Interviews with 20+ current and former TSMC staff at its Arizona plant finds struggles over bridging Taiwanese and US norms, rigid hierarchies, and other issues
the company's new chip plant allegedly plagued by worker abuses Charlesarthur / The Overspill : Start Up No.2207: TSMC's Arizona culture clash, Apple preps new iPads, Vision Pro forecasts cut, AI pois...
Meta plans to stop requiring Facebook IDs to log into Quest devices starting in August 2022 and will roll out “Meta accounts” for new and existing Quest users
and that's a win-win for Zuck Lucas Matney / TechCrunch : Meta is dumping Facebook logins as its metaverse ID system Nick Statt / Protocol : Why Meta is killing Facebook logins for VR Tech Advisor : B...
Twitter says it is testing edge-to-edge pictures and videos in tweets on iOS to better support visual and text-based conversations
Ian Carlos Campbell / The Verge : Tweets: @twittersupport , @boo , @simoncurtis , @larakate , and @megalo224 Tweets: @twittersupport : Now testing on iOS: Edge to edge Tweets that span the width of t...
Laws that ban facial recognition miss the larger point: we need laws on all tech used for identification and to decide how much of our data should be surveilled
and the ways that data is combined to create searchable profiles of us without any consent on our part. https://www.nytimes.com/... Dahlia Peterson / @dahlialpeterson : “A ban on facial recognition wo...
LaCie Debuts Fuel, a Take-Anywhere Wireless Drive for Mobiles
Mac or Windows, Red Sox or Yankees, Bruce or Prince — no matter what our allegiances, we all have one thing in common. We are all data-storage junkies. We hoard 32GB USB sticks and we drool over Thu...
Bruce, Britney, Beyoncé Staying on YouTube: Sony Music Re-Signs
YouTube and Sony Music Entertainment have signed a deal that will keep the music label's videos and music on the site. The contract accomplishes what YouTube and Warner Music Group have been unable t...
On Beyond Java — the Web
the Web — Bruce Tate's Beyond Java is really Web-centric; he argues forcefully that lightweight Web apps are one of the forces driving people towards things like Ruby on Rails and Seaside, as opposed...