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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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