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Facebook issued a “fake news” notice on a post made by The States Times Review at the request of the Singapore government. According to the BBC, Facebook said it “is legally required to tell you that the Singapore government says this post has false information.” Singapore claimed the post had “scurrilous accusations”. The BBC reported that the addition of the
The European Commission antitrust regulators are investigating Google's collection of data. This comes months after the U.S. Department of Justice announced that they were reviewing how Google's platforms have reduced competition. Reuters reported that an EU executive said the Commission was seeking information on how and why Alphabet unit Google is collecting data. A document seen by Reuters indicates the
Chinese Online Spying system automatically keeps score of what you're doing digitally and who you hang out with to determine if you will earn yourself a one year stay at an internment camp for 1 year for re-education and torture. This is all spelled out in detail. Jet Lagged like a big dog here in Hawaii. Swag Offer / Sticker
In sad news, Blade Runner production designer Lawrence Paull passed away on 10 November aged 81. Along with Syd Mead, David Snyder and Ridley Scott, he was instrumental in creating the dystopian vision of Los Angeles in November 2019. A prescient world of incessant rain, neon and murderous replicants, it's one of my personal favourites. Nominated for an Academy Award
President Obama weighed in on how technology is causing issues in the country today and I have a tendency to agree with him to an extent. In my dialogue tonight I encourage you to take a tech break on Thanksgiving if you can. As a test to see how dependent you are on your phone. Swag Offer / Sticker Swap
PayPal announced that it has agreed to acquire Honey Science Corporation, a rapidly-growing technology platform for shopping and rewards, for approximately $4 billion. The acquisition supports PayPal and Honey's shared mission to simplify and personalize shopping experiences for consumers while driving conversion and increasing consumer engagement and sales for merchants. The combination will help accelerate growth across both companies. Honey
It's hard to get enough sleep in today's busy world. You get home from work, cook dinner, help with homework, get the children to bed, tidy up, put the laundry on, do some ironing and it's midnight before you know it. Where did the evening go? And if that's not bad enough, some people are making it worse by taking
The Mustang Mach-E has debuted and it will be all muscle without a muscle engine. It will have a battery instead. Hey family, nothing like a snowstorm to mess up production. All good plans went in the toilet last week when the weather went sideways. I'm back and will be in the Michigan Studio on Thursday Swag Offer / Sticker
Google announced that is has acquired CloudSimple, which Google describes as “a leading provider of secure, high performance, dedicated environments to run VMware workloads in the cloud.” CloudSimple has its headquarters in Santa Clara, California. It also has locations in Ukraine and India. Google started a partnership with CloudSimple earlier this year. The purpose of the partnership appears to be
Cortana's days are numbered. Microsoft announced that Cortana services will no longer be supported after January 31, 2020. This warning could give those who were using Cortana some time to find a different digital assistant. Here is the support note from Microsoft's UK site: To make your personal digital assistant as helpful as possible, we're integrating Cortana into your Microsoft
Google announced that it will be upgrading Android Messages with RCS. This new feature has already begun rolling out to users in the United States. Those who already have Messages will be prompted to enable chat features in the coming weeks. Android users who don't yet have it can download it in the Play Store. Google expects to have this
The Department of Defense selected Microsoft over Amazon on a contract for their Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) project. In short, the Department of Defense selected Microsoft's Azure Cloud over Amazon's AWS business. As you may have expected, Amazon is displeased by this decision. The Washington Post (which is owned by Jeff Bezos, who is also the founder of Amazon),
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