Fact that people have to wear glasses to watch 3D TVs did not work too well for consumers.
Source : 대한민국 IT포털의 중심! 이티뉴스
Étiquette : failure (Page 13 of 15)
After raising £2,335,119 ($3.6 million) from more than 12,000 backers, Torquing Group informed backers today (Nov. 18) that it is shutting down its project to manufacture a tiny drone called Zano that would’ve allowed people to take selfies from the air. The troubled company had been plagued with delays after missing its original ship date of June 2015. Last week, CEO Ivan Reedman resigned from the company, citing “personal health issues and irreconcilable differences.”
Source : After raising $3.6 million, Europe’s most successful Kickstarter project has folded – Quartz
On peut lire “N‘achetez pas chez les métèques“, une référence à la propagande nazi “N’achetez pas chez les Juifs“, adressée ici contre migrants. L’une de ces personnes viole les règles de Facebook.
Source : #FreeTheNipple : Facebook préfère censurer les seins nus que le racisme – Marie Claire
A new paper published in PLoS ONE outlines some of the major problems with the corpus of scanned books that powers Google Ngram. “It’s so beguiling, so powerful,” says Peter Sheridan Dodds, an applied mathematician at the University of Vermont who co-authored the paper. “But I think there’s a misrepresentation of what people should expect from this corpus right now.” Here are some of the problems.
Source : The Pitfalls of Using Google Ngram to Study Language | WIRED
Amazon has filed suit against the alleged operators of sites that offer Amazon sellers the ability to purchase fake 4- and 5-star customer reviews of their products.
This is an intuitive and trusted place people go to find Recommended and Optional updates to Windows. In the recent Windows update, this option was checked as default; this was a mistake and we are removing the check.
Source : Windows 10 upgrade installing automatically on some Windows 7, 8 systems | Ars Technica
Users of dating apps have expressed concerns about their privacy after their matches appeared as « suggested friends » on Facebook.It’s happened on apps like Tinder and Grindr and people we’ve spoken to have called it « creepy ».
Source : How Facebook knows who you might be dating online – BBC Newsbeat
With Circle, you’ll never miss your favorite people, pets and moments.
I am not so sure ! Even NSA will miss this moment…
Le compte officiel Twitter de Call of Duty a suscité, mardi 29 septembre, une vague de réprobations après le live tweet (le commentaire en direct sur le réseau social) d’une attaque terroriste fictive à Singapour.
Source : Pour faire la promo de « Call of Duty », une fausse attaque terroriste
When hackers steal your password, you change it. When hackers steal your fingerprints, they’ve got an unchangeable credential that lets them spoof your identity for life.
When they steal 5.6 million of those irrevocable biometric identifiers from U.S. federal employees—many with secret clearances—well, that’s very bad.
Source : OPM Now Admits 5.6m Feds’ Fingerprints Were Stolen By Hackers | WIRED