Our digital profiles and possessions are ever-expanding, but what happens to them after our deaths? Tech companies are yet to offer a satisfactory solution, says the technology researcher Tamara Kneese Tamara Kneese studies how people experience technology. She is a senior researcher at New York-based nonprofit Data & Society Research Institute. Her new book, Death …
The US justice department is belatedly addressing the company’s stranglehold on digital advertising technologies in the most significant antitrust case for more than two decades Although you’d never guess it from mainstream media, the most significant antitrust case in more than 20 years is under way in Washington. In it, the US justice department, alongside …
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Book spamming, sometimes with multiple bogus titles going online in one day, has hit writers like Rory Cellan-Jones Publishing a book is a big occasion for any writer, and Rory Cellan-Jones is no exception. “Like any author, I obsessively check Amazon,” he said. “And this thing popped up.” Continue reading… Book spamming, sometimes with multiple …
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Look what happened when the Thai amateur photographer spotted a big pink taxi It may be the smaller of Bangkok’s two international airports, but hundreds of people can sometimes be found waiting in line for taxis outside Don Mueang. Unlike the black cabs on London’s streets, or New York’s distinctive yellow ones, Thai taxis come …
Federal civil rights agency claims in lawsuit that employees were subjected to racist slurs and graffiti including nooses A US civil rights agency has sued Tesla, claiming the electric carmaker has tolerated severe harassment of Black employees at its flagship California assembly plant. The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) said in the lawsuit, filed …
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Firms known for funding biased AI products would need to submit demographic information on partners and founders California would become the first state to require venture capital firms to disclose the race and gender of the founders of the companies they fund, under a bill currently awaiting governor Gavin Newsom’s signature. The business community strongly …
I hate real life golf – too many things can go wrong. So why do I love playing PGA Tour 2K23? I’m sitting here trying to work out why PGA Tour 2K23 is the greatest video game of all time. Rationally, objectively and empirically it cannot be. It lacks the emotional gut punch of Final …
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Some customers claim titanium frame of more expensive models becomes ‘so hot it’s too hot to hold’ Apple is facing complaints from users about overheating in relation to its new iPhone 15 models, with some customers claiming the titanium frame becomes too hot to hold. The iPhone maker’s community forum is carrying customer feedback about …
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Critics decry media shut-out as judge permits evidence and testimony to be presented behind closed doors The landmark antitrust trial pitting the US justice department against Google is now in its third week, and the government continues to roll out its case arguing that the internet search behemoth abused its power and resources to maintain …
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Mail-based service has had a 25-year run in the US but the streaming business eclipsed it long ago Most of Netflix’s 238 million streaming customers around the world will be unaware that the company first launched 25 years ago as a DVD mailing service. Even fewer might realise that operation has continued, with under 1 …
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