Elon Musk and SpaceX launch Starlink satellite broadband amid pandemic
Reddit · 3 days ago
Trending Stories from vox.com
Reddit · 3 days ago
While livestreaming video e-commerce has taken off in China, it has yet to go mainstream in the US, but Walmart hopes it can lead the way with its bet on TikTok
Techmeme · 1 week ago
We have to accelerate clean energy innovation to curb the climate crisis. Here’s how.
Getting broadband internet to everyone in the US is a political and policy issue, which will need a multi-layered effort at the local, state, and federal level
Give everybody the internet – We need to get the internet to everyone in America. Here’s what it would take to do it.
Lower-income students are paying the price for the global laptop shortage
Apple wants to stop advertisers from following you around the web. Facebook has other ideas.
A look at Remark Holdings, supplying 100+ Chinese schools, and a Las Vegas school, with AI-powered thermal imaging tech to monitor COVID-19 safety compliance
Air pollution is worse than we thought
Instagram has been taken over by "social justice slideshows" that use the 10-image carousel format to inform and educate about myriad issues
Techmeme · 2 months ago
Biden's VP pick Kamala Harris, who has close ties with tech execs and has dodged questions about breaking up Big Tech, is likely to generate excitement in SV
Bill Gates Is Spending $150 Million To Try To Make A Coronavirus Vaccine As Cheap As $3
Facebook took down a Trump post for the first time
TikTok says it will reveal its algorithm and wants Facebook to do the same
Reddit · 2 months ago
Big Tech's antitrust hearing is largely theater, producing soundbites with little bearing on rule-changing and law-making, but it's still a valuable spectacle
Techmeme · 2 months ago
Facebook’s sad summer continues with a $650 million settlement
A brief history of video chat, how it has evolved, and how the pandemic has forced big tech to develop new ways to make it feel more like real-life interactions
The entire world’s carbon emissions will finally be trackable in real time
Many technologies needed to solve the climate crisis are nowhere near ready
Welcome to Chechnya: HBO documentary shows how deepfakes could do some good
Vox and Recode announce Open Sourced: The hidden consequences of tech
Facebook audit shows holding Trump to a different standard than other users sets a troubling precedent, valuing free speech above all else impedes civil rights
Civil rights leaders are still fed up with Facebook over hate speech
Sources: Walmart+, a $98/year Amazon Prime rival, will launch in July, with same-day delivery, discounts at Walmart gas stations, reserved delivery slots, more
Techmeme · 3 months ago
Even if government use of facial recognition tech is regulated more strictly, issues will remain due to the ubiquity of the same tech in consumer devices
Facebook’s war against one of the internet’s worst conspiracy sites – Facebook has banned this conspiracy site twice. But its content can still sneak back on.
Interviews and documents shed light on Amazon's warehouse policies, exposing inconsistent health and safety protocols and tactics used to quell rising tensions
Techmeme · 3 months ago
Working for Mark Zuckerberg’s philanthropy isn’t always easy since it means working for Mark Zuckerberg
eBay's former CEO, Devin Wenig, denies cyberstalking of blogger, says he had "no knowledge, no private understanding, no tacit approval" of harassment campaign
The Trump administration’s flawed plan to destroy the internet as we know it
Netflix’s billionaire founder is secretly building a luxury retreat for teachers in rural Colorado; Park County hasn’t been able to figure out who is behind the 2,100 acres. We can reveal it’s Reed Hastings.
How protesters are turning the tables on police surveillance
Reddit · 4 months ago
Jeff Bezos will finally be grilled by Congress
Reddit · 4 months ago
Dorsey's plan to give $1B shows philanthropy is not as hard as billionaires say; charities with links to Silicon Valley or celebrities have an edge
The coronavirus quarantine has changed us — and it’s not all bad – Vox
Why it matters that IBM is getting out of the facial recognition business
Ta-Nehisi Coates on George Floyd, police protests, and hope – Vox
The police want your phone data. Here’s what they can get — and what they can’t.
Apptopia: since May 25's protests, Americans have downloaded secure chat app Signal 234K times and community safety app Citizen, which hit #4 on iOS, 121K times
Techmeme · 4 months ago
Transcript of Mark Zuckerberg's Tuesday meeting with Facebook employees, including his thoughts on Trump's recent posts, democracy, speech, and racial justice
Trump plainly prefers fighting his countrymen to fighting the coronavirus – Vox
Executives at big tech companies have publicly stayed silent on Trump's social media executive order, with many executives thinking it's really aimed at Twitter
Feds flew an unarmed Predator drone over Minneapolis protests to provide “situational awareness”. The US has a long history of surveilling protesters, but the technology used to do so has grown more powerful.
Twitter now lets you disable replies. It could be its best change yet.
Overview of major efforts by Reid Hoffman, Eric Schmidt, Dustin Moskovitz, and Laurene Powell Jobs to boost Joe Biden's chances in the upcoming election
Tech companies, which initially saw pandemic misinformation as relatively clear-cut, are grappling with the polarization and politicization of COVID-19 content
CDC coronavirus risk guidance: Why surfaces are less of a risk than close contact – Vox
Why Attorney General Bill Barr is mad at Apple: The FBI didn’t need Apple’s help to crack a suspected terrorist’s iPhone, but it’s demanding it anyway.
Amazon warehouse workers get more coronavirus pay until June
Reddit · 5 months ago