https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/01/technology/data-breaches.html
Don’t reuse passwords, rely on two-factor verification, install software only from trusted sources, question any alert that pops up on your screen and get a password manager.
http://news.abs-cbn.com/overseas/07/31/18/bawal-na-french-lawmakers-ban-smartphones-in-schools
French schoolchildren will have to leave their smartphones switched off or at home as the new academic year begins in September, after lawmakers voted for a ban on Monday.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/07/30/technology/robot-hands.html
Robotic hands could only do what vast teams of engineers programmed them to do. Now they can learn more complex tasks on their own.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/07/power-causes-brain-damage/528711/
How leaders lose mental capacities—most notably for reading other people—that were essential to their rise
https://www.macrumors.com/2018/07/25/siri-on-ios-latest-test/
Google Assistant answered 85.5 % … correctly and understood all of them, Siri answered 78.5 % correctly and misunderstood 11. Alexa correctly answered 61.4 % and misunderstood 13, while Cortana correctly answered 52.4 % and misunderstood 19.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/20/business/suppliers-data-leak-automakers.html
… the inadvertent exposure of customers’ data illustrates a problem confounding businesses: Some of their biggest security risks come from their suppliers and contractors.
Type the word “dog” into Google Translate 19 times, request that the nonsensical message be flipped from Maori into English, and out pops what appears to be a garbled religious prophecy.
There’s already been at least one clash between advertising and engineering over security and privacy features … The ad team prevailed
A homegrown app called Whim turns the act of getting around a city—by bus, train, bike, taxi or borrowed car—into a monthly subscription.