An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Google is cooking up the first major Wear OS release since 2018, and Samsung is abandoning Tizen for smartwatches and going all-in on Wear OS with the Galaxy Watch 4. Last night, Samsung took the w…
US Prisons Mull AI To Analyze Inmate Phone Calls
A key House of Representatives panel has pressed for a report to study the use of artificial intelligence to analyze prisoners’ phone calls. “But prisoners’ advocates and inmates’ families say relying on AI to interpret communications opens up the syst…
Amazon Awarded Secret $10 Billion NSA Cloud Computing Contract
The National Security Agency has awarded a cloud computing contract worth up to $10 billion to Amazon, Nextgov reported Tuesday. The Hill reports: The contract, named “WildandStormy” according to protest filings obtained by the outlet, appears to be pa…
AMD’s Radeon RX 6600 XT Launched To Compete Against NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
MojoKid writes: AMD officially unveiled the Radeon RX 6600 XT in late July but the cards have officially launched today, aimed at 1080p gaming. In a review at HotHardware, PowerColor is offering both a high-end Radeon RX 6600 XT Red Devil and its somew…
Twitter Algorithm Prefers Slimmer, Younger, Light-Skinned Faces
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: A Twitter image-cropping algorithm prefers to show faces that are slimmer, younger and with lighter skin, a researcher has found. Bogdan Kulynyc won $3,500 in a Twitter-organized contest to find biases …
The McFlurry Machine Company Just Got Hit With a McRestraining Order
“A lawsuit between the company that makes McFlurry machines and a company that manufactures a third-party diagnostic tool for them is part of a broader ‘right to repair’ battle,” writes Slashdot reader ttyler. Gizmodo reports: If you’ve been to a McDon…
TikTok Overtakes Facebook As World’s Most Downloaded App
According to a new study, China’s video-sharing app TikTok is now the most downloaded app in the world. Nikkei Asia reports: ByteDance launched the international version of TikTok in 2017, and has since overtaken Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram and Faceb…
Oregon Law Allows Students To Graduate Without Proving They Can Write Or Do Math
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Oregon Live: For the next five years, an Oregon high school diploma will be no guarantee that the student who earned it can read, write or do math at a high school level. Gov. Kate Brown had demurred earlier thi…
UK Broadband Rollout Trial To Target Hard-To-Reach Homes Through Water Pipes
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: The government has launched a [4 million pound] fund to back projects trialling running fiber optic broadband cables through water pipes to help connect hard-to-reach homes without digging up roads…
New Carnivorous Plant Discovered In Pacific Northwest
A pretty little white flower that grows near urban centers of the Pacific Northwest turns out to be a killer. NPR reports: The bog-dwelling western false asphodel, Triantha occidentalis, was first described in the scientific literature in 1879. But unt…