- Palantir, Facebook Fines, Prime Day, and more…
- Top Stories This Week:
- — Facebook fined $5 billion, the stock goes up $6 billion
- — The dark side of Facebook’s pivot to privacy — Trump vs anti-conservative bias on social media
- — Instagram vs bullies
- — Prime Day deals and dilemmas
- — Amazon is building a robot to judge your couch
- — Palantir cameras are watching you, and police are using them
- — Your car is watching you
- — Area 51 attack plan involves furries, Naruto runners
- — RIP MacBook — Mac update kills Zoom hack
- — Apple Watch Walkie Talkie hack
- — Hong Kong protestors use Apple AirDrop to bust the Great Firewall of China
- — Apple tossing $millions/episode at Apple TV
- — Stranger Things AR ad in the New York Times
- — Amazon Lord of the Rings MMO
- — Netflix Cuphead Show
- — Prime Day phishing scams
- — HBO Max get Friends, Riverdale, Dune
- — France’s Tech Tax
- — Niantic kills its first app
- — Google’s new hyper-local social network Shoelace is being created just to be shut down
- — Google’s privacy policy changes are a testament to internet history
- — Google is listening to you in Flanders
- — Twitter will test “Hide Replies” in Canada
- — A eulogy for the father of the password
- — Chatterbox will teach children robotics
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