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Sean Hollister

Sean Hollister

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    Inside Google’s Beam Lab, an AI face appears
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    An exclusive look at Google’s new teleconferencing experiments.

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    Sean Hollister
    Sean Hollister
    Petcube says it only uses hardware from China’s Meari.

    On May 11th, I told you how a million baby monitors and security cameras were easily viewable by hackers due to the poor security in Meari’s cloud and app. Petcube says today that it uses camera hardware from Meari but not any of the company’s software, cloud services, or APIs.

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    Sean Hollister
    Epic and Google will be back in court on July 16th.

    We already know what this hearing is about: three weeks ago, Judge Donato told Epic and Google they’d answer six specific pointed questions. The big one: would Google’s “Registered App Stores” really be better at curbing Google’s monopoly? Or should he keep forcing Google to carry rival stores inside its own?

    I’ll be there.
    I’ll be there.
    Image: US District Courts
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    Sean Hollister
    Google-powered cars will predictively nudge you to switch lanes.

    Amidst the biggest update to Android Auto in 10 years, here’s one more feature we spotted on the Android Show: it uses your car’s front camera to predict when to move over. (What would it look for?) Only for select Google Built-in cars, not vanilla Android Auto.

    Google’s Guemmy Kim introduced the new features.
    Google’s Guemmy Kim introduced the new features.
    Image: Google
    A million baby monitors and security cameras were easily viewable by hackers

    They should be fixed now. Hopefully.

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    Sean Hollister
    Sean Hollister
    Big Tech is offering big gifts in exchange for RAM.

    You know how only one company in the entire world makes the machine that makes the world’s most advanced chips — and only three companies control the world’s supply of RAM? Reuters reports that Big Tech is trying to buy Big RAM’s favor in exchange for some of those machines, among other “unprecedented” offers.

    A hacker ran me over with a robot lawn mower

    Thousands of Yarbo robot lawnmowers and blowers have massive security flaws that can let any hacker hijack them and possibly your home network.

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