An interview with Chris Gilliard on his new book Luxury Surveillance, how smart wearables could normalize pervasive surveillance, X's political shift, and more
Chris Gilliard, PhD of Critical Internet Studies Institute … Bluesky: Justin Hendrix / @justinhendrix : In the latest episode of her podcast series, Through to Thriving, Tech Policy Press fellow Anika...
Meta CTO says the technical issues during live demos of its new smart glasses were due to a self-inflicted DDoS and a bug that put Zuckerberg's glasses to sleep
and it wasn't the Wi-Fi Lakshmi Varanasi / Business Insider : Meta's CTO: We'd ‘love’ iMessage on Ray-Ban glasses, but Apple won't allow it David Heaney / UploadVR : Meta Explains Why Its Connect Live...
After a backlash, Whoop says members with more than 12 months remaining are now automatically eligible for a free upgrade to 5.0
Your Gear News of the Week The Indian Express : Whoop faces backlash after cancelling free hardware upgrades Dana Wollman / Bloomberg : Whoop Faces Backlash After Charging Existing Users Upgrade Fee f...
Strava's new API rules for third parties will make it harder for users across dozens of fitness apps and wearables to integrate their fitness data in one place
It might seem odd for one app's users to fume over an API, but at the heart of the matter is the inherent messiness of fitness data. Mastodon: @evan@cosocial.ca , @cdamian@rls.social , @lackattack@mas...
Google's Project Zero finds 18 zero-day vulnerabilities in Exynos modems, affecting some Samsung, Vivo, and Google phones as well as wearables and vehicles
do this before you're next Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE : Google discovers 18 vulnerabilities in multiple Samsung chips Pierluigi Paganini / Security Affairs : Baseband RCE flaws in Samsung's Exynos...
A look at the research project tracking people at risk for suicide using data from smartphones and wearables to identify periods of high danger and intervene
A unique research project is tracking hundreds of people at risk for suicide, using data from smartphones and wearable biosensors … Tweets: @timinhonolulu Tweets: Tim Hogan / @timinhonolulu : Can Smar...
Mozilla report flags 18 of the top 25 period and pregnancy tracking apps and wearables, including Clue and Eve, for poor privacy and data management practices
It's concerning in a post-Dobbs landscape — Period and pregnancy tracking apps collect data that could theoretically be used … Source: Mozilla Foundation .
Colleges requiring virus-screening tech, from virus symptom-checking apps to temperature check stations and wearables, have not rigorously studied if it works
Many schools that use fever scanners and symptom checkers have not rigorously studied if the technology has slowed the spread of Covid-19 on campuses. Tweets: @davidboyles3 , @bridgestateu , @bhrenton...
A look at how COVID-19 has accelerated development of tech that tracks workers, and how physically tracing employees could be mainstream even after the pandemic
A boom in contact tracing devices could herald a new era of worker surveillance — Before April, Radiant RFID … Tweets: @davegershgorn , @sarahnemerson , @bcmerchant , @davegershgorn , and @medium Tw...
US law enforcement agencies are getting more savvy about using information collected by smart speakers and other devices as part of criminal investigations
Requests are rising from law enforcement for information on the devices, which can include internet queries, food orders, and overheard conversations. Tweets: @wired , @hypervisible , @zenalbatross , ...