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A look at preserving video games for research, including the legal challenges mounted by game companies and the technical challenges of playing old games
A California superior court judge rules that the confidentiality agreements Google requires its employees to sign are too broad and break the state's labor laws
As newcomers flood to Puerto Rico seeking to build a crypto paradise, attracted by low taxes, locals are skeptical and house prices across San Juan are rising
A bipartisan group of lawmakers introduces the TLDR Act, which would require sites and apps to make easy-to-digest, nutrition label-like summaries of their TOS
Privacy advocates criticize police in the German city of Mainz for commandeering data from the Luca contact-tracing app for an investigation
Federal judge rules FTC's amended suit alleging Meta has a monopoly can move forward, after a ruling last year threw out FTC's complaint over lack of evidence
Sources: Trump declined offers from Gettr and Parler in favor of his own social media startup, and is frustrated with the slow development of TRUTH Social
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A visit to CES 2022, where only 50,000 to 75,000 attendees are expected, less than half the number of CES 2020 attendees
On the January 6 riot anniversary, data scientists say AI models can help forecast similar events, as some question their accuracy and potential for misuse
Analysis shows Facebook's role in spreading false US election narratives; 650,000+ posts questioned Biden's victory between Election Day and the January 6 siege
Omicron helps fuel hospital staffing shortages – The Washington Post
China harvests masses of data on Western targets, documents show
Betty White has died
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Metaverse products from Meta, Microsoft, and others are just 3D virtual social spaces, and lack key features of the metaverse concept, chiefly interoperability
As the US faces record COVID-19 infections, effective use of exposure notification apps is unlikely given slow adoption and lack of data on their efficacy
Republican legislatures in five states expand unemployment benefits in protest of federal vaccine mandate – The Washington Post
Anger over mask mandates, other covid rules, spurs states to curb power of public health officials – The Washington Post
Riot Games agrees to pay $100M to settle a 2018 class-action gender discrimination lawsuit with current and former women employees and California state agencies
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What should I do if I get a breakthrough covid infection? – The Washington Post
Pregnancy app What to Expect says it invested significantly in content moderation, as vaccine misinformation rises in the community sections of pregnancy apps
Analysis: since 2018, Amazon has opened 153 US facilities in "opportunity zones", created by a 2017 law, to access tax breaks whose impact is hard to measure
Techmeme · 4 weeks ago
OfflineTV VR, a virtual version of an LA pop-up built by a group of Twitch streamers and McDonald's, shows the limits of brand-constructed VR spaces
South Africa’s omicron coronavirus outbreak subsides as fast as it grew
Survey of 1,058 US internet users: 72% distrust Facebook, 63% TikTok, 60% Instagram, 53% WhatsApp, and 53% YouTube; 53% trust Amazon, 48% Google, and 44% Apple
Harvard won’t require SAT or ACT through 2026 as test-optional push grows
The Biden administration is concerned with US investments in Chinese companies developing "dual use" tech that could have civilian and military applications
An in-depth look at the events surrounding the deadly tornado that hit an Amazon warehouse in Illinois, leaving six dead, as workers sheltered in restrooms
Techmeme · 1 month ago
Internal Huawei marketing slides show a broader role in surveilling China's population than it has admitted to, including using voice ID and tracking shoppers
Omicron variant more resistant to vaccine but causes less severe Covid
Sources: Kayvon Beykpour and other execs ignored warnings that Twitter lacked the ability to moderate Spaces and launched the product amid investor pressure
In a letter, Sen. Warren asks the US DOJ and SEC to investigate whether Meta executives knew the company inflated a key metric measuring an ad's potential reach
Profile of Twitch streamer Tyler Steinkamp, including the loneliness and rage that comes with streaming game battles and real-world moments for 50 hours a week
Twitter says it mistakenly suspended a dozen accounts after "coordinated and malicious reports" targeted researchers and journalists, launches a policy review
Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal announces a major reorganization in a staff email; head of engineering Michael Montano and design lead Dantley Davis will step down
An anti-fascist researcher says her Twitter account was suspended after someone reported a 2019 tweet of hers following Twitter's new "private media policy"
The CFPB's rule that lets debt collectors send texts, emails, and private social media messages to debtors, and requires opt-out instructions, goes into effect
Techmeme · 2 months ago