TV maker Vizio will pay $2.2 million to settle a lawsuit after it was shown that for years the company has been secretly collecting viewing data and selling it to third parties. The penalty may seem light, but the damage to the Vizio brand may be...
Daily Archives: February 6, 2017
TV maker Vizio will pay $2.2 million to settle a lawsuit after it was shown that for years the company has been secretly collecting viewing data and selling it to third parties. The penalty may seem light, but the damage to the Vizio brand may be...
Vizio settles for $2.2 million in FTC suit over snooping ...
The rise of tech startups around San Francisco has contributed to a rise in rents that’s pushing families out of the Bay Area. Crooked landlords use legal loopholes to evict families so they can jack up prices and move in richer tenants. But now one of the Bay’s wealthiest families is putting a little of its fortune toward fighting back on behalf of longtime residents who… Read MoreChan Zuckerberg Initiative donates $3.6M to fight SF Bay housing ...
We’re hearing from sources that Kuaishou — a hot photo-sharing application in China — is planning on going public in the U.S. later this year. Sources tell us the app has more than 40 million daily active users against 100 million monthly active users, and was most recently valued at around $3 billion. The app is in some ways similar to Instagram, with photos (some of which… Read MoreChinese photo-sharing app Kuaishou planning U.S. IPO later this year
One of Snapchat’s more clever ideas was not its disappearing messages, but that the smartphone camera should be a toy. Along those same lines, but on a lesser scale, a new app called OOO is meant to be a fun, little camera toy that lets you play with your video. Instead of trying to help you craft the “perfect” shot, the app lets you rapidly zoom in and out on as quickly or… Read MoreOOO is a camera toy that lets you play with ...
Military-style fixed-wing drones are easy to launch, but difficult to land; DARPA aims to change that with SideArm, a portable drone-grabbing system that snatches the fast-moving craft right out of the air. Read More
DARPA shows off its SideArm system catching drones mid-flight
Google today is rolling out a change to its AMP integration in Google Search that will let you view, copy and share the publisher’s own link to the webpage in question, instead of the AMP URL. The decision to make this change follows some backlash from publishers who believed Google was stealing their traffic by changing their own URLs to those that had “Google” in… Read MoreGoogle fixes a big problem with AMP, now lets you ...
Google today is rolling out a change to its AMP integration in Google Search that will let you view, copy and share the publisher’s own link to the webpage in question, instead of the AMP URL. The decision to make this change follows some backlash from publishers who believed Google was stealing their traffic by changing their own URLs to those that had “Google” in… Read MoreGoogle fixes a big problem with AMP, now lets you ...
Voice assistants are smart, but they're not yet sharp enough to understand the difference between TV and reality. The post How to Keep Amazon Echo and Google Home From Responding to Your TV appeared first on WIRED.
How to Keep Amazon Echo and Google Home From Responding ...
Voice assistants are smart, but they're not yet sharp enough to understand the difference between TV and reality. The post How to Keep Amazon Echo and Google Home From Responding to Your TV appeared first on WIRED.