Loky11 posted:

more dead clowns

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The founder of MoviePass is back, and this time he's not messing around.

MoviePass co-founder Stacy Spikes has a new startup called PreShow, and it's using a business model straight out of A Clockwork Orange: The company's new app helps you score free movie tickets — as long as you sit through 15 to 20 minutes of advertisements that use eye-tracking technology to make sure you don't look away.

Unlike YouTube ads, which can be skipped after a few seconds or blocked with a third-party extension, PreShow demands your attention. To use the app, according to Engadget, you have to sign in with Apple's FaceID.

And you can't just walk away or let your attention wander — the app watches you to make sure you're paying attention.

To earn the movie tickets, you have to keep your gaze in frame, and look at your screen for the entire duration of the ads. Look away, or put your phone down, and a red border appears, pausing the ads until you give in and return.

Spikes says he doesn't plan on licensing the ad-pushing technology anywhere outside of PreShow, Engadget reports.

But that doesn't mean executives don't plan to cash out. Right now, the app is still gathering backers via a Kickstarter. Once it's released, it's possible that the app — which, again, forces people to watch a TV-episode length slew of advertisements — could be available only through a monthly subscription.

Krankenstyle posted:

Yea they could sell these for home use. Every home should have one in the corner of the living room!

Splicer posted:

I live in not America and here is what is required to collect unemployment:

1) show up on your allotted weekday at your allotted social welfare branch

2) (optional) explain why you couldn't make it to that branch on that day and arrange alternate collection for the following week

SplitSoul posted:

Also, if you're an immigrant your welfare is straight up halved.

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The experiments will start by injecting human induced pluripotent stem cells into rat and mice embryos, all of which have been genetically manipulated so that they cannot make pancreases.

The goal is for the rodent embryo to use the human cells to build itself a pancreas, and for two years, the team plans on watching these rodents develop and grow, carefully monitoring their organs and brains in the process. Only then will the researchers ask for approval to do the same with pigs.

While human-animal embryos have been created in the past - such as pig-human embryos and sheep-human embryos - they've never been allowed to develop to term before.

One of the biggest fears with this type of research centers on exactly where these human stem cells actually go in an animal, and what type of cells they could develop into, once they are injected.

While Nakauchi and his team are trying to target this treatment to just the pancreas, if they detect more than 30 percent of the rodent brains are human, they will suspend the experiment.

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Jim Stauffer donated his mother's corpse for medical research when she died in 2013 after suffering with Alzheimer’s disease.

But the 74-year-old’s body was then passed to the army where it was strapped to a chair before a bomb was detonated underneath it.

Military records show that at least 20 other cadavers were also used in blast tests - designed to offer an insight into what exactly happens to bomb victims - without the knowledge of relatives. BRC sold each one for $5,893."

Larry Parrish posted:

not many people sitting down and listening to a folk music album

LastInLine posted:

I have six Google Homes, two Android smartphones with hotword detection, a Wear OS watch, and two cars with Google Assistant. I'm not worried if there might be some hypothetical microphone in the thermostat (which there isn't).

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At the beginning of February, Google announced that it would be adding built-in Google Assistant support to the Nest Guard, which is the Nest Secure system’s hub and keypad. Before then, the security system’s product page didn’t mention that it included a microphone.

Blockade posted:

It was a smoggy day without a bird in the sky when I saw the tv billboard over the strip mall across from my apartment complex had finally given up. For weeks it had been glitching out, random English characters being replaced with random unicode ones, dead pixels, and so on. Now it just showed a static hieroglyphic of a frowning face, white against the kind of blue that denoted things had gone awry. Under the face was the message:

"Oops! Something went wrong..."

Indeed it has.

Platystemon posted:

I kept reading “FC” as “football club”.

Apparently here it’s supposed to stand for “fulfilment center”.

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Those Knightscope security robots may not be so great at their jobs.

When a woman in a park near Los Angeles saw people fighting and tried to summon help via a police robot patrolling nearby, the robot merely told her to "step out of the way" and continued along its pre-determined route, according to NBC News.

No help came until the spectators called 911 directly, raising the question of what, if any, function these robots are actually supposed to serve.

It turns out that the robot, a K5 model named "HP RoboCop", patrols the park on behalf of the police department - but doesn't have any way of summoning human officers to the scene, Huntingdon Park police chief Cosme Lozano told NBC.

Goa Tse-tung posted:

and yet he still turned into a lib (used to follow him on twitter, big mistake) and his next book is about what if hillary won

ekuNNN posted: