January 2023

EU watchdogs agree on how to handle certain cookie consent dark patterns

January 20, 2023

Cookie consent banners that use blatant design tricks to try to manipulate web users into agreeing to hand over their data for behavioral advertising, instead of giving people a free and fair choice to refuse this kind of creepy tracking, are facing a coordinated pushback from the European Union’s data protection regulators. A taskforce of […]

EU watchdogs agree on how to handle certain cookie consent dark patterns by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch

Shadow acquires Android emulation startup Genymobile

January 20, 2023

Shadow is making its first acquisition as it announced that it would snatch Genymobile, the company behind Genymotion. Shadow is better known for its cloud computing service that works particularly well for cloud gaming. It also offers a cloud storage service based on Nextcloud. As for Genymobile, the French startup has been around for more […]

Shadow acquires Android emulation startup Genymobile by Romain Dillet originally published on TechCrunch

Google parent Alphabet cuts 6% of its workforce impacting 12,000 people, saying it had ‘hired for a different economic reality’

January 20, 2023

Alphabet, parent holding company of Google, has announced that it’s cutting around 6% of its global workforce. In an open letter published by Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, the narrative followed a similar trajectory to that of other companies that have downsized in recent months, noting that the company had “hired for a different […]

Google parent Alphabet cuts 6% of its workforce impacting 12,000 people, saying it had ‘hired for a different economic reality’ by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCrunch

How CRISPR is making farmed animals bigger, stronger, and healthier

January 20, 2023
This article is from The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Thursday, sign up here. The CRISPR gene-editing tool has been making headlines for the last 10 years, since scientists showed it could be used to easily alter the genome of a living organism. The technology could…

India releases guidelines for social media influencers accepting paid promotions

January 20, 2023

As the market of social media influencers is getting bigger in India, the South Asian nation has introduced endorsement guidelines to limit unfair trade practices and misleading promotions on the web. On Friday, the Department of Consumer Affairs held a press conference to announce new guidelines to make it mandatory for social media influencers to […]

India releases guidelines for social media influencers accepting paid promotions by Jagmeet Singh originally published on TechCrunch