A pregnant woman in the city of Xi’an miscarried outside the hospital after being refused entry, reportedly for not having current COVID-19 test results.
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Source: Lenovo
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France’s data regulator CNIL has fined Google €150 million ($170 million) and Meta/Facebook €60 million ($68 million) for violating EU privacy rules. Both companies failed to allow French users to easily reject cookie tracking technology as required by EU privacy rules, according to CNIL’s news release.
The fines were specifically levied against Google’s US and Irish operations (€90 million and €60 million respectively) and against Facebook’s Irish arm. Both companies face daily fines of €100,000 if they don’t change their practices within three months of CNIL’s official decision.
In addition to the fines, the restricted committee ordered the companies to provide Internet users located in France with a means of refusing cookies as simple as the existing means of accepting them, in order to guarantee their freedom of consent, within three months. If they fail to do so, the companies will have to pay a penalty of 100,000 euros per day of delay.
“We are reviewing the authority’s decision and remain committed to working with relevant authorities,” a Meta spokesperson told Politico. “Our cookie consent controls provide people with greater control over their data, including a new settings menu on Facebook and Instagram where people can revisit and manage their decisions at any time, and we continue to develop and improve these controls.”
“People trust us to respect their right to privacy and keep them safe. We understand our responsibility to protect that trust and are committing to further changes and active work with the CNIL in light of this decision under the ePrivacy Directive,” a Google spokesperson said in a statement.
CNIL said it has issued 100 orders and sanctions related to non-compliance with cookie legislation since it went into force on March 31, 2021. The regulator previously fined Google €100 million for cookie violations under European e-Privacy rules and €50 million for GDPR violations.
Google is still fighting the €100 million fine before France’s highest court. It’s expected to fight the latest sanction as well, according Politico. At the same time, the fines against Google and Meta’s Irish operations point to major tension between the EU and Ireland. Europe sees Ireland’s actions as too friendly toward tech giants headquartered there, and hostile toward user privacy.
Dual-screens, foldable OLED tablets, curved vertical screens and more. This year’s CES might be a quieter, more divisive affair, but pretty much everyone had some weird displays to show off.
Samsung’s epic 55-inch Odyssey gaming monitor is curved for a more immersive play experience. However, it can also rotate 90 degrees for more… spreadsheets and Slack channels? It can pivot and tilt via the height adjustable stand, so you can set it to the optimal angle — surprisingly important when you have a very tall, curved screen.
Then there’s ASUS’ ZenBook 17 Fold, an OLED tablet that can disguise itself like a 12.5-inch laptop thanks to a keyboard on top of the lower half of the screen. If you want to use the entire 17-inch display, you can stand the tablet up and use the keyboard separately. The images look like heady concept products from a few years ago – ASUS demoed this form-factor as Project Precog back in 2018 — but this is a genuine device headed to stores. Hopefully, ASUS learned lessons from Lenovo and Microsoft’s attempts at foldables.
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BMW unveiled an e-ink vehicle exterior that can change color depending on weather and traffic conditions or just your mood. Alas no, this futuristic feature is nowhere near production-ready despite appearing at the show on a live demonstration vehicle. The current iteration can only swap between a pair of colors, thus the monochromatic e-readerish appearance you see here. However, the palette could eventually expand to display a rainbow of shades.
Finally, during its CES 2022 keynote address on Wednesday, GM officially unveiled its new 2024 Chevrolet Silverado EV, GM’s second fully electric model built on the Ultium battery platform.
The fully electric full-size pickup will be available in two versions when it arrives late next year: the RST First Edition and a WT model designed for fleet usage. Both will have an estimated 400-mile range.
Razer’s first smart face mask, the Zephyr, went on sale in October for $100 and promptly sold out. Two years since it first revealed its debut mask, the company now plans to release a Pro version of the mask in 2022. It will have all the features of the standard model, including the dual-fan active filtration system with N95 filters and RGB lighting, but add voice amplification in the mix.
It will amplify your voice by 60 decibels up to one meter away. A button on the side will allow you to toggle the feature on and off. Sadly, funny voices are not included.
In addition to new laptops, masks and concepts galore, Razer also teamed up with Fossil to launch a special edition smartwatch. The Razer x Fossil Gen 6 smartwatch at CES 2022 is basically what you might expect: a pretty standard Wear OS device with straps and faces that are unequivocally lime green and Razery.
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Razer / Fossil
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Popcorn Time, the app that was once popular for making pirating movies as easy as watching Netflix, has shut down. Its original developers took the service down and abandoned the project merely a few days after it launched in 2014. But since the project was open source, other developers were able pick up where they left off, and it’s been killed and revived a few more times ever since. It remains to be seen whether Popcorn Time is now gone for good, but it looks like the biggest contributor to its most recent demise is the dwindling interest in the app.
On its website, the developers posted a graph of “popcorn time” searches over the past seven years. While the app enjoyed a ton of searches in the months after its launch in 2015, the graph shows a sharp decline in interest by 2016. Its popularity continued to wane, and it never really recovered after that, at least based on Google Trends.
According to Bloomberg, the group behind Popcorn Time announced its closure in an email. While they didn’t say whether law enforcement action was a factor behind their decision to shut down the app this time around, Popcorn Time has had brushes with the law in the past. The original version may have closed after authorities got involved, and Hollywood studios even sued individual users who allegedly downloaded and shared copies of movies illegally.
Developers associated with Popcorn Time previously talked about how they’re not responsible for piracy themselves, because the service doesn’t actually host any content. Instead, it relied on a peer-to-peer sharing system and only provided a way for users to access content hosted on other people’s computers.
Walmart, the largest private employer in the U.S., is cutting paid sick leave for workers who get covid-19 from two weeks of leave to one week, according to a new report from Reuters that cites an internal memo sent out on Tuesday. The change was inspired by the CDC’s updated guidelines that suggest Americans isolate…
If you use WhatsApp on your iPhone, you’ll notice that all incoming notifications show WhatsApp’s logo. This is versus other messenger applications, some of which show the profile picture of the sender. This is useful if you want to see who sent you the message at a quick glance.
The good news is that according to a report from WABetaInfo, it appears that WhatsApp is now testing out showing profile pictures in notifications on iOS devices. This means that you’ll soon be able to better distinguish who sent you a message based on the profile picture alone. This could be useful if your phone is locked but you still want to see who it’s from, and from there you’ll be able to decide if you want to reply that message now or later.
That being said, as WABetaInfo notes, this is a feature that’s currently in testing which means that not everyone will be able to see the changes. It is only available to some beta testers, so if you’re not part of the WhatsApp for iOS beta, then obviously you won’t be able to see the new feature.
There is no mention of when WhatsApp plans to push out these changes, but since it’s not exactly a groundbreaking feature, we won’t hold our breath for it, but we’ll keep an eye out for it all the same.
WhatsApp For iOS Now Shows Profile Pictures In Notifications
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As evidenced by Apple’s success, being in control of your own hardware and software will let you do things that you might not necessarily be able to do if you were to rely on tech developed by someone else. A good example would be Apple’s Mac computers, which used to be highly reliant on Intel’s processors for upgrades.
However, after switching to their own custom chipsets, Apple now has a greater degree of control over upgrades, choosing when they want to launch it, and also choosing what future chipsets can do. This is why it is a bit odd that Meta has apparently cancelled their plans to launch their own operating system for its future VR and AR devices.
This comes from a report from The Information (paywall) in which they cite sources who claims that Meta has scrapped their plans. The project was called XROS and was apparently in development for years. It also involved hundreds of employees, suggesting that it was quite a monumental project that the company was working on.
In fact, it was just back in June 2021 that Meta’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg and CTO Andrew Bosworth were talking it up, saying how XROS could give them tighter control over its hardware. It has now been suggested that Meta could turn to a modified version of Android to power its Oculus and future VR/AR devices.
That being said, this report should be taken with a grain of salt. This is because Meta communications manager Sheeva Slovan has since issued a statement to The Verge where it seems to refute the article. “We are not halting or scaling back our operations in building a reality operating system. The team continues to make progress and we continue to invest in building for future computing platforms like AR glasses and wearable devices to help realize our metaverse vision.”
Meta Reportedly Scraps Plans For Their Own VR/AR Software
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