Month: March 2020
Zoom app hijackers disrupting calls with pornographic and hateful imagery
Anonymous individuals are hijacking and disrupting Zoom video conferences held by schools and businesses, the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has warned. Having infiltrated the conference, hijackers are reportedly displaying pornographic, profane and hateful imagery to attendees. Some are doing so with the intention of posting videos to social…
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Muto review: a near-perfect electric city bike
What makes the perfect electric city bike? That depends on who you ask and where they live. For Europeans, a bicycle is often the primary mode of transportation in relatively flat, bike-friendly cities like Amsterdam, Copenhagen, or Berlin. We ride our bikes everywhere — to work, shops, daycare, and cafes…
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The US government should disclose how it’s using location data to fight the coronavirus
Last week, we talked about the case for the government using location data gleaned from our smartphones to manage the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Taiwan, Israel, and England have all been using location data in various ways to understand the spread of the disease and, in some cases, enforce…
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Uber co-founder Garrett Camp steps back from board director role
Uber co-founder Garrett Camp is relinquishing his role as a board director and switching to board observer — where he says he’ll focus on product strategy for the ride hailing giant. Camp made the announcement in a short Medium post in which he writes of his decade at Uber: “I’ve…
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Windows 10 bug that broke internet connectivity gets patched – here’s how to install the fix
Windows 10 has got a fix for the nasty bug that’s disrupting the internet connection of some folks trying to work from home, which is obviously less than ideal given the Covid-19 outbreak, and the large numbers of people trying to do just that because they’re on lockdown. As we…
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Huawei P40 contains some US components
The recently-launched Huawei P40 smartphone is powered by a number of US components despite a government ban on companies from the country doing business with the Chinese mobile giant. Last year, the US Department of Commerce effectively blacklisted Huawei on national security grounds. Huawei has denied any allegations of wrongdoing…
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