Recode Daily: That's why it can be so annoying to read the news on your phone

The struggle to read your news subscriptions on your phone, explained: Never click on a link on the Facebook or Twitter application to read a news article from a paid publication to which you are subscribed – but you are then prompted to log in while you are there. 39, have you done recently? One of the reasons is that the applications in which you find these articles (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and others) require you to stay in their apps, which do not communicate with the websites of news publications – so you have to connect again and again. . But it's even more complicated. Recode's Rani Molla writes that "the privacy issues, the advertising and the fragmented way in which we read the news also explain why it's so boring to read paid stories on your phone."

• What can you do to get around an awkward and siled mobile login experience? A pbadword manager can help you.
  [Rani Molla / Recode]

How big is the "All Store"? To show how aggressively Amazon has grown since the start of book sales in 1995, BuzzFeed News rounded out every company and subsidiary owned by Amazon – but the list was so long that it was not exhaustive. . The BuzzFeed synthesis includes products, brands, and services that are well known to Amazon, including Amazon Alexa, Amazon Web Services, and Whole Foods, as well as dozens of other lesser known ones, such as "Amazon". IMDb, Zappos and Shopbop.

• BuzzFeed discovered that Amazon has more than 80 private labels, including a dozen women's clothing brands.
• Amazon has already received or requested 800 trademarks, had previously reported Quartz.

Amazon's size and influence has attracted the attention of regulators and legislators. In June, reports indicated that the FTC was preparing an antitrust investigation in the company. And Senator Elizabeth Warren has made Big Tech part of her 2020 presidential campaign.
[Leticia Miranda / BuzzFeed News]

The new economy of parenthood without screen: In an effort to roll back the excessive screen time of their children, parents turn to coaches to help them become parents as in 1999. A small economy has grown around the demand. These coaches teach parents how to provide alternatives to screens, including spending time outdoors, throwing the ball and "try[ing] remember what you did when you were a child. Parents across the country are also signing "forbidden phone promises", which equates to public statements claiming that they will not give their kids smartphones until the eighth year or, in some cases, later.

Innovation in satellite imagery exceeds the regulatory capacity of the technology. MIT Technology magazine writes that "commercial satellite images are currently in an ideal situation: powerful enough to see a car, but not enough to say the same as for the make and model." But as the quality of satellite imagery it improves, investors, businesses and law enforcement are bound to want to exploit it. Privacy advocates warn that innovation in satellite imagery exceeds the ability of the US government (and the rest of the world) to regulate technology. US privacy laws are unclear with respect to satellites and whether their use for surveillance violates a "reasonable expectation of privacy". Face recognition is another area in which surveillance technology is developing rapidly. the law.
[Christopher Beam / MIT Technology Review]

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