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SpaceX biggest launch to date will be their Crew Dragon spacecraft to the International Space station which will lead to manned crews to ISS later this year. SpaceX has a lot riding on this launch happening in the early morning hours this coming Saturday. I am all packed and headed to Florida for business and the Podfest conference next week.
YouTube posted an update on their Creator Blog that provides an explanation of their actions related to the safety of minors. YouTube has disabled comments on videos featuring minors. Over the past week, we disabled comments from tens of millions of videos that could be subject to predatory behavior. These efforts are focused on videos featuring young minors and we
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that the operators of the video social networking app Musical.ly (now known as TikTok) have agreed to pay $5.7 million to settle FTC allegations that the company illegally collected personal information form children. This is the largest civil penalty ever obtained by the FTC in a children's privacy case. The FTC's complaint (which filed
The Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Competition announced the creation of a Technology Task Force. It is dedicated to monitoring competition in the U.S. technology markets, investigating any potential anticompetitive conduct in those markets, and taking enforcement actions when warranted. The creation of this task force is modeled on the FTC's Merger Litigation Task Force which reinvigorated the Bureau of Competition's
Facebook Moderators face unprecedented trauma on a daily basis by being exposed to the absolute worst that humanity can throw at them. I was barely able to complete the expose by The Verge and could really resonate with what they had to put up with. We have been talking about Facebook a lot in the past number of weeks and
Microsoft introduced the HoloLens 2 at MWC Barcelona. It is an improved version of the original Microsoft HoloLens. Here are some details about the improvements. Immersion is greatly enhanced by advancements across the board, including the visual display system, making holograms even more vibrant and realistic. Microsoft more than doubled the field of view in HoloLens 2, while maintaining the
TechCrunch reported that Facebook “will end its unpaid market research programs and proactively take its Onavo VPN app off the Google Play store”. This comes after TechCrunch's investigation about Onavo code being used in a “Facebook Research” app that was sucking up data (including the data from teenagers). The Onavo Protect app will eventually shut down, and will immediately cease
Reverse digital search warrants are where law enforcement request wide sweeping data of cell phone location information within a crime perimeter at a certain time. They are doing this to look at the digital data to try and determine a suspect. Some are concerned about the privacy rights of those innocent people that may be in the general area around
Movies and music have been lynch-pins of popular culture going back to the middle of the 20th century, capturing and delivering on the zeitgeist of a generation. Many films and albums have become iconic, instantly recognisable from a scene, a track or an album cover...which makes them ripe for a send-up. Steven Lear (aka whythelongplayface) takes on these sacred cows
Google presented a white paper titled “How Google Fights Disinformation” at the Munich Security Conference. The white paper provides details about Google's work to tackle the spread of misinformation – across Google Search, Google News, YouTube and their advertising systems. One thing Google is doing is giving users more context. Here is how they do that: “Knowledge: or “Information” Panels
The House of Commons Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport Committee released a report titled “Disinformation and 'fake news': Final Report”. The 18-month report is focused on Facebook. It concluded that Facebook broke privacy and competition law and should be subject to statutory regulation. The Guardian posted a detailed article about the report. It included a quote from it: “Companies like
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) posted a rule in the Federal Register requiring small drone owners to display the FAA-issued registration number on an outside surface of the aircraft. Owner and operators may no longer place or write registration numbers in an interior compartment. The rule is effective on February 25, 2019. The markings must be in place for any
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