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Media Bias with Corporate Social Irresponsibility Events

Where does Jasmine Protractor and Ranorex fit in Selenium dominated world of Test Automation?

Sun Lamps Advice

FCC commissioner: Our agency says all Americans are gaining advanced Internet access. It's wrong

Raspberry Pi announces $50 12-megapixel camera with interchangeable lenses

Reddit has chatrooms now — what could go wrong?

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Coronavirus contact tracing apps were meant to save us. They won’t

Zuck vs. Musk: Reopen the country or wait for coronavirus to subside?

Finance, tech firms on hiring spree amid coronavirus turmoil - LinkedIn

Zoom admits it doesn’t have 300 million users, corrects misleading claims.

Australia Takes Its First Baby Steps On the Road To A Right-To-Repair Law, With A Consultation About Tractors

The Cold, Hard Cyber Truth About How Businesses Get Hacked

Google Play has been spreading advanced Android malware for years

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Amazon buys heat-sensing cameras from blacklisted Chinese firm: Cameras to check workers’ temperatures amid Coronavirus come from Dahua, which allegedly helped Beijing detain Muslims.

Google makes Meet, its Zoom and Skype competitor, free for everyone

Tesla's Elon Musk Rants Again; Calls Lockdowns Forcible Imprisonment And 'Fascist'

Next-generation batteries take major step toward commercial viability

HiSilicon overtakes Qualcomm as top China smartphone processor supplier

Google Meet video conferencing is now free for anybody

Tesla delays Semi electric truck to 2021

Anyone else hate phone only apps?

Google details new AirPods-style Bluetooth upgrades for Android — Bluetooth will be a little less awful, with battery info, find my device, and more.

Responsible AI for Engineers

Apple to Pay $18 Million to Settle California Lawsuit Claiming Apple 'Broke' FaceTime on Older iPhones to Save Costs

Most Americans are not willing or able to use an app tracking coronavirus infections. That’s a problem for Big Tech’s plan to slow the pandemic.

Oil Slump Spurs Talk of Ending EU Subsidies for Polluting Fuels

A single speed test is fun — hundreds of them may actually be accurate

Exclusive: Amazon turns to Chinese firm on U.S. blacklist to meet thermal camera needs

What happened to Gooey?

Over 200,000 H-1B Workers Could Lose Legal Status by June

France and Australia to Google and Facebook: Pay for news

UK cyber-security chief advises NHS on tracing app

Create Your Own Digital Comics Whether You Can Draw or Not

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Lenovo will start offering ThinkPads with Linux pre-installed

Random audio file found in my Apple Music

Top 6 Well Known Languages Used for IoT Software and Mobile App Development

Meet Moxie, a Social Robot That Helps Kids With Social-Emotional Learning - IEEE Spectrum

Low-tech Japan challenged in working from home amid pandemic

LibreOffice 7.0 Will Finally Remove Adobe Flash Player Support

I'm being blackmailed please help

AMC vows to bar Universal movies from its theaters after video-on-demand comments.

With questionable copyright claim, Jay-Z orders deepfake audio parodies off YouTube

Google CEO tells employees return to office won't happen until at least June 1

Zoom taps Oracle for cloud deal, passing over Amazon, Microsoft

Number-plate cam site had no password, spills 9M logs of UK road journeys

Change USB-C to internal dedicated graphics card. (instead of integrated)

The Coronavirus Pandemic Puts Children at Risk of Online Sexual Exploitation

I created an anonymous and decentralised contrat-tracing app

Why do some posts on Reddit show the number of upvotes whereas others just have a dot?

Calls to ensure Govt COVID-19 tracking app privacy

Russia: Moscow plans to use smartphone geolocation to track foreign visitors

China starts major trial of state-run digital currency: The e-RMB has reportedly been adopted into the monetary systems of several cities.

Microsoft wants to 'read people's brain waves' to mine cryptocurrency

Facebook launches Messenger Rooms, group calls for up to 50 people with no time limit

Hey guys sry if this is the wrong sub to ask but im buying my first laptop and im scared can i get some help.

Inputs of Interest: Ears To Communication For Everyone

YouTube experiment puts comment section above 'Up next' recommendations

Charging a MacBook on the wrong side can lead to noisy fans and lower performance

USPTO Rejects AI-Invention for Lack of a Human Inventor

NHS rejects Apple-Google coronavirus app plan

Nintendo hacked: About 160,000 accounts have personal information exposed

Digital-ad downturn may complicate life for Google, Facebook

New York Attorney General Scrutinizes Amazon for Firing Warehouse Worker

China is installing surveillance camera outside people's front doors ... and sometimes inside their homes

It's wrong to use two spaces between sentences, Microsoft Word says

Immutable Data Privacy Protection and Private Data Sharing with 0Chain on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Secure Development Training platform

Start-Ups Pursue ‘Free Money’ With Relief Funds, Prompting Backlash

Europe’s Privacy Law Hasn’t Shown Its Teeth, Frustrating Advocates

'Pandemic populism': Germany sees rise in conspiracy theories

Vivo overtakes Samsung in Indian smartphone sales

Facebook has a new UI called Facebook Fresh: These are the first pictures (it's in Spanish but there's pictures)

Boston Dynamics’ Spot finds a new career in telemedicine amid COVID-19 pandemic – TechCrunch

Volunteers Made A Pop-Up Factory To Mass Produce PPE For Healthcare Workers. They Did It In A Month.

Madden modders: If it’s not ‘in the game,’ it is now

Can Artificial Intelligence Help Alleviate Travel Industry Woes?

How Privacy-First Contact Tracing works, also called DP-3T (Decentralized Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing), what Google and Apple try to implement in their OS (Android and iOS).

U.S. Transportation Officials Seek Alternative Tech for GPS

‘Zoom fatigue’ is taxing the brain. Here's why that happens.

Brain implant and signal decoder have done the impossible and reversed paralysis

Privacy.com creates secure virtual cards and completes checkout forms for you, saving you time and money while masking your real card details.

Power is ‘up for grabs’: Behind China’s plan to shape the future of next-generation tech

Whats your thoughts? Seems many Android users are getting ******.

Cable box question.

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U.S. Space Force's First Offensive Weapon Is a Satellite Jammer

In U-turn, Germany backs Google and Apple on virus app

Richard Branson races to find Virgin Atlantic buyer

The computer algorithm that was among the first to detect the coronavirus outbreak

Should I buy iPad Air 2019 now?

US Government Now Working With Peter Thiel's Palantir On Covid-19 Tracking Tool - Slashdot

Israeli firm raises $5 million for tech to recognize mask-covered faces

'They are trying to steal everything.' US coronavirus response hit by foreign hackers

Hospitals Around the World are Being Targeted by Conspiracy Theorists

Windows 10 now has ads for Edge browser in its search box

Does an ethernet cable work even if that little thing breaks?

U.S. promoting apps that could prove essential to ending the coronavirus lockdown may be headed for a showdown with Silicon Valley companies over the collection of sensitive GPS location data.

Australian Government's coronavirus tracing app released

NHS coronavirus-tracing app is tested at RAF base

Can these robot roommates liven up lockdown?

Is/will there ever be an endpoint for technological advancement/progress, or is technology potentially capable of infinite progress?

Facebook enters the videoconferencing fray with Messenger Rooms

Tech can help trim your utility bills, which may be on the rise amid coronavirus shutdown

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YouTube background player alternatives

EU spent taxpayers' money for a study about piracy, it concluded that piracy is harmless and EU refuses to release it

Discord takes your data. Stop supporting it blindly.

Some Pixel 2 users facing camera failure after recent updates

How does my iphone know I have an E-Z-Pass? Explanation in comments.

Internet governance body RIPE opposes Chinese proposal to change core internet protocols

Facebook launches drop-in video chat rooms to rival Houseparty.

Coronavirus: Apple battling UK, France, Germany over contact-tracing

Emergency medical workers in San Francisco are wearing smart rings that can monitor body temperature in an effort to detect COVID-19 symptoms early

Question about UV Light Filters

WD Sets the Record Straight: Lists All Drives That Use Slower SMR Tech

Jailed Huawei Workers Raised a Forbidden Subject: Iran

Covid-19 has blown apart the myth of Silicon Valley innovation

Trump - Polling via Social Media

Meet 'Spot:' The Robot That Could Help Doctors Remotely Treat COVID-19 Patients

Is My Phone Listening in? On the Feasibility and Detectability of Mobile Eavesdropping

'Murder threats' to telecoms engineers over 5G

Meet the Watfly Atlas, a Personal Electric VTOL Coming in 2021

Self Hosting your own Riot.im and Matrix server using Docker

iPhone SE outperforms OnePlus 8 Pro and Samsung Galaxy S20+

Apple, Google update coronavirus contact tracing tech ahead of launch

The cusp of evolution website?

Google’s AI Can Design Computer Chips In Under 6 Hours

Use of conservative and social media linked with COVID-19 misinformation.

US regulator moves closer to halt operations of three state-controlled Chinese telecoms companies: Federal Communications Commission issues ‘show cause’ orders to China Telecom Americas, China Unicom Americas, and Pacific Networks Corp subsidiary ComNet.

Showdown looms between Silicon Valley, U.S. states over contact tracing apps

Got a tech question or want to discuss tech? Weekly /r/Technology Tech Support / General Discussion Thread

That no-click iOS 0-day reported to be under exploit doesn’t exist, Apple says

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Apple and Google pledge to shut down coronavirus tracker when pandemic ends

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Nearly 50% of Twitter Accounts Talking about Coronavirus Might Be Bots. Twitter is dealing with a pandemic of bots jamming the platform with misinformation about COVID-19.

A Third of Remote Workers Say Weak Internet Has Hurt Their Productivity

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This neural network was fed 10,000 dicks to learn how to draw one

Free online 'threat blocker' launched in Canada as successful COVID-19 scams multiply

These anti-quarantine websites are fakes. Here's what they're really after

China orders TikTok owner ByteDance to remove work-from-home app: Feishu, a mash-up of Slack, Skype and Google Docs, allowed users to browse content from banned foreign sites like Facebook and Twitter.

The pandemic is bringing us closer to our robot takeout future

All ProtonMail apps are now open source, as Android joins the list

Hackers Leak Thousands of Coronavirus Research Papers

Google claims its AI can design computer chips in under 6 hours

Many supposedly grass-roots reopen sites are tied to one pro-gun lobbyist

McDonald’s and Starbucks are reportedly part of China’s digital currency trial

Bank details obtained from iPhone?

Apple Aims to Sell Macs With Its Own Chips Starting in 2021

RIPE opposes China's internet protocols upgrade plan

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba announced that it would invest RMB 200 billion ($28 billion) in building its cloud infrastructure outside of US over the next three years, according to TechCrunch.

Australian PM says will be illegal for non-health officials to get data from COVID-19 app

Bug leaves iPhones vulnerable to hackers stealing email contents

Elon Musk says Starlink internet private beta to begin in roughly three months, public beta in six

Judge Dismisses Twitter’s Lawsuit Over Its Rights to Publish Information About Government Surveillance Orders

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Germany at odds with Apple on smartphone coronavirus contact tracing

Apple plans to sell Macs with its own chips from 2021

WHO, CDC, Gates Foundation all hacked: thousands of passwords leaked

Apple iPhone at risk of hacking through email app

YouTube's CEO suggested content that 'goes against' WHO guidance on the coronavirus will get banned

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossal)

Counterfeit Intel CPUs Are Circulating in China

Amazon fires employees who spoke out about coronavirus and climate change

Isn't it too early to say that Apple's upcoming iPhone processor will be more powerful than even the best one for Android?

First version of Apple/Google contact tracing API will be available on April 28

China's tech giants expand aggressively despite the pandemic: China's biggest companies are investing billions of dollars and hiring thousands as Western firms feel the squeeze of Coronavirus.

The FCC is giving us a new Wi-Fi lane

Taiwan-developed rapid screening reagent put into trial production - Focus Taiwan

NVIDIA RTX Voice: Real-World Tests

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To combat unethical surveillance, The EFF has an immersive virtual reality tool called "Spot The Surveillance" that trains you to spot inconspicuous but widespread street-level surveillance technologies that track your behavior on a daily basis.

Zoom has skyrocketed to 300 million daily users, up 50% from the beginning of April, even as the company battles a privacy backlash

Ally Bank is wiping out customers' negative balances so they can receive their full stimulus payments - and they don't have to repay anything

U.S. lawmaker says any COVID-19 contact tracing tech should be voluntary and limited

Chinese Hackers Using New iPhone Hack to Spy On Uyghur Muslims

Covid-19 mass surveillance terrifying for the future

EFF Testifies Today on Law Enforcement Use of Face Recognition Before Presidential Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice

COBOL Cowboys Aim To Rescue Sluggish State Unemployment Systems

Does work-from-home really work? But the rise in work from home has been the high sales of technologies, products, and services that facilitate remote work that includes: DingTalk, Zoom, Slack, RingCentral

Another pandemic woe: Zoom fatigue

309 million Facebook users’ phone numbers (and more) found online

YouTube CEO: We’ll ban any coronavirus content against WHO guidelines

Right-Wing Responsible For Pushing Coronavirus Disinformation On Twitter Worldwide, New Report Says

Is this the end of Airbnb? Hosts are calling it the Airbnb apocalypse. But it’s more akin to an enema

Personal data of nearly 8,000 small business owners seeking relief loans may have been exposed to other applicants

Penn Engineering’s New Scavenger Technology Allows Robots to ‘Eat’ Metal for Energy

Vivaldi Browser and Vivaldi Mobile hit 3.0, Vivaldi Mobile is now out of beta; both featuring new native ad blocking (including EasyList) and tracking protection (via DuckDuckGo’s Tracker Radar)

The US Navy patented a device to make laser ‘ghost planes’ in mid-air

Peter Thiel’s controversial Palantir is helping build a coronavirus tracking tool for the Trump admin

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iOS exploit used to spy on Chinese Uiguhur Minority

Open source platform Jitsi plans to start offering a major security feature that Zoom, Microsoft, and Google lack: End-to-end encryption for video conferencing. Here's how it plans to take on its rivals

Facebook takes $5.7 billion stake in Indian internet giant Jio

Facebook Invests $5.7 Billion in India Internet Giant Jio

Disgraced ex-WeWork CEO Adam Neumann plans to sue the coworking firm's major backer, SoftBank, for reneging on a $3 billion offer to buy WeWork shares

Global Netflix subscriptions rise to 182.9million during COVID-19

Here’s why “baking” damaged reel-to-reel tapes renders them playable again

Loup Ventures' Gene Munster on Netflix earnings

Stay-At-Home Orders Highlight Internet Inequality In The Rural West

Despite rules about misinformation, a YouTube video calling coronavirus a “false flag” related to 5G racked up millions of views

Some 5G iPhones and a new larger iPhone SE model could be delayed

Facebook Dark Web Deal: Hackers Just Sold 267 Million User Profiles For $540

Coronarivus : Tesla has designed its own artificial respirator with car parts - Electronicashop

how do data protection authorities prevent/track the use/unwanted use of personal data?