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Roku is heavily promoting OANN, Trump’s latest source for conspiracies
High-tech redlining: AI is quietly upgrading institutional racism – How an outlawed form of institutionalized discrimination is being quietly upgraded for the 21st century.
Facebook had a design to flag Trump’s hate speech . . . in 2016
Police scanner app Citizen has become an instant hit during the protests but its social networking layer could be adding to a climate of fear and divisiveness
Telehealth will be more proactive, hyper-personalized, and data-driven thanks to connected devices, remote healthcare kits, mobile apps, and AI-based monitoring
Report: the official COVID-19 contact tracing app for North Dakota is sharing location data with Foursquare and an advertising ID with Google
Q&A with Steven Sinofsky on his upcoming memoir that chronicles his time at Microsoft, as he reflects on how the company fought the ILOVEYOU virus 20 years ago
The three early, maddening viruses that shook the world—and Microsoft
Pandora founder Tim Westergren launches Sessions, a free live-streaming platform for artists where audiences can leave tips, in beta in 200+ countries
We’re in the midst of a massive work-from-home experiment. What if it works?
Thirty experts, including tech execs and VCs, on how the adoption of tech amid the pandemic will change work, education, health care, manufacturing, and more
Book excerpt from Sarah Frier's No Filter gives a behind-the-scenes look at the FTC's 2012 investigation and approval of Facebook's Instagram acquisition
Techmeme · 2 years ago
Zoom banned from New York City schools due to privacy, security flaws.
The untold origin story of the N95 mask
Dyson is building 15,000 ventilators to fight COVID-19
The coronavirus might have just killed ISP data caps
The story behind the coronavirus "flatten the curve" chart
Uncensored Library, a Reporters Without Borders project in Minecraft, lets people anywhere read articles from censored journalists and get info on press freedom
Source: at least one of this year's iPhones will have a 3D depth camera on its back, enabling new photo and video effects, as well as better AR experiences
DoNotPay launches a free Chrome extension that uses cookies to let users share accounts for services like Netflix without revealing passwords
How Wikipedia volunteers became the web’s best weapon against misinformation
MIT study: when only some news is labeled as fact-checked and disputed, the news that hasn't been tagged is considered validated and seen as more accurate
The next decade of design will be about fixing the last century of excess
A look at some of the Redditors and subreddits fighting disinformation on a site notorious for incubating conspiracy theories and spreading falsehoods
Behind Facebook's rewrite of Messenger, going live today, that has shrunk the iOS app's size from 130MB to 30MB and codebase from 1.7M lines of code to 360K
Source: Apple is not happy with the QTM 525 mm-wave antenna module Qualcomm is offering for this year's 5G iPhones and is trying to design its own antenna
I freaked out when I saw what sites were telling Facebook about me
A Russian law requiring all smartphones to pre-install Russian-made software, which goes into effect in July 2020, could force Apple to quit the country
In a carriage dispute, Roku drops all Fox apps from its platform ahead of the Super Bowl; NFL confirms that Roku's free NFL app will still stream the game
Some celebrities are ditching Twitter for Community
Ring caught giving user data to Facebook whether they have an account or not
Apple TV Plus reportedly has more subscribers than Disney Plus
Since rollout of iOS 13, which warns users of apps tracking their location, marketers have collected 68% less background and 24% less foreground location data
What happened to Mint?
This is how Saudi Arabia allegedly hacked Jeff Bezos through WhatsApp
Interview with Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance Jr., on his $10M smartphone forensics lab and balancing public safety while working under Apple and Google's rules
San Diego’s massive, 7-year experiment with facial recognition technology appears to be a flop
Twitter execs including VP of Product Kayvon Beykpour talk about their focus on Lists and Topics, which help new users find tweets relevant to their interests
Self-Driving Mercedes Will Be Programmed To Sacrifice Pedestrians To Save The Driver
Amazon and Apple will be our doctors in the future, says tech guru Peter Diamandis: “Do I think Apple and Google and Amazon can do a better job? A thousandfold.”
Reddit · 3 years ago
The secret history of the Motorola Razr, the first great phone of the millennium
Portland, Oregon proposes a ban of both businesses' and city government's use of facial recognition tech, which would make it the most restrictive ban in the US
Amazon unveils DeepComposer, a keyboard meant for devs that uses AI to compose music based on genre-specific models, a short initial tune, and other parameters
Techmeme · 3 years ago