๐ Facebook's Link History, Starlink's Phone Service, and Samsung's Galaxy AI Event
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Meet 'Link History,' Facebook's New Way to Track the Websites You Visit. Facebook recently rolled out a new โLink Historyโ setting that creates a special repository of all the links you click on in the Facebook mobile app. Users can opt-out, but Link History is turned on by default, and the data is used for targeted ads. By Thomas Germain via Gizmodo
๐: Anyway dig in. Here is @thomasgermain full report. Itโs important. Again, FTC should be all over this. Meta is a desperate surveillance capitalist with much of its 97% in revenues and profits jeopardized by โsignal lossโ meaning your privacy rights. /6 - Jason Kint (@jason_kint)
SpaceX details Starlink-for-phones plan, launching in 2024. Starlink's website update is revealing a bit more about its plans for a satellite-delivered cell phone service. The new page for ' Starlink Direct to Cell ' promises 'ubiquitous coverage' from 'cellphone towers in space' that will work over bog-standard LTE. By Ron Amadeo via Ars Technica
๐: This will allow for mobile phone connectivity anywhere on Earth. Note, this only supports ~7Mb per beam and the beams are very big, so while this is a great solution for locations with no cellular connectivity, it is not meaningfully competitive with existing terrestrial cellular networks. - Elon Musk (@elonmusk)
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Samsung Galaxy S24 Unpacked Event Set for Jan. 17. 'Galaxy AI is coming,' reads the tagline, so get ready for Samsung-developed artificial intelligence. Samsung today announced that it will hold its first Galaxy Unpacked event of 2024 on Wednesday, Jan. 17, at 10 a.m. PT. This Galaxy Unpacked extravaganza will take place at the SAP Center in San Jose, California, and will be livestreamed on Samsung's YouTube channel. By Iyaz Akhtar via PCMag
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Open source AI voice cloning arrives with MyShell's new OpenVoice model. Startups including the increasingly well-known ElevenLabs have raised millions of dollars to develop their own proprietary algorithms and AI software for making voice clones โ audio programs that mimic the voices of users. By Carl Franzen via VentureBeat
A New Year's resolution for tech companies: knock it off with the CAPTCHAs. The thing about CAPTCHAs is that they're old enough to drink. The bots are better at them than I am. So why am I still being asked to fill them out? I am not talking about the inoffensive ones with the puzzle pieces. I am not talking, even, about matching or rotating shapes. I am talking, specifically, about the grid of insane photos โ the kind of thing you may be familiar with from Googleโs reCAPTCHA system. By Elizabeth Lopatto via The Verge
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