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A small U.S. company with ties to the U.S. defense and intelligence communities has embedded its software in numerous mobile apps, allowing it to track the movements of hundreds of millions of mobile phones world-wide, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday, citing people familiar with the matter and documents it reviewed. From the report: Anomaly Six, a Virginia-based company founded by two...
A lot happens on YouTube, and the Google video site has for ages emailed subscribers that opted into alerts about new uploads and livestreams. YouTube is getting rid of these emails next week as very few people opened alerts about new videos from their inbox. From a report: The rationale is “less than 0.1% of these emails are opened,” the company said. Messages about your “account, mandatory...
The pandemic has put video game equipment in unusually high demand. The gaming chair is ascendant.
As Google faces at least four major antitrust investigations on two continents, internal documents obtained by The Markup show its parent company, Alphabet, has been preparing for this moment for years, telling employees across the massive enterprise that certain language is off limits in all written communications, no matter how casual. From a report: The taboo words include “market,”...
The therapy-by-text company made burner phones available for fake reviews and doesn’t adequately respect client privacy, former employees say.
Need proof? ‘Spam Spam Spam Humbug,’ a podcast dedicated to the computer role-playing games, is now in its fifth year.
Iwastheone shares a report: The last fully intact ice shelf in the Canadian Arctic has collapsed, losing more than 40% of its area in just two days at the end of July, researchers said on Thursday. The Milne Ice Shelf is at the fringe of Ellesmere Island, in the sparsely populated northern Canadian territory of Nunavut. “Above normal air temperatures, offshore winds and open water in front of...
Security researcher Troy Hunt: Let me just cut straight to it: I’m going to open source the Have I Been Pwned code base. The decision has been a while coming and it took a failed M&A process to get here, but the code will be turned over to the public for the betterment of the project and frankly, for the betterment of everyone who uses it. Let me explain why and how.
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From the UK government over-promising on testing to scientific spin on a vaccine, realism is in short supply
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They were billed by health secretary Matt Hancock as “lifesaving” and “hugely beneficial”: two new coronavirus tests that claim to deliver results within 90...
Exclusive: no data on accuracy of this and other test bought by government has been published
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One of two 90-minute rapid coronavirus tests bought by the UK government and announced on Monday has not yet been approved by regulators, while no data on the accuracy of either has been...
Facebook has joined Microsoft in condemning Apple’s App Store policies, after the company was forced to remove the games feature from its Facebook Gaming app, which launches today on iOS. From a report: In a statement, Facebook said it has had its Gaming app rejected multiple times by Apple in recent months, but Apple cited its App Store guidelines to justify the rejections, claiming the...
Pick up a Switch recently or looking for an upgrade? Here are some screen protectors, chargers, and other accoutrements for your new best friend.
The latest MyBroadband speed test results reveal the suburbs which enjoyed the highest broadband speeds during the lockdown.
The HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee has published its latest guidelines for the names given to human genes, which includes changes to symbols that automatically converted to dates in Microsoft Excel.
Tencent, one of Asia’s biggest companies, is little known beyond the tech world. But its WeChat super app has more than a billion users worldwide.
South African investigators are seeking to recover more than R400-million from German software giant SAP for two government contracts they allege were entered into unlawfully, court documents show.
Fast food joints are cheap, convenient, and widely available. And if they swapped out beef for alternative proteins, they could transform the food system.
Plus: Absurd takes from the archives, a tribute to small devices, and another setback for Covid testing.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNN: Facebook is extending its work from home policy until July of next year, becoming the latest tech giant to commit to letting staff work remotely in response to the coronavirus pandemic. “Based on guidance from health and government experts, as well as decisions drawn from our internal discussions about these matters, we are allowing employees to...
At the beginning of quarantine, it was a lifeline for folks missing the thing people used to call “going out.”
To achieve unique results in the technology era, you can’t keep thinking about data the same old way. Instead, you need to consider the unique ways you can harness it to provide equally unique solutions to your clients. By FNB’s Mark Nasila.