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Twitter sold information to a company related to Cambridge Analytica It is the company that unleashed the Facebook scandal last March     If the past months of March and April, Cambridge Analytica and Facebook were the most united words on the Net, it seems that this May will be added a new social network: Twitter. This is revealed by the US media Bloomberg, which states that Twitter sold data from its social network to Aleksandr Kogan, a researcher allied with Cambridge Analytica. Kogan's company had access to Twitter information in 2015.      Through Global Science Research, Aleksandr Kogan had one day access to the API of the platform, which allowed him to obtain information from Twitter users between December 2014 and April 2015. The data obtained include tweets, profile photos, Usernames, location information and photographs. Faced with these facts, Twitter stated that it had prohibited both the Kogan company and Cambridge Analytica from buying da...

LG bets on artificial intelligence in its new G7 ThinQ The South Korean company adds to the fever of the eyebrow of the iPhone X, although it allows to hide it     Five months of 2018 and the presentation of one of the bets in the smartphone market by LG was expected. Announcement planned for the month of February at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, ​​but that the South Korean company decided to launch an updated version of its LG V30s ThinQ. Thus, avoided the presentation of Galaxy S9 in Barcelona and unveiled the bet of Huawei with his P20 in Paris. LG announced this Wednesday in New York its G7 ThinQ. A bet built on artificial intelligence that beyond the image makes an important commitment to audio, both in headphones and speakers.      A line G smartphone very line V. LG has opted to follow the design of the V30 and has dressed the G7 with more curve, with rear cameras in vertical and also adds to the fever of the market by putting eyebrow ...

Facebook wants to find you a partner The social network announces a dating app on its F8 and forgets about the Cambridge Analytica scandal      This year more than ever the eyes were on the speech of Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, at the annual conference of the social network in San Jose (California, United States). Expected words for possible references to the Cambridge Analytica case . But the wait was resolved with a new apology and new announcements for the universe Facebook and make forget the serious security error. Among the most prominent is the opening to the business of love, because "one in three marriages are known by the network," says Mark Zuckerberg.       This announcement, which is not new, has served to divert the attention of Cambridge Analytica and, especially, scare its competitors. After the announcement of Zuckerberg at the start of the conference and for which there is no date just a "soon", the shares of Match...

How to share what you hear on Spotify in your Instagram Stories The followers can automatically listen to the song that appears in the image uploaded by the user Until now, Instagram users who wanted to show the music they were listening to in their Stories made a screenshot. To end this homemade way of teaching the world our musical tastes in Spotify, both companies have been integrated. From now on, users can share what is being heard on Spotify and that their followers not only see the title, but that they can also listen to that song automatically. The option is available as of this Thursday for iOS and Android devices. Steps to share music: 1- Through the new option of 'Share', when you are listening to a song on Spotify that you want to share with followers you have to press 'Instagram Stories' from the share menu and the app will unlock personalized stickers with the cover to each song, álmbul, playlist or artist. 2- It is not necessary to connect the accounts be...

Laser vision, closer to the human eye Researchers create an ultra-thin membrane whose success has been demonstrated in animals     Shooting lasers with your eyes is not just a Hollywood trick. An investigation of the University of St. Andrew in the United States has made it possible to create an ultrafine membrane laser using organic semiconductors. The tests, for the time being, have only been taken to the animal world. In particular, they have been tested in the eyes of cows and this membrane has been shown to show lines on a flat bottom or ones and zeros creating a digital bar code. "Our work represents a new milestone in the development of lasers and, in particular, points the way to how lasers can be used in inherently soft and ductile environments, either in portable sensors or as an authentication function in banknotes" , explains Professor Malte Gather, one of researchers at the University of St Andrew. "By varying the materials and adjusting the laser grid struc...

The announcement of the closure of Cambridge Analytica does not convince its critics The company that extracted profiles of tens of millions of Facebook users for political campaigns is dissolved by the flight of customers       The British firm Cambridge Analytica, which is being investigated for using profiles obtained from Facebook users to influence the election campaign of Donald Trump and the supporters of the 'Brexit' during the British referendum on the EU, has announced its closure, "because the siege of media coverage has scared away virtually all customers and suppliers, "according to a company statement. Cambridge Analytica is a legal shell without employees, according to its owners, which was created by Laboratorios de Comunicación Estratégica (SCL), a company founded in 1990 to develop commercial advertising campaigns based on psychological and quantitative research on consumer behavior. The statement indicates that SCL has also been dissolved. ...

Smart suitcases run out of batteries The startup closes its business due to fear of explosions from its batteries      A lost suitcase, this was the origin of the idea that ended the birth of Bluesmart. A concept that emerged in New York with the help of Diego Sáez-Gil, Tomás Pierucci, Alejo Valenti, Martín Diz and Brian Chen. However, few flights have achieved this Argentine technology. Saez-Gil and Pierucci started with a very successful crowdfunding campaign to create a smart suitcase that could be controlled from an app on a smartphone and charge devices with included USB ports. An announcement that did not please the airlines especially the North American ones that blocked these devices for fear of fires on board the aircraft. However, Bluesmart was quick to publish the instructions to remove the battery from the luggage. But this document continued without convincing the airlines and has caused the owners of Bluesmart have had to close. The Bluesmart suitcases,...

Twitter asks its users to change the password for a security breach The company says that the incident is already solved but recommends modifying the keys as a precaution      The social network Twitter on Thursday asked users to change their passwords as a precaution after discovering a security flaw in their own service, the group said in a tweet. «Recently we discovered a bug (error) that stored passwords not hidden in an internal registry. We correct the bug and we have no indication that there is intrusion or fraudulent use of anyone, "wrote the network in the message, recommending" as a precaution "users to change the password. Twitter explained the error in a very short blog called 'Keep your account safe', which does not clarify when the fault exists or how many passwords have been affected.       The group said it "hides passwords through a hash process using a function called bcrypt, which replaces the real password with a random se...