Family ‘haunted’ by creepy talking Elsa doll

A family in the United States has been left terrified by an Elsa doll that seems to have a mind of its own. While it might seem difficult to find anyt… Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/333792/family-haunted-by-creepy-talking-elsa-doll…

Unexplained Drones Are Swarming by Night Over Colorado

They come in the night: Drones — lots of them — flying in precise formations over the Colorado and Nebraska prairie. Whose are they? Unknown. Why are they there? Unclear. From a report: “It’s creepy,” said Missy Blackman, who saw three drones hovering over her farm outside Palisade, Neb., on a recent evening, including one that lingered right above her house….

Apple Begins Pulling Creepy, Unlicensed Disney and Nickelodeon Games from App Store

Laura June, reporting for Input: Two days after Input reported that there were hundreds of unofficial — often disturbing — knock-off Disney and Nickelodeon gaming apps aimed at children in Apple’s App Store, the company has begun removing the apps from the store. Some of the games found had been available for longer than a year. It remains unclear — partially…

Mozilla’s Annual Buyer’s Guide Rates Amazon and Google Security Cameras ‘Very Creepy’

“Be Smart. Shop Safe,” warns Mozilla’s annual buyer’s guide for secure connected products. Based on their conversations with developers and dozens of privacy experts, they’ve awarded smiley faces with different expressions to rate products from “Not Creepy” up to “Super Creepy”. “While the variety of smart devices on offer is rapidly increasing, so are the number of products that pay no…

ESA studies human hibernation for space travel

In movies and books, fictional astronauts enter ‘suspended animation’ to cross the vastness of space. Recently ESA investigated how real-life crew hibernation would impact a space mission to Mars. Source: https://earthsky.org/human-world/esa-study-human-hibernation-trip-to-mars…

Creepy human-like skin makes your phone ticklish and pinchable

A smartphone case made from artificial human-like skin responds to being pinched, tickled and stroked to add an extra layer of interactivity to the device Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2220453-creepy-human-like-skin-makes-your-phone-ticklish-and-pinchable/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…

‘Google’s Chrome Has My Dead Grandpa’s Data and He Never Used the Internet’

schwit1 shares a Forbes article by Joe Toscano, a former experience design consultant for Google who in 2017 “decided to step away from my role consulting with Google, due to ethical concerns.” This summer he got a big surprise when he looked in Chrome’s “addresses” panel at chrome://settings/addresses It turns out Google has info connecting me to my grandma (on my…