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VOICE ARCHIVE

Josh Hendrickson

@canterrain
17 posts
2023-01-17
All over Amazon, you can find “16TB external SSDs” for less than $100 with hundreds of five-star reviews. These have to be a scam. To prove it, I bought one and took it apart. Of course it's a fake. Why does Amazon allow this? tip @Techmeme https://www.reviewgeek.com/...
2023-01-17 View on X
Review Geek

Scammers on Amazon are selling fake 16TB portable SSDs for ~$100 by hijacking listings like pillow covers, keeping the reviews, and then listing new products

When it comes to portable hard drives, bigger is usually better.  You want lots of space for photos, videos, or anything else.

2022-03-25
Can anyone explain to me how this is significantly different than the iPhone upgrade program? https://twitter.com/...
2022-03-25 View on X
Bloomberg

Sources: Apple plans to launch a monthly subscription service by 2023 for the iPhone and other hardware that could tie into Apple One bundles and AppleCare

Apple Inc. is working on a subscription service for the iPhone and other hardware products, a move that could make device ownership similar …

2022-01-29
So long as Waymo wants to test on public roads where it could hit pedestrians, this feels like public data. I have a right to know my risk of getting hit by a test autonomous vehicle. Now if Waymo wants to build some private roads to test... https://twitter.com/...
2022-01-29 View on X
Los Angeles Times

Waymo sues the California DMV to hide its safety details, such as descriptions of driverless car crashes, and says the data should be designated a trade secret

2022-01-01
I've watched with discomfort as every outlet started using “Metaverse” to describe things that have existed already for years. Not sure why we're so willingly allowing Facebook to own and brand a term for something it didn't really create. https://twitter.com/...
2022-01-01 View on X
Washington Post

Metaverse products from Meta, Microsoft, and others are just 3D virtual social spaces, and lack key features of the metaverse concept, chiefly interoperability

theoretically interesting idea in search of a mass market use case. “I want to use my Elder Scrolls Online sword in Minecraft” is not anything actual gamers say & give actual game ...

2021-12-31
I've watched with discomfort as every outlet started using “Metaverse” to describe things that have existed already for years. Not sure why we're so willingly allowing Facebook to own and brand a term for something it didn't really create. https://twitter.com/...
2021-12-31 View on X
Washington Post

Metaverse products from Meta, Microsoft, and others are just 3D virtual social spaces, and lack key features of the metaverse concept, chiefly interoperability

Meta's ‘Horizon Worlds’ app, Microsoft and Roblox are capitalizing on a buzzword that's far from reality

2020-12-18
“We'll begin enforcing this policy on January 20, 2021, which is also when we'll begin automatically removing the verified badge from inactive and incomplete accounts.” Ah, an entirely random date that was likely chosen by throwing darts at a calendar. Yep. Nothing to see here. https://twitter.com/...
2020-12-18 View on X
TechCrunch

Twitter launches Spaces, its Clubhouse-like service, in private beta on iOS, limited to select individuals, largely from under-represented backgrounds

Last month, Twitter announced it would soon begin testing a new social experience on its platforms involving audio-only chat rooms …

“We'll begin enforcing this policy on January 20, 2021, which is also when we'll begin automatically removing the verified badge from inactive and incomplete accounts.” Ah, an entirely random date that was likely chosen by throwing darts at a calendar. Yep. Nothing to see here. https://twitter.com/...
2020-12-18 View on X
Twitter

Twitter says it will start its new verification policy on January 21 and is developing profile labels to designate bots and memorial accounts

2020-10-26
For perhaps the billionth time, I'm thankful my ISP (Cincinnati Bell) doesn't have data caps and promises to adhere to net neutrality principles. Like all ISPs should. https://twitter.com/...
2020-10-26 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Users working from home are running into internet usage limits as ISPs reinstate data caps they suspended at the beginning of the pandemic

Lillian Rizzo / Wall Street Journal :

2020-04-06
While this is a great feature, it isn't new. Skye just wanted people to know it existed, since most people seem to have overlooked it. I guess Skype is right about that fact, all things considered. (See The Verge's updated reporting). https://twitter.com/...
2020-04-06 View on X
9to5Mac

Skype no longer requires video call participants to have an account or to download software, letting users join a call via a link, similar to Zoom

Michael Potuck / 9to5Mac :

2020-03-15
Better brace myself for a bunch of '90s style “Micro$oft sux and so does Teams!” style comments from people who have likely never used Teams. https://twitter.com/...
2020-03-15 View on X
Reuters

Under lockdown, Italy's social and family life has shifted to messaging platforms, where WhatsApp calls/messages are up 20% YoY, MS Teams logs 100% usage growth

NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) - As 60 million Italians face a coronavirus country-wide lockdown, many daily interactions among family … Tweets: @canterrain , @crispiandjb , and @lauren...

2019-09-19
This is why people don't trust tech companies. “We know it makes you uncomfortable, but we're gonna do it anyway. So you should totally buy our listening devices.” Combined with “We promise not to do a scary privacy-related thing without telling you... again. Cross our hearts.” https://twitter.com/...
2019-09-19 View on X
TechCrunch

Facebook debuts Portal TV, a TV accessory for video calling, streaming, AR gaming, and co-viewing Facebook Watch shows, shipping November 5 for $149

Facebook wants to take over your television with a clip-on camera for video calling, AR gaming, and content co-watching.

This is why people don't trust tech companies. “We know it makes you uncomfortable, but we're gonna do it anyway. So you should totally buy our listening devices.” Combined with “We promise not to do a scary privacy-related thing without telling you... again. Cross our hearts.” https://twitter.com/...
2019-09-19 View on X
The Verge

Facebook unveils second-gen 10-inch Portal for $179, and 8-inch Portal Mini for $129, with WhatsApp call support, picture-in-picture viewing, and Prime Video

by default and without an opt-out — and sending them to contractors to transcribe. It paused that last month, but is soon resuming it with an opt-out. Great reporting by @KurtWagne...

2019-09-18
This is why people don't trust tech companies. “We know it makes you uncomfortable, but we're gonna do it anyway. So you should totally buy our listening devices.” Combined with “We promise not to do a scary privacy-related thing without telling you... again. Cross our hearts.” https://twitter.com/...
2019-09-18 View on X
TechCrunch

Facebook debuts Portal TV, a TV accessory for video calling, streaming, AR gaming, and co-viewing Facebook Watch shows, shipping November 5 for $149

Facebook wants to take over your television with a clip-on camera for video calling, AR gaming, and content co-watching.

2019-09-15
MoviePass is shutting down with one day's notice. Somehow giving their (probably few) loyal customers one last gut punch on the way out seems pretty in character. https://twitter.com/...
2019-09-15 View on X
CNBC

MoviePass says it is shutting down and ending service for all subscribers on Saturday, September 14

As of Saturday September 14, 2019, MoviePass has moviepassed on. Sam Rutherford / Gizmodo : It's Curtains on the MoviePass Grift Brittany A. Roston / SlashGear : MoviePass will off...

2019-09-14
MoviePass is shutting down with one day's notice. Somehow giving their (probably few) loyal customers one last gut punch on the way out seems pretty in character. https://twitter.com/...
2019-09-14 View on X
CNBC

MoviePass says it is shutting down and ending service for all subscribers on Saturday, September 14

KEY POINTS  — The company informed subscribers that it was ending the service because its “efforts to recapitalize MoviePass have not been successful to date.”

2019-08-04
Well, that's a good start. But if Amazon really wants to follow Google's lead, it should make the option opt-IN. Not opt-OUT. Opt-out is the pretty PR option of feel-goods without the providing a customer-first solution. https://twitter.com/...
2019-08-04 View on X
Bloomberg

Amazon says it will let users opt out of human review of the voice recordings picked up by Alexa, following similar moves by Apple and Google

Matt Day / Bloomberg :

2019-08-03
Well, that's a good start. But if Amazon really wants to follow Google's lead, it should make the option opt-IN. Not opt-OUT. Opt-out is the pretty PR option of feel-goods without the providing a customer-first solution. https://twitter.com/...
2019-08-03 View on X
Bloomberg

Amazon says it will let users opt out of human review of the voice recordings picked up by Alexa, following similar moves by Apple and Google

- Alexa reviewers transcribe, annotate some voice recordings  — Apple, Google suspended human voice review programs this week