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Does Microsoft telemetry send everything you say into the microphone or type on the keyboard to Microsoft?
The Windows Central (a non-MS site) claims that:
Following are the specific examples of Windows Telemetry data:
Typed text on keyboard sent every 30 minutes
Anything you say into a microphone is transmitted
Transcripts of things you say while…
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Is a barcode misread less frequent than cashier giving out the wrong change?
Both issues are hard to measure statistically because very few will pay attention to it, and if it ever happens, the persons involved will quickly correct it and try to hide it from others.
However, there is technology to measure reliability…
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Do web filters block more health/medical information than porn?
This article is from 2002, so it may be outdated, but it claims that when web filters are set to the more restrictive settings, such as in libraries or schools, they are more likely to block sites with health/medical information than…
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Is there credible evidence that a child using an iPad will have their eyesight affected?
I have been told by several people that allowing my young children (aged 2 and 5 at the time of writing) to use an iPad, or similar device, would affect their eyesight. I have found the following articles that appear to support this…
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Is Radio Frequency Radiation carcinogenic at the FCC's 1996 exposure limits?
A 2019 Scientific American blog article, We Have No Reason to Believe 5G Is Safe, by Joel M. Moskowitz, warns about the safety of 5G wireless technology.
Yet, since [the 1980s], the preponderance of peer-reviewed research, more than 500 studies,…
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Do Electric Cars Inherently Consist of Fewer Parts than Combustion Engine Cars?
A recent Handelsblatt Global Edition article, How electric cars will charge Germany's job market, talks about changes in the job market due to the introduction of electric cars.
One of the first points it makes is about electric car production…
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Has Telegram decrypted user messages and provided them to a gov agency?
Background: Telegram is a secured messaging app, similar to many others (WhatsApp, Signal, ...). It emphasizes its security features and has become (like a few others) a way for people to exchange messages in a secured way. "People" can be good or…
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Can the "Xtra-PC" USB device make your old computer faster?
The Xtra-PC web-site describes a cheap USB device that can speed up old PCs:
Make everything fast again with Xtra-PC: browsing the Internet, writing emails, watching videos, playing games, and more!
It’s the quickest, most affordable way to get a…
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Does technology exist that can read memories from human brains?
According to this Buzzfeed article (#11):
Scientists are making videos out of human memories
with some suspicion GIFs that purport to show the result.
Other sites make similar claims.
Buzzfeed references Gallant Labs
Can we record human memories…
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Can the use of technology result in addiction in kids?
I recently read an article on the New York Times website that stated Steve Jobs limited his kids' use of technology at home:
“So, your kids must love the iPad?” I asked Mr. Jobs, trying to change
the subject. The company’s first tablet was just…
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Is MarsOne a hoax, or are their claims reasonable?
I was reading a little on spaceexploration.se and I came across the following comments:
The amount of nonsense from Mars One is quite astounding. The number of people who have swallowed that nonsense hook, line, and sinker, is even more astounding.…
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Do lithium ion batteries double effective performance every 18 month similar to Moore's law?
On Quora a person claims that lithium ion batteries improve roughly similar to Moore's law:
The installed price of lithium ion batteries is dropping in half every 18 months and they last twice as long ... just like Moore's law for computer chips...…
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Can mobile apps monitor your sleep cycles?
There's already been a question about devices that can help you monitor your sleep and their possible benefits, but I'm interested specifically in the apps for mobile devices that claim to be able to do this. For this question, I'm not actually…
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Are women more likely to be speakers at tech conferences than men?
In PUT A SOCK IN IT, YOU DICKLESS WONDERS, Milo Yiannopoulos claims that women in the tech industry are more likely to be speakers or panellists than men are, because there aren't many women in the tech industry, and since organizers want to have…
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Are flat cables tangle-free?
Well, probably everybody knows and hates this. Detangling the headset cable when putting it out of your pocket.
This headset product claims to prevent the cable from tangling up by the "flat cable technology". One of the product commenters on the…
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