The perfect gift for that person in your life who wants to take their privacy protection offline, too. But is it just window dressing?
Has the encroachment of facial-recognition software made you a little uneasy? Are you concerned that cameras are tracking your every movement in public? Are you not ready to commit to makeup-based camouflage? Well, the National Institute of Informatics (NII) of Japan is rolling out a first-of-its-kind commercial product next year that might be for you.
The e-commerce company is also cutting back on other projects from Lab126, its hardware research and development division.
Amazon has sent packing “dozens” of engineers who worked on its ill-fated Fire phone, according to the Wall Street Journal. The e-commerce giant is also making other changes to Lab126, its consumer electronics R&D division, including putting the brakes on some of its more lofty hardware objectives.
The image-sharing service now lets you go wide—or tall—for photos and videos that don’t fit into its iconic square frame.
In its own way, it’s been as defining a restriction as Twitter’s 140-character limit. Instagram photos (and videos) come in one format: square. It forces the service’s photographers into choosing thoughtful compositions, and provides an aesthetic link to the square snapshots that folks once took with Instamatics and Polaroids.
The new app will allow you to bypass surge pricing and Uber’s $2 cab-hailing fee.
One of New York’s largest providers of taxi cab tech is teaming with a startup to take on Uber. Queens-based Creative Mobile Technologies, which provides the ubiquitous credit card readers and Taxi TV monitors to half of New York’s cabs, has inked a partnership with Arro to hail yellow and green cabs via smartphone. Arro’s app will not charge the $2 fee that Uber currently tacks on when customers hail a taxi—and will be devoid of Uber’s surge pricing.
Expect new iPhones from Apple on September 9, but no miniature iPhone 6c.
Apple’s upcoming iPhone event is taking place on September 9, and the press blitz is coming fast. While Apple itself has kept mum about what its latest set of announcements will focus on, there are already a few hints.
“Improving quality isn’t anti-competitive,” Google wrote in a blog post on Thursday.
Google published a blog post on Thursday responding to the European Commission’s claims that some of its practices are anti-competitive. The commission, which acts as the executive body of the European Union, filed formal antitrust charges against Google in April 2015, alleging that its search results unfairly ranked its own shopping service over competitors.
The company is testing a new feature that creates perpetual routes in San Francisco.
Uber began testing a new feature this week in San Francisco that works like a bus route.
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