Author: Tech Support

    • 200+ companies, including Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft, have called on SCOTUS to allow existing sex discrimination laws to cover LGBTQ workers (Ina Fried/Axios)

    Ina Fried / Axios: 200+ companies, including Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft, have called on SCOTUS to allow existing sex discrimination laws to cover LGBTQ workers  —  More than 200 large businesses, including most of the big technology companies, are calling on the Supreme Court to find … 200+ companies, including Amazon, Apple, Facebook,

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    Emulating A 6502 In ROM

    The Gigatron TTL microcomputer is an exercise in alternative history. What if, by some bizarre anomaly of invention and technology, the 1970s was not the age of the microprocessor? What if we could have had fast, high density ROM and RAM in the late ’70s, but the ability to put a microprocessor in silicon was

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    • Myanmar's government forces an internet blackout on parts of the country "for the benefit of the people", raising fears that atrocities will now go unreported (Hannah Beech/New York Times)

    Hannah Beech / New York Times: Myanmar’s government forces an internet blackout on parts of the country “for the benefit of the people”, raising fears that atrocities will now go unreported  —  RATHEDAUNG, Myanmar — The security forces, with their geriatric rifles, formed a wary patrol, scanning the forested hills … Myanmar's government forces an

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    • Grubhub denies allegations that it created websites for restaurant partners without their permission, says the service was included in their contracts (James B. Cutchin/Los Angeles Times)

    James B. Cutchin / Los Angeles Times: Grubhub denies allegations that it created websites for restaurant partners without their permission, says the service was included in their contracts  —  It looked like the perfect David and Goliath story.  A tech giant was secretly buying up large swaths of the internet … Grubhub denies allegations that

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    • In a letter to Senator Chris Coons, Amazon says it keeps Alexa transcripts and voice recordings indefinitely, only removing them if manually deleted by users (Alfred Ng/CNET)

    Alfred Ng / CNET: In a letter to Senator Chris Coons, Amazon says it keeps Alexa transcripts and voice recordings indefinitely, only removing them if manually deleted by users  —  If you have hangups about Amazon and privacy on its smart assistant, Alexa, you’re not alone.  Even after Amazon sent answers … In a letter

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    • Facebook open sources DLRM, a deep learning recommendation model that can be used for benchmarking the speed and accuracy performance of recommendation engines (Khari Johnson/VentureBeat)

    Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: Facebook open sources DLRM, a deep learning recommendation model that can be used for benchmarking the speed and accuracy performance of recommendation engines  —  Facebook today announced the open source release of Deep Learning Recommendation Model (DLRM), a state-of-the-art AI model … Facebook open sources DLRM, a deep learning recommendation model

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    • Sources: PE firm KKR acquires Canadian software company Corel, which bought virtualization software company Parallels in Dec., in a deal reportedly worth $1B+ (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

    Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Sources: PE firm KKR acquires Canadian software company Corel, which bought virtualization software company Parallels in Dec., in a deal reportedly worth $1B+  —  Only six months after snapping up virtualization specialist Parallels, Canadian software company Corel is itself getting acquired. Sources: PE firm KKR acquires Canadian software company Corel, which

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    • Microsoft rolls out a Your Phone update in Windows 10 allowing users to receive and manage Android notifications on a PC; complete rollout expected by July 9 (Mehedi Hassan/Thurrott)

    Mehedi Hassan / Thurrott: Microsoft rolls out a Your Phone update in Windows 10 allowing users to receive and manage Android notifications on a PC; complete rollout expected by July 9  —  Microsoft is rolling out a new update to the Your Phone experience in Windows 10.  The company is enabling a major new feature

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    • MobiTV, which lets pay-TV companies provide streaming video services without a set-top box, raises $50M, bringing its total raised to $213.8M, per Crunchbase (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

    Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: MobiTV, which lets pay-TV companies provide streaming video services without a set-top box, raises $50M, bringing its total raised to $213.8M, per Crunchbase  —  After raising $21 million in 2017 for a late-stage pivot from mobile TV to set-top-box-free IPTV services for the home, MobiTV is announcing another large growth round.

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    • House subcommittee sends letter requesting Facebook halt Libra's development until Congress and regulators can investigate potential risks to the global economy (Makena Kelly/The Verge)

    Makena Kelly / The Verge: House subcommittee sends letter requesting Facebook halt Libra’s development until Congress and regulators can investigate potential risks to the global economy  —  ‘These vulnerabilities could be exploited and obscured by bad actors’  —  House Democrats are requesting Facebook halt development … House subcommittee sends letter requesting Facebook halt Libra's development

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    • CBP suspends a border-surveillance subcontractor from federal contracting after it was hacked and had data, including images of travelers' faces, posted online (Drew Harwell/Washington Post)

    Drew Harwell / Washington Post: CBP suspends a border-surveillance subcontractor from federal contracting after it was hacked and had data, including images of travelers’ faces, posted online  —  The longtime maker of license-plate scanners and other surveillance equipment used along the U.S. border was suspended Tuesday … CBP suspends a border-surveillance subcontractor from federal contracting

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