May 6th 2016
Tech News Today 1508
MRI Hat
Facebook Owns Your Face
Tonight, we talk about a new lawsuit that says Facebook's opt-out auto-tagging feature is a violation of our biometric privacy. If you want to devote your life to curing disease, the Oculus division of Facebook is apparently not the place to do it. Mary Lou Jepson, formerly of Google, is now leaving Oculus to start her own company to cure disease with an MRI that might be the size of a ski hat. Next, we check in with Sam Machkovech from Ars Technica about the next Battlefield, the rumored Nintendo NX, and the human centipede game Push Me Pull You. Then, we check in with Ian Kar from Quartz about the tumbling stock of the mobile payments company Square.
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Links
- Square is getting killed today and things could get even worse over the next two weeks
- Lawsuit challenging Facebook’s facial recognition system moves forward
- Facebook lost the first round in a battle over the legality of its automatic photo-tagging
- Facebook's 'screen queen' leaving Oculus
- Mary Lou Jepsen on Life Post-Facebook and New Startup, “Open Water”
- Warner Music makes most of its money from streaming
- Apple begins offering half-price $4.99 Apple Music subscriptions for students
- People Are Accusing Snapchat Of Ripping Off An Artist’s Portrait For A Filter
- Wow! SpaceX Nails Rocket Landing At Sea Again
- Spectacular Tesla Model S crash after flying 82+ft in the air shows importance of a large crumple zone [Gallery]
- After Battlefield 4 comes… Battlefield 1?
- Why Nintendo NX’s rumored shift from discs to cartridges is actually smart
- In Captain America: Civil War, Marvel’s cinematic empire strikes back
- Intel wants to charge $50 to unlock stuff your CPU can already do
- Littlebook puts Facebook on your Apple Watch to feed your social addiction