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Ubisoft video game workers to strike for fair wages in France::Ubisoft video game workers to strike for fair wages in France.

Rafi Alam from CHOICE told The World Today: “When we looked at Toyota’s privacy policy, we found that these Connected Services features will collect data such as fuel levels, odometer readings, vehicle location and driving data, as well as personal information like phone numbers and email addresses.”...

Russian forces in Ukraine are reportedly using Starlink terminals for internet connectivity....

We had four lawyers, three privacy experts, and two campaigners look at Microsoft’s new Service Agreement, and none of our experts could tell if Microsoft plans on using your personal data – including audio, video, chat, and attachments from 130 products, including Office, Skype, Teams, and Xbox – to train its AI models....

A 28-ton, 1.2 MW tidal kite is now exporting power to the grid::undefined

Apple’s next generation CarPlay allows auto manufacturers to license the OS | Don’t look now but Apple is back to licensing an operating system after decades::undefined

The device provides a realistic sense of hot and cold in the missing “phantom” hand by delivering thermal information to nerve areas on the amputee’s residual limb that the brain believes are still connected to the missing hand.

Biden administration announces $5 billion commitment for research and development of computer chips::It will advance President Biden’s goals of driving R&D in the U.S.

If you want a easy, reliable and cross-platform way to share files between computers, phones, etc, it may be of your interest.

Apple Vision Pro Could Take Four Generations to Reach ‘Ideal Form’::Realizing the Apple Vision Pro headset’s “ideal form” could take four successive generations of the device, some people in Apple’s…

Martin Hellman achieved legendary status as co-inventor of the Diffie-Hellman public key exchange algorithm, a breakthrough in software and computer cryptography. That invention and his ongoing work in cryptography and digital signatures earned him a Turing award in 2015. He has since followed that up with a second act devoted...

POV: Health Misinformation Is Rampant on Social Media::Monica Wang argues that health misinformation on social media is fueling the global anti-vaccination campaign and offers suggestions for how to combat it.

‘Boycott Tesla’ ads to air during Super Bowl — “Tesla dances away from liability in Autopilot crashes by pointing to a note buried deep in the owner’s manual, that says Autopilot is only safe on fr…::undefined

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Mozilla CEO quits, pushes pivot to data privacy champion… but what about Firefox?::Could it have more to do with browser’s ever-increasing irrelevance?

Brazil Hits 92% Renewable Energy Milestone::On February 7, Brazil marked a landmark achievement, powering 92.4% of its electricity from renewable sources.

A crowd destroyed a driverless Waymo car in San Francisco::A Waymo car was destroyed in San Francisco as a crowd began vandalizing it and ultimately set the car on fire. Nobody was in the vehicle at the time.

Shell Is Immediately Closing All Of Its California Hydrogen Stations | The oil giant is one of the big players in hydrogen globally, but even it can’t make its operations work here.::The oil giant is one of the big players in hydrogen globally, but even it can’t make its operations work here. All seven of its California...

Twitter goes down in Pakistan amid Election Results delay::As Pakistanis are looking for results and updates about the general elections, the polling for which concluded on Thursday, people are facing disruption of X, former Twitter, services. Users of microblogging platform reported outage across the country with internet...

Microsoft’s Bitlocker & TPM encryption combo defeated with a $10 Raspberry Pi::The point of Microsoft’s Bitlocker security feature is to protect personal data stored locally on devices and particularly when those devices are lost or otherwise physically compromised. With Bi

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Nuclear Fusion World Record Smashed in Major Achievement::undefined