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Wednesday, January 31, 2018

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Eddie Adams captured one of the most famous images of the Vietnam War but he was haunted by it.

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The top 10 teams in the Michigan Associated Press high school basketball poll, with records in parentheses. Totals are based on 15 points for a first-place vote, 14 for second,etc.:

Class A

School Total Points

1. East Kentwood (4) (14-0) 74

2. Saginaw Heritage (12-0) 69

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All the top 2018 football prospects at St. Peter's Prep in New Jersey took advantage of the new NCAA signing period and wrapped up their recruitments in December.

Still, St. Peter's coach Rich Hansen has been kept busy lately by college recruiters.

"Duke just left. Syracuse was in this morning.

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It was downloaded millions of times when it launched but struggled to maintain a large audience.

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Pay TV broadcaster will offer all its channels and content online as it seeks to enter new markets.

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MIT is making a new kind of 3D printer that can change the colour of the objects you print.

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After a fitness app "heatmap" revealed military information, what are your devices saying about you?

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Meet the teenager making money with a computer on his mum's balcony

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A doctor has designed a video game about treating patients with severe injuries.

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Kat Hawkins looks at some of the best technology news stories of the week.

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Thousands of water stations are being installed to tackle plastic use - with users able to find them via an app.

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The internet-famous cat's owners had something to smile about after being awarded over $700,000 in court.

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The FCC has published the preliminary findings of its investigation into Hawaii's false missile alert, and it suggests that the story didn't play out as you might have heard. Where initial reports claimed the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency officer who triggered the mass panic clicked on the real alert by mistake, the FCC said the officer fully intended to click it -- because they'd misinterpeted a mangled message. Reportedly, the midnight shift supervisor had played a standard recording that included both the usual "exercise, exercise, exercise" language and the text from a real Emergency Alert System message, which includes "this is not a drill." Although other officers saw this was a drill, the one who clicked the alert was convinced it was real.

The rest of the report is more predictable. The FCC cited both "inadequate safeguards" for false alerts and a "lack of preparation" for the event of a false alarm. It notified the state governor, Pacific Command and Honolulu police almost immediately, but its outreach to others was thwarted by congested phone lines. It didn't decide to broadcast the corrective emergency alerts until about 20 minutes after the false alarm, and another 18 minutes after that to actually send it.

Hawaii has already taken steps to prevent future gaffes, and the FCC expects to make its own recommendations with its final report.

The report comes right as the FCC has made changes to how Wireless Emergency Alerts work. Carriers will have to deliver "more geographically precise" alerts, with no more than an 0.1-mile overshoot, as of November 30th 2019. Companies will also have to let you keep alerts for 24 hours (or until you delete them) so that you can revisit them if necessary. While this wouldn't have affected the Hawaii incident, it could prevent some unnecessary alerts. It could also reduce the risk of desensitizing the public -- you don't want to miss a life-or-death alert because you've received one too many irrelevant warnings.

Source: FCC (PDF 1), (2)

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Pinterest is very committed to improving its search technology through AI -- so committed, in fact, that it just hired one of the foremost experts in the field. The social network has announced that it's recruiting Chuck Rosenberg, Google's AI vision research leader, to become its Head of Computer Vision. He spent just shy of 14 years at Google and was responsible for a number of major AI-related efforts, including the first large deployment of an image-focused deep learning network.

The exact nature of what Rosenberg is doing is under wraps, to no one's surprise, but he's expected to guide engineers as they craft "large-scale" object detection algorithms. Before Google, he worked at HP Labs and was one of iRobot's earliest employees.

While it might seem odd for Rosenberg to switch employers while Google is still pushing the boundaries of AI, it's easy to see why Pinterest would want to reel him in. He's joining right as the company's AI-based image recognition is hitting its stride -- there are now over 300 million visual searches every month, or a 70 percent increase compared to a year earlier. Rosenberg could prove instrumental to keeping that momentum going, and could make Pinterest indispensable the next time you need to find a recipe or choose an outfit.

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Google likes to boast of its ability to shut down Android malware, and it apparently has good reason to brag about 2017. The company took down over 700,000 apps that violated Play Stores policies last year (a 70 percent increase over 2016), and it was considerably better at pulling rogue apps in time to avoid infections. Thanks to a slew of new machine learning techniques, it caught 99 percent of apps with "abusive contents" before anyone had installed them.

It credits Google Play Protect for one of the biggest improvements: its ability to spot extremely harmful apps that commit fraud, steal info or allow hijacks. While there weren't many of them, the mechanism reduced the number of installations by an "order of magnitude" over 2016, Google said. It added that it took down over 250,000 copycat apps (those trying to piggyback off the success of popular apps) and "tens of thousands" of apps violating policies against apps that feature hate speech, illegal acts and porn.

Google is fully aware that its system isn't foolproof, and that some apps will still slip through the cracks. The improvements do make a better case for sticking to Google Play for app downloads when you can, though.

Of course, it's important to stress that this is just one part of the Android security puzzle, and that there are lingering issues that may be difficult or impossible to completely address. Although Google Play Services helps make Protect and other security measures available across a wide range of Android versions, it's still true that most Android phones aren't running recent editions of the operating system. If there's a fix that requires a newer OS, you're stuck.

And remember, many Android users in China and elsewhere don't have access to the Play Store. They have to go through third-party outlets, some of which have poor malware screening. There's only so much Google can do to help when offering the Play Store in China would involve censorship and other compromises, but that still leaves a large chunk of the Android world in a more vulnerable position.

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It's relatively cheap in Seattle, and L.A. and San Francisco are pretty competitive, but it's an entirely different story on the East Coast, especially in the nation's capital.

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SAN JOSE (Reuters) - A conservative Christian congressman best known for his opposition to gay rights remains the favorite in Costa Rica's presidential election next month, according to a poll released Tuesday night.

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BERLIN (Reuters) - German police said on Wednesday they had raided properties and made arrests across the country in an operation to crack down on human traffickers.

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Amanda Petrusich writes about the 2018 Grammy Awards telecast, which she calls languid, gentle, and bloodless.

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Fiction by Jeffrey Eugenides: “Eugene’s little secret? He wanted to be beautiful. If that didn’t work, noticeable would do.”

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HappyOrNot terminals look simple, but the information they gather is revelatory.

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New cartoons from the magazine.

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Poetry by Tess Gallagher: “I knew earth wasn’t / what it seemed.”

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"Maze Runner: The Death Cure" is the highest grossing film of the weekend, but according to studio estimates Sunday, many moviegoers also chose the first weekend after Oscar nominations to catch up...

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Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt said Tuesday that he has no recollection of stinging remarks he made back in 2016 when he argued that Donald Trump would use executive power "in a way that is truly unconstitutional" and would be "more abusive" to the Constitution than President Barack Obama.

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President Donald Trump, beginning a section of his State of the Union speech on immigration, rhetorically played off the ongoing efforts to reach a deal on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, saying, "Americans are dreamers, too."

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President Donald Trump, in his first State of the Union address, called for major, bipartisan deals on infrastructure and immigration, while reversing his predecessor’s vow to close Guantanamo Bay prison facility for suspected terrorists.

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President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday directing U.S. military officials to keep Guantanamo Bay operating, reversing a 2009 order by former President Barack Obama to close the facility.

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MCX, Bank of Maharashtra, United Bank of India, Bombay Rayon Fashions, D B Corp, Uttam Galva Steels and Vivimed Labs hit 52-week low on Tuesday.

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Director-composer Sanjay Leela Bhansali has overcome intimidation by Indian religious fundamentalists to bring his stunning historical epic 'Padmaavat' to the big screen in Imax 3D, the first Indian film to be released in the format.

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Amadou has been a stalwart in the Ligue 1 side's starting XI, playing in 21 of their 23 league matches. Lille have already rejected offers from Crystal Palace for the 24-year-old this month.

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Phil Neville impressed on his first media appointment as England head coach, but must overcome his shortfalls quickly.

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Joshua James Baker, 33, from Mount Isa in Queensland, who is facing 10 years in a notorious Bali jail after being charged with drug importation, is mentally ill, he sister said.

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump put a human face on the threat posed by North Korea in his State of the Union address Tuesday, sharing the powerful story of a defector now living in South Korea and the pain of parents who lost their child after his imprisonment....

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