Facebook’s parent company Meta is heading into another political battle over the planned introduction of end-to-end encryption (E2EE) in its Messenger chat platform. The UK’s home secretary, Priti Patel, makes this clear in an op-ed for Tory mouthpiece The Telegraph this week, saying it would be a “grotesque betrayal” if Read more…
“The nurse said to send photos so the doctor could review them in advance,” the New York Times reports, decribing how an ordeal began in February of 2021 for a software engineer named Mark who had a sick son: Mark’s wife grabbed her husband’s phone and texted a few high-quality Read more…
Ford Motor plans to cut about 3,000 jobs, a move that will affect salaried and contract workers, according to an internal email sent to employees. Automotive News was the first to report the news after reviewing the email. TechCrunch, which has confirmed the layoffs, will update the story as more Read more…
The ubiquitous device is becoming a shop window for the firm’s services. As it dreams up more gadgets to sell to more people, however, Apple is employing another strategy in parallel. The company has so far put 1.8bn devices in the pockets and on the desks of some of the Read more…
A local news report called it “a futuristic dream, now a reality in Las Vegas: self-driving vehicles moving customers up and down the Las Vegas strip.” Lyft’s ride-hailing service now lets customers book Motional’s all-electric (and autonomous driving) IONIQ 5. Not everyone’s sold. “Love technology — love it, promote it Read more…
“The very first results from the James Webb Space Telescope seem to indicate that massive, luminous galaxies had already formed within the first 250 million years after the Big Bang,” reports Sky and Telescope. “If confirmed, this would seriously challenge current cosmological thinking.” Shortly after NASA published Webb’s first batch Read more…
Globally, nearly half of deaths due to cancer can be attributable to preventable risk factors, including the three leading risks of: smoking, drinking too much alcohol or having a high body mass index, a new paper suggests. The research, published Thursday in the journal The Lancet, finds that 44.4% of Read more…