Curated advertising may be coming to a highway near you. “A startup called Synaps Labs has brought it to the physical world by combining high-speed cameras set up a distance ahead of the billboard (about 180 meters) to capture images…
FCC Chair Wants Carriers To Block Robocalls From Spoofed Numbers
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The FCC in 2015 made it clear that voice service providers can offer call blocking tools to customers, but commissioners said at the time that more needed to be done about…
Free Software Foundation Challenges Tim Berners-Lee On DRM
Slashdot reader Atticus Rex writes: On Monday, W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) director Tim Berners-Lee released a post defending his decision to allow Netflix, Microsoft, Apple and Google to enshrine DRM in Web standards, arguing that blocking it would be…
Google Open Sources Encrypted Email Extension For Chrome
Last week Google released E2EMail, “a Gmail client that exchanges OpenPGP mail.” Google’s documentation promises that “Any email sent from the app is also automatically signed and encrypted… The target is a simple user experience — install app, approve permissions,…
Microsoft Finally Releases A Beta Version of Skype For Linux
“We want to create a Linux version of Skype that is as feature rich as the existing Skype on desktop and mobile platforms,” read Thursday’s announcement from Microsoft’s Skype team. “Today, we’re pleased to announce that we are ready to…
News in brief: AI boost to video streaming; Mayer loses bonus; move to tackle comment trolls
Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news
DDoS attack pummels Luxembourg state servers
Attack has been ongoing since Monday with no indication of who is behind it
Nearly 1m Coachella user details potentially accessed in breach
Festivalgoers’ details allegedly for sale on the dark web, though Coachella says no financial details were exposed
Howard A Schmidt remembered as a ‘humble’ industry giant
Security industry and government heavyweight with time for everyone dies aged 67
MWC: These might be the droids you are looking for
While robots were very much part of this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, what’s increasingly clear is that AI and robotics are as much a part of your phone as they are of humanoid robots