Tag: software

• Microsoft’s new cloud-gaming service is more about the cloud than gaming

  July 19, 2020

  Microsoft is getting serious about cloud gaming. The Xbox maker will add its Project xCloud game-streaming service to its Game Pass Ultimate subscription tier in September, Phil Spencer, Microsoft’s head… more ›

• Homeland Security Worries Covid-19 Masks Are Breaking Facial Recognition, Leaked Document Shows

  July 18, 2020

  While doctors and politicians still struggle to convince Americans to take the barest of precautions against Covid-19 by wearing a mask, the Department of Homeland Security has an opposite concern,… more ›

• Online Surveillance, Censorship, and Discrimination for LGBTQIA+ Community Worldwide

  July 16, 2020

  Recorded Future investigated data security risks associated with multiple social and dating apps that are popular with the LGBTQIA+ community, and how those apps were being discussed on dark web… more ›

• Why China Cracked Down on the Social-Media Giant Bytedance

  July 15, 2020

  Last week, just as Mark Zuckerberg, the C.E.O. of Facebook, was emerging largely unscathed from two days of congressional testimony about how his company works, the Chinese C.E.O. https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/why-china-cracked-down-on-the-social-media-giant-bytedance more ›

• The TikTok War

  July 15, 2020

  Over the last week, as the idea of banning TikTok in the U.S. has shifted from a fringe idea to a seeming inevitability (thanks in no small part to India’s… more ›

• Tiered Governance and Demonetization: The Shifting Terms of Labor and Compensation in the Platform Economy

  July 13, 2020

  Social media platforms have profoundly transformed cultural production, in part by restructuring the terms by which culture is distributed and paid for. In this article, we examine the YouTube Partner… more ›

• The chip-making machine at the center of Chinese dual-use concerns

  July 12, 2020

  An extreme ultraviolet lithography machine is a technological marvel. A generator ejects 50,000 tiny droplets of molten tin per second. A high-powered laser blasts each droplet twice. The first shapes… more ›

• Apps within apps

  July 5, 2020

  “We think that interactive is the next frontier,” Shapiro said, “and not only interactive, but this kind of remixable interactive.” https://www.protocol.com/kojihttps://www.protocol.com/koji more ›

• The startup taking on Apple and Snapchat in a mini-app war

  July 5, 2020

  Here’s Dmitry Shapiro’s big idea: apps that go inside your apps. Want to play a game inside a Reddit post, make a GIF without leaving the iMessage window, or pick… more ›

• For Lesbians, TikTok Is ‘the Next Tinder’

  July 2, 2020

  Young women feeling alienated by dating apps and bar culture are finding love on their For You pages. On Feb. 3, Lauren Vlach received $8 on Venmo, spread across four… more ›