| Facebook Extended Its Map With AI Tool Suite to OpenStreetMap
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 Facebook has been using artificial intelligence to predict road networks and create maps via commercially available high-resolution satellite imagery, and the social network is making its model available more widely. The company said in a blog post that its Map With AI set of specialized map editing services and tools--including RapiD, which enables mapping experts...
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| God-is Rivera's Noble New Mission at Twitter
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 To be a trailblazer you have to be a pioneer, then you have to guide others along that blazed trail. That's what God-is Rivera did in 2016 when she sent an email to her bosses at VMLY&R urging them to talk more about issues of diversity and inclusion. Blazing that trail led to a new...
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| Trump made 29 false claims from July 8 to July 14
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 From now on, we'll be keeping track of each and every false claim made by President Donald Trump. And we'll be giving you a weekly breakdown of the highlights, or lowlights, from the false claims of the previous week. You can find the full list of 29 false claims at the bottom of this article.
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| New York City could ban the unauthorized sale of phone location data
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 Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge New York City might effectively ban the controversial practice of selling consumers' phone location data, if a new bill proposed this week passes the city council. Fines up to $10,000 The bill, believed to be the first of its kind, would require wireless carriers and apps to get explicit permission before giving third parties geolocation data collected within the city. Under the plan, the city's Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications would be tasked with enforcing the bill, and could levy steep penalties on offenders. A violator could be fined $1,000 for each violation, or $10,000 for each person's data shared, if multiple violations happened on the same day. The bill will move to committee hearings ahead of a wider...
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