Tag: Tech
Kids Yell “Poop” At Alexa, And These Musicians Profit
For a while, the couple was making around $100 a month from the song — and then COVID hit. Kids were stuck at home with little to do, and frazzled parents became more willing than usual to let their kids be entertained by an electronic device. The streams on Amazon…
Read MoreElon Musk’s Lawyers Just Subpoenaed Ex-CEO Jack Dorsey For The Twitter Trial
Attorneys for Elon Musk have filed to subpoena former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey in his proposed defense for his ongoing battle with the social media company. Musk is being sued by Twitter in Delaware Chancery Court over his failure to close a $44 billion deal to buy the company —…
Read MoreGoogle Will Start Letting You Know When You Can’t Just Google It
If you now search for a question that has no real answer — as examples, Google cited “What year did Alexander Graham Bell first write ‘Call Me Maybe’?” and “When did Snoopy assassinate Abraham Lincoln?”, although who exactly is searching for this is still unclear — Google will refrain from…
Read MoreA South African City Says It’s Putting QR Codes On Informal Settlement Cabins To Help Services. But Residents And Privacy Experts Are Uncertain.
Xolani Mahlaba, a formerly incarcerated, unemployed 39-year-old cook living in the Mfuleni informal settlement, said his cabin is to be QR-coded in future phases. Mahlaba is intrigued by the current exercise. “We don’t fully understand the confusing gears of technology,” he said, “the internet and codes and the effect on…
Read MoreA Former Twitter Employee Was Found Guilty Of Spying For Saudi Arabia
A former employee of Twitter was found guilty Tuesday of spying on behalf of Saudi Arabia in federal court in San Francisco after a two-week trial. Ahmad Abouammo worked at Twitter from 2013 to 2015, and during that time he passed information about accounts critical of the Saudi government in…
Read More17 Celebrities Just Got Warning Letters About Shilling NFTs
When a celebrity or influencer buys into an NFT collection and then posts about it on their social media, they may be influencing the value of the entire NFT collection. Even if they paid for the NFT with their own money, they’re essentially pumping the value of their own investment.…
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