Alejandro Alba
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Check Out How Samsung Describes Its Male And Female Bixby Assistants
After months of delays, Samsung’s much ballyhooed voice assistant Bixby has landed in the US — and users on social media are already noticing the company’s loaded, sexist characterisations of its female and male voices.
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MySpace Nukes Massive Security Loophole (But Go Delete Your Stuff Anyway)
Remember Myspace? Yeah, it’s still a thing. And for months, the social network reportedly had a security flaw that made it ridiculously easy to hack into any profile with just a date of birth.
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Rich Person Phone Brand Goes Kerplunk
Vertu, the company that sells $65,000 smartphones, is shutting down its UK manufacturing operations. But everyone saw it coming.
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Illinois Wants To Ban Location Tracking Without Consent
It’s increasingly difficult to do anything on your phone nowadays without sharing your geolocation information. Certain Snapchat filters, Facebook status updates, Instagrams, and even text messages are all potentially tied to geolocation data. It’s relatively simple for app developers to build in geolocation functionality — and many services require users to opt-in to sharing location…