You may have heard about the way that the iPhone istrackingyour every move. Well, it turns out that Android phones do this as well, and likely for the same reasons. Developer Magnus Eriksson hascreatedwhat he calls an Android location service data dumper. This is an app that searches Android phones for a location data file similar to the one iPhones use to store location data. Following the latest days internet outrage/overreaction to the revelation that iPhone has a cache for its location service, I decided to have look what my Android devices caches for the same function....

It’s not just you — work psychologist confirms COVID-19 made jobs suckier Work during COVID has become much harder. Silver lining? But there may also be a silver lining to this strange year. What 2020 has shown us is that people have shown incredible resilience and talent and creativity to adapt and navigate dramatic changes at work and in life. Despite a changed social reality, travel bans and everything else, many people have found a way to still run their businesses, to socially interact with work colleagues, to structure their days and manage their workloads....

Doodledoesn’t have the most glamorous or sexy of products, and it rarely gets much press coverage, but the Swiss startup is clearly doing something right as it’sannouncedthis week that it has hit the 10 million monthly user mark. In case Doodle’s passed you by, it’s a tool that makes it easy for groups to arrange a mutually convenient time to meet. The meeting organiser proposes timeslots and everyone else votes for the slots that suit them....

Earlier this week, Jessica Pressler of NY Magtweeted, “I just Tweeted in my head, or had what they used to call, ‘a thought.’” While hilarious, it’s a poignant observation. Keeping a thought to yourself is now out of vogue – despite the very obvious benefits of keeping a respectable public image. We’ve been conditioned for centuries to act a certain way in the public eye. You wouldn’t pick your nose in mid-conversation and you wouldn’t talk about your bowel movements during a job interview....

Last year, according to aUnited Nations reportpublished in March, Libyan government forces hunted down rebel forces using “lethal autonomous weapons systems” that were “programmed to attack targets without requiring data connectivity between the operator and the munition”. The deadly drones wereTurkish-made quadcoptersabout the size of a dinner plate, capable of delivering a warhead weighing a kilogram or so. Artificial intelligence researchers like me have beenwarningof the advent of such lethal autonomous weapons systems, which can make life-or-death decisions without human intervention, for years....