Archive for the 'Technology' Category
Google Manipulates Users Into Constant Tracking
February 1st, 2019Via: Forbrukerrådet: Google tracks users through “Location History” and “Web & App Activity”, which are settings integrated into all Google accounts. For users of mobile phones with Android, such as Samsung and Huawei phones, this tracking is particularly difficult to avoid. – Google is processing incredibly detailed and extensive personal data without proper legal grounds, […]
The Half Tesla, Half Honda, 100% Electric Hot Rod: Teslonda
January 31st, 2019Via: Vice:
Prisons Across the U.S. Are Quietly Building Databases of Incarcerated People’s Voice Prints
January 31st, 2019Via: The Intercept: In New York and other states across the country, authorities are acquiring technology to extract and digitize the voices of incarcerated people into unique biometric signatures, known as voice prints. Prison authorities have quietly enrolled hundreds of thousands of incarcerated people’s voice prints into large-scale biometric databases. Computer algorithms then draw on […]
Schools Are Locking Students’ Phones Away to Help With Concentration
January 31st, 2019Via: Fortune: Students at a California high school are getting less screen time since the school implemented a ban on cellphone use during the school day. After one teacher at San Lorenzo High School brought pouches, created by the tech start-up Yondr, into her classroom to lock away students’ phones, the entire school began using […]
Jennifer Buscemi Deepfake
January 30th, 2019Via: The Daily Dot: While the nation grapples with concerns over the spread of inaccurate and deceptive information online, deepfakes—videos in which an individual’s face is superimposed onto another—continue to advance at a quickening pace. Now, the new ones are downright terrifying. Also, here is the original video, which was created by @Villain_Guy https://t.co/LrzDLKJVet — […]
Amazon Is Hauling Cargo in Self-Driving Trucks Developed by Embark
January 30th, 2019Via: CNBC: Amazon is using self-driving trucks developed by Embark to haul some cargo on the I-10 interstate highway, CNBC has learned. The trucks were previously noticed by a Reddit user, who photographed and shared images this week showing tractors emblazoned with the Embark logo and trailers painted with the Amazon Prime logo.
Smart Coolers: Now Your Groceries See You, Too
January 30th, 2019Via: The Atlantic: Walgreens is piloting a new line of “smart coolers”—fridges equipped with cameras that scan shoppers’ faces and make inferences on their age and gender. On January 14, the company announced its first trial at a store in Chicago in January, and plans to equip stores in New York and San Francisco with […]
Google’s Sidewalk Labs Plans to Package and Sell Location Data on Millions of Cellphones
January 29th, 2019Ah… It de-identifies the location of cellphone users. Mmm hmm. Via: The Intercept: Most of the data collected by urban planners is messy, complex, and difficult to represent. It looks nothing like the smooth graphs and clean charts of city life in urban simulator games like “SimCity.” A new initiative from Sidewalk Labs, the city-building […]
Another EV Giant Enters The Battery Business
January 27th, 2019Via: OilPrice.com: German auto maker giant Volkswagen has just upped its bet on electric vehicles (EVs) by announcing it will begin manufacturing batteries and charging stations for those cars, which the company plans to also start mass producing soon. The Wolfsburg-based company said it would invest 870 million euros (about $985 million) by 2020 to […]
Hacked Russian Documents: Dark Side of the Kremlin
January 26th, 2019Via: The Hill: A group of transparency advocates released a massive number of hacked and leaked Russian documents on Friday in what is being viewed as retaliation against Russia’s sharing of hacked Democratic National Committee (DNC) emails to influence the 2016 presidential campaign. The documents, totaling 175 gigabytes in data, were shared on DDoSecret website […]
