Life360 Sued for Selling Location Data
A proposed class-action lawsuit cites Markup reporting and claims the family-tracking app did not get user consent to sell location dataLife360 Sued for Selling Location Data
Month: June 2023
Eating Disorder Helpline Takes Down Chatbot After It Promotes Disordered Eating
After firing its entire human staff and replacing them with a chatbot, Vice reports that an eating disorder helpline has already announced that it’s bringing its humans back. And yes,…
New "Camera" Has No Lens, Simply Detects Your Location and Generates an AI Picture of It
A Most Peculiar Camera If you haven’t heard, Instagram is over — and with it, apparently, is the concept of a camera itself. Meet Paragraphica, a lensless “camera” that uses…
Man Who Helped Invent Modern AI Is Now Wracked With Regret
Godfather Part II Yoshua Bengio, a famed computer scientist who’s considered one of the three “godfathers” of artificial intelligence, is starting to feel a little blue about his life’s work,…
Deepfakes And True Crime
Filed under if AI ends humanity it will do so with human stupidity. The article discusses AI-generated videos on TikTok that depict true-crime stories, particularly focusing on the stories of…
Elon Musk’s investment in Twitter is almost entirely gone
Twitter has lost $29 billion in valuation since it was acquired late last year by technology mogul Elon Musk, the investment firm Fidelity said in a new report this week.…
This mechanical keyboard aims to reinvent effortless typing
Fed up with massive, awkward keyboards that make your fingers ache? Get ready to toss them aside because the Lofree Flow is taking over Kickstarter and is seeking some of…
Being Broke Is Changing Ethics In Journalism
Jonathan Snowden wrote an incredibly thoughtful article about ethics in MMA media, and journalism more broadly. What Snowden points out is just how arbitrary the lines of ethics often are…