily. …read more Source:: CNet


Stranger Things season 3: Rad ’80s details you might have missed – CNET

To the max! …read more Source:: CNet


Spider-Man: Far From Home postcredits cameo character, explained – CNET

“Brace yourselves, you might wanna sit down.” Spidey’s nemesis has returned to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, so let’s look at this character’s history. …read more Source:: CNet


Spider-Man: Far From Home postcredits scenes, explained – CNET

One brings back a fan favorite, the second offers a lesson in delegation. …read more Source:: CNet