A small but quickly growing online community believes that transforming randomly generated numbers into clusters of location data could help us tunnel out of reality. Their name for themselves: Randonauts. From a report: It’s a sad truth that most of our lives are pretty boring, geographically speaking. Live in one place long enough and you will develop routines, walking the same…
Tag: Creepy
Amazon’s Creepy Twitter PR Army is Growing
On Wednesday, a horde of Amazon employees rushed to defend the honor of the world’s richest man. From a report: The employees — known as “FC ambassadors,” for Amazon’s Orwellian-sounding “fulfillment center” warehouses — flooded into the mentions of several Twitter users. This isn’t the first time these accounts have attracted attention. Earlier this year, the accounts descended on Twitter with…
Email App Superhuman’s Superficial Privacy Fixes Do Not Prevent It From Spying on You
Mike Davidson: It took an article I almost didn’t publish and tens of thousands of people saying they were creeped out, but Superhuman admitted they were wrong and reduced the danger that their surveillance pixels introduce. Good on Rahul Vohra and team for that. I will say, however, that I’m a little surprised how quickly some people are rolling over and…
Digital Assistants May Be Able To Automatically Detect When Someone Is Having a Heart Attack, Study Finds
Zorro shares a report from The Register: Smart speakers are always listening for wake words, and recording everything they hear to improve their neural networks and target their masters with marketing. It’s, frankly, creepy. Academics at the University of Washington in Seattle, USA, however, believe there are benefits to installing a cyber-assistant at home that listens in all the time. “A…