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Give These Apps Some Notes and They’ll Write Emails for You | WIRED
November 8, 2020All the major tech companies created by members of the PayPal Mafia – Business Insider
October 3, 2020Slack Accuses Microsoft of Illegally Crushing Competition – The New York Times
July 28, 2020QT:{{”
Slack said on Wednesday that it had filed a complaint against Microsoft with the European Commission, accusing the tech giant of using its market power to try to crush the upstart rival.
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“Slack threatens Microsoft’s hold on business email, the cornerstone of Office, which means Slack threatens Microsoft’s lock on enterprise software,” Jonathan Prince, vice president of communications and policy at Slack, said in a statement.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/22/technology/slack-microsoft-antitrust.html
Google Pixel Buds 2’s killer feature outsmarts noise — and the AirPods Pro | Tom’s Guide
May 2, 2020Best Bluetooth Headphones 2020 | Reviews by Wirecutter
April 26, 2020Can the Manufacturer of Tasers Provide the Answer to Police Abuse? | The New Yorker
February 1, 2020Can the Manufacturer of Tasers Provide the Answer to Police Abuse
https://newyorker.com/magazine/2018/08/27/can-the-manufacturer-of-tasers-provide-the-answer-to-police-abuse… Article has a good quote/point: “Smith assembled an AI Ethics Board… His lead AI researcher…told him that he wouldn’t be able to hire the best engineers without [such] a board.”
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Recently, Smith assembled an A.I. Ethics Board, to help steer Axon’s decisions. (His lead A.I. researcher, recruited from Uber, told him that he wouldn’t be able to hire the best engineers without an ethics board.) Smith told me, “I don’t want to wake up like the guy Nobel, who spent his life making things that kill people, and then, at the end of his life, it’s, like, ‘O.K., I have to buy my way out of this.’ ”
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Your Phone Is Listening and it’s Not Paranoia
January 27, 2020QT:{{”
““From time to time, snippets of audio do go back to [other apps like Facebook’s] servers but there’s no official understanding what the triggers for that are,” explains Peter. “Whether it’s timing or location-based or usage of certain functions, [apps] are certainly pulling those microphone permissions and using those periodically. All the internals of the applications send this data in encrypted form, so it’s very difficult to define the exact trigger.””
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Your Phone Is Listening and it’s Not Paranoia
https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/wjbzzy/your-phone-is-listening-and-its-not-paranoia
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