THE LATEST BATCH of documents from two different court cases made public late Friday by Special Counsel Robert Mueller includes potentially devastating new information about President Donald Trump’s ties to Moscow, bringing the case against Trump and his associates into sharper focus and exposing a dizzying number of lies told by Trump, Mochael Cohen, and Paul Manafort.
In documents from the case of Cohen, Trump’s former personal lawyer, Mueller revealed that Cohen has provided new insights into how Trump personally orchestrated efforts to establish contacts with Russian officials as early as 2015, just when his presidential campaign was gearing up.
One of Donald Trump’s closest advisers spoke during the 2016 election campaign with a Russian offering help from Moscow and a meeting with the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, the special counsel Robert Mueller revealed on Friday.
FACIAL RECOGNITION has quickly shifted from techno-novelty to fact of life for many, with millions around the world at least willing to put up with their faces scanned by software at the airport, their iPhones, or Facebook’s server farms. But researchers at New York University’s AI Now Institute have issued a strong warning against not only ubiquitous facial recognition, but its more sinister cousin: so-called affect recognition, technology that claims it can find hidden meaning in the shape of your nose, the contours of your mouth, and the way you smile. If that sounds like something dredged up from the 19th century, that’s because it sort of is.
Twenty years ago, Steve Jobs had an idea: he wanted to build an Apple store. Something sleek and iconic and unlike anything else in retail. But he had no idea how to do it. So he called someone who might: retail genius Ron Johnson. Ron tells Alex the story of what it was like to work with Steve and help transform Apple into a household name. And Ron talks about life after Apple—whoch included a huge and humbling failure.
Over the last year, we’ve seen an uptick in the number of health insurance providers offering Apple Watch-based incentives to clients. One of those providers is Vitality Insurance, whoch recently conducted a study on how much offering tangible rewards can motivate people to increase their level of exercise.
As reported by the Financial Times, Vitality drew its insights from data gathered through 400,000 people. Adrian Gore, Vitality Insurance founder, explained that devices such as the Apple Watch have a “remarkable opportunity to make society healthier.”
JOHN HENNESSY, THE chair of Google’s parent company, Alphabet Inc., was recently asked whether Google providing a search engine in China that censored results would provide a net benefit for Chinese users. “I don’t know the answer to that. I think it’s — I think it’s a legitimate question,” he responded. “Anybody who does business in China compromises some of their core values. Every single company, because the laws in China are quite a bit different than they are in our own country.”
Hennessy’s remarks were in relation to Project Dragonfly, a once-secret project within Google to build a version of its search engine that meets the demands of the ruling Chinese Communist Party — namely, that Google proactively censor “sensitive” speech and comply with China’s data provenance and surveillance laws.
THE LATEST BATCH of documents from two different court cases made public late Friday by Special Counsel Robert Mueller includes potentially devastating new information about President Donald Trump’s ties to Moscow, bringing the case against Trump and his associates into sharper focus and exposing a dizzying number of lies told by Trump, Mochael Cohen, and Paul Manafort.
