News

Here are some articles related to topics we’ve recently discussed:

• Privacy Preserving AI (Andrew Trask) | MIT Deep Learning Series (YouTube)

• Satellites for all! (CNBC)

• Prices continue to rise for “Live TV” (Cord Cutters News)

• How Roku makes money (Cord Cutters News)

• Tesla on Autopilot crashes into parked police car in Norwalk

• Apple’s new Mac Pro: If you have to ask you can’t afford it (The Verge)

• How many engineers does it take to reset a light bulb? (GE YouTube video)

• Alexa is eavesdropping on you ALL THE TIME! (CT Post)

• Cut the cord … or else?  (TechHive)

• Your expensive Smart Appliances might not last a decade (How-To Geek)

• Google helps us keep track … except when it doesn’t (The Norwalk Hour)

• Netflix hikes prices (Fortune)

• Norwalk High School Robotics Club working toward competitions (The Norwalk Hour)

• Can “secure” automobile technology backfire? Thefts on the rise with key fobs left in cars. (The Norwalk Hour)

• “Fake News” (or fake delivery, at least.) (NPR)

• “He knows when you’ve been sleeping!” Why insurers spy on CPAP machines. (ARS Technica)

• Self driving trucks: maybe not a moment too soon  (CT Post)

• Robots are becoming more human-like all the time (YouTube)

• Genius Bar caught ripping off customer ON CAMERA by CBC News (YouTube)

• Walmart seeks creepy shopping-cart design patent (C|Net)

• Amazon patents new Alexa feature that knows when you’re ill and offers you medicine (UK Telegraph)

• Google shuts down Google+ following privacy lapse (San Diego Union Tribune)

• Altice continues to roll out fiber and hike prices (The Norwalk Hour)

• Cuban “acoustic” attacks may actually be caused by microwaves (Engaget.com)

• Just 2% of Alexa users tried to buy stuff with voice in 2018 (SlashGear.com)

• Traffic in Nursery Road area blamed on mobile apps (New Canaan Advertiser)

• How your smart TV is spying on every other gadget in your home (BGR Media)

• Mary Meeker’s 2018 Internet Trends (KPCB.com)

• Supreme Court’s internet sales tax ruling may be a nightmare for small businesses (The Verge)

• Altice to deploy fiber-to-the-home 10 Gbps network in our area (.pdf file)

• Google Duplex – voice synthesis keeps getting better (YouTube)

• 60 Minutes piece on “Brain Hacking” (from April 9, 2017)

• Facebook data misuse scandal affects “substantially” more than 50M, claims Wylie (TechCrunch)

• Connected Cars: A Guide to New Vehicle Technology (Tom’s Guide)

• Home Sellers Use Spycams to Gather Intel on Prospective Buyers (MarketWatch)

• Internet Stats – Accurate?  Who knows, but fun to watch (InternetLiveStats.com)

• Take a semi-autonomous drive from DC to Naples, FL in a Tesla (YouTube)

• Siri gets a new teacher (TheVerge.com)