Samsung watches you sleep, Motorola tries again with the 360, Stanford’s “intelligent” cars and more.
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Samsung watches you sleep, Motorola tries again with the 360, Stanford’s “intelligent” cars and more.
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A new policy unveiled by the US Justice Department will require “US prosecutors and some federal law enforcement agencies” to nab a warrant before using devices that track your mobile phone’s location. The NSA, however, will probably just do whatever it wants.
With the Apple Watch now in the marketplace, Motorola is unveiling the second-generation Moto 360. It’s sleeker, sexier and far more customizable than before.
It’s one thing to call a car smart — it’s another to send it to Stanford. The university is teaming up with Toyota to open a $50 million “robotics and artificial intelligence research effort,” which seeks to build “intelligent” vehicles rather than self-driving ones.
The Internet of Things is only effective when it touches everything — including, evidently, the cool side of your pillow. Samsung’s SleepSense can “turn off your TV when it senses you’re asleep, or turn your coffee machine on when it reckons you’re awake in the morning.”
Google’s logo was updated this week, and while it’s not the first overhaul, it’s the first one in such a long time that you can’t help but notice.
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Android and iOS users rejoice — thanks to an updated Prime Video app, you can now download (almost) anything on your device for offline viewing while on a plane, at a campsite, or while waiting in the holding pen at jury duty.
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