The Simple Way Apple And Google Let Domestic Abusers Stalk Victims
One morning a couple of weeks ago, I handed my iPhone to my wife and asked her to help with a privacy experiment.

July 2, 2019 at 01:07PM
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In The 1980s, One Of The World’s Cellphone Hot Spots Was… Zaire
Telecel, the company Joseph Gatt and Miko Rwayitare formally founded in 1986, had 3,000 subscribers in Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo) — well before mobile phones were ubiquitous in America.

July 2, 2019 at 07:49AM
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Scientists Took An MRI Scan Of An Atom
The hospital technology, typically used to identify human ailments, captured perhaps the world’s smallest magnetic resonance image.

July 2, 2019 at 06:42AM
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‘Deepfake’ Revenge Porn Is Now Illegal In Virginia
The law, which went into effect Monday, now makes it illegal to share nude photos of videos of someone without their permission — whether they’re real or fake ones.

July 1, 2019 at 07:51PM
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‘We All Suffer’: Why San Francisco Techies Hate The City They Transformed
San Franciscans have long complained that tech workers ruined their city, driving up rents and homelessness and eliminating diversity. Now even the tech workers agree.

July 1, 2019 at 03:53PM
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Here’s How The Apple Computers Of 1987 Envisioned The Future
While they didn’t quite get the specifics right, the core ideas about life in the twenty-first century are pretty accurate.

July 1, 2019 at 03:53PM
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Ebooks Purchased From Microsoft Will Be Deleted This Month Because You Don’t Really Own Anything Anymore
Microsoft announced in April that it would stop selling ebooks and that any books the company already sold would stop working in early July because the DRM servers were being shut off. Yes, you read that correctly.

July 1, 2019 at 10:07AM
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How The iPhone Helped Save The Planet
Steve Jobs advised us to “make a little dent in the Universe,” but it feels like the devices introduced by his company and others have made a big dent in the overall health of our planet. But some important measures don’t support this gloomy view.

July 1, 2019 at 08:07AM
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A Surprising Compendium Of Car Phones Dating Back To The 1940s
The original carphone weighed about 80 pounds.

June 29, 2019 at 10:35AM
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Amazon’s Facial Analysis Program Is Building A Dystopic Future For Trans And Nonbinary People
The program is designed around Amazon’s assumptions about gender identity, an omission that becomes even more disturbing as Amazon’s software gets silently integrated into our lives.

June 29, 2019 at 07:46AM
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