Visa and Mastercard suspend operations in Russia, a few hours after Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelenskyy asked them to do so in a video call with US lawmakers
Apologies for last week - just trying to figure out what's doable given … Stan Choe / Associated Press : Mastercard, Visa suspend operations in Russia after invasion Edward Moyer / CNET : PayPal, Mast...
After researchers raised data privacy concerns, Clubhouse says it is taking steps “to prevent Clubhouse clients from ever transmitting pings to Chinese servers”
what it is and how to get an invite Charlesarthur / The Overspill : Start Up No.1485: what “accept cookies” really means, why surfaces don't spread Covid, a Facebook smartwatch?, and more Jitendra Son...
Ecuador's state-run Twitter troll army, perfected by former president Rafael Correa, has become less organized but more sophisticated since his departure
by Danielle Mackey, from Quito Megatobin / @megatobin1 : “The anti-CONAIE campaign was laden with an old racism. But the methods by which it was carried out were new,” — Danielle Mackey on how hiring ...
How Bird is trying to make its unit economics work, experimenting with its business model, developing own scooters better suited for sharing, and more
Zuckerberg Needs a Slap, Google I/O vs. Microsoft Build, Bird Rides the Strugglebus socalTECH.com : Report: Bird Facing Major Issues With Keeping Scooters Alive Tweets: Mike Dudas / @mdudas : This is ...
As China exports its surveillance tech to the world, a look at its use in Ecuador, where 4,300 cameras feed video to 16 monitoring stations employing ~3K people
In Ecuador, cameras across the country send footage to monitoring centers to be examined by police and domestic intelligence. Tweets: @melissakchan , @melissakchan , @melissakchan , @melissakchan , @m...
Sources: Chinese spies inserted tiny chips onto products from US-based motherboard giant Supermicro to infiltrate ~30 US companies including Amazon and Apple
There's recent news about some really interesting hardware implants. Nicholas Weaver / Lawfare : The China SuperMicro Hack: About That Bloomberg Report Andrew Marino / The Verge : Vergecast: Chinese s...
Toyota to make strategic investment in Uber and team up on auto leasing program
And Automakers Want In Jose Vilches / TechSpot : Toyota to invest undisclosed sum in Uber, collaborate on auto leasing program Dan Thorp-Lancaster / Windows Central : Toyota joins forces with Uber as ...