Sunday, May 10, 2020
Amid privacy worries, Aarogya Setu app set to enter 100 million users club
Apple may take a bigger bite of India's manufacturing pie
In its quasi-judiciary role, Facebook Oversight Board is neutered from the start since it can not mandate codes of conduct or effectively help minimize harm (Siva Vaidhyanathan/Wired)
In its quasi-judiciary role, Facebook Oversight Board is neutered from the start since it can not mandate codes of conduct or effectively help minimize harm — The company's new review board is designed to move slowly and keep things intact. — My late colleague, Neil Postman …
Airlines, OTAs blame each other for botched ticket refund process
E-commerce marketplaces see low demand for non-essentials
As Australian and French regulators plan to make tech companies pay publishers for news content, leaders from Ireland to Malaysia say they are paying attention (Ben Smith/New York Times)
As Australian and French regulators plan to make tech companies pay publishers for news content, leaders from Ireland to Malaysia say they are paying attention — News organizations have long hoped that tech platforms would pay them for news. Now regulators abroad are moving to make that happen.
Researcher: PCs with Thunderbolt ports have an unpatchable flaw letting hackers with physical access circumvent data safeguards; some new PCs are not affected (Andy Greenberg/Wired)
Researcher: PCs with Thunderbolt ports have an unpatchable flaw letting hackers with physical access circumvent data safeguards; some new PCs are not affected — The so-called Thunderspy attack takes less than five minutes to pull off with physical access to a device, and affects any PC manufactured before 2019.
Realme Narzo 10, Narzo 10A Launch in India Today: How to Watch Livestream
Sources: online used-car seller Vroom files confidentially for IPO, setting sights on a June offering after its December 2019 funding round valued it at $1.5B (Wall Street Journal)
Sources: online used-car seller Vroom files confidentially for IPO, setting sights on a June offering after its December 2019 funding round valued it at $1.5B — Firm sets sights on a June offering after rich funding round — Online used-car seller Vroom Inc. has filed confidentially …
Sources: the FBI and DHS are preparing to accuse China of attempting to hack vaccine data from academic and private laboratories (New York Times)
Sources: the FBI and DHS are preparing to accuse China of attempting to hack vaccine data from academic and private laboratories — Iran and other nations are also looking to steal data and exploit the pandemic with attacks on infrastructure, officials say.
Can gender-bending Israeli superprawns help feed the world?
Enlarge / This is actually a male shrimp according to the image info, which we don't need for this. (credit: Enzootic Ltd)
Can a shrimp smile? It's tough to say whether the gangly, blue-legged crustaceans lurking within the massive aquaculture tanks are actually happy, but they certainly appear to be content. Perhaps it's because they are well-fed and blissfully unaware of what lies just outside the laboratory: the harsh, dry environment of Israel's Negev Desert, which is not a natural habitat for any form of aquatic life. It may also be because the tank contains an all-female population, devoid of males which tend to be territorial, aggressive, and create stressful conditions that don't promote optimal growth.
Regardless of their state of mind, these placid crustaceans are the products of a unique gender-bending technique that promises to make them a delicious link towards a sustainable global food chain. Or, the technique could be the latest in a long line of developments that force us to take a careful look at the benefits and costs of achieving sustainability by intruding into the basic biology of the food we end up eating.
Gender bending giants
In truth, the creatures in question are not shrimp; rather, they're a species of freshwater prawns, known to biologists as Macrobrachium rosenbergii. Commonly known as giant river prawns, they are a beloved staple of traditional Southeast Asian cuisine. Their flavor and amenability to simple aquaculture techniques made them a traditional cash crop for Thai, Malaysian, and Vietnamese farmers, who raise them in large outdoor ponds.
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Beyond Netflix and Spotify, what subscriptions are worth keeping in quarantine?
Enlarge / Would not recommend this keyboard setup given our impulse control. (credit: Stock / Getty Images Plus / aniliakkus)
Two seismic forces combined in the spring of 2020 and caused us all to reevaluate our choices: the COVID-19 pandemic... and the last decade's slow, inevitable march toward the disappearance of ownership. We no longer own records; we subscribe to Spotify or Apple Music. We don't purchase DVDs; we pay Netflix, Disney, or Amazon a monthly fee and save some shelf space. Google Stadia would like you to stream games in exchange for a recurring payment. Apple will let you take the same approach to your phone, and it's not hard to imagine a future where you skip having a car in the garage and instead pay regularly for access to an autonomous chariot that only shows up when you need it. (We can all agree to blame Adobe, which shifted from Creative Suite to Creative Cloud seven years ago this month.)
While there's never a bad time to assess your monthly subscriptions and trim the fat (read: that magazine your parents once gifted you but... wait, I pay how much annually for Sports Illustrated now?!), entering the third month of sheltering at home feels like an apt moment to potentially save a few bucks. At the same time, comfort of any kind now comes at a premium, and maybe watching your dog rip into a Bark Box will genuinely make you feel better.
There's a service for almost everything these days (like martial arts films? Try Hi-Yah!), and some feel almost mandatory (a TV/film service like Netflix or Disney+, music streaming from Spotify or Apple). So beyond the obvious, what services remain worth clinging to at the moment?
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Canada-based Tehama, a SaaS company that helps remote workers securely connect to enterprise systems, raises $10M Series A led by OMERS Ventures (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
Canada-based Tehama, a SaaS company that helps remote workers securely connect to enterprise systems, raises $10M Series A led by OMERS Ventures — Tehama, a SaaS platform that aims to offer a secure way to deploy a virtual workforce, has raised $10 million in a Series A round, the Ontario …
Vivo V19 with Snapdragon 712, dual-selfie cameras to launch on May 12 in India
Vivo will launch its latest V19 smartphone with dual selfie cameras on May 12 in India after several delays due to the lockdown in place to curb the Coronavirus outbreak. Interestingly, the launch is set to be on the same date as the scheduled launch of the Poco F2 Pro.
Vivo V19 was announced globally in early-April and packs features like 33W fast charging, dual-selfie cameras and more. The phone could be priced around Rs 25,000 according to rumours circulating online.
Vivo V19 specificationsVivo V19 features a 6.44-inch Full HD+ (2400 x 1080 pixels) resolution screen that uses a Super AMOLED panel. There’s a dual punch-hole cutout on the top-right corner. The chassis is plastic and the phone measures 8.5mm at its thickest point. There’s a fingerprint sensor housed under the display as well.
The V19 is powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 712 chipset with an octa-core CPU and Adreno 616 GPU. This is paired with 8GB RAM and the phone is available with 128GB/256GB storage options. There is also an option to expand the storage via microSD card. It runs on Funtouch OS 10.0 that's based on Android 10.
On the back, there is a quad-camera array consisting of a primary 48MP sensor with an f/1.8 aperture, an 8MP ultra-wide-angle lens, a 2MP macro sensor and a 2MP depth sensor for portraits. The rear quad camera setup is capable of recording up to 4K at 30fps. There are two front-facing cameras housed within the punch-hole cutout with a 32MP primary sensor and an 8MP ultra-wide lens with a 105-degree field-of-view.
Vivo V19 is fitted with a 4,500mAh battery with support for 33W fast charging courtesy of Flash Charge 2.0. The company claims that the phone can recharge up to 54% in 30 minutes. The phone comes in two colours to choose from, Sleek Silver and Gleam Black.
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Airbnb launches a pilot in NYC, LA, and other cities that lets users to select from a range of boutique hotels alongside private homes in a bid to boost growth (Stephanie Stacey/Financial Times)
Stephanie Stacey / Financial Times : Airbnb launches a pilot in NYC, LA, and other cities that lets users to select from a range of bouti...
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The first project we remember working on together was drawing scenes from the picture books that our mom brought with her when she immigrate...
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Sohee Kim / Bloomberg : South Korean authorities are investigating a data leak at e-commerce giant Coupang that exposed ~33.7M accounts; ...
