Gone Home, the hit debut from The Fullbright Company, was supposed to be released for the Nintendo Switch today, but the launch has been delayed. Annapurna Interactive, the publisher bringing the game to the Switch, tweeted that the new launch date i…
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice doesn’t represent a seachange from the formula that Dark Souls creator Hidetaka Miyazaki has been refining over the past decade, but it does take that blueprint in a welcome new direction.
At Gamescom, I spent an hour or so…
It’s easy to scoff at Aibo, Sony’s $2,799 robot dog. But seeing one up close might change your mind. It moves much more smoothly than before; it reacts to your pets and voice commands realistically; and best of all, it’ll get smarter over time. Yes,…
In recent years, Twitch has hosted a variety of marathons centered around everything from The Joy of Painting with Bob Ross and Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood to Mystery Science Theater 3000 and even Power Rangers. These marathons lasted for days or weeks at a time, but all of them pale in comparison to the next marathon Twitch has on deck: Pokemon. … Continue reading
A new study has found that laziness may be beneficial for the survival of a species from an evolutionary standpoint. The research comes out of the University of Kansas, where scientists studied extant bivalves and gastropods, finding that sluggishness — that is, lower metabolic rates — were associated with lower probability of extinction. Metabolic rate refers to the amount of … Continue reading
Epic Games recently released update 5.30 for Fortnite, bringing some big changes including a transformation of Tomato Town into Tomato Temple. Surprises are still rolling in and now players are reporting a big, unexpected phenomenon: lightning bolts shooting out of the rifts. These aren’t small flashes of light, but rather huge bursts of energy that suddenly strike the ground. According … Continue reading
Audi may be readying its e-tron all-electric SUV for the market, but it picked Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance to reveal a far more playful EV concept, the PB18 e-tron supercar. Promising to cut the assumption that tomorrow’s electric vehicles will inevitably be at least semi-autonomous and vaguely anodyne, the PB18 e-tron goes in entirely the opposite direction. In fact, it’s … Continue reading
Our smartwatches and fitness trackers have revealed certain data about ourselves that we might not have previously known, thanks to its built-in sensors like the heart rate monitor. Naturally the functionality of such devices is expected to expand in the future, and last we heard, Apple had plans to introduce non-invasive glucose monitoring to the Apple Watch.
While the monitor in question is said to be years away from being made a reality, there is evidence to suggest that Apple is interested in the idea at the very least. This is according to a recently discovered patent (via AppleInsider) in which it shows Apple exploring the idea for a non-invasive method of monitoring the user’s glucose levels.
Based on the patent, it describes an optical system that uses absorption spectroscopy that can determine the concentration (such as glucose) of a substance by applying light to a sample. As light passes through the substance, the substance will absorb energy based on the wavelengths emitted, which in turn changes the light’s properties upon exit, which ultimately will be able to tell how concentrated a substance is.
While it sounds interesting and promising, as AppleInsider notes, existing scientific methods of identifying the makeup of a sample using short-wavelength infrared mid-wavelength infrared have not been successfully applied to glucose monitoring. That being said, there is no guarantee that this method will be used in Apple’s rumored glucose monitor, but at the very least it shows that Apple is interested and is actively exploring the idea.
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Remember all those fun personality quizzes that ran rampant during the earlier days of Facebook? They were fun to take and also great for discussion and comparisons with friends, but unfortunately some of them were less innocent than you think. Facebook’s privacy scandal with Cambridge Analytica proved just that, and now it looks like there might be another issue.
Facebook recently confirmed that they have suspended over 400 Facebook apps over concerns about how user data was being handled and used, and in a blog post, Facebook’s VP of Product Partnerships Ime Archibong confirmed that at least one of the apps, myPersonality, might have misused user data. As a result, Facebook will be notifying roughly 4 million users who have used the app.
According to the blog post, “Today we banned myPersonality — an app that was mainly active prior to 2012 — from Facebook for failing to agree to our request to audit and because it’s clear that they shared information with researchers as well as companies with only limited protections in place.”
Archibong also adds, “Since launching our investigation in March, we have investigated thousands of apps. And we have suspended more than 400 due to concerns around the developers who built them or how the information people chose to share with the app may have been used — which we are now investigating in much greater depth.”
More recently Facebook’s Onavo app has been removed from Apple’s iOS App Store over privacy concerns about how the app, designed to be a VPN, tracks user activity across apps.
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