The NYPD has joined Amazon’s Ring Neighbors surveillance network

Amazon Ring spotlight camera. | Image: Ring The New York Police Department has joined Ring Neighbors, the neighborhood surveillance network built around Amazon’s Ring security cameras. The partnership, announced yesterday, means the NYPD will view people’s posts on Neighbors and be able to post directly to it, including requests for public help on “active police…

How to set your Google calendar to private

Illustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge Recently, journalist, author of Platformer, and former Verge reporter Casey Newton tweeted something that had many readers both laughing and panicking: that entrepreneur David Sacks’ calendar at Twitter was not set to private and, as a result, was being carefully scrutinized by curious Twitter employees. My favorite silly…

Google expands AI warning system for fire and flood alerts

Advances in AI like this will save lives. Deposit Photos Google first began testing its AI-assisted Flood Hub back in 2018, a digital tool aimed at providing users around the world with accurate, crucial real-time tracking and predictions for flooding events. Although it initially debuted in India’s Patna region, an area known for devastating flooding,…

TikTok privacy update in Europe confirms China staff access to data as GDPR probe continues

An incoming privacy policy change announced by TikTok yesterday for users in Europe — which, for the first time, names China as one of several third countries where user data can be remotely accessed by “certain” company employees to perform what it claims are “important” functions — has landed months ahead of expected movement on…

Less than 24 hours until early bird prices vanish for TC Sessions: Space

“Space…the final frontier.” Those familiar words have likely fueled the imaginations of the very people currently forging the future of humanity in space. Don’t miss your opportunity to meet, learn from and connect with them at TC Sessions: Space 2022, which blasts off on December 6 in Los Angeles. Note: Building space startups is serious…

Review: God of War Ragnarok

The 2018 reboot of long-running PlayStation action series God of War as a more contemplative, open-world adventure raised a few eyebrows at first, but the astonishing quality of the finished game put all doubts to rest. The sequel, God of War Ragnarok, is not the revelation the first was, but even “more of the same”…