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Amazon tried to use its power to coerce Ecobee into using its smart home products to collect user data by threatening Ecobee’s ability to sell its products on Amazon, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. The Verge reports: As of now, Ecobee’s products can still be purchased on Amazon, but the WSJ claims that negotiations between Ecobee and Amazon are ongoing. According to the...
A new set of tax law amendments makes it possible for SARS to impose criminal sanctions on taxpayers who neglect their tax affairs.
As media awareness grows and the market realises the potential of satellite services, it is becoming increasingly important to discuss architecture specifics in order to guide application design and network implementation considerations.
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Regulators in Massachusetts are seeking to revoke Robinhood’s broker-dealer license in the state, after accusing the company of failing to properly account for fractional shares traded by customers on its platform. They also say the company “continues to entice and induce inexperienced customers into risky trading.” CNN reports: The battle began in December when regulators in Massachusetts...
Afrihost has slashed the price of its Pure DSL packages with uncapped, unshaped broadband prices now starting at R297 per month.
Turkey’s central bank has banned the use of cryptocurrencies and crypto assets to purchase goods and services, citing “irreparable” possible damages and significant risks in such transactions.
David Cameron’s work for Greensill Capital, which has dragged the British government into a lobbying scandal, has showcased the trend of politicians taking jobs at companies tapping the global tech investment boom.
Ferrari NV is coming around to the idea of adding a fully electric supercar to the fold.
The South African ecommerce market is booming with some of its biggest retailers competing to dominate the online platform.
Billionaire Jared Isaacman is chartering a SpaceX rocket to take him and three others into orbit
This week was the 60th anniversary of the first human spaceflight. On 12 April 1961, Yuri Gagarin blasted off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The flight lasted 108 minutes and reached a maximum altitude of 327km (203 miles).
Following the re-entry of his space capsule, Gagarin parachuted...
The Covid-19 pandemic and its ensuing lockdowns resulted in a world-wide e-Commerce reset and pulled forward a huge amount of future e-Commerce adoption.
All South Africans who want to receive a Covid-19 vaccine should register using the electronic vaccination data system (EVDS).
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Charter Communications employees who have been on strike since 2017 are building an Internet service provider in New York City called “People’s Choice.” “People’s Choice Communications is an employee-owned social enterprise launched by members of IBEW Local #3 to bridge the digital divide and help our neighbors get connected to the Internet...
California and its partners are set to launch by 2023 two satellites to spot and monitor plumes of planet-warming carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane. “If all goes right, dozens more could follow,” reports Science Magazine. From the report: The $100 million Carbon Mapper project, announced today and financed by private philanthropists including Michael Bloomberg, will advance efforts to track...
What if the key to improving speech recognition accuracy is simply mixing all available speech datasets together to train one large AI model? That’s the hypothesis behind a recent study published by a team of researchers affiliated with Google Research and Google Brain. They claim an AI model named SpeechStew that was trained on a range of speech corpora achieves state-of-the-art or...
In his final letter to shareholders as Amazon CEO, Jeff Bezos said that the company has to “do a better job for our employees.” But, as The Verge points out, the outlined strategy includes “a robotic scheme that will develop new staffing schedules using an algorithm.” From the report: Bezos pushed back on the idea that, according to news reports, Amazon doesn’t care for its employees. “In those...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Facebook’s lead data supervisor in the European Union has opened an investigation into whether the tech giant violated data protection rules vis-a-vis the leak of data reported earlier this month. Here’s the Irish Data Protection Commission’s statement: “The Data Protection Commission (DPC) today launched an own-volition inquiry pursuant to...
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today announced it has enhanced its groundbreaking HTTPS Everywhere browser extension by incorporating rulesets from DuckDuckGo Smarter Encryption. According to the digital rights group’s press release, HTTPS Everywhere is “a collaboration with The Tor Project and a key component of EFF’s effort to encrypt the web and make the Internet ecosystem safe for...
Smaller and more powerful lenses promise to bring even better smartphone cameras.