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Friday, February 7, 2020
Kirk Douglas, Hollywood legend and star of Spartacus, dies aged 103 theguardian.com #
IMDb’s free streaming service is adding major TV shows slashgear.com #
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos sells off another $1.6B in stock; he’s sold $3.4B over the past week geekwire.com #
Looks like Elon Musk might take SpaceX’s Starlink public with an IPO cnbc.com #
European parliament says it will not use facial recognition tech - I wonder what the consequences of having some large areas of the world using facial recognition extensively and other large areas not using it will be, it’s a pretty massive difference so it follows that there will be some new dynamics that will arise theguardian.com #
Wacom drawing tablets track the name of every application that you open - Really well written writeup of one person’s mini quest to figure out what data a Wacom tablet is tracking and sending back to head office, I reckon that softwares that are doing this should at the very least offer a web interface that shows clearly what data is being sent, of course it’s also good to know how to verify what’s actually being sent over the wire robertheaton.com #
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The mysterious disappearance of Google's click metric - I really hope Google isn't foobared, because I just tried to use my outlook.com email account, and after an hour of changing settings, I still can't get it to work, it would be easier to just quit computers all together zdnet.com #