Depending on your perspective, Huawei is either a victim or political war or a victim of its own ambitions, maybe even both. No matter which way you look at it, however, the Chinese company that has just recently claimed the title of second biggest smartphone maker is in trouble. It isn’t too worried even while it’s fighting its biggest battle … Continue reading
Social media is where we post and share a lot of things, such as status updates, photos, check-ins, and more. Sometimes we end up sharing things that give away more information about us than we would like, and the US government is apparently hoping to capitalize on that by using social media to catch people committing disability fraud.
This is according to a report from the New York Times (via Engadget) where the White House is working with the Social Security Administration to introduce a new rule that would allow social media monitoring. This in turn would help crack down on instances of disability fraud, where people might accidentally post photos or share information that prove that they are claiming disability even if they don’t need it.
While we suppose it makes sense that someone who is defrauding the government might share photos of themselves on social media that could give it away, some argue that it is not the most accurate way of going about catching defrauders. Speaking to Engadget, EFF senior staff attorney Adam Schwartz warned how photos uploaded to social media might not represent the present or the state of the person’s current health.
“People post old pictures of themselves on social media. So when a disabled person posts a picture of themselves doing something a disabled person should not be doing, it is not necessarily evidence of fraud about government disability benefits.” The chairwoman of the Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities Lisa D. Ekman echoed that sentiment by telling the Times, “Just because someone posted a photograph of them golfing or going fishing in February of 2019 does not mean that the activity occurred in 2019.”
US Government Proposes Using Social Media To Catch Disability Fraud
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Last year YouTube announced that they would be introducing a new feature in the form of YouTube Stories. This would function similar to other Stories features from the likes of Snapchat and Instagram and Facebook, and unsurprisingly it seems that the feature is getting upgraded with new filters that users can take advantage of.
However according to YouTube, these won’t be just regular filters as they will actually take advantage of augmented reality (AR), or more specifically, ARCore, to help better implement the filters onto users. YouTube also boasts the use of machine learning to help apply these filters, meaning that even devices without a depth sensor, such as lower-end handsets, can still take advantage of them.
According to YouTube, “To make all this possible, we employ machine learning (ML) to infer approximate 3D surface geometry to enable visual effects, requiring only a single camera input without the need for a dedicated depth sensor. This approach provides the use of AR effects at realtime speeds, using TensorFlow Lite for mobile CPU inference or its new mobile GPU functionality where available.”
That being said, YouTube Stories are currently only available to “Creators” at the moment. This means that only those who own channels with more than 10,000 subscribers will be able to make use of the feature for now.
YouTube Is Bringing Snapchat-Like Filters To Its Stories
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The problem with music streaming is that in terms of quality, it might not be on the same level compared to lossless audio files. This is to be expected since such files can be too big to stream efficiently on the internet, plus usually not that many people can tell the difference anyway as such audio will require higher-end hardware to truly appreciate.
That being said if you do consider yourself an audiophile, or would like to get better quality audio out of your streams, you might be interested to learn that Tidal has announced that they will be bringing support for its Master audio on its iOS app. For those unfamiliar, the Master audio is basically Tidal’s answer to higher-fidelity music files.
However like we said, whether or not you might be able to tell the difference depends on how good you are at discerning such differences, but if you believe you can, then this is an option worth checking out. Unfortunately Master audio is only limited to certain tracks and not all songs on Tidal will support it, so your mileage may vary.
It will also depend on your hardware where if you’re trying to stream Master audio files while using a $20 set of earphones that you picked up at computer shop, chances are it won’t make a difference. In the meantime more information about Tidal’s Master audio can be found on its website.
Tidal’s iOS App Gains Support For Hi-Fidelity Audio
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