The company says a tweet that suggested otherwise was “incorrect.” …read more Source:: CNet

“You don’t really believe the peeing in bottles thing, do you?” Amazon tweeted last week. But on Friday “The web giant fessed up that its delivery drivers have limited access to bathrooms, meaning that accusations of them urinating in bottles or elsewhere in public are likely to be true,” reports the New York Post: “We…

Looking for a new thermostat? Start here. …read more Source:: CNet

Volkswagen’s early April Fool’s Day prank (pretending to re-name the company “Voltswagen”) “may have put the company at risk of running afoul of U.S. securities law by wading into the murky waters of potentially misleading investors,” reports CNN: “This is not the sort of thing that a responsible global company should be doing,” said Charles…

Data posted on a cybercrime forum includes phone numbers, Facebook IDs, birth dates, gender and location. …read more Source:: ZDNet

The insects are burrowing out of their underground homes in 15 US states, plus Washington, DC. Prepare yourself for a lot of buzzing. …read more Source:: CNet

Early LED displays came in all sorts of configurations. Because the LED was fairly new technology, all kinds of ideas were getting tried, and with all that work there was plenty of opportunity for hardware that didn’t make the cut to fall into obscurity. That’s exactly what happened to the Hewlett-Packard 5082-7002, a 5×7 LED…

Ashkan Soltani was the Chief Technologist of America’s Federal Trade Commission in 2014 — and earlier was a staff technologist in its Division of Privacy and Identity Protection helping investigate tech companies including Google and Facebook Friday on Twitter he accused another group of privacy violations: the nonprofit rights organization, the American Civil Liberties Union….

Save 68% on this multifunction lamp with a night light mode, timers and adjustable color temperature. …read more Source:: CNet

Richard Stallman’s name has now been taken off official web page of the steering committee for GCC, reports IT Wire. But they also note new changes this week in the management team of the Free Software Foundation: A statement from [FSF executive director John] Sullivan, deputy director John Hsieh, and chief technology officer Ruben Rodriguez…