by Fix Society Technical Solutions | Oct 5, 2020 | [Tech News], Wired
Adapted from stories found in The 99% Invisible City by Roman Mars and Kurt KohsltedtCities and their citizens are in constant dialog, but sometimes that conversation is one-sided. Master plans and grand designs aside, cities employ a wide array of smaller, more...
by Fix Society Technical Solutions | Oct 4, 2020 | [Tech News], TechCrunch
Just six days after Uber won its appeal against London transportation regulators to continue operating in London for another 18 months, one of its bigger rivals has found itself in the hot seat. Ola, the India-based ride-hailing startup, is not getting its Transport...
by Fix Society Technical Solutions | Oct 4, 2020 | [Tech News], Hackaday
In case you hadn’t noticed, it was a bad week for system admins. Pennsylvania-based United Health Services, a company that owns and operates hospitals across the US and UK, was hit by a ransomware attack early in the week. The attack, which appears to be the Ryuk...
by Fix Society Technical Solutions | Oct 4, 2020 | [Tech News], The Verge
Twitter has confirmed it’s working on a new feature, currently dubbed “Birdwatch,” that could let the Twitter community warn one another about misleading tweets that could cause harm. There’s an awful lot we don’t know about the idea, including whether Twitter will...
by Fix Society Technical Solutions | Oct 4, 2020 | [Tech News], How to Geek
saabfan/LEGO Ideas We’ve covered LEGO Ideas before: It’s a system that lets independent LEGO creators submit their designs to LEGO and fans vote. If a design gets more than 10,000 votes, LEGO will consider making it into a retail set. The latest creation to pass that...
by Fix Society Technical Solutions | Oct 4, 2020 | [Tech News], Wired
As a grad student working on artificial intelligence, Mohamed Abdalla could probably walk into a number of well-paid industry jobs. Instead, he wants to draw attention to how Big Tech’s big bucks may be warping the perspective of his field.Abdalla, who is finishing...
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