Extraterrestrials Prefer Firefox

Spotted somewhere in Oregon. And the best part, it was done with graphing calculators and string.

Canonical’s Anbox Cloud puts Android in the cloud | TechCrunch 22 January 2020

Canonical, the company behind the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution, today announced the launch of Anbox Cloud, a new platform that allows enterprises to run Android in the cloud.

Facebook, Twitter hold evidence that could save people from prison. And they’re not giving it up - SFChronicle.com 22 January 2020

But new evidence has been unearthed that his attorneys say will show he was 600 miles away from Rawah at the time of the killing. Additionally, an Islamic State Twitter account that the company suspended, as well as a suspended Facebook account, could be instrumental in proving Ameen’s innocence. But the social media giants are […]

Supreme Court declines to hear Facebook facial recognition case | TheHill 22 January 2020

The case, Facebook vs. Patel, hinges on a question over whether Facebook violated Illinois law when it implemented a photo-tagging feature that recognized users' faces and suggested their names without obtaining adequate consent. Facebook argued to the Supreme Court that the class-action case should not be allowed to proceed because the group of users have […]

Amazon boss Jeff Bezos's phone 'hacked by Saudi crown prince' | Technology | The Guardian 22 January 2020

Large amounts of data were exfiltrated from Bezos’s phone within hours,

Opinion | Banning Facial Recognition Isn’t Enough - The New York Times 20 January 2020

it doesn’t matter which technology is used to identify people. That there currently is no comprehensive database of heart beats or gaits doesn’t make the technologies that gather them any less effective. And most of the time, it doesn’t matter if identification isn’t tied to a real name. What’s important is that we can be […]

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