Erin Rose Tech Links

  • Erin Rose’s Tech Links

    New Wikileaks cables detail Apple’s battle against Chinese knockoffs. When two chatbots try to talk to each other, things get weird. Privacy on the Internet? Inconceivable!  …. but maybe that’s not a bad thing. Torrent users don’t scheme together, so…

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    The TSA’s days of checkin’ out your naked body are over (or so they say). Police departments nationwide are starting to use the iPhone’s biometric scanner app to ID suspects. Ooooh, a much less expensive (and quicker) DNA sequencer. A…

  • Erin Rose’s Tech Links

    Evidently, good grammar is profitable: Mechanically proofreading users’ online reviews and correcting errors increases sales. Apple says they aren’t tracking the location of iPhones. India is putting strict limitations on Internet free speech. These people can help you convert an…

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    Google employees testified today that giving private companies, as well as the government, the power to censor search results is an awful idea. Duh. What is Congress thinking? Ah, hypocrisy. Apple’s new iAd app violates its own app guidelines. Microsoft and…

  • Erin Rose’s Tech Links

    The vote on whether Twitter and other SF tech companies will get their desired tax break to stay in town is today. Google & Facebook are taking the French government to court over its privacy laws. The Anonymous hacker group…

  • Erin Rose’s Tech Links

    The NY Times’ online subscription price is way more than other online subscription services, so why would people pay for it? Facebook removes around 20,0009 underage people from the site per day. Apple pulled the “gay cure” app after an…