FaceApp isn't alone in the land of privacy concerns, a curious week-long satellite outage for Europe has finally ended, and WIRED did the math on what it would take to bike to the moon. Here's the news you need to know, in two minutes or less.
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Think FaceApp is scary? Wait until you hear about Facebook
Everyone is talking about FaceApp, the app that uses AI to turn your friends into much, much older versions of themselves in photos. Yes, it's run by a Russian company that sends your photos to its servers, retains rights to use them in perpetuity, and performs AI black magic on them. But before you shake your fist too hard, you should also know a lot of your favorite apps also do that already.
Europe's week-long satellite outage is over—but serves as a warning
A week of Europe's Galileo satellite navigation system mysteriously went down, the system is largely back online. More than 100 million devices can receive Galileo's signal for global positioning, and if they hadn't been programmed to fall back on GPS in its absence, the outage could have been a massive humanitarian crisis. While we still don't know exactly what caused the downtime, it ..
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