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I have frequently been informed of my naiveté on this matter but I am going to say this anyway: I think the whole privacy scare regarding companies like Facebook and Google is overblown and way out of proportion. I, for one, don’t care how much these companies know about me and how they use all that data. At its f8 conference last week, Facebook unveiledthe new Timeline feature, which takes all the information you have ever entered on the social networking website and puts it on a redesigned profile that is chronologically arranged by year and goes back to your birth....

If you’re a fan of “allegedly,” “people close to the source,” and other rumor-inducing phrases — any coverage about the Apple iCar should be your cup of tea.This week, we heard again the claim that an Apple autonomous electric vehicle, aka Project Titan, will besuccessfully produced by 2025. The question is… is the car really coming and can we trust the new timeline? First thing first then, is Apple working on car tech?...

Yesterday, Apple introduced us to its latest gadget, theiPhone 4S. Many of us expected to get both an iPhone 5 and iPhone 4s, but the rumors were wrong and some were left disappointed. iOS 5 was announced several months before, and the new iPhone is just a small hardware upgrade in comparison to the iPhone 4. So, was there anything special that required your attention last night? Yes, and its name is Siri....

Why I start all my video meetings with collaborative games (spoiler: it’s not boredom) Life’s too short for boring meetings Are we all here? We’ve all been through it. “She accepted the calendar invite, right?” “Let me ping him and see what’s going on.” Humans are social creatures, but a lot of us start to squirm when forced into prolonged periods of small talk or awkward silence. Now add constant interruption by new meeting arrivals, each one bringing a host of new social considerations into the room....

The Indian government has asked social media companies such as Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram to remove all posts that refer to one of the new coronavirus strains as the “Indian variant.” In a noticeissued on Friday, the country’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MEITY) said that posts mentioning “Indian variant” count as false news. The ministry reasoned that the strain is officially known as B.1.617, so there’s no need for attaching a geographical tag to it....