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Fitbit unveils the Charge 4 fitness tracker, its first new product under Google, with built-in GPS, NFC payments, and Spotify compatibility, starting at $150
ISPs Need to Just Kill Data Caps Already
The Never-Ending Death of Smart Home Gadgets – How a Samsung TV died in a few months
Google, Facebook Contractors Still Expected On Site Amid Outbreak While Full-Time Staff Works Remote
At Least 20 VPN and Ad-Blocking Apps With 35 Million Downloads Actually Monitored Users’ Phones
Amazon tells its employees in the Bay Area, New York, New Jersey, Seattle/Bellevue, and the Lombardy region/Asti province of Italy to work from home until April
Techmeme · 1 month ago
DuckDuckGo Made a Giant List of Jerks Tracking You Online
Data Breach at Controversial Face Recognition Firm Shows Company Can’t Be Trusted, Officials Say
US DOD has adopted a series of ethical principles for the use of AI, says recommendations came after 15 months of consultation with "leading AI experts"
Google Tells New Huawei Device Users Not to Sideload Its Apps
The Computer Scientist Responsible For Cut, Copy, and Paste, Has Passed Away
Twitter ran ads for human organs because money is money.
Apple Proves It’s One of Right-to-Repair’s Most Powerful Villains
'Anonymized' Data Is Meaningless Bullshit
Neural Networks Upscale Film from 1896 to 4K, Make It Look Like It Was Shot on a Modern Smartphone
Lindsey Graham Is Quietly Preparing a Mess of a Bill Trying to Destroy End-to-End Encryption
FCC Says ‘One or More’ Phone Carriers Illegally Shared Location Data, Fueling Black Market Sales
Facebook's Off-Facebook Activity tool won't actually clear the data collected about you from other apps and sites, only its connection to your Facebook account
Amazon’s Mechanical Turk: Horror Stories From the Inside
Reddit · 2 months ago
Campaign to Ban Face Recognition at U.S. Colleges Gathers Steam
Google is going to charge cops for your data
Amazon Engineer Leaked Private Encryption Keys. Outside Analysts Discovered Them in Minutes
Reddit · 3 months ago
Huawei Will Get Mapping Tech from TomTom Because the U.S. Banned It from Using Google Maps
Wells Fargo, America’s Worst Bank, Decides It’s Time to Fix Its Busted Tech
Walmart wants to build 20,000-square-foot automated warehouses with fleets of robot grocery pickers.
How Google, Microsoft, and Big Tech Are Automating the Climate Crisis
SpaceX’s first private billionaire passenger launches TV show in search for girlfriend to take on trip around the moon.
Microsoft Outsourced Skype, Cortana Voice Analysis to China With Virtually No Security in Place: Report
FBI Surveillance Vendor Threatens to Sue Tech Reporters for Crime of Journalism
Spectrum Kills Home Security Business, Refuses Refunds for Owners of Now-Worthless Equipment
Facebook updates its hate speech policy to ban statements denying the existence of marginalized groups and an additional eight specific dehumanizing comparisons
Senators Still Skeptical .ORG Sale to Private Equity Firm Won’t Harm Nonprofits
Segway Makes a Self-Balancing Stroller for Adults
Microsoft Seizes ‘Hotrnall.com’ and Other Copycat Domains From North Korea-Linked Hackers
Anti-Robocall Bill That, in a Perfect World, Fines Spammers $10,000 Per Call Is Now Law
Biden to Coal Miners: Learn to Code
Facebook Is Finally Removing Some—But Not All—Misleading Preventive HIV Drug Ads
Lawmakers Warn Against Private Equity Firm's .Org Takeover
Ring’s Security Woes Cause Some Tech Review Sites to Rethink Glowing Endorsements
Twitter Warns Millions of Android App Users to Update Immediately
Feds Break Up Illegal Streaming Network That Dwarfs Netflix and Hulu Libraries
Google’s Covered A Whopping 10 Million Miles in Street View Imagery
Airbnb Bans Over 60 White Supremacists After Iron March Forum Database Leak
Ring User Blocks $400K Bitcoin Extortion Attempt by Taking Out the Batteries
The FAA Knew – “The Federal Aviation Administration was well aware of the fatal hazards with the Boeing 737 MAX before the March 2019 Ethiopian Airlines crash and allowed the planes to continue carrying passengers, a report shows”
Oculus Will Now Require Facebook Login to Use Social Features and Collect User Data for Ad Targeting
Report: Advertising scammer bribed a Facebook employee to keep its posts up.
Ring’s Hidden Data Let Us Map Amazon’s Sprawling Home Surveillance Network
Reddit · 4 months ago