Brutal Startup Is Using Eye Tracking to Force You to Watch Ads
By: Futurism March 22, 2019 The founder of MoviePass is back, and this time he’s not messing around. MoviePass co-founder Stacy Spikes has a new startup called PreShow, and it’s using a business model straight out of “A Clockwork Orange”: The company’s new app helps you score free movie tickets — as long as you sit through 15 […]
Outsourcing Adulthood Can you ever really grow up if you don’t do anything for yourself?
By: The Cut April 7, 2019 I live two blocks from the nearest grocery, but sometimes months pass between my visits. During those times, I rely on Amazon Fresh for my weekly supply of eggs, paper towels, and Diet Coke. When I scroll through Amazon’s virtual grocery store on my phone, I tell my boyfriend […]
Amazon Is Working on a Device That Can Read Human Emotions
By: MSN May 23, 2019 (Bloomberg) — Amazon.com Inc. is developing a voice-activated wearable device that can recognize human emotions. The wrist-worn gadget is described as a health and wellness product in internal documents reviewed by Bloomberg. It’s a collaboration between Lab126, the hardware development group behind Amazon’s Fire phone and Echo smart speaker, and […]
A quarter of UK adults feel unsafe using online sharing services
By: UKTN May 9, 2019 AI-powered trusted identity as a service provider Jumio has released new findings from its Global Trust and Safety Survey. It found that a quarter of UK adults feel “somewhat unsafe” or “not at all safe” when using online sharing services. Online sharing services include the likes of Uber and Airbnb. However, […]
This robot helps patients with their physical therapy.
By: Interesting Engineering July 9, 2019 Watch Full Video
‘Google’s power is extraordinary’: businesses turn to the courts over bad reviews
By: Josh Taylor July 9, 2019 Mark Fletcher says he never paid much attention to Google reviews left by customers for his Victorian-based software business Tower Systems – until five months ago. He was told he had lost a sale due to a negative review from a person called Ashley T. The comment, made a […]
The Secret History of the Future: A Familiar Tune
By: Economist Radio July 3, 2019 The 19th-century invention of the phonograph left composers worried they might not be paid for recordings. The 20th-century proliferation of digital sampling outmoded old copyright laws. Can these previous tech disruptions of the music business teach us how to handle a 21st-century onslaught of computers that can compose their […]
Surveillance apps are being secretly installed on phones of visitors to China, report says
By: David Reid July 03 2019 Police in China are secretly installing spy apps on phones of visitors to the country that can extract emails, texts and address contacts, according to a cross-media investigation. Evidence gathered by the New York Times, The Guardian in England and Suddeutsche Zeiting in Germany has claimed that travelers are […]
We Have Been Harmonised: Life in China’s Surveillance State by Kai Strittmatter – review
By: John Naughton June 30, 2019 Kai Strittmatter is a German journalist who writes for Süddeutsche Zeitung and is currently based in Copenhagen. From 1997 until recently, he had been a foreign correspondent in Beijing. Prior to those postings, he had studied sinology and journalism in Munich, Xi’an and Taipei. So he knows China rather […]