ARLINGTON, Virginia (PNN) - August 7, 2019 - Amazon finally gave its Alexa users the option to block recordings of them having sex.
It came after it was revealed last week that staff have regularly listened in when smart speakers ick up private conversations and other, saucier activities.
Amazon is now updating the settings to let users opt out.
WASHINGTON (PNN) - August 6, 2019 - The Fascist Police States of Amerika military will conduct high altitude MESH networking radar tests over South Dakota to provide a persistent surveillance system to locate and deter narcotic trafficking and homeland security threats.
LAUREL, Maryland (PNN) - August 1, 2019 - Right now, there's a tiny little spacecraft zipping around the sun moving faster than any other man-made object has ever flown. The spacecraft, known as the Parker Solar Probe, is approaching the one-year anniversary of its launch on August 12 and it's been delivering some pretty stellar observations so far. After two flybys, Parker has been dumping data back to Earth for scientists to examine, and it's exceeding researchers' expectations.
Apple insists it’s only for a few seconds.
CUPERTINO, Kalifornia (PNN) - July 28, 2019 - Should it come as any surprise? A whistleblower working for Apple has revealed that its popular voice activated spying device helpful virtual assistant Siri, now in millions of households, "regularly" records people having sex, and captures other "countless" invasive moments, which it promptly sends to Apple contractors for their listening pleasure "quality control".
MONTPELIER, Vermont (PNN) - June 20, 2019 - A technology-enthusiast has invented a Nerf gun turret that can automatically track and shoot down small drones. The ingenious contraption uses the Lidar capabilities of a Kinect v2 sensor, and a milled steel two-axis gimbal, all controlled by software based on the OpenCV AI library, which is geared towards realtime computer vision.
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Kalifornia (PNN) - June 24, 2019 - It is no secret that the tech behemoth, Google, is in the data mining business. From cookies to targeted ads, the amount of specific information it has on individuals is mind blowing.
While these “features” are marketed to users to improve their user experience, the Orwellian tracking systems employed by Google to do so are shocking, especially the location tracking and history.
DARTMOUTH, Massachusetts (PNN) - June 7, 2019 - In Christopher Nolan’s epic 2014 science fiction film Interstellar, a rogue splinter group of scientists constituting the collapsed remnants of NASA hatch a plan to save Earth from environmental collapse by searching for potentially habitable planets in a distant galaxy. They get there by traveling through a wormhole and using the gravitational slingshot velocity of a massive black hole.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Kalifornia (PNN) - June 4, 2019 - Firefox will now block third-party trackers by default. This is thanks to a new feature called Enhanced Tracking Protection (ETP) that was previously only available in private windows. Going forward, it will be the default setting for everyone using Firefox.
LOCKPORT, New York (PNN) - June 2, 2019 - We are staring our Orwellian future right in the face. Beginning in New York, facial recognition is coming to schools in the Fascist Police States of Amerika, and it will be switched on for testing next week.
DARWIN, Australia (PNN) - May 1, 2019 - The city of Darwin in Australia is preparing to integrate with Chinese surveillance technology that powers its social credit system. “Virtual fences” will alert authorities to “unauthorized activity”.
The technology is based on systems being used in Shenzhen, China, where the social credit score is tracking Chinese citizens.
The system will be powered by artificial intelligence tracking movements of individuals.
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