5 Top Stories on Innovations in the Tech World
This Week in Tech — Part 3
Black Mirror Announces New Venture Fund
The dystopian series announces a new partnerships with emerging startups for developing innovative business strategies.
The startups move to Silicon Valley for several months, during which they intensively to get into best possible shape and refine a cleaned up version of a Black Mirror episode as a pitch to investors.
“They were just stealing out ideas anyways, so now we can work in parallel”, the series producer explains.
A Gadget the Whole Family Can Enjoy
Hate that nagging feeling that someone has sent you a light night Slack message? Always feel like your mobile phone is vibrating or ringing when it is not?
Introducing Phantom Phone — a handy paperweight that allows you to check something in your back pocket with a custom message to stop looking at your phone.
New 99% “Unremovable” Ads Introduces New Whack-a-mole Style Close Button
Now your close button will be nearly impossible to catch.
Auto-play ads will now commence even if you’ve turned your volume off. If you’re volume is on, ads will now play 85% louder for maximum user engagement from the senior and hard of hearing demographic.
Facebook Announces New Default Privacy Setting Of “None”
Users can change this setting but it will be extremely difficult. You will have to enter your birth date, hometown, favorite thing to do on Thursdays and name fifteen of your interests from 2015 in reverse chronological order, just so they can make sure you’re you.
The guide of updating your settings is said to be “coming very soon”.
Personal Phone Drone
How many times has your phone fallen on your face while using it lying down? Now with your personal phone drone, your personal drone will detect the fall before it happens using a mesh of advanced sensors and fly your phone within arm’s reach again.
Several factors may shorten the life of your drone battery, including your own clumsiness or racing the drone around attempting to do flips.
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