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Heading home at 500 knots. #
Time to put the feed bag on the horse and hang up mah spurs, I’m a-home agin. Yee haw. #

HP printers try to send data back to HP about your devices and what you print | Robert Heaton 17 September 2019

Product Usage Data – We collect product usage data such as pages printed, print mode, media used, ink or toner brand, file type printed (.pdf, .jpg, etc.), application used for printing (Word, Excel, Adobe Photoshop, etc.), file size, time stamp, and usage and status of other printer supplies. We do not scan or collect the […]

Google announces October 15th hardware event for Pixel 4 - The Verge 17 September 2019

Google has invited media to a hardware event on October 15th in New York City. The company is expected to formally announce the Pixel 4, Pixel 4 XL, and other devices, including a Pixelbook 2 and new Google Home speakers. The invite says “Come see a few new things Made by Google.”

Amazon Changed Search Algorithm in Ways That Boost Its Own Products - WSJ 17 September 2019

Late last year, these people said, Amazon optimized the secret algorithm that ranks listings so that instead of showing customers mainly the most-relevant and best-selling listings when they search—as it had for more than a decade—the site also gives a boost to items that are more profitable for the company.

Get popcorn for iOS 13’s privacy pop-ups of creepy Facebook data grabs | TechCrunch 16 September 2019

But in a truly shameless contradiction Facebook also goes on to claim that: “You’re in control of who sees your location on Facebook” (because it says users can make use of the Location Services setting on a phone or tablet to deny tracking) — before admitting that switching off Location Services doesn’t actually mean Facebook […]

TextMate: Text editor for macOS 16 September 2019

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