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Apple Tightens Its Rules Around Its New Anti-Tracking Tech

Apple Tightens Its Rules Around Its New Anti-Tracking Tech

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Apple Tightens Its Rules Around Its New Anti-Tracking Tech Apple’s offering a bit more clarity surrounding the anti-tracking tech that’s going to debut this spring. On Wednesday, a company spokesperson confirmed to TechCrunch that Apple’s so-called App Tracking Transparency (ATT) protocol will crack down on all identifiers an app might use to track you—not just identifiers…Read more... Go to Source
Experimental 3D Printer Offers a Clever Way to Eliminate Waste

Experimental 3D Printer Offers a Clever Way to Eliminate Waste

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Experimental 3D Printer Offers a Clever Way to Eliminate Waste One of the unique challenges of 3D printing is that models that feature structures hanging in mid-air, like the spout of a teapot, also need temporary structures to support the soft extruded plastic until it hardens. This can result in a lot of wasted material, because those supports are just discarded afterwards. A …Read more... Go to Source
How to Ensure Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Is Accessible to Everyone

How to Ensure Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Is Accessible to Everyone

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How to Ensure Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Is Accessible to Everyone As the Biden administration puts the federal government’s muscle behind widespread electrification, one fact has becoming increasingly clear: The electric vehicle revolution is coming. But states have a lot of catching up to do if they want to make sure everyone is included, a new report shows.Read more... Go to Source
UK Launches New Watchdog to Police Big Tech’s Ad Market Monopoly

UK Launches New Watchdog to Police Big Tech’s Ad Market Monopoly

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UK Launches New Watchdog to Police Big Tech's Ad Market Monopoly The UK government launched a new watchdog agency on Wednesday that will be tasked with keeping an eye on Big Tech companies like Google and Facebook, according to an announcement published online. The stated goal of the new watchdog is to police the “concentration of power among a small number of firms” in the world…Read more... Go to Source
Jeff Bezos Supports Corporate Tax Hike But Conspicuously Fails to Endorse $2 Trillion Infrastructure Bill

Jeff Bezos Supports Corporate Tax Hike But Conspicuously Fails to Endorse $2 Trillion Infrastructure Bill

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Jeff Bezos Supports Corporate Tax Hike But Conspicuously Fails to Endorse $2 Trillion Infrastructure Bill Jeff Bezos, the founder and CEO of Amazon, released a statement late Tuesday saying that he generally supports President Joe Biden’s desire to invest in infrastructure, along with a rise in the corporate tax rate. But some of the things Bezos doesn’t support in the statement are conspicuous in their absence.Read more... Go to Source
A New Phishing Campaign Sends Malware-Laced Job Offers Through LinkedIn

A New Phishing Campaign Sends Malware-Laced Job Offers Through LinkedIn

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A New Phishing Campaign Sends Malware-Laced Job Offers Through LinkedIn With unemployment at formidable levels and the economy doing weird, covid-related reversals, I think we can all agree that the job hunt is a pretty hard slog right now. Amidst all that, you know what workers really don’t need? A LinkedIn inbox full of malware. Yeah, they don’t need that at all. Read more... Go to Source
Report: Clearview AI’s Facial Recognition Has Been Used by Over 1,800 Public Agencies

Report: Clearview AI’s Facial Recognition Has Been Used by Over 1,800 Public Agencies

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Report: Clearview AI's Facial Recognition Has Been Used by Over 1,800 Public Agencies A new series of reports from BuzzFeed News shows the wide net cast by shadowy surveillance firm Clearview AI. Individuals at 1,803 public agencies—many of which are police departments—have used its facial recognition software at some point over recent years, according to data reviewed by the news outlet. Read more... Go to Source
Stop Shaming Vaccinated People for Socializing

Stop Shaming Vaccinated People for Socializing

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Stop Shaming Vaccinated People for Socializing As the U.S. speeds ever closer toward mass vaccination against covid-19, a curious trend has started to emerge on social media and elsewhere: well-intentioned people downplaying the benefits of vaccination, often by arguing that vaccinated people still pose a major transmission risk and that they shouldn’t do things…Read more... Go to Source
There’s Absolutely Nothing Wrong With Saving the World

There’s Absolutely Nothing Wrong With Saving the World

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There's Absolutely Nothing Wrong With Saving the World There’s one phrase I’ve been using a lot, as I’ve been promoting my young adult space-opera Victories Greater Than Death: “Save all the worlds.” Because I love the idea of a group of kids who are mostly LGBTQIA+ and come from cultures all over the world get to be the ones to help “save all the worlds.” And I love …Read more... Go to Source
What’s the Best Office Chair Under $300?

What’s the Best Office Chair Under $300?

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What's the Best Office Chair Under $300? So, the vaccines are finally getting into arms. This spring, many Americans will actually be able to get their doses just in time for summer. However, don’t expect things to return to normal just yet. It’s going to take a long time for everyone to get vaccinated, so there’s no guarantee we’ll be back at 100% even by…Read more... Go to Source
Japan’s Central Bank Launches One-Year Test of Digital Currency

Japan’s Central Bank Launches One-Year Test of Digital Currency

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Japan's Central Bank Launches One-Year Test of Digital Currency Japan’s central bank has started trials of a new digital currency in an effort to experiment with how it might be used, the Bank of Japan announced on Monday. The announcement comes after the Chinese government revealed it was doing something very similar with a digital yuan in early March.Read more... Go to Source

Marvel Secrets in the New Loki Trailer: The Avengers, Time-Keepers, and More

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Marvel Secrets in the New Loki Trailer: The Avengers, Time-Keepers, and More We might currently be in the midst of one Marvel television project in Disney+’s The Falcon and The Winter Soldier, but the House of Ideas wanted to remind us all of what’s on the horizon today. Our latest look at Loki, the mind-bending spinoff that throws the god of tricks into a temporal mess of his own making,…Read more... Go to Source
Amazon Fixed the Echo Show 10’s Biggest Feature Failure

Amazon Fixed the Echo Show 10’s Biggest Feature Failure

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Amazon Fixed the Echo Show 10's Biggest Feature Failure Amazon’s Echo Show 10 is a neat gadget for its ability to move with you while you stream videos and make calls to friends and family. But for a smart display whose entire reason for being its support for these uses, the Echo Show lacked one major app used universally during the pandemic: Zoom.Read more... Go to Source

‘Deep Nostalgia’ Can Now Make Old Photos of Your Relatives Dance and Blow Kisses

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‘Deep Nostalgia’ Can Now Make Old Photos of Your Relatives Dance and Blow Kisses According to MyHeritage, since the launch of its Deep Nostalgia tool five weeks ago, over 72 million photo animations have been created through its site—and that was with just 10 different options available. Today, the company is doubling the number of unique movements that can be applied to still photos in Deep…Read more... Go to Source