Saturday, May 11, 2019

BAD ENOUGH ALEXA FOR ADULTS DOES THIS, AS DOES SIRI AND OTHER VOICE ACTIVATED AI APPS FOR YOUR HOME
Retail giant Amazon is being accused of capturing and saving customers' voice conversations through its popular Echo Dot digital assistant for children, advocacy groups said in a complaint Thursday


VOICE ASSISTANTS 


AMAZON ALEXA / ECHO

Amazon Admits Listening To Alexa Conversations: Why It Matters

Amazon workers reportedly listen to what you tell Alexa — here's how Apple and Google handle what you say to their voice assistants

Amazon has people transcribing your conversations with Alexa


Thousands of Amazon Workers Listen to Alexa Users' Conversations

Analysis | The Technology 202: Alexa, are you spying on me? Here's why smart speakers raise serious privacy concerns

Alexa Is Listening All The Time: Here's How To Stop It

Amazon Listens to Random Echo Owners' Alexa Commands of Things?"

Amazon Alexa user receives 1,700 audio recordings of a stranger through ‘human error’

Is your Amazon Alexa spying on you?

Do you swear at Alexa? What our treatment of AI assistants says about humans

The Deliberate Design Flaw In Every Amazon Echo

APPLE SIRI

Apple considering offline mode for Siri that could process voice locally on an iPhone

Siri is always listening. Are you OK with that?

How to Keep Commercials from Activating Your Smart Speaker

Apple Addresses Privacy Questions About ‘Hey Siri’ And Live Photo Features

Female digital assistants like Alexa and Siri remain popular in Silicon Valley. It's time to boycott them.


SMART PHONES

Is your smartphone listening in on your conversations? | One Page

It's not paranoia, your phone really IS listening to you

I thought I was paranoid but now I’m 100% sure our phones are listening to us – and I’ve got proof

No, you’re not being paranoid, your phone really IS listening to you

Why people think their phones are listening to them

Is this proof your smart phone is eavesdropping on EVERY single word you say?

Is your smartphone listening to everything you say? We asked the experts

Apple's Siri interrupted the UK defense secretary during an important speech: 'It is very rare that you're heckled by your own mobile phone'

Security experts WARNS your phone LISTENS to EVERYTHING you say to target ads


HOW TO STOP YOUR DEVICES FROM LISTENING TO YOU



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Friday, May 10, 2019

A Caravaggio painting discovered after going largely unseen for more than 400 years went on display Thursday in New York ahead of its planned auction in June. Maison de Ventes Marc Labarbe in Toulouse expects it to sell for between $112 million and $168 million.
THE BEHEADING OF JOHN THE BAPTIST BY SALOME
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Caravaggio painting missing for 400 years expected to fetch $112M at auction
A Caravaggio painting discovered after going largely unseen for more than 400 years went on display Thursday in New York ahead of its planned auction in June.

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DID NOT KNOW THAT
Scientists have documented some of the oldest trees in the world, including the bald cypress tree, inside wetlands along the banks of North Carolina's Black River.
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North Carolina swamps home to some of the oldest trees on the planet
Scientists have documented some of the oldest trees in the world inside wetlands along the banks of North Carolina's Black River.

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More people have been displaced in their home countries by events like war, violence and natural disasters than at any other time in history, a new report said Friday.
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Study: More people displaced by fighting, disasters than ever before
More people have been displaced in their home countries by events like war, violence and natural disasters than at any other time in history, a new report said Friday.

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AMERICAS FARMERS SCREWED BY TRUMP AND WEATHER

As America's agricultural commodity prices dropped further after Friday's tariff escalation on $200 billion of Chinese goods, Trump vowed to buy more domestic farm products for international humanitarian aid.



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Trump's vow to buy crops unlikely to help farmers hurt by trade war
As America's agricultural commodity prices crashed following Friday's tariff escalation on $200 billion of Chinese products, President Donald Trump vowed to buy more domestic farm products for international aid.

"These types of trade wars are a menace to everyone from the crews at Heathrow airport to a sheep station in New Zealand."


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Opinion: How Trump's trade war with China will be a disaster for us all
These types of trade wars are a menace to everyone from the crews at Heathrow airport to a sheep station in New Zealand

A markedly wet spring means the majority of America's cornfields still are not planted. After Friday, farmers begin losing yield every day their seeds are not in the ground.
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Midwest farmers under the gun to plant corn
A markedly wet spring means the majority of America's cornfields still are not planted. After Friday, farmers begin losing yield size every day those seeds are not in the ground.

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Students who attend will get credits that count towards their degrees
THIS IS NOT JUST A SAFE SPACE FOR SNOWFLAKES BUT
A LITERAL BLIZZARD OF AVOIDANCE OF REALLY DEALING 
WITH THE UNDERLYING REASONS FOR THIS
THE POVERTY OF STUDENT LIFE!


Bristol University offers students happiness lessons after spate of suicides
Students will practice sleeping more and meditating as part of course

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ARCHITECTURE

Notre Dame could provide energy for Paris with new roof (Vincent Callebaut Architectures)
Newly released pictures capture changing face of the capital in the 1980s
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Vintage pictures show London's East End in the 1980s before the skyscrapers
Newly released pictures capture changing face of capital in 1980s

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