Deondra, Desirae, Gregory, Melody and Ryan, five Julliard-trained pianists and siblings, play an epic version of
— Read on digg.com/video/five-siblings-perform-epic-version-of-sleigh-ride-on-five-steinway-grand-pianos
64-year-old Terry Robison is a working-class retiree trying to make his money last throughout the rest of his life. And Holiday Inn is the clear winner.
— Read on gritpost.com/retiree-holiday-inn-senior-home/
When I found out the annual fee for Amazon Prime would increase from $99 to $119 last year, I started thinking about whether I could live without the service.
— Read on twocents.lifehacker.com/i-tried-to-quit-amazon-but-failed-miserably-1840517422
The 2010s were the decade of Google filling up its product graveyard, Apple stubbornly denying obvious missteps, and Microsoft writing off billions of dollars. It was the decade of crowdfunding fails on Kickstarter, Indiegogo and elsewhere. And many, many more.
— Read on www.theverge.com/2019/12/20/21029499/decade-fails-flops-tech-science-culture-apple-google-data-kickstarter-2010-2019
At present, the average U.S. adult watches almost six hours of TV and video per day. That’s around 30% of the day. Despite decades of predictions that the Internet would usurp TV viewership, it’s actually continued to increase. And as we enter the holiday season, screen time will keep going up.
— Read on www.forbes.com/sites/nicolefisher/2019/12/04/psychological-research-explains-why-tv-viewing-is-higher-than-ever/amp/
Incredibly good.
Earlier this month, Facebook gave its 1.3 billion users the perfect reason to delete their accounts. Now Apple appears has done the same for its 1.4 billion iPhone and iPad users worldwide.
Last month The Guardian revealed Apple was employing contractors to listen to and “grade” Siri recordings and they “regularly” heard confidential information from iPhone and iPad users, including medical information, drug deals and recordings of couples having sex. And now a new report from the Irish Examiner has given a sense of scale to what was happening.
“Contractors in Cork [Ireland] were expected to each listen to more than 1,000 recordings from Siri every shift, before Apple suspended the practice last month,” explains the Examiner, who got its information from “an employee who had their contract abruptly terminated this week.”
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