It Looks Like Facebook Is Also Building a Smart Speaker With Touch Screen (techcrunch.com) 46
From a report: Facebook may launch its own smart home gadget to get you messaging more friends and looking at more photos. DigiTimes reports from Taiwan that Facebook is building a 15-inch touch screen smart speaker. Citing sources from the "upstream supply chain", Chinese iPhone manufacturer Pegatron is building the device for a Q1 2018 launch, with a small pilot run having already been produced. It's said to have been designed by Facebook secretive new hardware lab Building 8, using an LG in-cell touch screen with magnesium-aluminum-alloy chassis. While no further details are known about the speaker's functionality, it could potentially extend Facebook's feed of photos and videos plus its dominant messaging platform into the bedroom, living room, or kitchen.
Isn't Messenger already in the BR, LR & kitche (Score:3)
Smartphones go with us everywhere, after all.
Re:Isn't Messenger already in the BR, LR & kit (Score:4, Interesting)
Unless Zuckerberg can alter the HTML standard (or iOS and Android), that's still an easy enough workaround - the first thing I do with a new smartphone is jettison and/or disable all things Facebook. If I have to access it on the phone afterwards, I'll do it with the mobile browser ("Request Desktop site", continue as normal, even for messaging - which they already try to block mobile browsers from using.)
I don't want to keep battery-sucking apps pinging out annoyance every couple of minutes on my phone (the apps I use for work do that already), so what makes FB think I want a device in my house that does the same thing?
Then again, I'm probably not their target demographic...
Facebook camera in your house... (Score:2)
George Orwell predicted Facebook (Score:2)
What's next, Zuckerberg? Facebook cameras in every room of people's houses? Facebook Bluetooth enabled buttplugs (because you seem to want Facebook up people's asses 24/7/365 so why not)?
Fuck Facebook
Fuck Zuckerberg
Fuck ALL 'social media'
Fuck devices that listen in on you in your home 24/7/365
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The difference is in "1984" people were forced to have a Snoop-A-Tron in their residence. The plutocratic version of "1984" is the oligopolies offer you a "deal you can't refuse". Getting discounts will override fear of corporate snooping for most poor.
In 1984, if you badmouthed the system, you share a cell with fellow soap-droppers. In the plutocracy if you submit a bad Yelp review, you could be locked out of discounts, lose your credit rating, and can't get a ride when the slimy Uber types control the w
Post pics of yourself browsing Facebook (Score:2)
Pretty soon that will be the only activity some people participate in, besides recycling memes.
This won't end well... (Score:2)
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Like all great works of art... you should read the book first.
I haven't read the book which has a different plot angle than the movie (i.e., AI as an intruder versus AI as an appliance). The movie better fits the 1970's suburbia reality and marks a turning point when that AIs would become dangerous (see Saturn 3 and Terminator).
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"Plus, the book have like, words 'n stuff, and I willn't be so gud with dat stuffs," creimer added askancely.
Have some Spam with Garlic [amzn.to] for your whine.
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What the fuck is with using a shortening service to obfuscate your url?
Bitly has an app that provides metadata on how the link is used: 91 clicks in the last seven days, 58% from the US, and you're probably the one who used http://www.getlinkinfo.com/ [getlinkinfo.com] to avoid clicking on the link directly.
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And how did you "lose" ten pounds, exactly?
I eat 1,500 calories per day and worked out at the gym.
Your fat ass weighed the same, your stupid brain was too dumb to notice the error for what, ten years?
I've known that the gym scales maxed out at 350 pounds. I just found it easier to tell people that I weighed 350 pounds. People are going to make their judgments about me regardless.
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Another day, another creimer revision to his life story...
How is today different from last week?
https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10869785&cid=54833183 [slashdot.org]
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No need for getlinkinfo.com, do you know that there is a bunch of stuff that you can do by yourself, without always relying on third party hosted services?
Anyway, just install a security enhancement plugin like Request Policy and it will prompt you for your permission before redirecting you. You can then see were you are going to be redirected before proceeding. You don't even have to proceed and visit the final site in order to see the redirection target.
As well, you can use firefox private browsing and o
Facebook can't even... (Score:3)
Facebook can't even just show me stuff I care about on their never-ending webpage. I'm constantly telling it to ignore various sources and people so that it can show me the few things that I actually care about. I have little faith that they can show me useful content on a single screen device.
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So you mean those speakers will act just like our relatives?
15 inches? (Score:2)
I'm sorry but that's too big for a stupid smart speaker.
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Isn't this a packed market already? (Score:2)
We already have Google, Amazon, and Apple in this space. Why do we need another smart speaker? More exactly, why do we need a smart speaker in the first place?
Yeah so if you ever need nude pictures ... (Score:2)
Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need nudes of anyone at Harvard
Zuck: Just ask
Zuck: I have over 4,000 videos of teenagers masturbating, pictures, addresses, SNS
[Redacted Friend's Name]: What? How'd you manage that one?
Zuck: People just submitted it.
Zuck: I don't know why.
Zuck: They "trust me"
Zuck: Dumb fucks
Not Everything That's Sold (Score:2)
More snooping (Score:2)
Nice! (Score:2)
No need to change your status to 'crapping my guts out' when the gizmo can see you on the crapper.
well isn't that special ! (Score:3)
Now you can have five speaker devices from five different companies in each room of your home. Line them up alphabetically if you like. Decorate them for your favorite holidays. Cuss 'em out if they misbehave, but don't expect them to be useful.
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