A small town girl living in a robots world. But these robots only exist online and don't look like Gabriel Luna. I cover things relating to AI and cybersecurity, topics that are increasingly converging.
Zoom announced that it has begun rolling out an advertising program for millions of Basic users who take advantage of the free video conferencing service. At least for now, ads will show only on the browser page that users see after a meeting ends. In Zoom’s announcement blog post, the companyContinue Reading
Two headlines caught my eye today, and sadly they are related. Meta (the faceless corp. once known as Facebook) took down a large troll farm on Facebook run by Nicaragua’s government. The tale of the troll farm plays out like I would have expected, from Facebook’s report, “We removed a networkContinue Reading
Recently Facebook announced a name change and a bit of a new vision for the company’s future. That new vision, called the metaverse, is really a vision for the internet, not just Facebook. As a concept of a future iteration of the internet, the metaverse made up of shared virtual realityContinue Reading
Facebook has been a busy little beaver this week. It’s just possible the social network, with 2.89 billion users, generated more headlines this week than Dave Chappelle’s extremely overly discussed three-week-old stand-up special. Here’s a bit of a round-up of some of the reason’s the social network made headlines thisContinue Reading
In February 2020, the world seemed to shut down, and it’s reopened and re shut down several times since. With nearly two years of only intermittent access to the real world, it’s not surprising that everything from escape rooms to medical care moved online. Almost every work-related meeting having moved to the internet isContinue Reading
In a statement YouTube said, starting today it will remove content uploaded to its platform containing allegations that fraud or widespread errors altered the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. The video platform said content “that misleads people by alleging that widespread fraud or errors changed the outcome” of theContinue Reading
Uber Sells Its Self-driving Unit To Aurora “Uber’s self-driving unit, Advanced Technologies Group (ATG), is being acquired by its start-up competitor Aurora Innovation, the companies announced Monday. The deal, expected to close in the first quarter of 2021, values ATG at approximately $4 billion. The unit was valued at $7.25 billion inContinue Reading
AliveCor, a startup developing algorithms to detect health issues from heart rate readings, announced a $65 million raise in series E financing, led by existing investors OMRON, Khosla Ventures, WP Global Partners, Qualcomm Ventures and Bold Capital Partners. The company says they will use the funds to support growth ofContinue Reading
For years now Google let users store a limitless number of compressed images in the cloud using the Google Photos app. But, just like other “unlimited” things in technology unlimited is a myth. Free unlimited storage is vanishing from the Google Photos app on June 1, 2021. From that point forward users willContinue Reading
Let’s Encrypt, the free SSL certificate provider used by over 100 Million websites including this one announced that a root certificate its service uses, provided by IdenTrust, is set to expire on September 1, 2021. The non-profit certificate authority is ready for the expiration and will use its own root certificateContinue Reading