Amazon's (amzn, +1.43%) acknowledgement of the issue comes after several people have reported on Twitter and Reddit that their Amazon Echo speakers have started laughing, for no apparent reason. People typically activate their Echo speakers by saying the word “Alexa,” which triggers the device … social […]
Day: March 7, 2018
New story in Business from Time: McDonald’s Is Flipping Its Arches Upside Down in Honor of Remarkable Women
No, you’re not living in a very literal Upside Down: the iconic golden arches of some McDonald’s franchises across the country will be flipped on March 8 as a nod to International Women’s Day, that’s all. It’s a “celebration of women everywhere,” a McDonald’s spokesperson […]
Amazon admits Alexa is creepily laughing at people and is working on a fix via /r/technology
Amazon admits Alexa is creepily laughing at people and is working on a fix http://ift.tt/2I9aI2z Submitted March 07, 2018 at 08:17PM by speckz via reddit http://ift.tt/2G3twPT
MoviePass Customer Service Complaints Grow Along With Its Subscriber Base
Last August, MoviePass had 20,000 subscribers. As of February, it had two million. That explosive growth has given the company scale and leverage it hadn’t dreamed possible by this point. It’s also given scores of MoviePass customers a serious headache. Every fast-expanding company has growing […]
Most Americans think artificial intelligence will destroy other people’s jobs, not theirs via /r/technology
Most Americans think artificial intelligence will destroy other people’s jobs, not theirs http://ift.tt/2FmDx9H Submitted March 07, 2018 at 09:06PM by mvea via reddit http://ift.tt/2oXwbTo
Love lobster tails? Thank The Bahamas’ Mia Isaacs
Love lobster tails? Thank The Bahamas’ Mia Isaacs <img width=”660″ height=”495″ alt=”” src=”https://c402277.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/photos/12381/images/simple_style_full/Spiny_lobster_peek_Winter2016_magazine.jpg?1476123989″ />We humans aren’t the only animals that think lobster are a tasty treat. Dolphins, sharks, and sea turtles do, too. These spiny crustaceans are a critical link in the food chain that […]
SEC issues stern warning for potential cryptocurrency investors
It comes down to semantic wording. Whether or not these online trading platforms consider the ‘digital asset’ cryptocoins they’re trafficking to be ‘securities’ under federal law, the SEC likely does. That means they satisfy the agency’s definition of ‘national security exchanges’ and should register with […]
First look: The Wall by Samsung
Update: At its First Look event held today in New York City, Samsung announced that The Wall, a monstrous 146-inch modular MicroLED TV that it first debuted at CES 2018, will be coming out later this year in August. It’s probably a good idea to […]
All of Oculus’s Rift headsets have stopped working due to an expired certificate
Someone at Oculus screwed up pretty badly today, an expired certificate appears to have soft-bricked all of the company’s Rift VR headsets with users still unable to fire up software on the devices with no word of an incoming fix from the company yet. Issues were first […]
Pavia, case antifascisti ‘marchiate’: la risposta è firmata Zerocalcare
Sono ‘firmati’ dal celebre fumettista Zerocalcare i nuovi adesivi ‘Qui abita un antifascista’, che verranno distribuiti questa sera da Movimento Pavia, dopo che alcune notti fa furono ritrovati attaccati sulle case di decine di antifascisti pavesi adesivi con la scritta ‘Qui abita un antifascistà e […]