Month: May 2020
Google’s work from home strategy includes a $1,000 allowance
Google is joining other companies is planning for a return to the office as COVID-19 cases decline, but its strategy may be more elaborate than most. Company chief Sundar Pichai has outlined a roadmap that will still have most employees working from… Source
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AI can battle coronavirus, but privacy shouldn’t be a casualty
Philip N. Howard Contributor Philip N. Howard is the director of the Oxford Internet Institute and author of the forthcoming “Lie Machines: How to Save Democracy from Troll Armies, Deceitful Robots, Junk News Operations, and Political Operatives.” Lisa-Maria Neudert Contributor Lisa-Maria Neudert is a researcher with the Computational Propaganda Project…
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macOS 10.15.5 is out now with a new battery health feature
Apple released macOS Catalina 10.15.5 today, adding a new battery health feature and new FaceTime options. That battery health feature could extend the life of your MacBook’s battery. Lithium-ion batteries, like the ones in a MacBook, slowly age over time, which means they typically begin to hold less of a…
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Daniel Abt fired from Audi’s Formula E team for using pro sim driver in virtual race
Audi fired Daniel Abt from its Formula E racing team after learning he had a professional sim driver race for him during a virtual competition called the “Race at Home Challenge” held over the weekend. The automaker said in a statement via Formula E that Abt had been suspended from…
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Twitter labels Trump tweets as ‘potentially misleading’ for the first time
On Tuesday, Twitter labeled two tweets from President Donald Trump making false statements about mail-in voting as “potentially misleading.” It’s the first time the platform has fact-checked the president. The label was imposed on two tweets Trump posted Tuesday morning falsely claiming that “mail-in ballots will be anything less than…
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Amazon gave TV stations coronavirus propaganda, and some aired it
Amazon has been successfully feeding talking points, video footage, and other corporate messaging to local television news stations ahead of its annual shareholder meeting on Wednesday. The footage and script are designed to paint Amazon in a positive light as it faces a torrent of bad media coverage and criticism…
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