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Limb lengthening surgery is becoming more popular
MetaDocs, an NFT project that promises access to real doctors, faces backlash from the medical community because it is not a licensed telemedicine service
Techmeme · 4 weeks ago
Investigation reveals Worldcoin, which collects iris scans in exchange for free crypto, is wrestling with issues, from angry field operators to privacy concerns
Former ByteDance employees say the company scraped Instagram, Snap, and others to make fake accounts on TikTok predecessor Flipagram, later renamed Vigo Video
Techmeme · 2 months ago
The World As We Knew It Is Not Coming Back
DST bill shenanigans
Interviews reveal TikTok's Project Texas, an effort to rebuild its internal systems to keep US user data in the US and limit its access to a new US-based team
How Denton, Texas, which is $140M in debt after a 2021 winter storm, agreed to a crypto mine at its natural gas power plant for millions in annual revenue
“Look At What We’re Doing With Your Money, You Dick”: How Peter Thiel Backed An “Anti-Woke” Film Festival
Roskomnadzor has reportedly blocked Twitter in Russia
Ukraine War 2022: Russia Missiles Strike Vasylkiv
Google Maps is removing newly added user content, like pins, in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus, amid claims of its use in coordinating Russian military activity
After China's crypto mining ban, many bitcoin miners have moved to the US, drawn by political and economic stability, cheap capital, and abundant electricity
GoFundMe will automatically refund $7M+ in donations to Canada's Freedom Convoy 2022, which it says sparked violence while protesting vaccine mandates
Investigation reveals the identities of two main founders of the Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT collection: Greg Solano, aka "Gargamel", and Wylie Aronow
Apple names longtime company spokesperson Kristin Huguet as VP of worldwide communications, replacing Stella Low, who is leaving after joining Apple in May 2021
A look at Meta's covert push to build a data center in the Netherlands, including codenaming the project, in an attempt to minimize public scrutiny and backlash
Jason Isbell Is Tired Of Country’s Love Affair With White Nostalgia
I Was a Facebook Fact-Checker. It Was Like Playing a Doomed Game of Whack-a-Mole (2019)
Facebook And Ray-Ban Camera Glasses Are Here (Review)
Critics fear the new IT rules in India, where the internet is dominated by US digital platforms, give the government even more power to stomp out dissent
Dan Ariely Retracts Honesty Study Based On Fake Data
Around 1,500 Stitch Fix employees quit after new CEO announces they will no longer have flexible work hours and part-timers must work at least 20 hours per week
Co-founder of Snopes was writing plagiarized articles under a fake name
The FBI Says It Thwarted A Plan To Kidnap Michigan’s Governor. The Suspects Say It Was A Setup.
Some Black and LGBTQ passengers say Uber and Lyft drivers refuse rides by falsely claiming they're maskless, a claim also used against drivers to get free rides
TikTok appears to be testing a Cameo-like feature called "Shoutouts" that lets users buy custom videos from creators, in select regions not including the US
Clearview AI data shows GAO's recent report on government use of facial recognition overlooked usage by five agencies, including IRS, TSA, and US Capitol Police
BuzzFeed News Has Won Its First Pulitzer Prize
Venmo will now let users control the visibility of their friends list, following a report in which Biden's Venmo account and connections were easily found
Facebook told staff that it will resume political contributions via its PAC, but will not give to any lawmaker who voted against certifying the 2020 US election
Pandemic-induced rise in app ordering has given birth to the "appuccino", a phenomenon driven by TikTok, where customized Starbucks drink suggestions go viral
Reporters could quickly find Biden's Venmo account and the network of his social connections on Venmo, showing why the app's friends lists are a privacy issue
Apple hires ex-Cisco communications chief Stella Low as new VP of worldwide corporate communications; Phil Schiller has been overseeing Apple's PR since 2019
Facebook Stopped Employees From Reading Internal Report About Insurrection
An internal Facebook report found it failed to take appropriate action against Stop the Steal groups before Capitol riot, saying it should "do better next time"
Reporting on tech from India "feels like having a front-row seat to the country's rapid slide into authoritarianism", as Big Tech companies remain silent
See If Your Police Used Facial Recognition Tech Clearview AI
Source shares data on 1,803 US taxpayer-funded orgs using Clearview AI; many cops used its facial recognition without higher-ups knowing or after a local ban
Deputy Criticized For Spa Shooter Comments Posted Racist Shirt On Facebook
Instagram is working on a version of the service suitable for kids under 13; source: the work will be led by Pavni Diwanji, a VP who joined Facebook in December
Techmeme · 1 year ago
Facebook Is Building An Instagram For Kids Under The Age Of 13
Reddit · 1 year ago
Facebook is working on a neural wristband that reads signals from brain to hands, to go along with its AR glasses; Bosworth insists it can't "read your brain"
Researchers found that on Amazon, COVID-19 conspiracy books have appeared on the first page of search results for terms like "covid", "covid-19", and "vaccine"
Techmeme · 1 year ago