Fingerprint Stealing!

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So, it turns out, the hugely popular peace sign that we all love to do in photo’s could now potentially be dangerous for us. Great. More things spoiled by some bad people!

According to research at the Japanese National Institute of Informatics when we make the peace sign we could be giving away our biometric data. (Our fingerprint to you and I)

Mashable reports that if the picture is clear enough, within 10 feet and the lighting is bright enough hackers could recreate our fingerprint using 3D technology and unlock things such as our iPhone for example.

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Amazon Opens More Book Stores!

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If opening a physical store wasn’t interesting enough, Amazon is adding to its fleet of Amazon Book stores already in use.

Amazon told the Wallstreet Journal in an email that they are opening a bookstore in Manhattan sometime this spring. Located at Time Warner Center in Midtown at the edge of Central Park.

In an ironic twist of fate Amazon may have been tempted by such a location as Manhattan rent prices are dropping due to online stores.

Amazon currently has three bookstores located at Seattle, Portland and San Diego. As well as this new one in Manhattan there are also plans for two more, Chicago and Massachusetts.

Amazon’s books are cheaper in it’s physical stores rather than online, but unsurprisingly enough you can sign up for a prime membership in store.

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Check out your house from a decade ago!

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There’s a time travel feature on Google Maps and here’s how to check how your home looked 10 years ago! Now this may not work for everyone but here’s how:

1. Log onto Google Maps on your PC or laptop

2. Type your post code

3. Grab the street view guy to your street and reposition him so you can see your house. 

Find the date in the top right hand corner

6. If there is a clock you’re able to time travel click on it!

7. Now you can see a drop down timeline of all the previous images! 

Is it any different?!

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Using exercise to pay for stuff?!

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Get bigger over Christmas?

Well there’s a way to lose those pounds without spending a pound!

There’s a cafe popping up in Covent Garden where you can pay for your coffee or your sandwich with exercise!

It’s called ‘Run For Your Bun’ and is set up by David Lloyd Gyms, they will let you order whatever you want from the menu – in exchange for a short 10 minute High Intensity Interval Training session.

So basically a short burst of  treadmill sprints, a few burpee’s even a few reps on a rowing machine. Once that’s done you get your sandwich.

Book a free spot here! 

 The ‘Run For Your Bun’ café on January 11–13, noon–3pm at 3 Slingsby Place, Covent Garden, WC2E 9AB.

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Uber Self Driving Cars

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Originally Uber had self driving cars in San Francisco, California. Until there was some legal trouble and the California Department of Motor Vehicles banned them from San Fran – now Uber have moved their self driving cars pilot scheme to Arizona.

Arizona Governor Doug Ducey flirted with Uber on Social media stating that: “California may not want you; but AZ does!”

Although California has banned them – the DMV have asked Uber to apply for a registration for autonomous vehicle testing, saying that it has a dedicated team to help expedite the process for them. The company spoke of the ban and argued that it behaved differently than Tesla, as they produce electric cars which include an autopilot feature. So didn’t apply for a license for California’s autonomous driving rules as their cars require oversight by a human driver. 

The California vehicle code defines an autonomous vehicle as  – “technology that has the capability to drive a vehicle without the active physical control or monitoring by a human operator.” – California’s DMV rules in state that a human driver is required to take control of autonomous vehicles

Companies are required to file reports when drivers intercede or their cars crash. Tesla doesn’t file any such reports and similarly believes it doesn’t meet the requirements for autonomous vehicles.

Uber also operates self driving cars in Pittsburgh, California was the second state in which the pilot program began.

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Facebook Live Audio!?

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As like most social media platforms in 2016 Facebook put a lot of time and effort into “LIVE” broadcasting. As of now the social media platform is launching LIVE AUDIO for a select few publishes and content creators with plans to open up the feature to a wider audience in 2017.

The audio only service could bring podcasts into peoples news feeds just like live video does for video. This could potentially help those in areas where broadband and internet speeds is incredibly poor or to those that require less heavy data efficient media.

Facebook sees LIVE AUDIO for other uses such as semi professional stage for events like book readings and interviews coupled with the services comments section this could create incredible amounts of creative content. As of yet the audio only live service is only open to the BBC World Service, Talk Radio’s LBC (Leading Britains Conversation) Book Publisher Harper Collins and authors Adam Grant and Britt Bennett.

Android users can keep listening to a LIVE AUDIO broadcast whilst doing other things though iOS users have to stay within the Facebook App.

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Government W*nk

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A new national censor is expected to be put in place by the government which effectively tells you what you can and cannot pleasure yourself to!?!

According to campaigners at Open Rights Group, amendments will be made to the Digital Economy Bill which mean that this national sensor will have the power to enforce a block on sites not just on content & if ya favourite pornstar library doesn’t add age gate to it – that too could be added to a blacklist.

An exec director over at Open Rights Group – Jim Killock, said of the changes:

“In the short term, this is likely to disproportionately affect sexual minorities. However, there are wider implications for free speech. Once this administrative power to block websites is in place, it will invariably be used to censor other content. MPs have already asked why other material that is unsuitable for children is not being censored.”

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Delete yourself from the Internet!

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Now you can DELETE yourself from the internet!

There is a Investigatory Powers Bill which is also known as the Snooper’s Charter, if this is passed into law, then every digital thing you do will be recorded and held for up to 12 months!

Two Swedish Men, Wille Dahlbo and Linus Unnebäck, have created a website that will erase you from the internet it’s called Deseat.me,  you log in with your Google account, it will then pull up all the services and apps linked to that Google account and then give you steps to delete those accounts – the proper way.

Privacy is huge for Willie and Linus they decided to build their service to run on your computer only as “the only thing you’re telling us is what accounts you want to delete. That’s it, and since we use Google’s OAuth protocol we don’t have access to any of your login information.”

Which is different than – Just Delete Me or Account killer who both hold directories of links you can use to delete yourself from the internet.

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Edit Tweets?

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The CEO of Twitter Jack Dorsey has asked Twitter users what improvements that they want to see on the site in 2017. He has over 5,700 replies so far.

The most requested feature is to edit Tweets after you sent them, rather than having to delete and start over. This feature while is the most requested is also one that is most polarizing.

While Jack Dorsey agreed that a “form of edit is def needed” and that “the company is thinking a lot about it” – he suggests that anything more than a quick edit would require some sort of changelog (revision history) — yet this would cause all kinds of problems:

Other problems that revision history (or any kind of edit for that matter) would run into is that a user wouldn’t know who liked the tweet and which version of it. Say for example you post a tweet and it gets 100 likes and you change that tweet 3 times. How many of those 100 people liked which version of the tweet? Or a tweet could be changed entirely which would cause the company to lose and damage trust in their service. As news sites and individuals could change a few words and the whole context of the tweet would mean something else – and by ‘endorsing’ the original tweet and having it changed do they still ‘like’ the tweet or do they have to ‘like’ it again – as you can see a simple ‘edit’ button can open a lot of problems for Twitter!

Other ideas asked of Dorsey would be a way to introduce bookmarks of tweets so users can find their favorite of their most ‘liked’ tweets plus an improvement on eradicating bullying on the service – which Dorsey called Twitters ‘Main Priority’

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10 Years of iPhone

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