David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of Ruby on Rails and co-founder of Basecamp, went viral yesterday after alleging that the algorithm making credit decisions for the Apple Card, backed by Goldman Sachs, is making inherently sexist decisions. The tweets have prompted the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) to investigate. The latest allegations of algorithmic […]
Instagram has been testing out a change that hides the “likes” counter on posts around the world for months, but not in the US. According to Instagram head Adam Mosseri, that’s about to change. During an interview at the Wired 25 event today Mosseri explained that it will start testing the change in the US […]
Apple has always been known as one of the most privacy-focused tech giants, but no company is perfect. IT Specialist Bob Gendler on Wednesday published a Medium blog post that claims Apple’s encrypted email technology is perhaps not as encrypted as you might think. While investigating the link between macOS and Siri — particularly, the […]
This week, Netflix began notifying customers that it will no longer support Samsung smart TVs, circa 2010 and 2011, or Vizio smart TV more than four years old. It’s also dropping support for first-generation Roku boxes. The changes go into effect December 2nd. The news isn’t too surprising Netflix cannot support all hardware indefinitely but […]
Microsoft’s new Surface Pro X computer may not have taken the world by storm as a Windows-on-ARM showcase, but as iFixit’s teardown reveals, the new hardware design is groundbreaking in other respects by being far easier to repair than other Surfaces. It starts with how Microsoft has built the SSD into the Surface Pro X. […]
Visit YouTube today, you’ll see a pop-up window alerting you that the platform’s Terms of Service will be updated on December 10th. The new terms do not change the way YouTube treats your info, and YouTube isn’t changing how it uses creators’ content, but it is clarifying a few of its policies. The new terms […]
T-Mobile promised its nationwide 5G network was coming before the end of the year, and now we have a launch date: Dec. 6. The carrier announced today during a live stream dedicated to its upcoming merger with Sprint. According to CEO John Legere, 200 million customers will have access to the network on day one, […]
Yandex, is working on its own autonomous package carrier, called Yandex.Rover. Russia’s search and services giant has expanded its ambitions in the world of autonomous transportation, building on its work with self-driving cars to deploy a six-wheeled robot that adopts the popular cooler on wheels style pioneered by Starship Robotics. Its self-driving division is trialing […]
WhatsApp is giving you more ways to block people from adding you to group chats. Its updated privacy settings replace the original “nobody” option with a “my contacts except” choice that lets you prevent certain people (or all of them, if you prefer) from dragging you into a group. “WhatsApp is introducing a new setting […]
Today, Apple released a new privacy page that makes its privacy policy easier to read and understand. The new privacy page looks more like a product page than your standard screen of black and white text. The refreshed apple.com/privacy page uses just a few words to describe how each app protects your privacy. If you […]
Microsoft has made a few small tweaks to the Windows 10 search function, designed to help users get everyday info that bit quicker Search Home. The new Quick Searches feature in Search Home includes 4 new options like Weather, Top news, Today in history, and New movies. Weather gives users information on current conditions and […]
Yesterday Twitter acknowledged the “frustrating” issue, and now an update to address it is rolling out via the App Store. It’s unclear if it was supposed to be a seamless addition of new tweets that simply didn’t behave properly, but now users should be able to decide whether or not the tweet they’re looking at […]
Facebook is reportedly working on facial-recognition software that would verify the identities of users trying to access the app. Jane Manchun Wong, a technology blogger and app researcher who unlocks features before they launch, tweeted out a prototype of Facebook’s facial-recognition identity login on. This is how Facebook's Facial Recognition-based Identity Verification looks like It […]
The UK’s Civil Aviation Authority is requiring operators to register their drones. The registration system is a way to connect drones to their owners, both to return drones which get lost and to ensure that operators are flying their drones responsibly. The registration is cheap, at just £9, but operators will need to take an […]
Xiaomi has unveiled the CC9 Pro smartphone that has one of the highest-resolution cameras period that you can buy. For instance, the 108-megapixel wide-angle camera has more resolution than Fujifilm’s 102-megapixel GFX 100 medium format camera, which has a sensor about 15 times larger. On top of that, the CC9 Pro has four other rear […]