Archive for February 19th, 2009
emoticons, the early years
Posted by: amygdala on February 19, 2009
hi, my name is Bob…
Posted by: amygdala on February 19, 2009
links for 2009-02-18
Posted by: amygdala on February 19, 2009
- Apple says that starting on June 30, 2022, all App Store apps that offer account creation must also offer an in-app option to let users delete their account (Filipe Espósito/9to5Mac)
- Internal memo: Lyft plans to slow US hiring, cut some department budgets, and grant new stock options to some employees to make up for its eroding share price (Wall Street Journal)
- In a letter, 42 Democratic lawmakers urge Google to stop collecting and keeping unnecessary user data that could be used to identify people seeking abortions (Lauren Feiner/CNBC)
- Clearview AI expands sales by offering private companies and organizations a facial recognition tool allegedly using data collected with subjects' permission (Paresh Dave/Reuters)
- Microsoft says 10M+ players stream games with Xbox Cloud Gaming; in September 2021, Nvidia said GeForce Now had 12M+ users; Google has not shared Stadia numbers (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)
- New Jersey-based Semperis, a cybersecurity startup offering tools to protect enterprises using Microsoft Active Directory, raises a $200M+ Series C led by KKR (Krystal Hu/Reuters)
- Niantic debuts Visual Positioning System, a developer platform for building location-aware AR apps, and Campfire, a location-based social network for its games (Alex Heath/The Verge)
- As Snap's growth warning sends its stock down 43.04%, other tech stocks drop too: Meta by 7.62%, Pinterest by 23.64%, Alphabet by 4.95%, and Twitter by 5.55% (Lauren Feiner/CNBC)
- Microsoft debuts Power Pages, a low-code website builder, and Power Apps Express Design, which can turn images into an app with controls and data storage (João Carrasqueira/XDA Developers)
- Google Chrome now lets all desktop users right-click an image and perform a Lens search to translate text, identify an object, get the original source, and more (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
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