Category: News

Have you allowed access to #phone #microphone to all apps?
TV and radio news giant Cox Media Group (CMG) claims that its so-called “Active Listening” software uses artificial intelligence (AI) to “capture real-time intent data by listening to conversations.
https://futurism.com/the-byte/facebook-partner-phones-listening-microphone

Kind of new display technology between E ink and traditional LCD being developed by a number of businesses:
A growing number of companies are offering products with reflective LCD displays or similar technology that offer some of the paper-like qualities of E Ink, but which are more suitable for animation

Volkswagen is planning an extensive vehicle on demand business:
#VW will retain ownership over the entire life of the vehicles, it will be able to gather even more data about them and the people who drive them:
Another advantage of this strategy is the comprehensive access to data, both

Apple lays off a number of employees from Books division:
#Digital services like this have been a big part of Apple’s financial success in recent quarters. However, #Books has no subscription offering, and #Apple was subject to a US Department of Justice price-fixing lawsuit.
As a result,

Frances Haugen: Over the two years I spent on #Facebook, I realized that over and over again, Facebook was facing trade-offs,” she said with regard to content moderation. But every time they resolved those, because of the corporate culture, they would end up on the side of profits

The Dutch data protection watchdog says #Uber collects information such as taxi licenses, location data, photos, identity documents, payment details, and even criminal and medical data. The problem is that Uber transmits the data from Europe to the US without proper protection. — Uber doesn’t approve the fine, but

How does anyone actually measure the #safety of an entire country? Well, we could ask local people (perhaps also expats who live in there) what their impression about local safety is, or we could dig into statistics that many countries publish about crime and dangerous events in the territory.

Niche #AI systems for specific applications:
“There’s a lot of pressure on making smaller, more efficient models, smarter via data and algorithms, methods, rather than just scaling up due to market forces,” he said. Many gains in the open-source space have also come through improvements in handling data. #

The simplest (and most entertaining) #privacy policy ever. For instance:
Unlike #Google, #XScreenSaver will honor deletion requests if you email us asking to delete all none of your user data that does not exist.
https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/google.html

Sure, you can listen to #audiobooks when #cycling but now, Peloton stationary cycling system lets you read #Kindle #ebooks on the bicycle screen.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/20/24224501/kindle-peloton-ebooks-fitness