FB open-source platform designed to help engineers with differential privacy

Facebook’s Opacus tool, offers new approach

Facebook wants to make it easier for engineers to use differential privacy in AI, with a new tool that limits impact on the primary dataset. Opacus, which trains PyTorch models with differential privacy, uses an algorithm that centers instead on intervening with parameter gradients. This follows recent announcements from Google to open source the differential privacy library, and Microsoft, which released WhiteNoise for Azure and GitHub.

PopID users’ faces are key to payment & entry California start-up PopID has just launched a face-based payments network and a facial ID tool, called PopEntry, to verify people at businesses and universities. The company anticipates 3,000 installations in U.S. states by the end of 2020. People enrolled with PopID can use their face as ID for a range of applications, including for keys, key cards, facilities access, payments and loyalty programs.

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If your programmatic media bingo card had “movie theaters” on it, you’re can check that one off: digital out of home ad network Vistar Media is teaming with Screenvision to sell in-theater ads. This assumes that people will actually attend theaters again.

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The U.S. Senate has passed a bill that could potentially ban TikTok in the U.S. if its Chinese owner, ByteDance, does not sell its holdings within a year. The bill now goes to the President Biden, who has said he will sign it. Court challenges are likely to follow.

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