New documents obtained via a Freedom of Information Act request by the Project on Government Oversight (POGO) have revealed that Amazon met with and pitched the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement department on adopting its Rekognition facial recognition technology. In a June 15 email, an Amazon sales representative thanked ICE …

It’s October and nearly November, so that means…  PUMPKIN EVERYTHAANNGGG! ?  I’ve been slow to roll out pumpkin recipes this Fall — I’ve only posted TWO pumpkin recipes:  Pumpkin Swirl Brownies and Single-Serving Pumpkin Pie Baked Oatmeal — so I decided that needed to change.  I’ve never been a huge fan …

OnePlus used to be a small niche player in the smartphone world. It’s still not the equal of Samsung or LG, but OnePlus could be on the verge of a breakthrough moment. According to OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei, the company will be among the first to launch a 5G smartphone …

Google has often professed a respect for universal standards and the rights of users, but that position is decidedly not reflected in the new Pixel Stand wireless charger and the Pixel 3. After taking a multi-year hiatus from wireless charging in its smartphones, the feature is back this year. However, …

AMD and Oracle jointly announced today that AMD’s Epyc servers are now available as Oracle cloud compute instances. It’s a significant win for AMD, which has been slowly growing its server market share since it launched its Zen-based Epyc CPU family back in 2017. Oracle is now the third major …

Motorola has announced that it will begin selling repair kits for its own devices and has partnered with iFixit to do so. In doing so, it’s become the first smartphone manufacturer to openly support the right to repair. Modern electronics manufacturers are often fundamentally hostile to the idea that you …

Online advertisers have good reason to be running scared these days. Last week, news broke that Facebook had massively inflated its video watching metrics for years by ignoring as invalid all videos that were watched for less than three seconds and reporting only metrics for video that was watched for …

There is ever-increasing concern about the volume of data that internet companies have about users, and Google is right at the top of that list. Its business model is largely based on knowing what links you’re likely to open, and that means collecting lots of data. You can see that …

It has been a harrowing few weeks for the Hubble Space Telescope, but NASA believes it is one step closer to restoring the instrument to full functionality. NASA engineers initially feared the telescope’s backup gyroscope was busted, which would have limited Hubble’s ability to observe the universe. However, a series …

Are you ready for the best recipe you’ll see this year??  I hope so, because today I’m bringing you these Pumpkin Pie Pops — where Pumpkin Pie meets Pop Tarts meets secretly good-for-you deliciousness. These rich and sweet Pumpkin Pie Pops will satisfy your sweet tooth! You’d never know they’re …