Portland bans facial recognition, TikTok may not sell | Digital Trends Live

By Todd Werkhoven September 10, 2020

On this Digital Trends Live, host Greg Nibler discusses the top tech stories of the day, including Portland’s ban on facial recognition, TikTok may not sell after all, Walmart drone delivery tests, Facebook’s “Campus,” and more.

Lisa Marie Segarra joins the show to talk about the new Xbox Series X and Series S prices and launch dates, as well as Ubisoft’s path forward.

We then head to the box office to take a look at Tenet‘s opening, Dune‘s trailer, Coastal Elites, Sing On!, and The Devil All the Time.

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Social Media

As it turns out, TikTok isn’t a reliable search engine for news

A person's hand holding a phone with the TikTok app on it.

Lots of people keep up with the important news of the day using social media, but if you're using TikTok to learn about current events, you may want to be more careful with the app's search results. Research from a new report has found that quite a few of the videos featured in those results contained misinformation.

According to The Associated Press, a new research report published Wednesday found that nearly 20% of TikTok search results for searches about news topics (conducted by the report's researchers), had misinformation in them.

Social Media

TikTok continues to rebut reports of a security breach

The TikTok app on a smartphone's screen. The smartphone is sitting on a white table.

Popular short-form video app TikTok recently found itself having to refute claims that it had been hacked, and is continuing to rebut the charge.

According to BleepingComputer, as early as late last week, a hacking group known as AgainstTheWest, posted to a forum saying that it had hacked TikTok and a messaging app known as WeChat. The forum post also included screenshots, which were of "an alleged database belonging to the companies, which they say was accessed on an Alibaba cloud instance containing data for both TikTok and WeChat users."

Gaming

TikTok parent company ByteDance reportedly downsizes games division

ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, has reportedly laid off hundreds of employees from two video game studios at locations in China.

According to a South China Morning Post report (courtesy of GamesIndustry.biz), people familiar with the matter said the Beijing-based social media company has downsized game development jobs at Shanghai's Wushuang Studio by rendering them redundant or transferring employees internally after 101 Studio shut down in June. They also claim that it has also cut off game development jobs at Jianang Studio in Hangzhou, though there was no word if the employees affected went through similar avenues at Wushuang.