月份: 2020 年 5 月

Need to order groceries? You can do it without leaving your home.

Instacart is one of the oldest and most well-known grocery delivery services around. I remember placing my first order through the app nearly 10 years ago, and I still use it on occasion thanks to its large selection of stores and a large number of delivery associates. In the steps below, I’ll show you how you can place an order for groceries through the app, whether you’re social distancing and working from home or just want to place an order in.

Products used in this guide

The default grocery app: Instacart (Free at Google Play)

How to order groceries on Instacart

Open the Instacart app on your phone, or visit instacart.com.
Select the store you wish to order from by tapping on it from the list.

Search for and select products by tapping on them.
Once you’re satisfied with your selections, tap on Go to Checkout.
When entering your payment information, make sure that you leave the driver a good tip! These peo…

“We’re entering into a totally new class or form of surveillance”

What you need to know

A report has revealed that privacy watchdogs in Canada are worried about contact tracing.
Some have voiced concern over what they think is a totally new level of surveillance.
Others have suggested that with the right laws, the technology can be used effectively without disenfranchising individuals.

A report from Canada has revealed that watchdogs are concerned about the potential levels of surveillance involved with contact tracing.

As CFJC Today reports:

Privacy watchdogs are voicing concerns over proposals across the country to implement smartphone apps to help track COVID-19.

New Brunswick, Manitoba, Newfoundland and Labrador, and Saskatchewan are among the provinces looking at or planning on creating smartphone apps that would track a user’s whereabouts.

Alberta is the first province to launch an app.

The report notes onlookers who are worried about the level of surveil…

Someone has to break the West’s dependence on Qualcomm for the “flagship” Android phone market and it might as well be Google.

The tech world on the Android side is dangerously close to free-fall mode. Many companies are losing money, others are close but still breaking even, and it’s only predicted to get even worse. But during the last quarter, there was one company that seemingly fiddled while it watched the industry burn even though it was partially responsible for the fire: Qualcomm.

Qualcomm shipped 21% fewer smartphone platform chips (that means the processor, GPU, coprocessors for things like the camera or AI) yet made 5% more profit. How the hell do you pull that off, you might be asking? The answer is that you overcharge for your product and make sure people will buy it anyway.

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