Alice Moon couldn’t stop throwing up. She had made a name for herself as an online cannabis influencer, but after a weed-infused dinner in a Malibu home in 2018, she spent more than two weeks constantly puking—unable to keep down food or water, going back and forth to urgent care for IVs, and at one […]
Monthly Archives: July 2022
The weed influencer and the scientist feuding over why some stoners incessantly puke
The group had been started by a CHS patient named Erica, a 37-year-old artist who had looked online for resources after her diagnosis and, finding nothing, had decided to establish “basically a blog of my full recovery process and all the things I’ve discovered along the way.” (Erica preferred not to use her last name, […]
Critical flaws in GPS tracker enable “disastrous” and “life-threatening” hacks
reader comments 28 with 27 posters participating Share this story A security firm and the US government are advising the public to immediately stop using a popular GPS tracking device or to at least minimize exposure to it, citing a host of vulnerabilities that make it possible for hackers to remotely disable cars while they’re […]
Netflix adds “extra home” fee, will block usage in other homes if you don’t pay
reader comments 123 with 71 posters participating Share this story Four months ago, Netflix began its crackdown on password sharing by creating an “extra member” fee for users who share accounts with people they don’t live with. The extra member fee of about $2 to $3 per month was implemented in Chile, Costa Rica, and […]
The Download: how a racing AI won, and taking on biotech’s big challenges
“Wait, what? How?” Emily Jones wasn’t used to being left behind. A top sim-racing driver with multiple wins to her name, Jones jerked the steering wheel in the esports rig, eyes fixed on the screen in front of her: “I’m pushing way too hard to keep up— How does it do that?” Her staccato commentary […]
Sony’s racing AI destroyed its human competitors by being nice (and fast)
But Sony soon learned that speed alone wasn’t enough to make GT Sophy a winner. The program outpaced all human drivers on an empty track, setting superhuman lap times on three different virtual courses. Yet when Sony tested GT Sophy in a race against multiple human drivers, where intelligence as well as speed is needed, […]
Customer and employee experience: The new normal
In fact, Pew Research found that a full 86% of respondents to a survey about post-pandemic life expect the pandemic to have lasting effects on everyday experiences. In the context of retail and ecommerce, more people expect to shop online post-covid than ever before—even for unconventional products and services, according to the World Economic Forum […]
Why are telcos selling off their mobile towers?
Peter Griffin, Editor. 19 July 2022, 9:35 am Vodafone and Spark have sold their networks of mobile towers delivering billions in cash to the companies and mirroring a trend in telecoms infrastructure happening around the world. Vodafone said yesterday it had stuck a $1.7 billion deal to sell its towers to InfraRed Capital Partners and […]
Servers running Digium Phones VoiP software are getting backdoored
Getty Images reader comments 10 with 9 posters participating Share this story Servers running the open source Asterisk communication software for Digium VoiP services are under attack by hackers who are managing to commandeer the machines to install web shell interfaces that give the attackers covert control, researchers have reported. Researchers from security firm Palo […]
ITP News in brief 18th July
Victoria MacLennan. 18 July 2022, 11:49 pm Kia ora koutou ITP members and supporters, the interesting times we live in continue to evolve with inflation continuing to rise, alongside our tight labour market, with Infometrix indicating a shadow of recession spreading across the domestic economy. Newsroom pose the concept of “skimpflation” is starting to emerge […]