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Privacy Concerns

Apple halts Siri response grading program after privacy concerns

Apple Inc said on Friday it suspended its global program where it analyzed recordings from users interacting with its voice assistant Siri, after some privacy concerns were raised about the program. Apple's decision comes in the light of a report from in Gua…

bubmagAugust 2, 2019

Exoskeleton

The Future of Conceptual, Immersive Art Hasn’t Quite Arrived

Audience members don robot exoskeletons in a performance of Inferno. (photo by Beth LaBerge, courtesy Gray Area Festival) SAN FRANCISCO From the smartphones audiences hold in their hands to the virtual reality headsets artists can use as their primary medium…

bubmagAugust 2, 2019

Gundam

Game Devs of Color Expo – Photos @gdocexpo #GDoCExpo @SchomburgCenter

Stop breadboarding and soldering – start making immediately! Adafruit’s Circuit Playground is jam-packed with LEDs, sensors, buttons, alligator clip pads and more. Build projects with Circuit Playground in a few minutes with the drag-and-drop MakeCode program…

bubmagAugust 2, 2019

Android

This Week In XR: Unity In The Money, Free Roam Star Trek, AR[T] From Apple, EXRD To Barnstorm US, More

The mega-IP "Star Trek" is coming to free roam LBVR SandboxVR as the chain, armed with a 70M investment from Andressen-Horowitz, announces rapid expansion to 16 locations. SandboxVR Enterprise XR Demos (EXRD) featuring hand-on enterprise experiences will b…

bubmagAugust 2, 2019

Old-Age Poverty

75 years ago: Nazis carry out mass murder of Sinti and Roma people in Auschwitz

DW: August 2, 1944, was a particularly dark day in the Nazis' persecution of Roma and Sinti people. What exactly happened? Karola Fings: On the night between August 2 and August 3, 1944, the so-called Gypsy Camp in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and ex…

bubmagAugust 2, 2019

SpaceX

‘Moving fast:’ Musk’s SpaceX eyes Florida for launch site for Mars rocket – WHTC News

By Joey Roulette ORLANDO, Fla. (Reuters) - Elon Musk's SpaceX is expanding its facilities in Florida to make room for the space company's forthcoming super heavy-lift launch vehicle dubbed Starship, according to a draft of the plans seen by Reuters on Friday…

bubmagAugust 2, 2019

Virtual Reality

The SEC wants disgraced VC Mike Rothenberg to cough up more than $30 million

Nearly three years ago, TechCrunch reported on suspected fraud committed by Mike Rothenberg, a self-described “millennial venture capitalist” who’d made a name for himself not only by eponymously branding his venture firm but for spending lavishly to woo star…

bubmagAugust 2, 2019

Ukrainian Revolution

How innovative Hong Kong protesters are using lasers, traffic cones and parkour in battle with police

Protesters drag cones to block traffic on a busy road in the centre of the city - REUTERS In her pink top and billowy skirt there is little outward sign that Diana, 24, spends her weekends executing inventive, eye-catching protest tactics on the frontlines o…

bubmagAugust 2, 2019

Slavery Abolition

No Property in Man: Slavery and Antislavery at the Nation’s Founding, With a New Preface

Listen to Sean Wilentz discuss No Property in Man—and argue that, far from covering up a crime against humanity, the Constitution restricted slavery’s legitimacy under the new national government—on the podcast The Age of Jackson:Listen to “Ep. 56: Slavery an…

bubmagAugust 2, 2019

Nuclear Disarmament

Russia Says It ‘Will Never Use Lose the Arms Race’ as U.S. Leaves Cold War Missile Deal

A senior Moscow diplomat has warned that his country is prepared to engage in any arms race sparked by Washington's decision to leave a missile deal forged during the decades-long Cold War between two nuclear-armed superpowers. Russian Deputy Foreign Ministe…

bubmagAugust 2, 2019

Apple halts Siri response grading program after privacy concerns

The Future of Conceptual, Immersive Art Hasn’t Quite Arrived

Game Devs of Color Expo – Photos @gdocexpo #GDoCExpo @SchomburgCenter

This Week In XR: Unity In The Money, Free Roam Star Trek, AR[T] From Apple, EXRD To Barnstorm US, More

75 years ago: Nazis carry out mass murder of Sinti and Roma people in Auschwitz

‘Moving fast:’ Musk’s SpaceX eyes Florida for launch site for Mars rocket – WHTC News

The SEC wants disgraced VC Mike Rothenberg to cough up more than $30 million

How innovative Hong Kong protesters are using lasers, traffic cones and parkour in battle with police

No Property in Man: Slavery and Antislavery at the Nation’s Founding, With a New Preface

Russia Says It ‘Will Never Use Lose the Arms Race’ as U.S. Leaves Cold War Missile Deal

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