From PC Mag: The Texas attorney general's office this week sued Facebook parent company Meta for allegedly capturing and using biometric data without users' informed consent.
According to AG Ken Paxton, the social network has been storing "millions" of biometric identifiers—defined in Texas as "a...
From CNET: Nextdoor, a social media platform for neighborhoods, hasn't changed much over the past few years but that could start to shift.
On Tuesday, the company unveiled new features, including the ability for users to send requests to connect with neighbors so that posts, comments and reactions...
From PC Mag: Google created an smart lamp with integrated Google Assistant, but it's not for consumers and is unlikely to ever become a smart home product.
Google designer Ben Gold last week tweeted about the "dLight," a simple white lamp with circular base, slim poll, and pill-shaped swivel beacon...
From CNET: Encanto -- Disney's latest animated musical, a fantasy set in Colombia with music by Lin-Manuel Miranda -- hit Disney Plus after one month exclusively in theaters. Marvel's Eternals spent two months as a theatrical exclusive before it arrived to stream on Disney Plus in mid-January. And...
From The Verge: Nvidia announced its RTX 3090 Ti with faster memory and better performance at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in early January. After originally promising more information by the end of January, Nvidia has since remained silent about pricing or a release date for the RTX 3090 Ti...
In the beginning of the Fall 2021 school semester, I was talking to a student who was in second year software engineering at the University of Calgary. He asked me which year I am in after a fairly lengthy discussion on classes he is taking and my opinion on each of them. I just laughed and told him I am a professor. He looked at me, and in the most socially awkward manner an engineering student could muster, said I looked "at most 21 years old"...
Looking back on 2021, there were a lot of interesting developments in the tech world such as Mark Zuckerberg's vision of the metaverse and the adoption of DDR5 memory. One of the largest and also strangest ones to me though was the uprise in NFTs. For those who do not know, NFTs are non-fungible tokens, meaning unlike currency, it is unique and cannot be replaced with something equivalent. A lot of these NFTs come in the form of digital art...
From The Verge: Alienware’s new 14-inch X14 gaming laptop is now on sale, following its announcement in January at CES 2022. While the X14 is considerably smaller (and thinner) than the 15-inch X15 or 17-inch X17, it borrows some of the highlights of those pricier, more powerful machines. At launch...
From PC Mag: Bandai Namco and From Software have announced that online play won't return to the PC installments of the Dark Souls franchise until after Elden Ring is released.
From Software disabled the multiplayer aspects of the various PC releases of Dark Souls 1, 2, and 3 when a vulnerability...
From CNNNET: Apple has ended its relationship with 12 refineries and smelting companies over concerns the ore they sold was being used to finance armed conflicts.
The tech giant on Wednesday filed the results of its latest "conflict mineral" audit with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. The...
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