Month: February 2020
Disney’s massive media empire leads to a bizarre Pixar and Simpsons team-up
The first time a non-Pixar title was shown before a Pixar feature film in theaters, it was in November 2017 when Olaf’s Frozen Adventure played before Coco. Although the piece was contentious among filmgoers, the pairing made sense: Frozen was Disney’s biggest animated film in years, and the crossover between…
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Google and Amazon limit employees’ travel because of coronavirus fears
Google is preventing employees from traveling to Italy, Iran, Japan, and South Korea because of outbreaks of the novel coronavirus, Business Insider reported. Amazon is asking employees to defer all nonessential travel, a spokesperson confirmed to The Verge, which includes domestic travel within the US. Both companies had already halted…
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FCC proposes $200M in fines for wireless carriers that sold your location for years
The FCC has officially and finally determined that the major wireless carriers in the U.S. broke the law by secretly selling subscribers’ location data for years with almost no constraints or disclosure. But its Commissioners decry the $200 million penalty proposed to be paid by these enormously rich corporations, calling…
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Facebook sues analytics firm over alleged data harvesting
Facebook has filed a federal lawsuit in California against the New Jersey-based data analytics firm OneAudience claiming it allegedly harvested data from the social network. The social networking giant claims that the firm paid app developers to install its Software Development Kit (SDK) in their apps which was used to…
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Apple has blocked Clearview AI’s iPhone app for violating its rules
An iPhone app built by controversial facial recognition startup Clearview AI has been blocked by Apple, effectively banning the app from use. Apple confirmed to TechCrunch that the startup “violated” the terms of its enterprise program. The app allows its users — which the company claims it serves only law…
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Intel is coming for AMD hard, if this latest performance leak is any indication
Intel’s 10th-generation Comet Lake-S processors for desktop still aren’t here, and while we haven’t heard anything from Intel itself, there’s a deluge of performance leaks out there. The latest of which comes via famed hardware leaker @TUM_APISAK and shows a supposed Intel Core i7-10700KF scoring 294.33GOPS on the SISoftware CPU…
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