Month: April 2021
Imposters steal restaurants’ names in delivery app deception
Ordering delivery through an app like DoorDash or GrubHub saves the trouble of cooking and lets you be a little picky — you can order from your favorite restaurant. But imagine receiving your food, sitting down to eat, and it tasting… different. And then, following your gut, you learn that…
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Watch: Elon Musk’s Neuralink says this monkey is playing Pong with its mind
Neuralink, Elon Musk’s company focused on developing brain-machine interfaces, has posted a video to YouTube that appears to show a monkey navigating an on-screen cursor using only its mind. Pager, a 9-year-old macaque monkey, had a Neuralink implanted about six weeks before the video was shot, the video’s unnamed narrator…
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PSA for US Congresspeople: here’s how to set your Venmo feed to private
Hello, yes, it has come to my attention that Matt Gaetz left his Venmo feed public and The Daily Beast has used this public feed to report a salacious story about his transactions. Yeah, you read that right. His Venmo feed was public. A public Venmo feed, especially one with…
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Students of color are getting flagged to their teachers because testing software can’t see them
Proctorio, a piece of exam surveillance software designed to keep students from cheating while taking tests, relies on open-source software that has a history of racial bias issues, according to a report by Motherboard. The issue was discovered by a student who figured out how the software did facial detection,…
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Wix slams WordPress in bizarre marketing campaign Wix You Deserve Better Campaign
There are memorable marketing campaigns and there are those that fall flat as is the case with the latest campaign from the website builder and web hosting company Wix. In its new cryptic marketing campaign titled “You Deserve Better”, the company takes direct aim at the hugely popular content management…
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Counting strongly favors Amazon in warehouse union vote
It’s been a little over a week since union voting concluded for Amazon warehouse workers in Bessemer, Alabama. Things have been fairly quiet in the eye of the storm for most of it. That changed today, however, as vote counting began in earnest. Thus far, things are breaking pretty dramatically…
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