… Ciaran Hale, chief technology officer at another one of the platforms, Deputy, said in a statement that the company’s “third-party relationships are limited to trusted operational and infrastructure providers that support the delivery, security, and reliability of our platform.” Hale added that Dep… …
… The metrics don’t correlate to quality of work or the actual number of features an employee delivers, Harnett says. “All this data reasonably could be expected to … help us understand how we’re doing, but not the way that they’re using it and implementing it, which we think is amounting to a de fac… …
… Then it makes sure that no pesky state that may want to, you know, actually regulate what companies are doing can get in the way.” Eric Null, director of the Center for Democracy and Technology’s privacy and data project, warns it “would cement the harmful online data practices that Americans need … …
… This increased spending is driven by expectations for higher component pricing and, “to a lesser extent,” additional costs for future data center capacity. …
… Trips will be free to start out, as Waymo collects data about the passenger experience in the new vehicle. …
… Palantir is clearly putting in more effort to its merchandise than simply drop-shipping cheap T-shirts featuring its logo — the company told GQ it will introduce a tennis collection in June. …
… Some GitHub employees have followed Dohmke to his Entire startup, a new developer platform that looks like it will compete directly with GitHub. Out of the 30 employees listed at Entire, at least 11 of them used to work at GitHub. …
… Where scammers would once impersonate a single executive, they’re now targeting employees at all levels of a company. …
… Now, the pushback is that this is data that’s better tagged than ever been before, that this AI-based system, essentially being a database system, means that you can audit the data and go deep into it and also give headquarters a way of following what military operators at the edge are doing with m… …
… In April 2018, about 4,000 employees signed a petition demanding that Google remove itself from the “business of war.” The letter said a Google executive had assured Googlers their tech “will not ‘operate or fly drones’ and ‘will not be used to launch weapons.’” But “while this eliminates a narrow … …