Month: February 2020
Facebook will now pay you for your voice recordings
Facebook will offer to pay some users for voice recordings that will be used to help improve its speech recognition technology, the company announced Thursday. The move comes after Facebook — as well as Amazon, Apple, Google, and Microsoft — was caught listening to and transcribing voice recordings to improve…
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Google to evaluate Android apps requesting background location data
Google will introduce one-time permissions for location data in the upcoming release of Android 11 but the search giant also plans to roll out a new Google Play policy which will require developers to get approval if they want to access a device’s location data in the background. Even users…
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Google bans hundreds of Android apps from the Play Store for obnoxious ads
Google has removed almost 600 “disruptive” Android apps from the Play Store and banned their developers in its latest effort to rein in mobile ad fraud, the company announced on Thursday. Google’s policy does not allow ads that display when an app is not in use or that trick users…
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How The Mandalorian teamed up with Fortnite creator Epic Games to create its digital sets
One of the most impressive parts of The Mandalorian (other than Baby Yoda) was the production design, with the varied locations, sets, and effects despite the comparatively lower budget for television as opposed to a blockbuster film. As it turns out, that’s because most of it wasn’t real. Rather, more…
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DeFi aims to bridge the gap between blockchains and financial services
If you’ve been following cryptocurrency news for the past few months, there’s one word that keeps coming back — DeFi, also known as decentralized finance. As the name suggests, DeFi aims to bridge the gap between decentralized blockchains and financial services. The original purpose of bitcoin hasn’t changed; it’s a…
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Intel’s 10th-generation desktop processors might see the return of the F-Series
We’re still waiting for an official annoucnement of Intel Comet Lake processors for desktop PCs, but a new leak may indicate more of what’s in store. There could be a whole new slew of F-series CPUs to round the product stack based on details in a leaked presentation slide reported…
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