People are getting frustrated that Stories are everywhere now, but Google Maps is keeping it old school. From a report: Instead of adding tiny circles to the top of the app’s screen, Google Maps is introducing its own news feed. Technically, Google calls its new feature the “Community Feed,” as it includes posts from a local area. However, it’s organized as…
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Twitter Hashtag For Far-Right Group Taken Over By Gay Men
“The Proud Boys hashtag, which members of the far-right group have been using, was trending Sunday,” reports CNN, “after gay men on Twitter hijacked it and flooded the feed with photos of their loved ones and families and with memes.” On Thursday 83-year-old George Takei (who’d play Sulu, the helmsman of the starship Enterprise, on the original Star Trek TV series)…
Who Is the Mystery Shopper Leaving Behind Thousands of Online Shopping Carts?
A Google crawler has been adding products to e-commerce site shopping carts, the Wall Street Journal reported this week. From a write-up: Sellers have been complaining about a serial cart abandoner named, John Smith. Turns out John is a Google bot. A Google spokesperson told the Wall Street Journal that it built systems to ensure the pricing seen on the product…
Annular solar eclipse on June 21, 2020
On the heels of the June solstice, the new moon will sweep directly in front of the sun on Sunday, June 21, 2020, to stage an annular – ring of fire – solar eclipse for the world’s Eastern Hemisphere. Source: https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/annular-solar-eclipse-on-june-21-2020…
Meet the Big Tech Critic Behind Hey, Basecamp’s Radical New Email Platform
The Basecamp cofounder and creator of web application framework Ruby on Rails David Heinemeier Hansson has become increasingly outspoken about Big Tech’s privacy violations and monopolistic tendencies. Now he’s inviting you to join the cause — by switching your email provider. From a report: Two years ago, he and fellow Basecamp cofounder and CEO Jason Fried decided to do something about…
TikTok ‘Tried To Filter Out Videos From Ugly, Poor Or Disabled Users’
TikTok moderators were told to suppress videos from users who appeared too ugly, poor or disabled, as part of the company’s efforts to curate an aspirational air in the videos it promotes, according to new documents published by the Intercept. From a report: The documents detail how moderators for the social video app were instructed to select content for the influential…
‘Ring’ Upgrades Privacy Settings After Accusations It Shares Data With Facebook and Google
Amazon’s Ring doorbell cameras just added two new privacy and security features “amid rising scrutiny on the company,” reports The Hill, including “a second layer of authentication by requiring users to enter a one-time code shared via email or SMS when they try to log in to see the feed from their cameras starting this week… “Until recently the company did…
Apple News No Longer Supports RSS
Mac developer Michael Tsai reports that Apple News no longer supports RSS. The news comes from user David A. Desrosiers, who writes: Apple News on iOS and macOS no longer supports adding RSS or ATOM feeds from anywhere. Full-stop, period. It will immediately fetch, then reject those feeds and fail to display them, silently without any message or error. I can…
Japanese Hotel Room Costs $1 a Night — If You’ll Livestream Yourself
“Guests coming to Asahi Ryokan have the option to pay just ¥100 (about $1) per night to stay the night — if they agree to have their entire stay livestreamed,” reports CNN:
[T]here are restrictions around how the livestreaming works. [27-year-old manager] Tetsuya Inoue explains to CNN Travel that the feed is video-only, so guests will have privacy in their conversations or…