American workers in manufacturing plants and distribution centres have long worried that their employers would find ways to replace them with robots and artificial intelligence, but the Covid-19 crisis has brought that threat to service workers, too. B…
Twitter Will Auto-Block Harassers in Bid To Curb Abuse
Twitter debuted a new product called Safety Mode that will automatically block users who are being aggressive or hateful toward another person in an effort to help reduce harassment. From a report: The social networking company said it will use automat…
Atari Classic ‘Centipede’ Returns
A new version of the classic Atari game “Centipede” will be released for consoles and PC in late September under the name “Centipede: Recharged” and sporting a more futuristic look. From a report: The game’s lead developer, Adam Nickerson, first partne…
Amazon’s Answer To Delivery Driver Shortage: Recruit Pot Smokers
Amazon.com has a solution for a potentially crippling shortage of delivery drivers: Recruit pot smokers. From a report: The company is advising its delivery partners — the mom and pops that operate the ubiquitous blue Amazon vans — to prominently adv…
Australian Powers To Spy on Cybercrime Suspects Given Green Light
A government bill to create new police powers to spy on criminal suspects online, disrupt their data and take over their accounts has been passed with the support of Labor. From a repoort: The identify and disrupt bill passed the Senate on Wednesday, d…
Apple Secures First States To Support Digital Driver’s Licenses, But Privacy Questions Linger
Apple’s plan to digitize your wallet is slowly taking shape. What started with boarding passes and venue tickets later became credit cards, subway tickets, and student IDs. Next on Apple’s list to digitize are driver’s licenses and state IDs, which it …
The Original ‘Doge’ Meme Sold as an NFT for $4 Million
The legendary “Doge” meme from 2010, which portrays a shiba inu dog named Kabosu and inspired the creation of cryptocurrency dogecoin, sold for $4 million as an NFT, or non-fungible token, in June. From a report: To some, that may seem like a lot of mo…
Microsoft Previews Free Visual Studio Code for the Web
Microsoft is previewing Visual Studio Code for the Web, a code editor that runs entirely in the browser. The Register: The post introducing the new service was put up yesterday but is returning “page not found” at the time of writing, so possibly was p…
Amazon CEO Unveils 55,000 Tech Jobs in His First Hiring Push
Amazon.com is planning to hire 55,000 people for corporate and technology roles globally in the coming months, Chief Executive Andy Jassy told Reuters. From the report: That’s equal to more than a third of Google’s headcount as of June 30, and close to…
Wall Street Is Looking To Reddit for Investment Advice
Wall Street professionals tell everyday investors what stocks to buy. But now they have to follow some of these amateurs for signs of where the market is headed next. From a report: Venerable institutions Goldman Sachs Group and Morgan Stanley are trac…