Tom McKay
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'Cooperative Perception' Could Help Autonomous Vehicles See Pedestrians Around Corners
New technology developed by researchers in Australia could help self-driving vehicles steer clear of pedestrians and cyclists without a direct line of → Read More
Roughly One-Third of Bitcoin Is Controlled by a Small Cabal of Whales, According to New Study
For all the talk of democratizing finance, the vast majority of Bitcoin continues to be owned by a relative handful of investors.As flagged by → Read More
Facebook's Leaked Docs: Here's What You Need to Know
Facebook’s troubles aren’t slowing down — if anything, they’re mounting faster and faster. Former Facebook employee Francis Haugen has leaked... → Read More
It Sure Looks Like Donald Trump Is Trying to Trademark 'Truthing'
On Wednesday, ex-president and current loser Donald Trump announced he is launching the Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG), a... → Read More
Mark Zuckerberg Will Be Added as a Defendant in Lawsuit Over Cambridge Analytica Scandal
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of scandal-plagued Facebook, might be held personally liable for damages in a consumer protection lawsuit filed in... → Read More
An Animal Rights Nonprofit Is Suing YouTube Over Animal Abuse Videos
An animal rights nonprofit is suing YouTube for failing to take down videos of animal abuse, and often allegedly profiting from them by selling ads → Read More
Facebook’s List of 4,000 Banned Entities Includes Hate Groups, Criminals, and a Whole Lot of Terrorists
Facebook has banned thousands of individuals and organisations allegedly involved in terrorism, according to a Tuesday report by the Intercept, as → Read More
Tinder Is Getting Its Own In-App Currency
If there’s one thing Tinder was missing, it’s of course some kind of unnecessary in-app economy. Well, good news: Now you can spend Tinder Bux on → Read More
TikTok Bans Milk Crate Challenge After Reports of, You Guessed It, Milk Crate-Induced Injuries
It’s a tale as old as time: Humans goading themselves into serious, preventable injury and then getting banned. This time, it’s something called → Read More
I Accidentally Recorded At Least 682 Gigabytes of Video of Myself Without My Knowledge
It’s happened to all of us: You’ve been browsing your hard drive and found hundreds of gigabytes of lengthy video files of the inside of your → Read More
Not Satisfied With Screwing Up This Mortal Coil, Facebook Wants Meaningful Engagement With God
Facebook is trying to commune with God, but definitely not in a Tower of Babel way or anything.The social media giant is arguably the closest that → Read More
U.S. Judge Forces Accused Capitol Rioter to Unlock Laptop With Face Recognition
A U.S. federal judge has ordered a man accused of participating in the deadly January 7 insurrection at the Capitol... → Read More
Facebook Knifes Its Own Analytics Tool to Hide Its Ben Shapiro Problem
Facebook gutted its data analytics tool, CrowdTangle, by reassigning dozens of its staff and sidelining its CEO after its data showed that incendiary → Read More
Search Atlas Shows How Google Results Differ Around the Globe
How does a search engine like Google quantify, analyse, and rank information? What factors does it take into account, and... → Read More
30 Million Dell Devices Have Preinstalled Software With ‘Severe’ Security Flaws
A major security flaw in Dell’s firmware updating and operating recovery software, BIOSConnect, potentially exposes tens of millions of devices that → Read More
The Beeple Guy Joins Forces With the Pitchfork Guy to Sell Moments in History as NFTs
If the acronym “NFT” didn’t already give you a headache, perhaps this news will: artist Mark “Beeple” Winkelmann and Ryan Schreiber, the → Read More
Hedge Fund That Took Massive Losses on GameStop Thanks to WallStreetBets Is Shutting Down
One of the hedge funds targeted by notorious Reddit investment board r/WallStreetBets is bust, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday.The → Read More
Tesla Makes Cars in Texas but Has to Re-Import Them to Sell in the Lone Star State
The Texas legislature adjourned on May 31 without making any changes to the state’s auto dealer franchise laws — meaning that the only way for Tesla to sell electric cars made at its forthcoming factory in Austin will be to ship them out of state and re-import them. The Drive... → Read More
Melinda Gates Reportedly Warned Bill Not to Pal Around With Infamous Pedophile Jeffrey Epstein
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has strenuously denied that all those times he hung out with notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein — you know, the guy with the private jet and island compound who died in prison in 2019 before he could testify about who else was involved in his child sex... → Read More
Update to iOS 14.5.1 Right Now or Your iPhone Is a Sitting Duck for Hackers
Apple has rushed out fixes to two major vulnerabilities in iOS and iPadOS 14.5, last month’s update that implemented its App Tracking Transparency feature. Both bugs could have allowed malicious parties to remotely execute code, possibly leading to the takeover of an affected device. That means you need to update... → Read More