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In-Car Listening and Infotainment Systems - Edison Research
This post is from Edison’s Weekly Insights email. Please click here if you would like to subscribe. Choices, choices. The in-car audio landscape today offers myriad options, including radio receivers, satellite radio receivers, voice-activated speakers, and Bluetooth or aux cord capabilities...
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GasBandit
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I must be a statistical outlier, but I haven't voluntarily listened to the radio for recreation in 20 years.tl:dr; People 13yrs and older who do NOT have some kind of hook-up-your-phone system (CarPlay, Android Auto) in their car spend about 2/3 of their time listening to good ol’ AM/FM radio. But people who do? Incredibly, these people still spend almost half their time listening to AM/FM radio.In-Car Listening and Infotainment Systems - Edison Research
This post is from Edison’s Weekly Insights email. Please click here if you would like to subscribe. Choices, choices. The in-car audio landscape today offers myriad options, including radio receivers, satellite radio receivers, voice-activated speakers, and Bluetooth or aux cord capabilities...
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GasBandit
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[Brazleton] Mint, the free online budget tracking software
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Mint is shutting down, and it’s pushing users toward Credit Karma
Intuit wants users to migrate to Mint.
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The Rise of Technoauthoritarianism
I will now be referring to social media as "algorithmic feedbags".
I will now be referring to social media as "algorithmic feedbags".
Looks like an interesting read, is there a non-paywalled version?
Well, crap, I was hoping they had the "one free article" thing. It's from the newest print issue (March 2024).
The Atlantic has not yet adapted to 12ft ladders to get over 10ft pay walls, if you know what I mean.
To be less circumspect about it, http://12ft.io for all your paywall-bypassing needs.
More and more websites have had it disabled or rendered useless, sadly.
And I said it like that because it wouldn't let me post the link
Yeah, I just tested it out on this article that I've been wanting to read, but it didn't work. The result says "you must enable Javascript to view this content."
Vending machine error reveals secret face image database of college students
Facial-recognition data is typically used to prompt more vending machine sales.
arstechnica.com
I've heard of vending machines that adjust prices based on time of day and temperature/humidity, but this is new (though not unexpected).
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If you believe what they claim (that is of course a big if), I don't see how this would be a GDPR problem.
Collecting identifiable information without consent is bad.
Lighting up when a face is detected and registering "apparent male, 30-35" but otherwise not keeping or using facial data is fine (legally).
Collecting identifiable information without consent is bad.
Lighting up when a face is detected and registering "apparent male, 30-35" but otherwise not keeping or using facial data is fine (legally).
Here's what we've learned from cell phones: gdpr doesn't matter. It doesn't matter if the data they collect "is non-identifiable" because the truth is: it actually is. If it wasn't they wouldn't do it. Even if they don't store a picture of your face and all they know is male roughly this age etc, they still have so much cross data that they know it's you. Of course, the fact that they have so much cross data means there's very little chance to fight it, we've lost that particular battle unless something very drastic happens
It always is. AOL already taught us that.
Add cellphone logs in with the proliferation of license plate readers and even plane/drone surveillance and there really are no secrets left to keep without significant effort to conceal them.
--Patrick
GasBandit
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I can personally vouch that Youtube is intentionally slowing down content on firefox. I was having buffering problems this morning. I ran a speedtest from fast and speedof.me to make sure that yep, my fiber connection is still awesome. So I opened chrome to the same video, and BOOM, instant, full buffer with no lag.
So I installed the firefox user agent switcher addon to make firefox lie to websites that it is Chrome, and magically the problem went away.
So I installed the firefox user agent switcher addon to make firefox lie to websites that it is Chrome, and magically the problem went away.
For funsies, I will sometimes manually edit the user agent string and insert non-existent or invalid strings, version numbers, or whatever JUST to see if it breaks certain websites.
--Patrick
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Vibrator from Spencer's Gifts carries risk of infection
Malware infection on your PC if you connect it to your USB ports to charge. (Though I've also heard that Spencer's has some pretty awful policies about putting returned merchandise back on the shelf, so maybe don't buy your vibrator from them.)
Malware infection on your PC if you connect it to your USB ports to charge. (Though I've also heard that Spencer's has some pretty awful policies about putting returned merchandise back on the shelf, so maybe don't buy your vibrator from them.)
I saw that yesterday and I just don't get it.
I assume that, like the article suggests, this is someone's attempt to avoid a situation where the MPAA and similar organizations come down on HDMI Forum for "allowing/aiding" the creation of a tool whose only POSSIBLE purpose would be to enable the wholesale ripping/copying of commercial 4K content.
--Patrick
I assume that, like the article suggests, this is someone's attempt to avoid a situation where the MPAA and similar organizations come down on HDMI Forum for "allowing/aiding" the creation of a tool whose only POSSIBLE purpose would be to enable the wholesale ripping/copying of commercial 4K content.
--Patrick
GasBandit
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The Nvidia GeForce GTX era is finally over
Nvidia has shipped the final GTX 16 series GPUs to its board partners, bringing an end to production of all non-RTX graphics cards.
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