Fittingly for the start to a new decade, California decided to go big with its 2020 New Year’s resolution. Today, the California Consumer Privacy Act goes into effect. Passed unanimously in June 2018, it’s the first law in the US to set up a comprehensive set of rules around consumer data, akin to the European…
The breakout hit of the Consumer Electronics Show in 2010 was a television set. Hard to believe now, maybe, but it’s true; for one shining moment, the Toshiba Cell TV was the most exciting new thing in tech. Its name invoked the overkill processors inside. It was one of the first sets to promise “Net…
One clammy August night in 2011, newly relocated to New York City, I watched Music Twitter collectively lose its shit. Jay-Z and Kanye West had just released Watch the Throne, their buzzy, long-prayed-for joint album about wealth, class, and #BlackExcellence. The timing was, in retrospect, paradoxical: August 8 was also Black Monday. Global stock markets…
If you’re an astronaut, you’re used to being treated both like royalty and like a lab animal—imperial guinea pigs, perhaps. Next year, these august examinees will enroll in a new kind of experiment as they strap themselves into the first private, human-ready spacecraft to lift off of US soil.That’s not the only historic event to…
In the meantime, Facebook has been used again and again to spread mass disinformation, from hate speech that fueled the massacre of Rohingya muslims in Myanmar to WhatsApp propaganda that helped elected far-right Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, to troll armies tasked with attacking the enemies of Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte and Donald Trump. In almost…
Crap, crap, crap? by Robert Ramsey 4 hours agoJanuary’s PlayStation Plus games have been confirmed earlier than expected. PlayStation’s official Germany, Austria, and Switzerland YouTube channel has outed the first lineup of 2020, which, as usual, includes two PlayStation 4 titles. January’s offerings are Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection and Goat Simulator. We assume that…
AMD has announced that they will be holding their CES 2020 press conference on Monday, 6th of January. The high-performance keynote would be hosted by AMD’s CEO, Dr. Lisa Su, at Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas. AMD is promising to push the envelope once again making 2020 an incredible year for high-performance computing. AMD To Push…
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