Warning Over Chinese Mobile Giant Xiaomi Recording Millions Of People’s ‘Private’ Web And Phone Use

https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2020/04/30/exclusive-warning-over-chinese-mobile-giant-xiaomi-recording-millions-of-peoples-private-web-and-phone-use/#333f931a1b2a

Half-baked: The COVIDSafe app is not fit for purpose on iPhones

https://www.smh.com.au/technology/the-covidsafe-app-is-not-fit-for-purpose-on-iphones-20200506-p54qjk.html

Calling All Makers With 3D Printers: Join Critical Mission To Make Face Masks And Shields For 2020 Healthcare Workers

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tjmccue/2020/03/24/calling-all-makers-with-3d-printers-join-critical-mission-to-make-face-masks-and-shields-for-2020-healthcare-workers/#79ded0475006

POPE FRANCIS ON SUNDAY advocated for a form of universal basic income that would "dignify the noble, essential tasks" carried out by street vendors, small farmers, construction workers and caregivers around the world. The message turned heads in the U.S., coming just weeks after lawmakers finalized a plan to distribute direct cash transfers to many Americans – and just months after entrepreneur Andrew Yang made waves in the Democratic presidential primaries on a policy platform based around the adoption of a universal basic income.

https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2020-04-12/pope-ponders-universal-basic-income-as-boris-johnson-is-discharged-opec-strikes-deal

This Open-Source Program Deepfakes You During Zoom Meetings, in Real Time Avatarify runs on Skype and Zoom, and face-swaps your own face with a celebrity in live video calls.

https://www.vice.com/en_asia/article/g5xagy/this-open-source-program-deepfakes-you-during-zoom-meetings-in-real-time

Chinese internet users who uploaded coronavirus memories to GitHub have been arrested

https://qz.com/1846277/china-arrests-users-behind-github-coronavirus-memories-page/

Covid safe: Australian government launches coronavirus tracing app amid lingering privacy concerns

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/apr/26/australias-coronavirus-tracing-app-set-to-launch-today-despite-lingering-privacy-concerns

China Launches National Blockchain Network in 100 Cities

https://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/china-launches-national-blockchain-network-100-cities

TikTok 'tried to filter out videos from ugly, poor or disabled users' Documents from the Incercept show social media app put pressure on moderators

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/mar/17/tiktok-tried-to-filter-out-videos-from-ugly-poor-or-disabled-users

The technology that animated movies like Toy Story and enabled a variety of special effects is the focus of this year's Turing Award, the technology industry's version of the Nobel Prize. Patrick Hanrahan and Edwin Catmull won the prize for their contributions to 3D computer graphics used in movies and video games.

https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/titans-of-movie-animation-win-tech-s-nobel-the-turing-prize-20200319-p54bq8.html

Programming Without Code: The Rise of No-Code Software Development

https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/computing/software/programming-without-code-no-code-software-development

Forget higher data rates or lower latencies, network slicing is where 5G really shines

https://spectrum.ieee.org/telecom/wireless/network-slicing-5gs-hottest-feature

Apple Watch Outsells the Entire Swiss Watch Industry in 2019

https://news.strategyanalytics.com/press-release/devices/strategy-analytics-apple-watch-outsells-entire-swiss-watch-industry-2019

Tesla teardown finds electronics 6 years ahead of Toyota and VW

https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Automobiles/Tesla-teardown-finds-electronics-6-years-ahead-of-Toyota-and-VW2

Inside Apple’s iPhone Software Shakeup After Buggy iOS 13 Debut Software chief Federighi is overhauling development and testing of iOS 14 to make it easier to spot problems early.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-21/apple-ios-14-features-changes-testing-after-ios-13-bugs

The kids are not alt-right: how extremist content infiltrates teen lives

https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/life-and-relationships/the-kids-are-not-alt-right-how-extremist-content-infiltrates-teen-lives-20191112-p539qh.html

Tale of the tape: Why film fans are dropping Netflix for physical media. "[Streaming services] like to present the image of having a comprehensive library, but the irony is there's like ten of them now and they all want to be the only game in town, and even between all of them combined they still don't cover even a fraction of film history."

https://www.smh.com.au/culture/movies/tale-of-the-tape-why-film-fans-are-dropping-netflix-for-physical-media-20191115-p53b1o.html

146 New Vulnerabilities All Come Preinstalled on Android Phones The dozens of flaws across 29 Android smartphone makers show just how insecure the devices can be, even brand-new.

https://www.wired.com/story/146-bugs-preinstalled-android-phones/

‘Cheaper and faster than NBN’: Optus rolls out ‘5G Home’ wireless broadband

https://thenewdaily.com.au/life/tech/2019/11/04/5g-home-broadband-optus-nbn/

What is fingerprinting? The online tracking you can't avoid

https://www.smh.com.au/technology/what-is-fingerprinting-the-online-tracking-you-cant-avoid-20191101-p536ff.html