Oakland Privacy Commission recommends against using facial recognition technology
The Oakland Privacy Commission on Thursday unanimously approved a recommendation to the city council to ban any type of facial recognition technology.
Innovation interrupted: Facebook lawsuit diverts attention from F8 2019
F8, Facebook’s annual developer’s conference, wrapped up Wednesday afternoon. But news from a Delaware courtroom captured part of the attention usually garnered by discussions surrounding innovation.
Family sues Tesla after Apple engineer dies in Mountain View crash
Tesla is facing a wrongful death lawsuit as the family of an Apple engineer who died when his Model X accelerated and crashed into a highway barrier on US Highway 101 says the company's software is not safe.
Interactive tool shows what tech giants know about you
If you’ve never bothered to read the privacy policies of all the free apps and services that everyone considers essential, here’s a handy tool that digs into the specifics of what you’ve parted with.
F8 2019: 10 major announcements from Facebook on day one
“The Future is Private”, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg declared in his keynote at F8, the social network’s annual conference in San Jose Tuesday. For analysts and critics, Facebook’s pivot to privacy has been a closely watched development ever since he alluded to it in a post in March this year.
Apple's fiscal 2Q revenue, profit sag amid iPhone slump
Apple's sales are still shrinking amid weakening iPhone demand, despite the company's increasing emphasis on services designed to bring in a steady flow of money from the 1.4 billion of its devices still in use. Revenue for the January-March quarter fell 5% from the same time in 2017 to $58 billion, the company said in its earnings report Tuesday. That downturn followed a 5% drop in the...
Mysterious data breach: Personal info on more than 80 million households exposed: report
In a data breach that could impact hundreds of millions of US citizens, security researchers have uncovered a mysterious database with personal information of around 80 million American households lying exposed on a Microsoft cloud server.
Piracy streaming apps are infested with malware, researchers say
A reminder that there’s no honor among thieves - piracy streaming devices and apps are six times more likely to be inflicted with malware, a recent cybersecurity investigation has found.
Spotify hits 100 million paid user mark
Music streaming service Spotify said Monday that its paying subscribers have reached 100 million for the first time, up 32% on the year and almost twice the latest figures for Apple Music. The Stockholm-based company called the figure, which was reached during the first three months of 2019, "an important milestone."
Marriott launches home-sharing service Homes and Villas
Marriott is pushing more heavily into home-sharing, confident that its combination of luxury properties and loyalty points can lure travelers away from rivals like Airbnb. The world's biggest hotel company will soon start taking reservations through its website for 2,000 homes in 100 markets in the U.S., Europe and Latin America. It plans to expand its Homes and Villas program to other...
Teen sues Apple for $1B, blames facial recognition for wrongful arrests
A young man from New York is suing Apple for $1 billion, claiming that a facial recognition system falsely connected him to a series of thefts, which caused him great humiliation, a missed midterm exam and hours traveling to different states to prove he was innocent.
San Francisco-based Uber looks to raise up to $9B in initial public offering
Uber is planning to sell 180 million shares for between $44 and $50 each, valuing the ride-hailing giant lower than previous estimates in a sign of that some of the excitement around ride-hailing has cooled.
New restaurant surcharge for climate change in California
Fighting climate change may soon be as easy as eating a meal out. A new 1 % surcharge at restaurants will raise money for environmentally friendly farming.
Kohl's to start accepting Amazon returns this July
It's about to be even easier to make an Amazon return - and you won't even need a box to do it.
Online school for tech sales lets you pay when you get paid
Getting a job at a tech company seems like a remote possibility for most people – the traditional route has been software development – a skill with a steep learning curve.
Trump meets with Twitter CEO amid bias complaints
President Donald Trump said he had a "great meeting" Tuesday with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, hours after bashing the company and accusing it of not treating him well because he's a Republican.
This GIF app makes you an Avenger
If a picture is worth a thousand words, a reaction GIF that show your emotions should count for at least half of that. For those hyped about Avengers: Endgame, there’s now a website where you can swap in your face onto the popular characters.
Tesla CEO plans to roll out a robotaxi fleet in 2020
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Tesla CEO Elon Musk expects to start converting the company's electric cars into fully self-driving vehicles next year as part of an audacious plan to create a network of robotic taxis to compete against Uber and other ride-hailing services.
5 reasons experts think autonomous cars are many years away
PITTSBURGH (AP) - In the world of autonomous vehicles, Pittsburgh, Phoenix and Silicon Valley are bustling hubs of development and testing. But ask those involved in self-driving vehicles when we might actually see them carrying passengers in every city, and you'll get an almost universal answer: Not anytime soon. An optimistic assessment is 10 years. Many others say decades as researchers...
US expands probe into air bag failures to 12.3M vehicles
U.S. auto safety regulators have expanded an investigation into malfunctioning air bag controls to include 12.3 million vehicles because the bags may not inflate in a crash.