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An app called Chef Express provided a live camera view to the parking lot. You could monitor your vehicle while enjoying a meal or coffee at the service area. What the heck was this? My nitpicker mind refused to download

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Surely every driver wants ads?
might be looking to bring tailored ads to your car or truck.
The automaker has filed a patent application that would monitor and collect driver data to curate ads that would be displayed

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In a win for the European Commission, the ’s top court today (10 September) upheld a record-breaking €2.4 billion fine imposed on for anti-competitive promotion of its Shopping service.
It’s one of a pair of victories

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For as long as we’ve had telephones, there have been people trying to trick someone into thinking they’re someone else. Now, voice tools make it so that scammers can clone someone’s voice and trick victims into thinking they’re

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Phone assistant apps listen to everything you say, otherwise they would not work…. And and are advertisers.
“Assistants like Siri, Alexa and Google do listen because they need to listen for trigger words, such as ‘Hey

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Following the lead of cities like London, Dublin, Amsterdam and Paris, another European destination is cracking down on -style rentals.
New regulations proposed by the Czech government could limit the amount of short-term tourist accommodation available in popular

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charging stations increase revenues of businesses about 500m around of stations – new study claims.
The study found that, in California, opening a charging station boosted annual spending at each nearby business. The spending bump amounts to thousands

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Another feed algorithm change gone sideways – rampant produced spam:
But the spam is more than just an annoyance; it can also be weaponized. Some spam pages appear designed to scam other users. In extreme cases,

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Have you allowed access to 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

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