May 17, 2014 Never Forgetting a Face by NATASHA SINGER By NATASHA SINGER Joseph Atick, a pioneer of facial-recognition systems, is now cautioning against their unfettered use. Never, he says, should they undermine anyone’s…
May 17, 2014 Indiana Man Gets 8 Years Home Detention for Rape of Sleeping Wife by REUTERS By REUTERS An Indiana man was sentenced on Friday to eight years of home detention after being convicted of raping his wife when she…
May 17, 2014 Yearning for a Bigger (Apple) Smartphone by NICK BILTON By NICK BILTON While I’ve owned an Apple iPhone for the past seven years, seeing a lot of larger Android devices on the market…
May 17, 2014 Did Regulators Break the Internet or Did They Save It? Yes. by FARHAD MANJOO By FARHAD MANJOO The Federal Communications Commission’s proposal on network neutrality tries to please every side. And when you try to please everyone, you…
May 17, 2014 Apple and Google End Patent Fights by BRIAN X. CHEN By BRIAN X. CHEN Apple and Google, fierce rivals in mobile software, agreed to dismiss patent lawsuits related to smartphone technology between the two…
May 16, 2014 Protesters Target Tech Executives Over San Francisco Evictions by REUTERS By REUTERS A tenants’ rights advocacy group released on Thursday what it called a “Dirty Dozen” list of landlords from the technology sector that…
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May 16, 2014 Amazon vs. Hachette: When Does Discouragement Become Misrepresentation? by DAVID STREITFELD By DAVID STREITFELD Amazon promotes books from Hachette Books Group while discouraging people from buying them. After the retailer’s aggressive stance became public last…
May 16, 2014 After European Court Decision, Google Works on a Tool to Remove Links by MARK SCOTT By MARK SCOTT A basic online tool for people to ask Google to take down potential harmful links would be in place in about…
May 15, 2014 Copyright Licensing Organization Gets New Boss by NOAM COHEN By NOAM COHEN The new chief executive of Creative Commons says he has two big challenges: one is technology and the other is communication….