A look inside a community of hackers who tinker with Kindle e-readers to disable Amazon's tracking, circumvent file format restrictions, install games, and more
Melanie Ehrenkranz / OneZero : Tweets: @dlberes , @medium , and @mvzelenks Tweets: Damon Beres / @dlberes : For years, a community of Kindle hackers has taken a little bit of power away from Amazon a...
UK data science company DataSparQ has developed “AI Bar”, an AI-powered facial recognition system to help bartenders check IDs, fill orders faster and fairer
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Sources: after complaints about privacy practices around children's videos on YouTube, FTC is in late stages of a probe, causing YouTube to rethink its strategy
Data Sheet Geoff Weiss / Tubefilter : YouTube Reportedly In Late Stages Of Federal Investigation For Violating Children's Privacy Laws Haydn Taylor / GamesIndustry.biz : YouTube reportedly under inves...
Blind, an anonymous chat app used by tech workers to share workplace grievances, says Tesla is blocking employees from accessing or being verified for the app
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Apple announces Voice Control, a new assistive technology feature that Apple says will let users control macOS, iOS, and iPadOS entirely through voice commands
Melanie Ehrenkranz / Gizmodo : Tweets: @ohmdee Tweets: @ohmdee : But seriously, this is cool and an amazing leap forward for accessibility. I'm just concerned about the flexibility of commands - e.g....
Uber and Lyft drivers staged strikes in at least 10 US cities to protest against unfair pay ahead of Uber's much-anticipated IPO
it's about stealing the narrative Kari Paul / The Guardian : Crossing the digital picket line? Uber and Lyft offer discounts as drivers strike Shirin Ghaffary / Vox : Driver strikes didn't break Uber ...
Google says it will make arbitration optional for individual sexual harassment claims, provide more info about investigations, expand training, and more
Amazon Wants to Get America Scanning for the Holidays James Farrell / SiliconANGLE : After global walkout, Google rewrites policy on sexual misconduct cases Brian Heater / TechCrunch : Google CEO high...
Google workers from Singapore, Japan, Israel, the UK, Ireland, India, and the US staged a walkout to protest the company's handling of sexual harassment
and there are plenty more on the way pic.twitter.com/F5HBsN1RTk Jack Morse / @jmorse_ : SF Google office walkout has begun pic.twitter.com/iXF07JQvMI Jacobo Tarrío / @jacobotarrio : Nice turnout at NY...
Trustwave releases Social Mapper, an open source tool using facial recognition to find people's social profiles at scale, says it will help ethical hackers
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After passenger's murder, Didi no longer shows profile pictures or lets users rate and tag each others' appearances, removing tags like “long legs”, “beauties”
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