TikTok Begins Pilot Testing HTML5 Mini-Games With A Handful Of Partners
By: Tech Crunch July 28, 2020 TikTok wants to determine its users’ appetite for mobile gaming with the launch of “mini-games” that can be played inside the social video app and discovered through creators’ videos. TechCrunch learned and has now confirmed TikTok’s new gaming pilot quietly launched just weeks ago with a variety of new […]
F.T.C. Sues To Block Meta’s Virtual Reality Deal As It Confronts Big Tech
By: Bloomberg July 27, 2022 WASHINGTON — The Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday filed for an injunction to block Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, from buying a virtual reality company called Within, potentially limiting the company’s push into the so-called metaverse and signaling a shift in how the agency is approaching tech deals. […]
Wait Begins For Falling 23-Ton Rocket Booster After China Space Station Launch
By: NY Times July 24, 2022 Another big Chinese rocket launched to space on Sunday at 2:22 p.m. Beijing time, and once again, no one knows where or when it will come down. It will be a replay of two earlier launches of the same rocket, the Long March 5B, which is one […]
China Fines Didi $1.2 Billion as Tech Sector Pressures Persist
By: The New York Times Date: July 21, 2022 In slapping China’s ride-hailing giant, Didi Global, with a record $1.2 billion fine for data breaches, Beijing made clear to the country’s internet companies that their freewheeling days were over. The penalty imposed by China’s internet regulator on Didi, one of the country’s most valuable […]
Surreal Or Too Real? Breathtaking AI Tool DALL-E Takes Its Images To A Bigger Stage
By: NPR July 20, 2022 When the Silicon Valley research lab OpenAI unveiled DALL-E earlier this year, it dazzled the internet. The tool is seen as one of the most advanced artificial intelligence systems for creating images in the world. Type a description, and DALL-E instantly produces professional-looking art or hyperrealistic photographs. […]
House Panel Advances Landmark Federal Data Privacy Bill
By: The Hill Date: July 20, 2022 A House panel advanced a comprehensive data privacy bill in a 53-2 bipartisan vote Wednesday, pushing forward legislation that aims to set a national standard for how tech companies collect and use Americans’ data. The House Energy and Commerce Committee vote on the American Data Privacy and Protection […]
Homeland Security Records Show ‘Shocking’ Use of Phone Data, ACLU Says
By: Politico Date: July 18, 2022 The Trump administration’s immigration enforcers used mobile location data to track people’s movements on a larger scale than previously known, according to documents that raise new questions about federal agencies’ efforts to get around restrictions on warrantless searches. The data, harvested from apps on hundreds of millions of […]
Tech Savvy or Tech Addicted? Older Adults Are Stuck on Screens, Too
By: Wall Street Journal Date: July 16, 2022 As families gather this summer, kids and their parents might be surprised to find how tech-obsessed the grandparents have become. A recent report from AARP, the advocacy organization for older adults, found that the tech habits older people developed during the pandemic are enduring. Americans ages 65 and […]
Parents of Two Children Sue TikTok After Alleging They Died From Doing ‘Blackout Challenge’
By: Wall Street Journal Date: July 7, 2022 The parents of two children have filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against TikTok, alleging that the minors died from participating in the “blackout challenge” after seeing it on the app. Lalani Erika Renee Walton, an 8-year-old girl from Temple, Texas, and Arriani Jaileen Arroyo, a 9-year-old girl from Milwaukee, […]