Amazon's Latest Gimmicks Are Pushing the Limits of Privacy

10-11-2020 • https://www.wired.com, LILY HAY NEWMAN

Privacy advocates warn that the Ring Always Home Cam and Amazon One both normalize aggressive new forms of data collection.

These waterproof inflatable solar lanterns will charge your phone

10-10-2020 • https://newatlas.com

The best place to be is outdoors these days, but if packing for a hike or camping trip seems like a hassle, or if you're worried about losing access to your playlist while you're out there, no worries.

What it's like to use a De-Googled phone in real life? (Q&A of concerns)

10-08-2020 • Rob Braxman Tech - YouTube.com

What is it actually like to use a de-Googled phone as a daily driver? Will it feel like you became a luddite or a cave man eschewing tech? Is it actually usable? What apps can you run? What about navigation? Will you survive without Google?

I-SPY Watch out for this green dot on your iPhone it means someone is watching

10-07-2020 • https://www.the-sun.com, Sean Keach

IF you've ever panicked that an app might be watching through your iPhone's camera, Apple has got you covered.

SpaceX Starlink brings Internet to emergency responders in wildfire areas

10-02-2020 • ARS Technica

Starlink is fast and easy to set up, Washington emergency division IT chief says.

Becoming Pod People

09-30-2020 • https://www.henrymakow.com, by Henry Makow PhD

Give each of these people a smartphone and this image from the movie Coma describes our destiny:

Amazon's New Security Drone Flies Around Inside Your House

09-29-2020 • https://www.infowars.com, Ben Warren

Camera-mounted drone maps your house before use

Ring Mailbox Sensor: Amazon will alert you if someone steals your mail

09-28-2020 • https://www.cnet.com, Megan Wollerton

The $30 Mailbox Sensor snuck in with Ring's other news on an under-the-radar announcement page. Orders open Oct. 8.

Is Getting Privacy Hopeless?, plus Q&A

09-27-2020 • Rob Braxman Tech - YouTube

I've revealed some flaws in many popular apps and some of you want to turn into a luddite or live in a cave now. Are we completely zucked? Or do we still have a chance?

Amazon Ring Video Drone Part of Drones and Cameras Everywhere

09-25-2020 • https://www.nextbigfuture.com, by Brian Wang

Amazon bought Ring which has about 1 million Ring Door video cameras installed and Amazon will introduce a new docked video camera drone. The Ring Drone will sell for about $250 and seems to have the convenience of an iRobot vacuum.

Privacy. That's LinuxPhone. True? False?

09-25-2020 • Rob Braxman Tech - YouTube

Remember the tagline from Apple? Privacy. That's iPhone. Well you can forget that. But is the alternate tag: Privacy. That's Linux Phone. Is this true? Or an over reach?

Seeing the future: Facebook to launch Ray-Ban 'smart glasses' next year as Zuckerberg reveal

09-18-2020 • https://www.dailymail.co, By IAN RANDALL

Seeing the future: Facebook to launch Ray-Ban 'smart glasses' next year as Zuckerberg reveals vision of playing poker with 'holograms of your friends on the couch next to you'

AT&T CEO Pours Cold Water On Apple's Hopes For 5G iPhone Sales "Supercycle"

09-16-2020 • Zero Hedge - Tyler Durden

"We aren't in the best of economic times," Stankey said...

New technique promises less expensive, quickly-made optical fibers

09-12-2020 • https://newatlas.com, By Ben Coxworth

Optical fibers are already used in many fields, but they would have even more applications if they could be manufactured faster and cheaper. An experimental new process is claimed to deliver on both counts, and it utilizes mostly existing technologie

Police Use 'Geofence' To Find Anyone Close To A Crime Scene

09-12-2020 • https://www.technocracy.news, BY: SIDNEY FUSSELL

You could be inadvertently caught up in a police investigation if you happened to be close to a crime scene. It is your cell phone that rats on you as Big Tech firms collect location data. When police figured this out, they went to court to get the d

Will Diamond Batteries (NDB) Change the World?

09-06-2020 • https://www.youtube.com, Adamcast IRL

Will Diamond Batteries (NDB) Change the World?

Apple and Google have launched coronavirus exposure notifications without an app

09-02-2020 • Technology Review

Four US states have just announced they'll sign up to the revamped system.

Silicon "sandwiches" make for lightweight, high-capacity batteries

09-01-2020 • https://newatlas.com, By Nick Lavars

The pursuit of better batteries means the exploration of alternative materials, and one that scientists see a lot of promise in is silicon.

Apple Hopes To Sell 80 Million New '5G-Enabled' iPhones Despite Pandemic Production Delays

09-01-2020 • Zero Hedge - Tyler Durden

But despite all of the logistical disruptions caused by the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, Apple is apparently still planning to roll out its first batch of 5G-compatible phones and devices.

Amazon unveils Halo to battle Apple Watch and Fitbit -- tracks activity, body fat, emotions

08-27-2020 • https://www.cnbc.com, Christina Farr

Amazon is entering the wearables market in a big way.

Interview: The NDB team on its revolutionary nano-diamond batteries

08-27-2020 • https://newatlas.com, By Loz Blain

A cheap, safe, self-charging battery that delivers high power for decades without ever needing a charge? That's a game changer.

Nano-diamond self-charging batteries could disrupt energy as we know it

08-27-2020 • https://newatlas.com, By Loz Blain

California company NDB says its nano-diamond batteries will absolutely upend the energy equation, acting like tiny nuclear generators.

Pocket printer makes stickers of smartphone photos

08-27-2020 • https://newatlas.com By Paul Ridden

Polaroid has today launched the Hi-Print, a pocket-friendly photo printer that can turn smartphone snaps into 2.3 x 3.4-inch prints in less than a minute, which can then be stuck on lockers, laptop lids, backpacks, or scrapbooks.

Elon Musk to unveil Neuralink progress with real-time neuron demonstration this week

08-24-2020 • https://www.teslarati.com, By Dacia J. Ferris

Elon Musk's brain-machine interface company, Neuralink, has an event scheduled for later this week to update the public on its progress since last year's presentation.

The Future of AI Research is Never Ending Storage and Cheap, Small Processors

08-23-2020 • https://www.nextbigfuture.com, by Brian Wang

Dan Belov from DeepMind gave an overview of AI Research. He says for AI we should abandon our complex reliable processors for smaller, less reliable but much cheaper ones.

Pocket Sized Particle Accelerator Using THz Laser Pulses

08-21-2020 • Next Big Future - Brian Wang

A new pocket-sized particle accelerator has proven capable of projecting ultra-short electron beams with laser light at more than 99.99% of the speed of light.