Jun 19th 2017
Tech News Today 1792
The Layer 8 Problem
Voter data leak, Google fights online terror
Tim Cook, Jeff Bezos, Eric Schmidt, Satya Nadella, plus the leaders of Oracle, IBM, Akami, and others met with President Donald Trump to discuss improvements and to offer ideas on how to overhaul the government's tech infrastructure.
Time Warner is working with Snap to bring 10 original shows per year exclusively for Snapchat users in a $100 million dollar two year deal. Turner cable channels, Warner Brothers studio,and possibly even HBO will develop shows that run from 3-5 minutes and can only be viewed inside the app with vertical video, of course.
Google is launching a four step plan to fight the spread of terrorism in its products, including YouTube. The company aims to take a tougher stance on extremist videos and inflammatory religious content.
Plus, VR that's 20/20, furnishing your house with AR Ikea, and Iain Thomson from The Register details how 198 million American's voter information was sitting in the cloud, unprotected for all the world to see.
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Links
- President Trump will ask tech executives today for help in modernizing the U.S. government
- The leaders of Apple, Amazon, Google and Microsoft, who met with Trump on Monday, have a few asks of their own.
- Two-year Time Warner-Snap pact includes commitment for up to 10 original shows a year
- Four steps we’re taking today to fight terrorism online
- This startup wants to build VR headsets with ‘human eye-resolution’
- Häftigt! Ikea working with Apple to launch an AR app when iOS 11 ships this fall!
- US voter info stored on wide-open cloud box, thanks to bungling Republican contractor
- Nutella 'Hired' an Algorithm to Design New Jars. And It Was a Sell-Out Success.