5 Years After San Francisco Banned Face Recognition, Voters Ask for More Surveillance
San Francisco made history in 2019 when its Board of Supervisors voted to ban city agencies including the police department from using face recognition. About two dozen other US cities have since followed suit. But on Tuesday San Francisco voters appeared to turn against the idea of restricting police technology, backing a ballot proposition that […]
Jason Palmer, the guy who beat Biden in American Samoa, explained
On Tuesday, President Joe Biden experienced his only primary loss in the cycle thus far. In the US territory of American Samoa, Biden lost narrowly to a relative unknown: businessman Jason Palmer. It’s a surprising defeat, but not one that will have a major effect on the broader election outcome, given Biden’s overwhelming lead in […]
TMNT: Turtles creator talks new Last Ronin game progress
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMNT) creator Kevin Eastman has given us more details on the new Last Ronin game in development. Whilst chatting to Game Informer, Eastman told Brian Shae where the project was currently, saying that “everything I’ve seen – we’ve been interacting with the development crew – and it looks like some of […]
Big Tech firms beat lawsuit from child laborers forced to work in cobalt mines
Enlarge / Workers at a cobalt mine in the Mwenga territory of South Kivu province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo on July 14, 2023. Getty Images | Anadolu Apple and other major tech companies don’t have to compensate victims of forced child labor that provided cobalt for the lithium-ion batteries used in many […]
Twitch is looking at life beyond the livestream
In an open letter published on Wednesday, Twitch CEO Dan Clancy outlined the livestreaming company’s plans for 2024, with a focus on helping streamers grow their audiences even when they aren’t live. This year, Twitch plans to overhaul its app for the first time in five years, ditching its longstanding design to focus on a […]
ALPHV claims to shut down, but impact of its hack of Change Health goes on
A notorious ransomware gang said Tuesday that it had shut down, but it left American prescription services in continued chaos after two weeks, showing the difficulty in trying to counter a massive shape-shifting criminal economy. ALPHV, the gang blamed for the massive the Feb. 21 attack on UnitedHealth Group’s Change Healthcare unit, took in a […]
Snag a Lifetime License to Microsoft Project 2021 for Just $24
Managing a project and a team can be very taxing, especially as the team gets larger and there are more and more competing needs. That’s why having solid project management software is important, and while there are a lot of options out there, the one from Microsoft is rather good. Not only that, but it’s […]