Snapchat Snap announces Spectacles 3 with an updated design and a second HD cameraThe Verge - Casey NewtonSnap today announced Spectacles 3, a redesigned version of its augmented reality sunglasses with a sleek new design and an added HD camera to create depth perception. The glasses, which the company has
What is Haberman?regexking.info About a year ago, while looking up directions, I noticed that a prominent new place name had been added to the map in western Queens: I’d never heard …
Google Stadia Watch the Google Stadia event in 10 minutesEngadget - Mariella MoonGoogle has revealed a bunch of games coming to the platform, including 'Cyberpunk 2077.' Google's Stadia Connect livestream for Gamescom can give you a bigger idea of what to expect from its upcoming game
Technology A new clothing line confuses automated license plate readersMIT Technology Review - Charlotte Jee Garments from Adversarial Fashion feed junk data into surveillance cameras, in an effort to make their databases less effective. The news: Hacker and …
Kindle The Original Kindle Was Crazymedium.com - Tareq Ismail “Are they completely nuts?” read the review from the New York Times of Amazon’s original Kindle e-reader back in 2007. “Printed books are dirt cheap, …
Technology Why Do Appliances Have Their Own Jingles?The Atlantic - Laura BlissAppliance makers believe more and better chimes, alerts, and jingles make for happier customers. Are they right? The roar of the MGM lion. NBC’s iconic chimes. The godlike C-major chord of a booting Apple
Amazon Alexa Amazon’s Alexa Never Stops Listening to You. Should You Worry?Wirecutter - Grant Clauser When you invite a digital voice assistant like Amazon Alexa into your home, you’re inviting a device that records and stores things you say, which …
JPMorgan Chase JPMorgan Chase has an AI copywriter that writes better ads than humans canQuartz - Michelle ChengIn another sign that the future of work is already here, JPMorgan Chase has signed a five-year deal with a software startup that uses artificial intelligence to write marketing copy, following a successful
Postmates Postmates lands first-ever permit to test sidewalk delivery robots in San FranciscoTechCrunch - Kate ClarkOn-demand delivery business Postmates says it’s been granted the first-ever permit for side-walk robotics operations in the city of San Francisco. According to San Francisco Public Works, the permits active
Technology Hackers Target Phones of Brazil's President and Economy MinisterBloomberg - David Biller Brazil’s federal police arrested four people for allegedly hacking 1,000 cellphones belonging to various government officials, including that of …
Google Photos Apple joins Google, Facebook, and Twitter in data-sharing projectThe Verge - Russell BrandomJust over a year after its official launch, the Data Transfer Project is announcing a new set of partners and features. Today, Apple announced that it will be joining the project, developing interoperable
Jeffrey Katzenberg Katzenberg’s Quibi Sees Early Success Luring Talenthollywoodreporter.com - Natalie Jarvey "We're going up on a high wire and there's no safety net underneath it," says the founder of the upcoming short-form video streamer that is paying …
Grubhub Yelp is Screwing Over Restaurants By Quietly Replacing Their Phone Numbers - VICEVICE - Adrianne JeffriesThis article is part of an investigation with Underunderstood, a podcast that explores stories the internet missed. You can subscribe to Underunderstood on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen
Yahoo Mail Yahoo Mail’s Plan to Fix Email: Make Computers Read ItThe Atlantic - Ian BogostIf you hate email, it’s probably because you work an office job where wrangling your messages is central to getting things done. Tasks arrive unbidden, dispatched impersonally from silent co-workers sitting
Capital One Capital One Data Breach Compromises Data of Over 100 MillionThe New York Times - By EMILY FLITTER and KAREN WEISEA software engineer in Seattle hacked into a server holding customer information for Capital One and obtained the personal data of over 100 million people, federal prosecutors said on Monday, in one of
Gear & Gadgets Review: Unagi Model OneWIRED - Adrienne So Earlier this summer, my already low opinion of scooter shares was cemented by the news that more than 50 rental scooters had been pulled from the …
YouTube Kids A Week in the Life of Popular YouTube Channelspewinternet.org - Patrick van Kessel The media landscape was upended more than a decade ago when the video-sharing site YouTube was launched. The volume and variety of content posted on …
Robin Hood Robinhood stored passwords in plaintext, so change yours nowTechCrunch - Devin ColdeweyInvestment and stock trading app Robinhood stored some user credentials, including passwords, in plaintext on internal systems, the company revealed today. This particularly dangerous security misstep
Amazon How to Not Build a Panopticonslate.com - April Glaser Police may not be ready for Amazon’s facial recognition system, but they are using its Ring doorbell cameras. In 2017, Orlando’s police department …
FaceApp is back and so are privacy concernsThe Verge - Ashley CarmanFaceApp, a Russia-based app that applies filters to photos, is having another moment in the spotlight this week. The app first went viral in 2017, but this time it’s catching on because of a filter that
Roblox Has Quietly Built a 100 Million User Empire, CEO SaysFortune - Lisa Marie Segarra Gaming company Roblox has been quietly building a massive user base. That growth will propel the game to cross the 100 million monthly active user …
Your conversations with Google Home speakers being recorded: Reporttimesnownews.com - IANS Belgian broadcaster VRT News "overheard countless men searching for porn, arguments between spouses, and even one case in which a woman seemed to be …
Google Promises ‘reCAPTCHA’ Isn’t Exploiting Users. Should You Trust It?medium.com - Owen Williams An innovative security feature to separate humans from bots online comes with some major concerns A surprising amount of work online goes into proving …
Screen Time, Sacred Time — Real Lifereallifemag.com - Skyler Balbus Demonizing immersive technology limits our conception of what it’s for Image: Still from Best Friends Forever by Liu Shiyuan and Kristian Mondrup …
The FBI plans more social media surveillanceEngadget - Christine FisherIt may gather user IDs, emails, IP addresses and telephone numbers. The FBI wants to gather more information from social media. Today, it issued a call for contracts for a new social media monitoring According
Google’s 4,000-Word Privacy Policy Is a Secret History of the InternetThe New York Times How a nascent search engine became a tech behemoth, one edit at a time.
We’re told that too much screen time hurts our kids. Where’s the evidence?The Guardian - Andrew Przybylski and Amy OrbenIf you had attended the Royal College of Psychiatrists’ international congress in London last week you could have been forgiven for coming away with the following thoughts. Addiction to Fortnite, the game,
Trello The Families Who Use Slack, Asana, Trello, and JiraThe Atlantic - Taylor LorenzStretched for time, some households are starting to operate more like businesses. When Tonya Parker, a mom in Illinois, wanted to better organize her family life a little over a year ago, the first thing
