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Tech Time Podcast Episode 17: Electric Scooter & Samsung Leaks
Quora Data Breach Exposes 100 Million Users’ Personal Info
Information sharing website Quora has announced a data breach which has exposed “approximately 100 million users'” personal data.
discovered the “unauthorized access to one of our systems by a malicious third party,” on Friday. Chief Executive Adam D’Angelo wrote in the blog post that Quora had alerted law enforcement authorities and was “working rapidly to investigate the situation further and take the appropriate steps to prevent such incidents in the future.” D’Angelo said
Quora was working to alert the affected users of the site, whose names, email addresses and encrypted passwords, and public content such as their questions, answers and comments, were exposed through the breach.
Mariott also was breached. 500 million people had their info compromised.
Electric Scooters are Sending People to Emergency
Injured scooter riders are hitting the emergency rooms at an estimated number of 1,000 per month.
Injuries can be caused by broken or malfunctioning equipment (brakes, steering, etc) or rider error (riding into traffic, walls, etc).
Lyme = 20m rides, Bird = 10m rides. Many others.
Cost $1 + $0.15 per minute.
Many don’t follow safety rules (helmets).
Shouldn’t weigh more than 220 lbs, store in cool dry place, scooters should be inspected with each use (yeah right).
Scooters don’t come with helmets.
Bird says it will give a free hemet to anyone who wants one.
Bird also was responsible for repealing california’s electric scooter helmet law.
Are there traffic rules with scooters? Can you ride on the sidewalk?
“If you hit the ground at 20mph [on a scooter] or a baseball bat hits your head at 20mph, that’s about the same thing.”
Epic Games Launches Store to Compete with Steam
Epic Games released a store today to compete with Steam.
Will be released for Mac & Windows before Android.
Steam 70/30% split (Developers/Steam)
Epic 88/12% Split.
No Required DRM on games.
Qualcomm Announces the Snapdragon 855 and Its New Under-display Fingerprint Sensor
While the company didn’t release all of the details yet, it stressed that the 855 is “the world’s first commercial mobile platform supporting multi-gigabit 5G.”
The 855 also features a new multi-core AI engine that promises up to 3x better AI performance compared to its previous mobile platform,
as well as specialized computer vision silicon for enhanced computational photography (think something akin to Google’s Night Light) and video capture.
The company also briefly noted that the new platform has been optimized for gaming.
The product name for this is “Snapdragon Elite Gaming,” but details remain sparse. Qualcomm also continues to bet on AR (or “extended reality” as the company brands it).
Sony patent hints smartphone with a transparent display
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Tech Time Podcast Episode 17: Electric Scooter & Samsung Leaks
Quora Data Breach Exposes 100 Million Users’ Personal Info
Information sharing website Quora has announced a data breach which has exposed “approximately 100 million users'” personal data.
discovered the “unauthorized access to one of our systems by a malicious third party,” on Friday. Chief Executive Adam D’Angelo wrote in the blog post that Quora had alerted law enforcement authorities and was “working rapidly to investigate the situation further and take the appropriate steps to prevent such incidents in the future.” D’Angelo said
Quora was working to alert the affected users of the site, whose names, email addresses and encrypted passwords, and public content such as their questions, answers and comments, were exposed through the breach.
Mariott also was breached. 500 million people had their info compromised.
Electric Scooters are Sending People to Emergency
Injured scooter riders are hitting the emergency rooms at an estimated number of 1,000 per month.
Injuries can be caused by broken or malfunctioning equipment (brakes, steering, etc) or rider error (riding into traffic, walls, etc).
Lyme = 20m rides, Bird = 10m rides. Many others.
Cost $1 + $0.15 per minute.
Many don’t follow safety rules (helmets).
Shouldn’t weigh more than 220 lbs, store in cool dry place, scooters should be inspected with each use (yeah right).
Scooters don’t come with helmets.
Bird says it will give a free hemet to anyone who wants one.
Bird also was responsible for repealing california’s electric scooter helmet law.
Are there traffic rules with scooters? Can you ride on the sidewalk?
“If you hit the ground at 20mph [on a scooter] or a baseball bat hits your head at 20mph, that’s about the same thing.”
Epic Games Launches Store to Compete with Steam
Epic Games released a store today to compete with Steam.
Will be released for Mac & Windows before Android.
Steam 70/30% split (Developers/Steam)
Epic 88/12% Split.
No Required DRM on games.
Qualcomm Announces the Snapdragon 855 and Its New Under-display Fingerprint Sensor
While the company didn’t release all of the details yet, it stressed that the 855 is “the world’s first commercial mobile platform supporting multi-gigabit 5G.”
The 855 also features a new multi-core AI engine that promises up to 3x better AI performance compared to its previous mobile platform,
as well as specialized computer vision silicon for enhanced computational photography (think something akin to Google’s Night Light) and video capture.
The company also briefly noted that the new platform has been optimized for gaming.
The product name for this is “Snapdragon Elite Gaming,” but details remain sparse. Qualcomm also continues to bet on AR (or “extended reality” as the company brands it).
Sony patent hints smartphone with a transparent display
...