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#PMT-2016-1209-1349
PFT CommenterJeff Bezos is using Alexa to listen to every conversation in your house
Stay woke on this. Jeff Bezos just told everybody that he's listening to every conversation that you have in your house and keeping track of it.
Reports later emerged that Amazon employees did listen to voice recordings to improve the AI, though the 'listening to every conversation' framing is an exaggeration.
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#PMT-2016-1028-3081
HankTwitter announced the death of Vine just to get PR and check its importance
It seems like something that a company that was maybe down... they need a little press. What better way to press than announce a death?... they're like, if enough people object to us closing down Vine, then we'll keep it around.
Vine was officially discontinued by Twitter, and while it lived on as 'Vine Camera' briefly, the platform died.