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Companies can access personal emails, social media accounts and instant messages. Here are all the ways your boss can legally monitor you Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreCompanies can access personal emails, social media accounts and instant messages. Here are all the ways your boss can legally monitor you Source: Washington Post Tech
Read More{$inline_image}On Thursday Tesla held Tesla AI day. If you were looking for a great big product showcase by the automaker, you’d be left disappointed. Beyond anything else, it was a job fair. Remember those days where you turn up to some event, put on a nametag, and talk to people sitting at tables about why you
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Read MoreNewsletter subscription button will be trialled on some Twitter profile pages. Twitter wants to make it easier for you to sign up to newsletters Source: Tech Radar Software
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google has confirmed it’s shutting down the standalone “Android Auto for Phone Screens” app with Android 12. Instead, anyone who wants a driving-friendly interface for their Android phone should use the Google Assistant driving mode, which is available within Google Maps, or the native Android Auto interface available
Read MoreJosh Horwitz / Reuters: China passes a data privacy law mandating that data collection has a reasonable purpose, user consent, and limited to “minimum scope”, taking effect November 1 — China’s National People’s Congress on Friday passed a law designed to protect online user data privacy and will implement … China passes a data privacy
Read MoreThe MagDart charger has a hefty cooling fan. Earlier this month Realme launched MagDart, its MagSafe-a-like ecosystem of magnetic wireless charging products. The headline device is a 50W brick that Realme professes to be the fastest magnetic wireless charger in the world — it’s supposed to be able to charge a 4,500mAh battery from 0
Read MoreA couple are heading to court to decide who is entitled to a fortune, started in the earliest days of Google, that includes valuable California real estate and stock holdings. Who Gets the L.L.C.? Inside a Silicon Valley Billionaire’s Divorce. Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreNeil Munshi / Financial Times: A look at the fintech boom in Nigeria, where 60M adults without bank accounts are driving explosive growth; fintech has seen ~40% of Nigeria’s $307M VC funding — Down an alley off Kukawa Street in Lagos Island, across from a building abandoned mid-construction, Paulo Communications does a brisk trade. A
Read More“Set your working location to make scheduling easier.” | Image: Google Google is adding an option to its Calendar service to let you show where you’re working on any given day of the week, the company has announced. The feature will start rolling out from August 30th for users on select Google Workspace plans, and
Read MoreAEW Rampage takes place on Friday, and wrestling fans are expecting CM Punk to turn up. Here’s why. CM Punk to AEW Rampage? All the return rumors explained – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreSwiss researchers at the University of Applied Sciences Graubünden this week claimed a new world record for calculating the number of digits of pi – a staggering 62.8 trillion figures. By my estimate, if these digits were printed out they would fill every book in the British Library ten times over. The researchers’ feat of
Read MoreOne of the hottest trends in the startup ecosystem is product-led growth (PLG). The PLG approach to introducing a solution to the market is focused on the end-user. Initially, many B2B founders viewed PLG as more of a go-to-market motion where providing a freemium offering would enable a company to be product-led. However, this is
Read MoreHas anything topped Roman Reigns vs. Daniel Bryan from Fastlane? Here are the best 2021 WWE and NXT matches you can stream on Peacock. The 14 best WWE matches of the year you can stream right now – CNET Source: CNet
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Read MoreJoe Pinsker / The Atlantic: How Amazon contributed to the drop in the number of babies named Alexa in the US, UK, and Canada, after an initial surge upon the device’s 2014 release — Alexa used to be a name primarily given to human babies. Now it’s mainly for robots. — Seven years ago, Amazon
Read MoreElon Musk has done it again! The “Technoking” of Tesla has announced another product that billionaires fantasize about: humanoids. At the company‘s AI day, he revealed that the car-making firm is making a prototype humanoid, and it’ll be called Tesla Bot — the internal codename of the bot will be Optimus. Shocking. Musk claimed that Tesla
Read MoreThere’s only two words for it: Absolute. Unit. 400-year-old coral is one of the biggest ever discovered in Great Barrier Reef – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreDuring its AI Day stream, Tesla’s engineers demonstrated exactly how the so-called Full Self-Driving system ‘sees’ the world and makes driving decisions. Tesla explains how the 'Full Self-Driving' sausage is made – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreThe curved screen isn’t part of the $700 Edge anymore, but buttery-smooth animations should make up for that. New Motorola Edge loses the curved display, adds a 144Hz refresh rate – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreMark Gurman / Bloomberg: Internal memo: Apple is delaying return to corporate offices from October until January at the earliest because of surging COVID-19 cases and new variants — – Company delays office return from October, encourages vaccines — Apple doesn’t plan to close stores, offices on rising cases Internal memo: Apple is delaying return
Read MoreTesla CEO Elon Musk took the stage to tout the company’s automation ambitions Thursday — days after investigators said they were looking into the company’s Autopilot driver-assistance system. Tesla says it is building a ‘friendly’ robot that will perform menial tasks, won’t fight back Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple is delaying its mandatory return to offices until at least January 2022, citing a surge in COVID-19 cases. The company will give employees a month’s notice before they have to return to in-person work. In an internal email sent this evening, Deirdre O’Brien, senior vice president of
Read MoreEmily Flitter / New York Times: Binance is aiming for an IPO for its US division after an unsuccessful VC deal and the resignation of its CEO — The founder of Binance, Changpeng Zhao, needs investors for its U.S. unit after a recent venture capital deal fell through — a setback that cost him a
Read MoreSure, your phone or tablet has the hardware for complex gaming experiences—but the real sweet spot of mobile gaming is mindless, play-for-a-minute experiences. The sort of thing you gravitate toward while you’re toiling away in the dentist office waiting room or when it’s 1 a.m. and you still can’t fall asleep. But if… Read more…
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