An Amazon employee might have listened to your Alexa recording

Engadget

Yes, someone might listen to your Alexa conversations someday. A Bloomberg report has detailed how Amazon employs thousands of full-timers and contractors from around the world to review audio clips from Echo devices. Apparently, these workers transc...

11 April 2019

Google Search is testing inline before-after date filtering

Engadget

Google is testing the option to filter search results by specific dates from directly within the search box on mobile and the web. Until now, only Google Search desktop users have been able to choose a "from" and "to" time period for results via the...

10 April 2019

Google features that Microsoft turned off in Chromium Edge

Hacker News

After announcing its plans to rebuild its Edge browser from Google's Chromium in December, Microsoft released the first public previews today. Just as you'd expect, the new browser acts a lot like Google's Chrome. There are some key differences though,…

9 April 2019

Presentation: Parsing Safely, from 500MB/s to 2GB/s

InfoQ - Development

Geoffroy Couprie describes a few common issues in parsers, and how they interact with performance, showing how to get the performance of handwritten C parsers using Rust. By Geoffroy Couprie

9 April 2019