The billionaire creator of Big Brother, John de Mol, has successfully sued Facebook. A Dutch court has ordered the social media giant to remove advertisements that feature his likeness to promote fraudulent Bitcoin BTC investments, Reuters reports. Facebook must take down the fraudulent ads or reportedly face fines of up to €1.1 million ($1.2 million). The…
We’ve been hearing rumors Apple is working on some sort of augmented reality headset for ages, but today a report from The Information provides the strongest evidence yet that Apple is getting ready to enter the AR fray. Specifically, Apple is aiming to release its AR headset in 2022, and a pair of smart glasses…
The Indian government has played down fears of mass surveillance in response to concerns that its proposed facial recognition system lacks adequate oversight. Replying to a legal notice filed by the Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF), a Delhi-based non-profit that works on digital liberties, the country’s National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB) defended the move, stating it…
The World Economic Forum recently confirmed its intention to develop global rules for AI and create an AI Council that will aim to find common ground on policy between nations on the potential of AI and other emerging technologies. The trouble is that regulations designed to breathe life into the AI dream could in fact…
People across the world are demonstrating their discontent in increasingly creative and disruptive ways. The past year has seen schoolchildren across the world join the Fridays for Future strikes, witnessing mass walkouts from schools across the globe. In Chile, coordinated fare-dodging protests on public transport – also led by school pupils – has now grown…
TLDR: The Blurams Dome Pro packs the AI and advanced features of a much more expensive home security camera, but it’s only $49.99. Top flight home security systems usually come with top flight prices in the hundreds, sometimes thousands of dollars. So when you see a home security camera priced under $50, it’s easy to…
In this column, “Just putting this out there…,” we write about the odd ways we engage with tech and the unpopular opinions we form about it. You can read the rest of the articles in this series here. You can barely move for dark mode news stories these days. Gmail? Dark mode. Instagram? Testing dark mode.…
The Hollywood Reporter recently ran an article by Eriq Gardner entitled “Real-Life ‘Terminator’: Major Studios Face Sweeping Loss of Iconic ’80s Film Franchise Rights,” which is certainly an attention-demanding headline. Some of the franchise properties referred to in Gardner’s piece are worth – without exaggeration – billions of dollars to the studios. Money, in copyright-land,…
When the Kenyan runner Eliud Kipchoge became the first human to run a marathon in under two hours as part of the recent INEOS 1:59 Project Challenge, this was arguably one of the most significant achievements of athleticism since Sir Roger Bannister broke the four-minute mile in 1954. But almost immediately afterward there was controversy,…
Welcome to CHEAP, our series about things that are good, but most of all, cheap. CHEAP! If you’re no stranger to viciously gunning down opponents in CS:GO, Call of Duty, Battlefield, or simply sniping down pedestrians in GTA, you know the importance of a mouse you can rely on, a mouse that will perfectly mirror each…
