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So Google is now preventing people from removing location data from photos taken with Pixel phones.

Remember when Google's corporate motto was "don't be evil?"

Obviously, accurate location data on photos is more useful to a data mining operation like Google.

From Google: "Important: You can only update or remove estimated locations. If the location of a photo or video was automatically added by your camera, you can't edit or remove the location."

It's enshitification in action.

Source: https://support.google.com/photos/answer/6153599?hl=en&sjid=8103501961576262529-AP

#technology #tech @technology #business #enshitification #Android #Google @pluralistic #infosec


Nanotec Angels


One of the favorite films I have made from 2005
The Heavenly Righteous Opposed to Nano-tech Greed manifested at a conference of potential investors in the nano-technology industry today. Harry Swan, once in charge of PR for Monsanto and now trying...


Meanwhile, in battery news...

Researchers at Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) have developed an oxygen-ion battery with a storage capacity that doesn't decrease over time, leading to an extremely long lifespan compared to other batteries.

This battery can be produced without rare metals and could be used for in large energy storage systems, e.g., to store electrical energy from renewable sources.

https://techxplore.com/news/2023-03-oxygen-ion-battery.html

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#energy #batteries #sustainability #technology


/ Kudos and thank you 🎉 🔥 - me / not famous - much smaller readership but terrific readership, Sabrina I. Pacifici - Editor, Publisher, Founder
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The Skeletons of the Red Line


Meanwhile... Beneath Harvard Square....

#History #HarvardSquare #MBTA #Cambridge #MA #SubwaySecrets #TransportationHistory #Technology #HArvardCrimson


'Digital Timescapes: Technology, Temporality & Society' published by Polity Books just arrived in post. Covers how the digital reconfigures time w/ respect to history/memory, politics/policy, governance, mobility/logistics, planning/dev, & work/labour. In my mind, 4th book in a set of Mapping Cyberspace, Code/Space, The Data Revolution, Digital Timescapes that plots spatial & temporal implications of digital infrastructure, software & data.

https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=9781509556403

#time #technology #digital


Content warning: Art in dialogue with biotech


The National Museum of Computing awarded #RaspberryPi co-founders Liz and Eben Upton Honorary Fellowships acknowledging “outstanding individuals who have made significant and lasting contributions to the fields of #computing and #technology.”

They had to stand up and talk about themselves. For ages. But they got nice medals in exchange.

Photos and video from the event here:

https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/liz-and-eben-honoured-by-the-national-museum-of-computing/


ok I was reading the article and enjoying it but then I stumble upon a quote saying Mastodon is not a website but an app and I instantly die
RE: https://noc.social/users/Norobiik/statuses/109574928041690991

"Mastodon’s values are antithetical to the way we’ve come to understand the purpose of #technology and technology companies. We’ve been trained to favor ease of use and affordability over everything else. If a product is slick or free, then we are expected to sacrifice whatever’s necessary — usually our privacy or our attention span — to use it."

Tech #Journalism Doesn’t Know What to Do With #Mastodon | by George Dillard | Dec, 2022 | Medium
https://worldhistory.medium.com/tech-journalism-doesnt-know-what-to-do-with-mastodon-df1309f088a0


Interesting.

"This article aims to summarize the background of well-known and not so well-known Soviet rocket engines, the history of their development, their main characteristics, and the rockets they flew on."

https://everydayastronaut.com/soviet-rocket-engines/

#History #SovietUnion #Rockets #Engineering #Technology

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