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Apple Won't Allow Villains To Use Its Products on Screen, Says Rian Johnson (inputmag.com) Posted by msmash on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @11:10AM from the no-iPhone-for-you dept. Apple is trying really, really hard to always come off as the good guys. From a report: According to Rian Johnson, director of…

By Jerri-Lynn Scofield, who has worked as a securities lawyer and a derivatives trader. She is currently writing a book about textile artisans. New Mexico attorney general (AG) Hector Balderas sued Google last week for violating children’s privacy, presenting claims under the federal Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and New…

So here's another seemingly incidental, apparently unexpected consequence of Brexit. Google is moving the data it holds on British users (and who can begin even to estimate the amount that the (Don't Be) Evil company has sucked up, sold and otherwise "monetised" hitherto?) from the aegis of the European Union…

Skip to comments. Beijing Admits Coronavirus Didn’t Start in Wuhan Food Market – Senator Cotton Tweets Vindication… CONSERVATIVE TREEHOUSE ^ | 2/22/2020 | SUNDANCE Posted on 02/23/2020 9:07:54 AM PST by bitt The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) now admits to an internal report showing the Coronavirus did not originate from…

Uncanny Valley. By Anna Wiener. MCD Books; 288 pages; $27. Fourth Estate; £16.99.Lurking: How a Person Became a User. By Joanne McNeil. MCD Books; 288 pages; $28.IN THE PAST decade the number of people using the internet has leapt from 1.8bn, or a quarter of the world, to 4.1bn, well…

Eric "Astro" Teller, X's Captain of MoonshotsDamien Maloney Gandalf arrives on rollerblades. It’s morning in the cafeteria at X – formerly Google X – and Astro Teller, X’s Captain of Moonshots, glides over dressed in coarse grey robes and a pointed hat, carrying oatmeal. Jedi stroll past to their desks,…

In the myth we like to tell ourselves about the internet economy, the archetypal hero is usually a brilliant engineer coding away in a dorm room or garage, coming up with a world-changing innovation that launches a billion-dollar business. The internet as the ultimate meritocracy: a revolutionary platform that lets every…

It’s been a dizzying few weeks following all the China news emanating from Washington, DC these days. While a “phase one” trade deal with China has been signed and appears to be moving forward as of a month ago (we covered the origins of this trade war extensively on TechCrunch…

In 2016, Mitchell Baker, the chairwoman and interim CEO of Mozilla, sat down to update her manifesto. Well, technically, it's Mozilla's manifesto, but it's Baker's handiwork. Think of it as a sort of Bill of Rights for the internet, or maybe a Ten Commandments: 10 principles about what the internet…

Susan Wojcicki Eric Gaillard/Reuters Only a few of Google's earliest employees still work at the internet giant and that no longer includes founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. In 2015, a Quora user compiled a list of all the original Googlers and where th…