Weekly Tech New #4
- Legal troubles of birth control app Natural Cycles after a series of unwanted pregnancies reported
- T-Mobile date breach: users personal data stolen by hackers
- Yandex launches public tests of their autonomous taxi in Russia
- SyncThink uses VR analytics to examine athletes
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Orpheus Self-Care Entertainment wants to make VR that can heal
Orpheus Self-Care Entertainment is a startup publisher for games that can improve people’s wellness. Although “Games for change” is an idea that already gained its popularity, this is the first time that any company has built such a focused business around the concept in the VR space.
“We want to fuse the idea of taking good care of yourself with intelligent game design and experiences that are profound and ecstatic. We think we can marry the idea that taking good care of yourself can be incredibly entertaining.”
Says Job Stauffer to Gamesbeat.
Natural Cycles, the birth control app, is in trouble after misleading women with claims it is ‘highly accurate contraceptive app’
Natural Cycles.Natural Cycles/Facebook
- A Facebook ad for Natural Cycles has been banned by Britain’s advertising watchdog, as it’s claimed as ‘misleading’ . The birth control app is also under investigation in Sweden after a hospital revealed 37 women had reported unwanted pregnancies after using the app. At the same time, the app has just been greenlit by the Food and Drug Administration to launch in the US.
[Read more on Business Insider]
T-Mobile admits hackers stole customer data in data breach
The cell giant saidthat hackers stole customer names, phone numbers, billing zip codes, email addresses, account numbers and types in — what the company names as — “an unauthorized capture of data.”
Yandex leads Europe‘s autonomous taxi push with public test launch in Innopolis, Russia
Various car companies across Europe are currently pursuing autonomous car programs, but actually this is the first time such a service has been publicly launched in Europe.
Facebook announces plans to run on 100% renewable energy by the end of 2020
On Tuesday, Facebook announced plans to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 75% and power all of its operations with 100% renewable energy by the end of 2020.
The decision is not a coincidence. Earlier this year Apple announced that it was powered by 100% renewable energy, while Google said it already met this target in 2017.
[Read more on Facebook Newsroom]
Slack adds auto-expiring statuses
Good news for those of you, who accidentally keep their “vacation” status for a month. Slack has quietly updated the status feature. Now, you can set the expiration date, so you can set certain statuses to automatically expire after a distinct amount of time.
SyncThink uses VR analytics to examine athletes for possible injuries
On Monday SyncThink, the company which uses a VR headset to perform neurotechnology and brain health analytics, announced the release of new features to its platform. People can use them to improve dynamic vision and to support a rehabilitation process if any impairments have been identified.
Image Credit: SycThink, [source]
