Good Tuesday morning to you. The net neutrality battle ain’t over, and Google’s latest machine learning toy matches your selfie with famous works of art. Get. Ready. To. Be. Offended.
Democrats are just one vote shy of restoring net neutrality
Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer now says Democrats in the Senate are a single vote away from restoring net neutrality. According to the senator from New York, they now have a total of 50 votes for a Senate resolution of disapproval that would restore the Open Internet Order of 2015 and deliver a stiff rebuke to Ajit Pai and other Republican members of the FCC.
Google’s museum app finds your fine-art doppelgänger
If you’ve ever wondered if there’s a museum portrait somewhere that looks like you, and you’re ready to have your ego crushed, there’s now an app for that. Google Arts & Culture’s latest update now lets you take a selfie, and using image recognition, finds someone in its vast art collection that most resembles you. Let’s try!
Danish police charge 1,004 people following Facebook sex video
Facebook is no stranger to notifying police when there’s clear evidence of a crime, but its latest action has had consequences on a much larger scale than usual. Danish police have charged 1,004 young people (some under 18) after Facebook notified authorities that Messenger users were sharing a video of two teens under 15 years old having sex, violating laws against the distribution of indecent images of children. Many of those who shared the video did so ‘just’ a few times, police said, but others shared it hundreds of times — they knew what they were doing, even if they didn’t realize it was illegal.
But wait, there’s more…
- The totally normal, completely unsurprising lack of women at CES
- Contraceptive app under fire for causing unwanted pregnancies
- HTC U11 Eyes’ dual cameras bring bokeh to your selfies
- Nanoleaf wants you to control your smart home with a dodecahedron
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