Here’s the new edition of my “Fav 4”, edition 55. My favorite and most noteworthy tech & innovation news bites of the last week. 4 updates in an easy to consume video format. Enjoy!
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Well, well… #TikTok is an impressive growth story in #socialmedia. But they are once more being investigated handling children’s personal data, and whether it’s doing enough to keep children safe on its platform. There's lots of dodgy stuff going on. https://t.co/PkKXpgwTpN pic.twitter.com/MTWVkmpgld
— André Cramer 🇪🇺 (@TheAndreCramer) July 4, 2019
Anything useful in #Facebook’s image outage? It did reveal how their #AI tags ALL our photos. Broken images where replaced with the tags assigned by the company’s machine vision systems. Shows what's happening with our data inside the user data behemoth. https://t.co/HRW2sY0Ufd pic.twitter.com/Q0CO8Htwii
— André Cramer 🇪🇺 (@TheAndreCramer) July 5, 2019
Now things are getting serious for #Google #Alphabet's internet balloon project #Loon. Preparing for first commercial test in #Kenya, enabling mountain villagers to use 4G services. Final approval from Kenya’s aviation authority expected this month. https://t.co/yTCPUZZRjs pic.twitter.com/Tg6FPJXwVX
— André Cramer 🇪🇺 (@TheAndreCramer) July 5, 2019
Sounds like a little thing, but it's a huge #UX improvement. #Apple's “FaceTime Attention Correction” will make eye contact way easier in #IOS13, making it look like you’re looking directly into the cam even when you’re looking at the screen during a call. https://t.co/DIk8B5tJm5 pic.twitter.com/mh56L2YtwQ
— André Cramer 🇪🇺 (@TheAndreCramer) July 5, 2019
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