An IoT-enabled lab for cannabis farmers, a system for catching drones mid-flight and the Internet of Cows are a few of the 17 startups exhibiting today at Alchemist Accelerator’s 18th demo day. The event, which will be streamed live here, focuses on big data and AI startups with an enterprise bent. The startups are showing their […]
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WhatsApp is banning teens under 16 in Europe ahead of privacy law changes
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For teenagers in the European Union, WhatsApp is about to change in a big way.
The Facebook-owned messaging app is raising its age limit from 13 to 16 in Europe to meet the new European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) law, which comes in to force on May 25.
According to the app’s new Terms of Service, WhatsApp will ask users to confirm they are 16 or over when asked to agree to new terms of service and a privacy policy, which will be sent out in “the next few weeks.”
It’s not currently known how WhatsApp will enforce or even verify its new age limit. Mashable reached out to WhatsApp for clarification but didn’t hear back immediately. Read more…
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Etleap is a play on words for a common set of data practices: extract, transform and load. The startup is trying to place these activities in a modern context, automating what they can and in general speeding up what has been a tedious and highly technical practice. Today, they announced a $1.5 million seed round. […]
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Jamie Metzl Contributor Share on Twitter Jamie Metzl is a Senior Fellow for Technology and National Security at the Atlantic Council. More posts by this contributor Homo Sapiens 2.0? We need a species-wide conversation about the future of human genetic enhancement Eleonore Pauwels Contributor Share on Twitter Eleonore Pauwels is Director of the Anticipatory Intelligence […]
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This column is part of a series called “Voices of Women in Tech,” created in collaboration with AnitaB.org, a global enterprise that supports women in technical fields, as well as the organizations that employ them and the academic institutions training the next generation.
When it comes to women in technology, there’s a lot of data out there. Whether it’s the fact that women still hold less than a quarter of technical roles, or the studies that show — time and again — that diversity can help improve a company’s bottom line, it’s easy to see how data can help illuminate some of our industry’s darkest problems and drive change. Read more…
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Splunk has always been known as a company that can sift through oodles of log or security data and help customers surface the important bits. Today, it announced it was going to try to apply that same skill set to Industrial Internet of Things data. IIoT is data found in manufacturing settings, typically come from […]
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At the Adobe Summit this week in Las Vegas, the company introduced what could be the ultimate customer experience construct, a customer experience system of record that pulls in information, not just from Adobe tools, but wherever it lives. In many ways it marked a new period in the notion of customer experience management, putting […]
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Pure Storage teams with Nvidia on GPU-fueled Flash storage solution for AI
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