Source: Google News | Woman Gets Life Without Parole After Cutting Pregnant Neighbor's Baby From Womb as Victim Was Alive
Source: Google News | Wells Fargo Hit With Unusual Ban on Growth in Yellen's Final Act
TiVo will let you skip the football and watch just the Super Bowl commercials
February 2, 2018America is breaking out the nachos and beer for the Sunday’s big game. This one’s especially riling up the sports world, with Eagles fans rooting against what might be the Patriots’ third win in the past five years. Even Fiona the Hippo weighed in with her prediction.
But if you’re like me, you’re only there for the commercials and the snacks.
There’s good news for fake fans like us. TiVo has the perfect solution for people who just want to watch Cardi B replace Amazon’s Alexa — it released a feature called GameSkip, which is a reversed version of its popular SkipMode. Instead of allowing TiVo users to speed through commercials, it lets them skip through the game and straight to PSAs from brewing companies that raise awareness for clean drinking water. Read more…
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Source: Mashable | TiVo will let you skip the football and watch just the Super Bowl commercials
Louisville wants a fleet of drones to survey areas after shootings
February 2, 2018
Source: Engadget | Louisville wants a fleet of drones to survey areas after shootings
Source: Tech Crunch Mobiles | NIH study links cell phone radiation to cancer in male rats
Playoff newbie vs. Hall of Famer? Doug Pederson's Eagles are right where he wants 'em.
February 2, 2018Source: Google News | Playoff newbie vs. Hall of Famer? Doug Pederson's Eagles are right where he wants 'em.
Humane Society CEO Wayne Pacelle resigns after sexual harassment allegations
February 2, 2018Source: Google News | Humane Society CEO Wayne Pacelle resigns after sexual harassment allegations
Where there’s innovation, there’s masturbation — at least in one dark corner of the internet, where nearly 80,000 people have gathered to share fabricated videos of celebrity women having sex and Nicolas Cage uncovering the Ark of the Covenant.
These are “deepfakes,” a new kind of video featuring realistic face-swaps. In short, a computer program finds common ground between two faces and stitches one over the other. If the source footage is good enough, the transformation is nearly seamless.
The technology is relatively easy to use, which has created an enthusiast community on Reddit, where users compare notes and swap their latest work: “Emma Watson sex tape demo ;-),” “Lela Star x Kim Kardashian,” and “Giving Putin the Trump face” among them. Read more…
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Source: Mashable | A guide to 'deepfakes,' the internet's latest moral crisis
There’s a common misunderstanding that if a company doesn’t sell more of something, it means the product is a failure.
Case in point: iPhone sales fell year-over-year, and because of it, people trotted back out the same old tired narrative that Apple is doomed…again. But for real this time! They claim the iPhone X is a failure because $1,000 is simply too expensive for a phone!
But this narrative couldn’t be further from the truth. Apple doesn’t need to sell a higher number of iPhones at lower prices in order to continue smashing revenue records and stomp out all the competition.
Fixating on a tiny drop in iPhone sales misses the bigger picture: Apple wants to sell additional hardware and services — Apple Watch, AirPods, iCloud, HomePod, Apple Music, etc. — so that people are locked into the ecosystem that only works with the iPhone. Apple’s long-term strategy isn’t eternally selling more iPhones, but rather locking users into its growing ecosystem. Read more…
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Source: Mashable | Why Apple doesn't need to sell more iPhones anymore
Neal Shusterman redefines dystopian fiction with his 'Arc of the Scythe' series
February 2, 2018If there is one person who has shaped the landscape of young adult pop culture, it’s Neal Shusterman.
The prolific author, perhaps best known for the Unwind Dystology and The Accelerati Triligoy, has been writing for a variety of mediums — books, film, TV, and games — since the ’80s, including writing for the Goosebumps and Animorphs TV series and the Disney channel original movie Pixel Perfect.
Now Shusterman is back, and this time he’s turning dystopian literature on its head with his new Arc of the Scythe series.
The Arc of the Scythe series dives into a utopian world where death has been defeated. In this perfect world, a governing body called the Scythes decides who dies “but everyone accepts it because everybody knows that this order is made up of the most compassionate humans in the world.” Read more…
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Source: Mashable | Neal Shusterman redefines dystopian fiction with his 'Arc of the Scythe' series