๐ก From ๐ to ๐ to ๐ aka Entitlement
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๐ฐ News
Instagram will test hiding likes in the ๐บ๐ธ as soon as next week after testing it in 7 countries ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ช๐ฎ๐น๐ฏ๐ต๐ง๐ท๐ฆ๐บ๐ณ๐ฟ [Verge].
Researchers in Japan and at the University of Michigan said Monday that they have found a way to take over Google Home, Amazonโs Alexa or Appleโs Siri devices from hundreds of feet away by shining laser pointers, and even flashlights, at the devicesโ microphones [NewYorkTimes].
Amazon has big plans for its virtual assistant. One day, perhaps sooner than you think, Alexa will take a proactive role in directing our lives. Itโll interpret our data, make decisions for us, and summon us when it has something to say [TNW] - if this is not scary, I donโt know what is!
Facebook apologised on Friday after an anonymous online post on Medium alleged that black, Latino and Asian women continued to face racism at the company a year after a former employee brought the issue into public view. The post outlines incidents that 12 current and former employees experienced while on the job [Cnet].
Many people received text messages overnight that were originally sent on Valentineโs Day [Verge] - the timing made some really awkward moments like receiving a text from a dead ex!
Saudi Arabia reportedly stole sensitive personal data of activists from Twitter via employees at the company that they paid off [TechCrunch] - thereโs a lot in this saga and while Twitter seems to have done most things right, it is a pretty nightmarish scenario.
๐ง Insights
Waiting for what you deserve - Credit: Matthew Henry on Unsplash
How to be patient in an impatient worldโฆ
This time, itโs from a post by Mark Manson on
โฆ The Skinner Box demonstrated something fundamental in animal behavior: if something feels good, we will do it again and again and again, and we eventually grow a sense of entitlement to that pleasurable thing. We deserve to feel that pleasure. We deserve to be rewarded. And when the reward is taken from us, we throw a total hissy fit.
Read more here.
๐ Statistics
Top Apps Worldwide for October 2019 by Downloads - Credit: SensorTower
Top Apps Worldwide for October 2019 by Downloads
WhatsApp was the most downloaded non-game app worldwide for October 2019 with close to 71 million installs. The countries with the most installs of the app during this period were India at 39 percent of its total downloads and Brazil at 8 percent.
TikTok was the second most installed non-game app worldwide last month with more than 66 million installs. The countries with the largest number of TikTok installs were India at 41 percent, followed by Brazil at 7%. Facebook, Messenger, and Instagram rounded out the top five most installed non-game apps worldwide for the month.
Read more on SensorTower.
Mobile Visitation Trends by Family Size - Credit:
A lot of the popular online streaming services see their popularity driven by viewers with children โ especially those with at least a handful of them. Large families are over twice as likely to use the largest streaming services such as Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime Video on their phones and/or tablets than childless households.
Read more on Verto.
๐ฑ Tools & Apps
Telefuel: Telegram client for power users.
Luego: Simple automated testimonials.
๐ง Audio Stimulation
Bullshit Jobs - Hidden Brain
Have you ever had a job where you had to stop and ask yourself: what am I doing here? If I quit tomorrow, would anyone even notice? This week on Hidden Brain, we revisit our 2018 conversation with anthropologist David Graeber about the rise of what he calls โbullsh*t jobs,โ and how these positions affect the people who hold them.
How do you feel about your job?
๐ฆ Tweets of the Week
This ATM almost ate my debit card, so I unplugged it and plugged it back in and its OS was from 2006.
Embedded systems are the future, man. https://t.co/Zpe4G0QfI9
chair.exe stopped working https://t.co/5bcURUgAjC
It appears Facebook has been blurring photos that contains one horizontal line next to two vertical lines
Is this a bug or a feature? https://t.co/q6A1LuZXzH
๐ฎ Fun Stuff
You've seen nothing, human - Credit: Reddit/u/BabsMySweetBunny
Wait for it...
Just go watch itโฆ Itโs worth it.
This is not goodbye...
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