Internet & Social Media Law Blog
Google goes Trek with a look to the lapel; Facebook continues its push into the workplace; Slack goes down for a few hours; a cyberlocker operator goes down for a few years; and more.
- Volvo and Microsoft partner to bring consumers virtual car shopping via HoloLens. (Jacob Demmitt, GeekWire)
- A smartwatch app called Neutun allows users to track seizures. (Jessica Galang, betakit)
- The advent of the Industrial Internet of Things brings with it challenges for manufacturers. (The Economist)
- Google prototype gives a nod to Star Trek with a “smart” lapel pin. (Katie Collins, c|net)
- Elon Musk takes to Twitter to announce the next step in Tesla’s push for the self-driving car. (Samuel Gibbs, The Guardian)
- Freemium service Facebook At Work debuts “Work Chat.” (Sarah Perez, TechCrunch)
- Federal proposal would require registration of even the tiniest of drones. (Klint Finley, Wired)
- Tech giants wrestle with the how best to forge connections between personal digital assistants and consumers. (Julia Love & Yasmeen Abutaleb, Reuters)
- When messaging app Slack went down for a few hours on Monday, people noticed. (Karissa Bell, Mashable)
- Cyberlocker operator of the second-largest music piracy website in the U.S. receives three-year prison sentence. (Jonathan Black, Daily Press)