by Fix Society Technical Solutions | Jul 31, 2020 | [Tech News], Wired
The federal government on Tuesday asked a federal judge to sentence Anthony Levandowski to 27 months in prison for theft of trade secrets. In March, Levandowski pleaded guilty to stealing a single confidential document related to Google’s self-driving technology...
by Fix Society Technical Solutions | Jul 29, 2020 | [Tech News], Wired
Legally speaking, this is damning stuff. The Clayton Act of 1914, the main federal antitrust statute, explicitly prohibits corporate acquisitions if “the effect of such acquisition may be substantially to lessen competition, or to tend to create a monopoly.” As...
by Fix Society Technical Solutions | Jul 28, 2020 | [Tech News], Wired
On Monday, a new coronavirus disinformation video exploded across the internet. Created by the right-wing site Breitbart, it was a clip of a press conference from a group calling themselves America’s Frontline Doctors containing dangerously false claims about the...
by Fix Society Technical Solutions | Jul 27, 2020 | [Tech News], Wired
When Simone Browne wrote her book Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness in 2015, her goal was to position the invention of contemporary surveillance technologies “as not being outside of that of the social and historical formation of slavery.” Browne’s book...
by Fix Society Technical Solutions | Jul 26, 2020 | [Tech News], Wired
Since Uber and Lyft burst onto the scene a decade ago, the companies have established a reputation for dodging government regulations. Now, California is working on first-of-their-kind rules to limit emissions from ride-hail vehicles, which could force the companies...
by Fix Society Technical Solutions | Jul 24, 2020 | [Tech News], Wired
I admitted it was gorgeous. But I had a question for him. Earlier in the conversation, he had drawn Apple’s product matrix, four squares representing laptop and desktop, high and low end. Since returning to Apple in 1997, he had filled in all the quadrants with the...
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