Collaborate Disseminate
The cable industry’s grip on the U.S. broadband space increased last quarter, with Comcast and Charter gaining nearly 500,000 subscribers, combined. Phone companies AT&T, Verizon, CenturyLink, and Frontier, however, all lost Internet customers. Ars… Continue reading Cable Expands Broadband Domination as AT&T and Verizon Lose Customers
Reader DaveyJJ writes: CBC is reporting that the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police, has passed a resolution calling for a legal measure to unlock digital evidence, saying criminals increasingly use encryption to hide illicit activities. The chie… Continue reading Canada’s Police Chiefs Want New Law To Compel People To Reveal Passwords
Ford will mass-produce autonomous vehicles without steering wheels by 2021, Ford chief executive Mark Fields said today at the Ford Research and Innovation Center in Palo Alto, California. Recode reports:Fields announced that the company is working tow… Continue reading Ford Plans a Fleet of Fully Autonomous Cars Operating in a Ride-Hail Service By 2021
Tech giants are betting on augmented reality and virtual reality as the “next big thing.” However, both of these nascent technologies are seeing a slow adoption rate because a user needs high-end computing power at her disposal to experience most of th… Continue reading All Windows 10 PCs Will Support HoloLens Next Year
Last week, a Tesla owner in China blamed electric vehicle’s “autopilot” feature for a crash. Amid the reports, Tesla quietly removed the term “self-driving” feature from its Chinese website. Reuters report: The Tesla driver crashed earlier this month w… Continue reading Tesla Removes ‘Self-driving’ From China Website After Beijing Crash
An anonymous reader writes:It may be hard to resist airing political grievances or appealing to voters on social media during a U.S. presidential race as heated as this one. But no one wants to hear about your politics, least of all on Facebook. Those … Continue reading Your Political Facebook Posts Aren’t Changing How Your Friends Think
A new team of specialist police officers is being set up to investigate online hate crimes, including abuse on Twitter and Facebook. The London-based hub will include a team of five officers who will support victims and identify online abuse, reports B… Continue reading Metropolitan Police To Target Online Hate Crime and Abuse
An anonymous reader writes: Video chat should be simple, but it is not. The biggest issue is fragmentation. On iOS, for instance, Facetime is a wonderfully easy solution, but there is no Android client. While there are plenty of cross-platform third-pa… Continue reading Google Duo Video Chat App Arrives On iOS and Android With End-to-end Encryption
An anonymous reader writes: Consumers think smartphone makers are releasing too many new models each year, a survey showed on Tuesday. The survey conducted in six countries, commissioned by the environmental group Greenpeace, showed that more than half… Continue reading Too Many New Smartphone Models Released Each Year: Survey
Mark Wilson, writing for BetaNews: Professional social network LinkedIn is suing 100 anonymous individuals for data scraping. It is hoped that a court order will be able to reveal the identities of those responsible for using bots to harvest user data … Continue reading LinkedIn Sues 100 Individuals For Scraping User Data From the Site