The Feds are building an America-wide face surveillance system – and we’re going to court to prove it, says ACLU
US Air Force inks deal with Raytheon on Windows 10 (and other) support for ARSE
Google forks out $2.1bn for Fitbit – and promises not to exploit all that delicious health data to sling ads (honest)
Antarctic researchers send an SOS to the world: Who wrote this message in a bottle?
Boffins don bad 1980s fashion to avoid being detected by object-recognizing AI cameras
Somewhere in the ER records, someone probably did try using an Omletto as a fleshlight. Ow.
It seems that you have to bullseye the microphone, and modulate it just right. So this prank can’t be updated to mass-ordering creamed corn. Not yet, at least:
- Use a good IR laser, paint the side of an apartment building with it, and turn on everyone’s TV, at 3am.
BrainCo
“Marketing materials for the headband tells parents they can track their child’s concentration level via a mobile app.”
“What did these children do wrong to deserve this life of constant monitoring?” asked one Weibo user who was quoted by South China Morning Post in April. “It boggles my mind that we cannot put ankle bracelets on pedophiles but it is astonishingly easy to put headbands on these powerless kids.”
Shocker! add-on device sold separately.
This has potential to reverse one of the most devastating human (unintentional, but nonetheless) fuck ups of the Eastern forests. There will be some who will “but gene editing” this, my feeling is we were the cause of the problem, we need to be the fix.
Space Wine
Also:
2001: Space Odyssey Furniture
Millenials kill pediatrics?
(Nah, we’re good!)
These sell for $3-5000 used, and usually need to be recovered (another $2k with rewebbing, recushioning, and good fabric) otherwise I’d consider buying one.
Bleedover from other timelines?
I’ll take ANY of those other timelines over our current one, thank you very much!
I got one of these. When the phone buzzes a text form your daughter away at college at 0430, your heart kinda drops. I was scared to death until I read it.
Not sure how this will be received, but the microvascular and microneurological surgery techniques involved are pretty damn impressive, and the outcome sounds pretty impressive also.
