Neowin News Feed for: Manipulation

Man who paid $150 to a magician in Biden deepfake robocall campaign faces $6 million fine

Martin Hodás — Sun, 26 May 2024 07:06:01 +0000

The man who ordered a malicious robocall campaign with a fake voice of Joe Biden was charged with 26 felony counts. The Attorney General hopes this will be a strong deterrent for anyone else. Read more...

10 years after The Fappening literally everyone can recreate it. And it's as dark as it gets

Martin Hodás — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 15:00:01 +0000

Opinion: In 2024, artificial intelligence allows you to strip celebrities of their dignity. But unethical or straight up malicious uses of AI extend far beyond the seemingly innocent ones. Read more...

OnePlus: Yes, we throttle some popular apps but not to manipulate benchmarks

Usama Jawad — Thu, 08 Jul 2021 06:12:01 +0000

OnePlus has admitted to throttling certain popular apps such as Facebook, Instagram, Chrome, Microsoft Office, and more on its OnePlus 9 and 9 Pro handsets. It says that it does this for optimization. Read more...

Lightroom for iOS could finally aim the iPad at professionals

Ben Buffone — Thu, 02 May 2013 23:31:28 +0000

Appearing on photography web show The Grid, Adobe's group product manager Tom Hogarty has shown off a prototype version of Lightroom running on iOS, offering a true professional editing on the iPad. Read more...

Google gets sued over “cynical manipulation of search results”

Andy Weir — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 14:15:21 +0000

Google faces allegations of anti-competitive behaviour yet again, as a UK mapping company says its products are now "harder to find" due to Google's "cynical manipulation of search results". Read more...