Category: collection

Mercedes halts its car subscription service after lackluster demand

Post author By Randall
Post date June 29, 2020
Categories In car subscription, Cars, collection, gear, Internet, mercedes, mercedes-benz, News, services, subscription, Tech, Transportation

[ad_1] There were problems, though. Chamberlain noted that the novelty of switching cars became a hassle for some customers as they were tired of constantly switching personal items between cars. The service could easily become too costly to run without frequent swaps. Companies may need to offer cars as short-term rentals and loaners for this […]

Smithsonian opens up 2.8 million images to the public

Post author By Randall
Post date February 25, 2020
Categories In archives, Art, cesium, collection, creative commons, discovery, free, gear, images, Internet, medicine, museum, open access, Research, Science, smithsonian, Space, space shuttle, Tech

[ad_1] The Smithsonian is encouraging the public to view, use and reuse the content however they see fit. The collection is listed under a Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license, which removes previous restrictions and copyrights, and it includes everything from portraits of Ida B. Wells to images of Amelia Earhart’s Lockheed Vega 5B, 3D models […]

NSA improperly collected even more call records than we thought

Post author By Randall
Post date June 26, 2019
Categories In aclu, call records, collection, data, national security agency, nsa, patriot act, phone call, Politics, Privacy, surveillance, Tech, tomorrow, usa freedom act

[ad_1] The report finds that the NSA improperly collected call record data in November 2017, February 2018 and again in October 2018. The October violation suggests the over-collection problems persisted (or new ones arose) even after the NSA admitted its error, and it might have had something to do with the NSA’s formal recommendation that […]