Technology Companies Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, and so on : 2019

2019年12月22日星期日

2019年12月20日星期五

Teenagers consume news almost entirely through platforms like Instagram and YouTube

Teenagers consume news almost entirely through platforms like Instagram and YouTube, which feature a weird mix of celebrities, politics and activism

That will affect both the industry and society

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Teenagers are rewriting the rules of the news

That will affect both the industry and society

2019年12月19日星期四

Russia's “law against Apple”

Apple has six months to decide if it will quit the Russian market. The world will be watching

Can the tech giant stand up to Vladimir Putin?

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The Kremlin’s “law against Apple”

Russia will force tech companies to pre-install Russian-made government-approved applications and software onto new smartphones from next year.

The measures — dubbed the “law against Apple” due to the U.S. iPhone maker’s refusal to sell products loaded with third-party apps — sailed through the Russian parliament and was rubber-stamped by President Vladimir Putin Monday. It will come into force next July.

Backers say the measures will protect Russian consumers and support the Russian technology industry from unfair Western competition. Oleg Nikolayev, one of the lawmakers who authored the bill, said Russian consumers may not realize that there are Russian-made alternatives to the Western apps which come pre-installed on smartphones.

The government will now draw up a list of software which producers will need to pre-install and a list of the devices which will be covered by the law, expected to include computers, tablets and smart TVs alongside mobile phones.

Companies that do not abide by the law will face a fine of 200,000 rubles ($3,100), reports the independent Meduza news website. Apple previously threatened to leave the Russian market if a complete ban on selling its products without pre-installed apps was introduced, Russian media reported earlier this year.

A company source told the Kommersant business daily: “A mandate to add third-party applications to Apple’s ecosystem would be equivalent to jailbreaking. It would pose a security threat, and the company cannot tolerate that kind of risk.”

Russian digital rights NGO Roskomsvoboda said it feared the law would be enforced without transparency and proper control. Founder Artem Kozlyuk added: “If Russian lawmakers actually wanted to protect Russian consumers, then I would be more supportive of banning the pre-installation of any software.”

“The user should have a choice of what software products to use and what services they need. Devices are already stuffed with a huge number of services … a number of which can secretly collect information: location, tools and services being used and so on. And we, as users, often can’t track it,” he told The Moscow Times.

The law’s passing comes just weeks after Russia’s controversial sovereign internet law, which allows the Russian internet to be cut off from the global network, came into force.

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2019年12月16日星期一

The Decade When Tech Lost Its Way

The Decade When Tech Lost Its Way

When the 2010s began, technology meant promise — self-driving cars, social networks that could take down dictators. Its flaws soon became clear.

2019年12月1日星期日

Google, known as a top place to work, confronts rising tensions with employees. 國防契約的兩難

For years, Google was seen as the gold standard of office life with free meals, onsite childcare and an emphasis on transparency. But the company is quickly developing a very different reputation as it confronts a mounting backlash from its own employees.

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Google, known as a top place to work, confronts rising tensions with employees

2019年11月24日星期日

facebook的人臉辨識率低於50%。起底谷歌干預搜索算法、修改搜索結果內幕

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facebook的人臉辨識率低於50%，這可說明賺錢與能力不相關。謹向溫學長等致歉。

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起底谷歌干預搜索算法、修改搜索結果內幕

黑名單、算法修改以及一支合同工大軍，互聯網巨頭谷歌用它們勾勒出我們的搜索結果。

2019年11月20日星期三

President Trump is visiting Austin Wednesday to tour an Apple manufacturing facility, Flex, where the company is creating its new line of Mac Pro computers.