Author: Tech Support

    • Instagram appears to more often flag photos of plus-size bodies, as experts believe its content moderation AI equates more skin with excessive nudity (Lauren Strapagiel/BuzzFeed News)

    Lauren Strapagiel / BuzzFeed News: Instagram appears to more often flag photos of plus-size bodies, as experts believe its content moderation AI equates more skin with excessive nudity  —  In 2018, influencer Katana Fatale was in Hawaii in an outdoor shower, and the light was just right.  —  She set her phone on a chair,

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    • A look at webcam supply chain issues as ecommerce tracking firm CommerceIQ finds 78% of views on webcam product pages showed out of stock in the week of May 9 (Rachel Lerman/Washington Post)

    Rachel Lerman / Washington Post: A look at webcam supply chain issues as ecommerce tracking firm CommerceIQ finds 78% of views on webcam product pages showed out of stock in the week of May 9  —  Webcams are back-ordered and sold out across the Internet as we struggle to look our best on camera while

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    • Startup Genome study finds global VC funding fell 20% since the onset of COVID-19 in December 2019 (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)

    Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: Startup Genome study finds global VC funding fell 20% since the onset of COVID-19 in December 2019  —  Global venture capital funding has dropped by 20% since the onset of the coronavirus crisis in December 2019, according to a new report by Startup Genome.  —  The drop was even more pronounced

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    • Jailbreaking team Unc0ver has released a tool that will jailbreak most versions of iOS from 11 to 13.5; the tool makes use of a 0-day flaw in the iOS kernel (Lily Hay Newman/Wired)

    Lily Hay Newman / Wired: Jailbreaking team Unc0ver has released a tool that will jailbreak most versions of iOS from 11 to 13.5; the tool makes use of a 0-day flaw in the iOS kernel  —  The Unc0ver tool works on all versions of iOS from 11 to 13.5, the current release.  —  Over the

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    • New York City-based Spruce, whose tech helps buyers, sellers, and lenders digitize paperwork for completing real estate transactions, raises $29M Series B (Danny Crichton/TechCrunch)

    Danny Crichton / TechCrunch: New York City-based Spruce, whose tech helps buyers, sellers, and lenders digitize paperwork for completing real estate transactions, raises $29M Series B  —  Real estate is one of those classic industries we always talk about in Silicon Valley: multi-trillion dollars in scale in terms … New York City-based Spruce, whose tech

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    • Run The World, which helps clients organize and host virtual conferences and events, raises $10.8M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz and Founders Fund (Paul Sawers/VentureBeat)

    Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: Run The World, which helps clients organize and host virtual conferences and events, raises $10.8M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz and Founders Fund  —  Some businesses have boomed, and others have gone bust due to the COVID-19 crisis — without question, live events is one sector that has been hit

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    • JioMart rolls out its online grocery delivery service, including directly sourced farm produce, in dozens of cities in India, after a month of testing in Mumbai (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

    Manish Singh / TechCrunch: JioMart rolls out its online grocery delivery service, including directly sourced farm produce, in dozens of cities in India, after a month of testing in Mumbai  —  The rationale behind the deluge of dollars flooding into billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Jio Platforms is beginning to become … JioMart rolls out its

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    Resistors Sorter Measures Values

    We’ve all been there. A big bag of resistors all mixed up. Maybe you bought them cheap. Maybe your neatly organized drawers spilled. Of course, you can excruciatingly read the color codes one by one. Or use a meter. But either way, it is a tedious job. [Ishann’s] solution was to build an automatic sorter

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    • An internal build of Google Messages 6.2 shows end-to-end encryption could be coming soon to RCS messages (Kyle Bradshaw/9to5Google)

    Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google: An internal build of Google Messages 6.2 shows end-to-end encryption could be coming soon to RCS messages  —  Today, the folks at APKMirror got ahold of an internal “dogfood” build of Google Messages version 6.2.  Here, “dogfood” is used in the sense of the phrase “eat your own dog food,” …

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