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Amazon drivers say Mentor, the company's app to track drivers and score their driving, is often invasive and its bugs can lead to unfair disciplinary action (Annie Palmer/CNBC)

Annie Palmer / CNBC: Amazon drivers say Mentor, the company’s app to track drivers and score their driving, is often invasive and its bugs can lead to unfair disciplinary action — – Amazon confirmed last week it has started putting AI-equipped cameras in some delivery vans. — It already requires contracted … Amazon drivers say

IKEA Shelf Becomes Kid Friendly MP3 Player

IKEA’s flatpack furniture has long been popular among makers for its modular nature and low cost, making it ideal for whacky experiments and custom builds. [Claus] is one such person, and built a fun MP3 player for his kids out of a basic LACK shelf. The music is handled by an NodeMCU ESP8266, working in

The 10 Best Deals of February 12, 2021

Friday’s Best Deals | Kinja Deals Read more… The 10 Best Deals of February 12, 2021 Source: Life Hacker

32 Movies That Will Give You Comfort in These Troubled Times

This year was supposed to be better than last year, but apparently 2021 didn’t get the memo. The world is still just as tumultuous, and we’re all still just as frazzled by nerves, overwhelmed by the news, and desperate to find some kind of escape. Well, for the past year, we’ve had little else to

What’s on your desk, Jon Porter?

Photo by Jon Porter / The Verge Fitting a lot of tech into a small space Continue reading… What’s on your desk, Jon Porter? Source: New feed

The price of silence is $224: Get a great deal on Bose Noise Cancelling Headphones 700 – CNET

One of CNET’s all-time favorite sets of headphones, these are refurbs but backed with a two-year warranty. The price of silence is 4: Get a great deal on Bose Noise Cancelling Headphones 700 – CNET Source: CNet

Amazon delivery app Mentor tracks drivers’ locations and measures their performance

Photo by Michele Doying / The Verge Amazon built its own in-house mobile app called Mentor that it uses to track the location and rate the performance of third-party delivery drivers, according to a new report from CNBC. The app tracks a driver’s location at all times and also generates a daily score that factors

Beware of These Creative Online Dating Scams

Both the Better Business Bureau and the FBI are warning people about romance scams, which are expected to remain an elevated threat leading up to Valentine’s Day. This type of scam has been made worse during the pandemic, as cases have spiked by 18% in the last year, according to the FBI. Here’s what you

Snyder Cut teases new Justice League trailer with menacing Darksied close-up – CNET

Apokolips Sunday is almost here. Snyder Cut teases new Justice League trailer with menacing Darksied close-up – CNET Source: CNet

AT&T installs fiber for a 90-year-old after his WSJ print ad complaining of slow AT&T Internet service speeds goes viral (Jon Brodkin/Ars Technica)

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: AT&T installs fiber for a 90-year-old after his WSJ print ad complaining of slow AT&T Internet service speeds goes viral — From 3Mbps DSL to 300Mbps fiber: Aaron Epstein’s newspaper ad gets amazing result. — When 90-year-old Aaron Epstein bought a Wall Street Journal print ad … AT&T installs fiber

Do You Really Need Ankle Weights?

Ankle weights have tunneled through a wormhole from the 1980s to the present moment, appearing in countless TikToks and Instagram posts. Do they really help tone your legs? Are they worth buying at all? Here’s what you need to know. Read more… Do You Really Need Ankle Weights? Source: Life Hacker

Microsoft, Google, and Qualcomm are reportedly nervous about Nvidia acquiring Arm

Photo by Sam Byford / The Verge Microsoft, Google, and Qualcomm have been raising concerns to regulators about Nvidia’s Arm acquisition, according to reports by CNBC and Bloomberg. The companies have approached regulators in the US, EU, UK, and China, reportedly with concerns that Nvidia could change how Arm licenses out its chipmaking technology. Nvidia

Settlement agreements for the copyright dispute between French media and Google show Google will pay $22M annually in total to 121 publications for three years (Mathieu Rosemain/Reuters)

Mathieu Rosemain / Reuters: Settlement agreements for the copyright dispute between French media and Google show Google will pay $22M annually in total to 121 publications for three years — PARIS (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s Google has agreed to pay $76 million over three years to a group of French news publishers … Settlement agreements

Bring Some Sunshine to Your Frosty Weekend with the Matador

It is snowing in Portland, Oregon, and I am thrilled (for now). As someone who was born in Mississippi and subsequently lived in Los Angeles and Florida, I am always enthralled with fluffy white stuff falling from the sky, at least until it goes on for “too long,” and I start to feel trapped by

VGA Without The Hassle, From Your PlayStation One

The original Sony PlayStation was a nifty console for its day; that grey box may have only had a 33 MHz MIPS processor and 4 MB of RAM, but for the early to mid 1990s its games were some of the best to be had. From the days when it would have sat under a

Elon Musk says the Biden administration shot down his carbon tax pitch

Photo by Patrick Pleul / picture alliance via Getty Images Elon Musk says he pitched the Biden administration on instituting a carbon tax as a way to encourage a faster shift to renewable energy, but he was told the idea was essentially “too politically difficult.” Musk described the conversation with the Biden administration during a

Amazon Sues New York Attorney General to Block Covid-19 Charges

The company said the attorney general, Letitia James, had overstepped her authority in investigating workplace safety. Amazon Sues New York Attorney General to Block Covid-19 Charges Source: NY Times Tech

Your best tips for hunting vaccine appointments online

How tech-savvy Post readers are nabbing scarce coronavirus shots for themselves — and their neighbors Your best tips for hunting vaccine appointments online Source: Washington Post Tech

Zocdoc, which pivoted from patient scheduling to offering telehealth services during the pandemic, raises a $150M growth round from Francisco Partners (Elise Reuter/MedCity News)

Elise Reuter / MedCity News: Zocdoc, which pivoted from patient scheduling to offering telehealth services during the pandemic, raises a $150M growth round from Francisco Partners — Zocdoc, which had built its business as an online scheduling platform for doctors, quickly pivoted at the beginning of the pandemic to offer telehealth visits. Zocdoc, which pivoted

Sources: Google, Microsoft, and Qualcomm are among companies asking US to intervene in Nvidia's Arm acquisition, and at least one company wants the deal killed (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Sources: Google, Microsoft, and Qualcomm are among companies asking US to intervene in Nvidia’s Arm acquisition, and at least one company wants the deal killed — Some of the world’s largest technology companies are complaining to U.S. antitrust regulators about Nvidia Corp.’s acquisition … Sources: Google, Microsoft, and Qualcomm are among companies asking US

Nvidia’s $329 RTX 3060 graphics card is launching on February 25th

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge We already knew that Nvidia was making a $329 RTX 3060 graphics card. And today, Nvidia announced that it will make its most affordable GPU in the RTX 3000 series available at retailers beginning February 25th. Retailers will open orders for the RTX 3060 starting at 9AM PT

Europa Decision Delivers Crushing Blow to NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS)

These days, NASA deciding to launch one of their future missions on a commercial rocket is hardly a surprise. After all, the agency is now willing to fly their astronauts on boosters and spacecraft built and operated by SpaceX. Increased competition has made getting to space cheaper and easier than ever before, so it’s only

How to Report Traffic Accidents in Apple Maps

Google may own Waze, but we’re finally starting to see a few of the features popularized by that transit-tracking app make their way to rival Apple Maps. For example, you can now—or will soon be able to—report traffic accidents in Maps during your trips. Speed traps, too, in case you spot one driving through one

Apple launches an augmented reality app to promote For All Mankind on Apple TV Plus

Apple is gearing up for the release of For All Mankind season 2 on Apple TV Plus. It’s kicking things off with a new augmented reality app, For All Mankind: Time Capsule, that looks to fill in the gap between the two seasons using AR artifacts from the world of the show. The app itself

Electric Cars, Cool. But When?

What we need to get to a future of energy-efficient cars. Electric Cars, Cool. But When? Source: NY Times Tech

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