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Last week, we reported that a marketing company called Cox Media Group Local Solutions claimed they could listen to users’ conversations through phones and other devices and sold that information to others. Apple has contacted iMore to clarify that this would be a “clear violation’ of its App Store guidelines.In the FAQ at the bottom of CMG Local Solution’s Blog, before it was unceremoniously removed, it stated “Our technology is on the cutting edge of voice data processing. We can identify buyers based on casual…

We’ve all, at some point or another, seen an ad on our phone or television that just happens to be for a product we were just discussing with a friend. For instance, you might tell a friend over lunch that you need a vacation and suddenly get bombarded with travel ads, or mention that you need to find a house painter and get a half-dozen ads for local painting companies. While many have suspected that our phones are listening to us, the consensus among the tech community was that just wasn’t true. Facebook even had to…

OutKast rapper also weighs in on his wake-up time, his go-to music, his love of Tracy Chapman's "Fast Car," and more Andre 3000 sits down with Questlove for a wide-ranging chat about a variety of topics — including the rapper’s standout instrumental LP New Blue Sun — in the latest episode of the Roots drummer’s Questlove Supreme podcast. Over the hour-long interview — which Questlove called “two friends, two colleagues having a conversation with each other” — Andre 3000 is asked questions like…

A judge overseeing a lawsuit brought by Meta Platforms, owner of WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook, said he would hear arguments in late January on a request that he temporarily stop the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) from unilaterally reopening a 2019 privacy agreement.This latest dispute between Meta and the FTC began in May, when the agency said the company had misled parents about how much control they had over who their children had contact with in the Messenger Kids app, among other issues.Elevate Your Tech…

The Current13:00Turning deep space data into musicMusic can often transport you to another time and place. But now a Montreal composer is bringing listeners far out into the cosmos with a piece of music created from NASA's data on the Milky Way."At the end of the piece, especially … I'm focusing in on the black hole that's at the centre of the galaxy. And you get this feeling of stars spiralling toward the centre," said Sophie Kastner, composer of Where Parallel Lines Converge."I wanted to have all of these pingy, like,…

It’s one of the first cold fall nights in the mountains of East Tennessee and Lindsay Lou is tightening her winter coat as she prepares to take the outdoor stage at CaveFest, an Americana and bluegrass gathering held southeast of Nashville at the Caverns, an underground venue with an aboveground amphitheater. “I feel more deeply connected with myself and everyone around me,” the singer-songwriter tells Rolling Stone backstage. “Even if my life blew up for a few years.” Lou, an artist who has been deftly…

It’s seventh grade, the day of the final English exam, and Noah Kahan and Gracie Abrams have spent all semester singing and playing guitar and piano when they should have been studying, letting that copy of Romeo and Juliet collect dust in the backs of their lockers. “We got this,” they’ve been telling themselves, “we know most of the songs in West Side Story.” Then, when Mrs. Harris demands an essay about what love in the play means, Kahan panics, flips to the end of the book (and only the end of the book), and…

One of the world’s most peculiar test beds stretches above Princeton, New Jersey. It’s a fiber optic cable strung between three utility poles that then runs underground before feeding into an “interrogator.” This device fires a laser through the cable and analyzes the light that bounces back. It can pick up tiny perturbations in that light caused by seismic activity or even loud sounds, like from a passing ambulance. It’s a newfangled technique known as distributed acoustic sensing, or DAS.Because DAS can track…

Are you ready to O.D. on Jesus and Mary Chain? The group’s latest single, “jamcod,” which will appear on their upcoming Glasgow Eyes LP, finds frontman Jim Reid singing, “Tears are what you want, tears are what you got,” before the band’s trademark noise, led by Jim’s brother William’s guitar, kicks in and he builds to the titular chant: “J.A.M.C.O.D.” The group will achieve full overdose potential when Glasgow Eyes comes out on March 8. The band recorded the album, which contains typically iconoclastic-looking…

Sam Altman-run OpenAI on Monday announced it is rolling out new voice and image capabilities in ChatGPT that can now help the AI chatbot see, hear and speak. These capabilities offer a new, more intuitive type of interface by allowing you to have a voice conversation or show ChatGPT what you’re talking about, the company said in a statement. “Voice mode and vision for chatGPT! really worth a try,” Altman posted on X. The company said it is rolling out voice and images in ChatGPT to Plus and Enterprise…