Notices tagged with technology, page 4

Hi all,

I'm happy to report that with permission, I'm re-uploading the Cory Doctorow Podcast from craphound.com here on funkwhale :

@craphound

If you're interested in Sci-fi, technology and it's implications Cory Doctorow's work is mandatory reading/listening:)

#podcast #funkwhale #sci-fi #technology #author

@pluralistic @funkwhale

"Peter Kirstein, a British computer scientist who was widely recognized as the father of the European internet, died on Wednesday at his home in London. He was 86.

His daughter, Sara Lynn Black, said the cause was a brain tumor."

#Internet #Technology #ComputerHistory #Networking #TcpIp #Networks

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/08/technology/peter-kirstein-dead.html

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Google has suspended controversial ‘field research’ that allegedly scanned homeless people - The Verge

Less than two weeks ahead of the Pixel 4 flagship smartphone’s debut, Google is reportedly pulling the plug on a controversial “field research” program that offered subjects in US cities a $5 gift certificate in exchange for a scan of their face — after a New York Daily News report that one Google contracting agency was actively targeting homeless people in Atlanta and tricking unwitting college students into participating.