Mois : septembre 2020

“The U.S. Administration’s move to ban TikTok and WeChat for U.S. app stores is a direct attack on the Internet. It is an extreme measure that fundamentally undermines the foundation of the Internet. It’s especially a threat to the principles of openness and accessibility as well as its decentralized management. The Internet has no center. This type of top-down intervention is worrisome because – similar to efforts in China – it tries to impose a centralized management style that runs counter to how the Internet actually works.”

Source : Internet Society: U.S. Administration ban of TikTok and WeChat is a direct attack on the Internet | Internet Society

“Twitter it was looking into why the neural network it uses to generate photo previews apparently chooses to show white people’s faces more frequently than Black faces. Several Twitter users demonstrated the issue over the weekend, posting examples of posts that had a Black person’s face and a white person’s face. Twitter’s preview showed the white faces more often.”

Source : Twitter is looking into why its photo preview appears to favor white faces over Black faces – The Verge

“The latest announcements place Amazon at the distant back of the pack. In 2019, the company revealed a then-ambitious plan to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2040, and to use 100% renewable electricity by 2030. But the company’s vast logistics network is a significant hurdle not faced by its competitors: the company has purchased 100,000 electric delivery vehicles, but deploying them to the road will not be complete by 2030.”

Source : Facebook and Google announce plans to become carbon neutral | Environment | The Guardian

“Cette affaire est, au final, une illustration parfaite des implications bien humaines des technologies et de leur utilisation dans notre vie. Ce qui ne signifie pas que l’on ne peut pas se poser des questions (elles aussi justifiées) sur la numérisation à outrance de notre quotidien, le recyclage des appareils électroniques, ou même sur le fait de devoir payer une machine pour faire respecter nos droits sexuels et reproductifs. Mais quand on a affaire à un appareil comme un test de grossesse — avec tous les enjeux politiques et sociétaux qu’implique le fait d’être enceinte ou de vouloir avorter — on ne peut pas se contenter d’agir comme si l’on démontait un bête PC.”

Source : La fausse arnaque des tests de grossesse électroniques

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“Projects on Scratch contains “a great deal of humiliating, fake, and libelous content about China,” including placing Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan in a dropdown list of “countries”, a state-run news outlet reported on August 21. The article added that “any service distributing information in China” must comply with local regulations, and Scratch’s website and user forum had been shut down in the country.”

Source : China bans Scratch, MIT’s programming language for kids | TechCrunch

“C’est loin d’être une première pour Electronic Arts. Selon un article du Wall Street Journal paru le 26 juillet, des expérimentations avaient déjà été effectuées dans le jeu vidéo UFC 3, en partenariat avec WarnerMedia. Lors de notre test de Need for Speed Heat, on a déploré l’intégration d’une publicité aux couleurs du service EA Access, lorsque l’on met le jeu en pause. On se souvient aussi qu’Electronic Arts avait été pointé du doigt à cause des microtransactions honteuses de Star Wars Battlefront 2. À force de chercher à gagner de l’argent par tous les moyens, l’entreprise se retrouve très souvent dans le viseur des critiques.”

Source : Electronic Arts a osé intégrer une publicité dans un jeu à 60 euros

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“The milestone has been a long time coming for Amazon, which announced its Prime Air plans way back in 2013. But hardware limitations, not to mention health and safety regulation, presented big challenges for the company. It made its first successful drone delivery in Cambridge, England in 2016, but a regular commercial service never followed. Even now, Bloomberg notes that there are numerous hurdles standing in the way of Amazon and its competitors making routine deliveries. The FAA is expected to finalize new rules about flying drones over crowds before the end of the year.”

Source : Amazon’s Prime Air inches closer to takeoff in the US with FAA approval – The Verge

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