• Genius Helps Apple Improve Music Lyrics
    With the help of Genius, Apple is improving the quality of the lyrics that can accompany its Apple Music player. "This announcement means Apple will now gather lyrics data from another source, expanding the quantity and accuracy of lyrics available on songs in the Apple Music library," 9To5Mac reports. "Genius says it will provide Apple Music with lyrics on 'thousands' of songs."
  • Facebook Adds 3D-Photo Support
    Upping the quality of content that can be shared in its platform, Facebook is adding support for 3D photos. “The feature is possible thanks to the dual-camera setups that have become common on flagship smartphones,” Mashable reports. “With 3D photos, when you post a portrait-style image, Facebook is able to separate the subject of the photo from the background and create a more layered look.”
  • Is Instagram Ideal For Teen Bullying?
    The Atlantic explores how teens are using Instagram to bully each other in ever nastier ways. “Like Twitter, Instagram makes it easy to set up new, anonymous profiles, which can be used specifically for trolling,” it writes. “Most importantly, many interactions on the app are hidden from the watchful eyes of parents and teachers, many of whom don’t understand the platform’s intricacies.”
  • Amazon Ditched Job Applicant Rating Tool Due To Gender Bias
    Last year, Amazon reportedly ditched a machine-learning tool for rating job applicants after it was found to have a bias against female candidates. “The company realized its new system was not rating candidates for software developer jobs and other technical posts in a gender-neutral way,” Reuters reports. “That is because Amazon’s computer models were trained to vet applicants by observing patterns in resumes submitted to the company over a 10-year period."
  • Magic Leap Shipping Headsets, Nationwide
    Magic Leap has begun shipping its debut mixed reality headset, nationwide. "The Magic Leap One Creator Edition costs $2,295, just like before, but there’s now an installment plan that starts at $96 per month," The Verge writes. “All orders are supposed to arrive within 60 days.”
  • Apple Prepping Another Digital Video Service
    Apple is reportedly preparing a new digital video service. “Owners of Apple devices, such as the iPhone, iPad and Apple TV will find the still-in-the-works service in the pre-installed ‘TV’ application,” CNBC reports, citing sources. “The product will include Apple-owned content, which will be free to Apple device owners, and subscription ‘channels,’ which will allow customers to sign up for online-only services, such as those from HBO and Starz.”
  • Microsoft Re-Releasing Windows 10 Update
    Having apparently fixed some data deletion issues, Microsoft is re-releasing its Windows 10 October 2018 Update. “The software giant says there were only a few reports of data loss, at a rate of one one-hundredth of one percent,” The Verge reports. “Microsoft is now re-releasing the Windows 10 October 2018 Update to Windows Insiders, before rolling it out more broadly to consumers.”
  • Essential Products Is Narrowing Gadget Lineup
    Essential Products -- the smartphone startup led by Android creator Andy Rubin -- is struggling, according to Bloomberg. As such, it’s “putting most projects aside to focus on development of a new kind of phone that will try to mimic the user and automatically respond to messages on their behalf,” Bloomberg reports, citing sources.
  • LinkedIn Using AI To Diversify Companies' Recruiting Efforts
    LinkedIn is rolling out some new AI-powered features to help companies find more diverse job candidates. “The new artificial intelligence features will be incorporated into LinkedIn's Talent Insight product, aimed at recruiters, and will focus on gender diversity,” Business Insider writes. “The announcement by LinkedIn comes shortly after news emerged that Amazon had to shut down a special AI hiring tool.”
  • WhatsApp Fixes Security Bug
    WhatsApp has fixed a bug that let hackers take over users’ applications when they answered an incoming video call, the Facebook unit said this week. “This is a big deal,” Travis Ormandy, a researcher at Google Project Zero -- which discovered the bug -- tweeted, Reuters reports. “Just ++answering a call from an attacker could completely compromise WhatsApp.”
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