An anonymous reader quotes a report from Thomson Reuters Foundation News: The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday overwhelmingly passed legislation to make it easier to penalize operators of websites that facilitate online sex trafficking, chipping away at a bedrock legal shield for the technology industry. The bill’s passage marks one of the most concrete […]
Month: February 2018
Facebook is now informing users around the world that it’s rolling out facial recognition features. Users in the European Union and Canada will not be notified because laws restrict this type of activity in those areas. Neowin reports: With the new tools, you’ll be able to find photos that you’re in but haven’t been tagged […]
According to Reuters, the moon will get its first mobile phone network next year, enabling high-definition streaming from the landscape back to earth. “Vodafone Germany, network equipment maker Nokia and carmaker Audi said on Tuesday they were working together to support the mission, 50 years after the first NASA astronauts walked on the moon.” From […]
hyperclocker shares a report from CNBC: Amazon is buying smart doorbell maker Ring, a deal that will allow the company to expand its home security and in-house delivery services. In an email statement to CNBC, Ring’s spokesperson confirmed the deal, saying: “We’ll be able to achieve even more by partnering with an inventive, customer-centric company […]
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: The United States Patent and Trademark Office has granted Apple a patent titled “dual display equipment with enhanced visibility and suppressed reflections.” The documentation for what is patent number 9,904,502 outlines a device that would use a second display as a dynamic keyboard. Two implementations of […]
According to Google’s latest transparency report, the company has received 2.4 million “right to be forgotten” requests since 2014, most of which came from private individuals. Engadget reports: Europe’s biggest court passed the right to be forgotten law in 2014, compelling the tech titan to remove personal info from its search engine upon request. In […]
Congressional Democrats today introduced legislation that would prevent the repeal of net neutrality rules, but they still need more support from Republicans in order to pass the measure. According to Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), they will force a vote on the Senate version of the resolution sometime this spring. Ars Technica reports: Democrats have been […]
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC: During a recent “Ask Me Anything” session on Reddit, the Microsoft co-founder said that the main feature of cryptocurrencies is the anonymity they provide to buyers, and Gates thinks that can actually be harmful. “The government’s ability to find money laundering and tax evasion and terrorist funding […]
The Entertainment Software Rating Board will begin labeling video games that contain in-game purchases, a response to lawmakers who have noticed the outcry over so-called loot crate systems and have signaled a willingness to legislate them. From a report: The labeling will “be applied to games with in-game offers to purchase digital goods or premiums […]
Life as we know it needs three things: energy, water and chemistry. Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus has them all, as NASA spacecraft Cassini confirmed in the final years of its mission to that planet. From a report: Scientists have successfully cultivated a few of these tiny organisms in the lab under the same conditions that […]