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Day: August 3, 2019
‘Opt Out’ Is Useless. Let People Opt In
Like Google and Amazon before it, Apple has been caught sending voice assistant recordings to contractors, who listen to snippets of your requests and conversations, without telling anyone. In response to the privacy concerns that raises, Apple says it will eventually give users control over […]
Early-bird pricing ends next week for TC Sessions: Enterprise 2019
Here are five words you’ll never hear spring from the mouth of an early-stage startupper. “I don’t mind paying more.” We feel you, and that’s why we’re letting you know that the price of admission to TC Sessions Enterprise 2019, which takes place on September […]
Primo treno della Blu sui binari: a settembre partono i collaudi
Il primo dei 47 treni (tutti in arrivo dallo stabilimento Hitachi di Reggio Calabria) è ora sui binari della stazione di Linate. La linea 4 avanza, la tratta che va dall’aeroporto a San Babila è interamente scavata e a settembre inizieranno i collaudi per l’inaugurazione […]
People who eat dark chocolate less likely to be depressedGoogle Miscellanea
Eating dark chocolate may positively affect mood and relieve depressive symptoms, finds a new UCL-led study looking at whether different types of chocolate are associated with mood disorders. The study, published in Depression and Anxiety, is the first to examine the association with depression according […]
Apple and Google Workers Stop Listening to What You Ask Your Voice Assistant, For Now
Bloomberg reported in April that Romanian Amazon contractors listened to Alexa's recordings and were able to view the associated users' locations. social experiment by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit
Google Fit gets a Dark Mode and charts your sleep data
It’s official: the Google Fit app is the latest to get a Dark Mode. An update brought the eyestrain-easing palette swap along with the ability to track sleep patterns through the app. Dark theme, as Google refers to it in its blog post, is just […]
Northrup Grumman is among the companies tapped to make the US Army’s drone-killing lasers
Northrop Grumman is going to be working on the U.S. Army’s long-planned drone-killing lasers. The Army wants to mount 50 kilowatt laser systems on top of its General Dynamics-designed Stryker vehicle as part of its U.S. Army Maneuver Short Range Air Defense (M-SHORAD) directed energy […]
Mother, 64, credits her youthful look to practising meditation
A glamorous 64-year-old mother-of-one has revealed people automatically assume she’s been under the surgeon’s knife because they can’t believe how young she looks. Model and relationship coach, Angela Paul, 64, originally from Bradford but now living in California, says her youthful looks are down to […]
Facebook Puts Its Stamp—and Name—on Instagram and WhatsApp
Facebook bought Instagram in 2012 and WhatsApp in 2014. But even today, many users of those apps don’t realize they are part of Mark Zuckerberg’s empire. Facebook went to great lengths to allow them to operate as independent brands. There are many “I hate Mark […]
