Microsoft confirms that the Windows Control Panel, which debuted in 1985 with Windows 1.0, is “in the process of being deprecated in favor of the Settings app”
this app is replacing it Threads: Chris Yiu / @clry2 : Farewell to Control Panel, the Logan of the Windows universe Bluesky: @lakewitchhouse.bsky.social : the past is another count...
Microsoft confirms that the Windows Control Panel, which debuted in 1985 with Windows 1.0, is “in the process of being deprecated in favor of the Settings app”
While Microsoft keeps testing and adding new features to Windows, it also keeps shedding stuff the company feels is no longer necessary.
In an Australian Senate hearing, a Google executive said that a law forcing Google to pay news outlets for links could prompt it to stop offering Search
which one senator called blackmail — revealed apparent willingness of Facebook and Google to hide or erase reliable sources of info for millions at a time when social media platfor...
Uber wins legal fight to regain London license as a judge overturned a ban by the city's transport regulator TfL
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Uber wins legal fight to regain London license as a judge overturned a ban by the city's transport regulator TfL
- Transport for London stripped Uber of its license for a second time last year, citing a “pattern of failures” that had put passengers at risk.
Paris selects Lime, Tier, and Dott as its electric scooter operators, snubbing Bird, which had planned to build a Paris hub and hire 1,000 people over two years
but also a disappointment for @BlaBlaCar, which partnered with Voi in May in a clear hope that the company will be able operate in the French capital. https://techcrunch.com/... Ch...
UK's NHS says it's making a contact tracing app that uses a centralized approach, giving it more insight into COVID-19's spread than Apple and Google's tools
The UK's coronavirus contact-tracing app is set to use a different model to the one proposed by Apple and Google, despite concerns raised about privacy and performance.
Apple suspends Siri response grading, where contractors reviewed Siri queries without explicit user consent, promises update where users can choose to take part
Apple retains the right to basically keep recordings forever, and today's rushed-out announcement is only about humans grading recordings — not *not saving recordings of you in the...
Amazon says it will let users opt out of human review of the voice recordings picked up by Alexa, following similar moves by Apple and Google
- Alexa reviewers transcribe, annotate some voice recordings — Apple, Google suspended human voice review programs this week
Apple is suspending Siri response grading, the program in which humans review recordings of Siri queries for quality control, in response to privacy concerns
In response to concerns raised by a Guardian story last week over how recordings of Siri queries are used for quality control, Apple is suspending the program world wide.