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  • Harrisburg University develops facial recognition software to ID criminals, no racial bias
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  • IBM Teams With 3 European Power Grids to Build Green Energy Blockchain Platform
  • ‘DO NOT click the link’; Police warn of scam COVID-19 text messages
  • How Digital Contact Tracing Could Work in the US, and Why It May Never Happen
  • Drone Surveys Rail Tracks in Automated Shipping Yard
  • A Private Spy Was Caught Using a Hacking Tool to Target Their Crush
  • This Company Is Paying People $1,830 to Film Them Constantly
  • MIT’s new wearable lets you control drones with Jedi-like arm gestures
  • How China’s New National Cryptocurrency Changes Everything
  • Mozilla & the Rebel Alliance
  • Amazon, Whole Foods, Instacart Workers Organize a Historic Mass Strike
  • Hancock grants GCHQ powers over NHS IT systems
  • Israeli firm raises $5 million for tech to recognize mask-covered faces
  • Show but don’t tell: why silent Zooms are golden for focusing the mind
  • NHS rejects Apple-Google coronavirus app plan
  • Private sector races to build virus apps to track employees
  • Would You Sacrifice Your Privacy to Get Out of Quarantine?
  • How memes got weaponized: A short history
  • There’s an app for that: Coronavirus apps
  • 267 million Facebook profiles sold for $600 on the dark web
  • Machine learning could check if you’re social distancing properly at work
  • HEXA
  • Taiwan to develop military exoskeleton because it’s not like these things are open-sourced or one-size-fits-all
  • Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos grows fortune by $24bn amid coronavirus pandemic
  • EVOLUTION OF BOSTON DYNAMICS 2012-2019
  • Apple and Google have a clever way of encouraging people to install contact-tracing apps for COVID-19
  • Russian hackers tried to steal San Francisco airport Windows accounts
  • How China built facial recognition for people wearing masks
  • MIT Scientists Are Building Devices to Hack Your Dreams
  • Some shirts hide you from cameras—but will anyone wear them?
  • Amazon is tracking warehouse workers and says it could fire them for violating social distancing rules
  • “The long tail of contact tracing”
  • Ghost ships, crop circles, and soft gold: A GPS mystery in Shanghai
  • Thousands of Android apps contain undocumented backdoors, study finds
  • Tech giants are finding creative ways to use our data to fight the coronavirus
  • The Impact of the Gig Economy
  • Aphex Twin warns of “police state” and mourns loss of his father in new message to fans
  • ‘It Felt Like a Black Mirror Episode’ The Inside Account of How Bird Laid off 406 People in Two Minutes via a Zoom Webinar
  • Lime’s Valuation May Fall 80% in Emergency Fundraising
  • Iran Launched an App That Claimed to Diagnose Coronavirus. Instead, It Collected Location Data on Millions of People.
  • Taiwan’s new ‘electronic fence’ for quarantines leads wave of virus monitoring
  • Poland made an app that forces coronavirus patients to take regular selfies to prove they’re indoors or face a police visit
  • People Are Looping Videos to Fake Paying Attention in Zoom Meetings
  • Gun-Rights Activist Releases Blueprints for Digital Guns
  • Palantir in Talks With Germany, France for Virus-Fighting Tool
  • Edward Snowden says COVID-19 could give governments invasive new data-collection powers that could last long after the pandemic
  • Zoom Faces Class Action Lawsuit for Sharing Data with Facebook
  • Is China’s social credit system as Orwellian as it sounds?
  • Coronavirus Fake News Isn’t Like Other Fake News
  • YouTube and Amazon Also Lowering Video Quality in Europe
  • It’s time to track people’s smartphones to ensure they self-isolate during this global pandemic, says WHO boffin
  • Coronavirus Reality Check: Yes, U.S. And Europe Will Track Our Phone Location Data—Get Used To It
  • In a Recent Simulation, a Coronavirus Killed 65 Million People
  • Tinder is letting everyone swipe around the world for free to find quarantine buddies
  • Scientists create quantum sensor that covers entire radio frequency spectrum
  • This AI system listens to coughs to learn where the coronavirus is spreading
  • Panasonic to suspend battery production at Tesla joint venture in Nevada due to coronavirus
  • NYC mayor tests Elon Musk’s offer to make ventilators during the coronavirus crisis
  • Hong Kong is using tracker wristbands to geofence people under coronavirus quarantine
  • Representing Scenes as Neural Radiance Fields for View Synthesis
  • An app for tracking coronavirus in your community is almost here
  • British Army adopts WhatsApp for formal orders as coronavirus isolation kicks in
  • Amazon hiring 100K workers to fill order surge during coronavirus outbreak
  • To Track Virus, Governments Weigh Surveillance Tools That Push Privacy Limits
  • Meet China’s fabulous cross-dressing computer coders
  • Foreign Actors Behind Recent Coronavirus Cyber Attacks
  • Spanish Police Using Drones to Yell at People Breaking Quarantine
  • Amazon’s Supply Chain Is Breaking and Small Businesses Are Screwed
  • Coronavirus: Amazon suspends all shipments to its warehouses except medical supplies and ‘high-demand’ products
  • Facebook was marking legitimate news articles about the coronavirus as spam due to a software bug
  • Leaked Documents Expose the Secretive Market for Your Web Browsing Data
  • China’s coronavirus app could have unintended consequences
  • Housebound Italian Kids Strain Network With Fortnite Marathon
  • World’s #1 Phone Monitoring Software
  • A new computer chip mimics the neurocircuitry of our noses to smell
  • Microsoft’s GitHub absorbs NPM into its code-hosting empire: JavaScript library vault used by 12 million devs now under Redmond’s roof
  • COVID-19 impacts on Internet traffic: Seattle, Northern Italy and South Korea
  • self-isolate or get paid? That’s the choice for gig workers in a virus outbreak, and it’s a big problem for the rest of us.
  • food delivery firms start contactless services during pandemic
  • NSO group fires back at facebook: you lied to the court, claims spyware slinger, and we’ve got the proof
  • pornhub is giving italians free premium access during coronavirus quarantine
  • reporters without borders uses minecraft to sneak censored works across borders
  • thought you were done after Tuesday’s 115-fix day? not yet: microsoft emits SMBv3 worm-cure crisis patch
  • major travel influencers say their lives and jobs have taken a pretty significant hit due to the coronavirus
  • autonomous robots are helping kill coronavirus in hospitals
  • a bill gates program will send at-home coronavirus tests to seattle residents
  • firefox 74 slams facebook in solitary confinement
  • chelsea manning attempted suicide in jail
  • people are making ASMR videos about the coronavirus Now, because 2020
  • intel CSME bug is worse than previously thought
  • google is making it easier to develop quantum machine-learning apps
  • swarm of robots forms complex shapes without centralized control
  • microsoft hijacks necurs botnet that infected 9 million pcs worldwide
  • first contact with laurie segall
  • the coronavirus is the first true social-media “infodemic”
  • donotpay made an extension for sharing netflix passwords with friends
  • how ‘smart tech’ masks an emerging era of corporate control
  • surveillance firm banjo used a secret company and fake apps to scrape social media
  • spying concerns raised over iran’s official COVID-19 detection app
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