#iot

[odinsblog]

IN THE FALL OF 2020, GIG WORKERS IN VENEZUELA POSTED A SERIES OF images to online forums where they gathered to talk shop. The photos were mundane, if sometimes intimate, household scenes captured from low angles—including some you really wouldn’t want shared on the Internet.

In one particularly revealing shot, a young woman in a lavender T-shirt sits on the toilet, her shorts pulled down to mid-thigh.

The images were not taken by a person, but by development versions of iRobot’s Roomba J7 series robot vacuum. They were then sent to Scale AI, a startup that contracts workers around the world to label audio, photo, and video data used to train artificial intelligence.

They were the sorts of scenes that internet-connected devices regularly capture and send back to the cloud—though usually with stricter storage and access controls. Yet earlier this year, MIT Technology Review obtained 15 screenshots of these private photos, which had been posted to closed social media groups.

The photos vary in type and in sensitivity. The most intimate image we saw was the series of video stills featuring the young woman on the toilet, her face blocked in the lead image but unobscured in the grainy scroll of shots below. In another image, a boy who appears to be eight or nine years old, and whose face is clearly visible, is sprawled on his stomach across a hallway floor. A triangular flop of hair spills across his forehead as he stares, with apparent amusement, at the object recording him from just below eye level.

iRobot—the world’s largest vendor of robotic vacuums, which Amazon recently acquired for $1.7 billion in a pending deal—confirmed that these images were captured by its Roombas in 2020.

Ultimately, though, this set of images represents something bigger than any one individual company’s actions. They speak to the widespread, and growing, practice of sharing potentially sensitive data to train algorithms, as well as the surprising, globe-spanning journey that a single image can take—in this case, from homes in North America, Europe, and Asia to the servers of Massachusetts-based iRobot, from there to San Francisco–based Scale AI, and finally to Scale’s contracted data workers around the world (including, in this instance, Venezuelan gig workers who posted the images to private groups on Facebook, Discord, and elsewhere).

Together, the images reveal a whole data supply chain—and new points where personal information could leak out—that few consumers are even aware of.

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#politics #james baussmann #scale ai #irobot #amazon #roomba #privacy rights #colin angle #privacy #data mining #surveillance state #mass surveillance #surveillance industry #1st amendment #first amendment #1st amendment rights #first amendment rights #ai #artificial intelligence #iot #internet of things

[uzicake]

in this house we stan noah

#total drama fanart #tdi noah #total drama island #total drama noah #island of the slaughtered #iot #HATSUNE NOAH?????/ #tdi fanart #td noah #total dramarama

[nixcraft]

Modern software development be like: I wrote 10 lines of code to call an API that calls another API, which calls yet another API that finally turns on a lightbulb. Pray that Cloudflare or AWS will not be down during this operation; otherwise, there will be no light for you.

#software development #shitpost #software engineering #truth #API #cloud computing #cloudflare #AWS #IoT

[maplesynth]

playing with my m5 cardputer, wrote a software audio mixing library in micropython and made a crude sequencer with it

#maplesynth content #programming #micropython #esp32 #iot

[neetzone]

#cyberpunk #webcore #wifi #IoT #japan #anime #wifi waifu

[generativetenebrousautomata]

#robot #robotics #robots #technology #art #engineering #arduino #d #electronics #transformers #mecha #tech #toys #anime #robotic #scifi #gundam #ai #drawing #artificialintelligence #digitalart #innovation #illustration #electrical #automation #robotica #diy #design #arduinoproject #iot

[geekysteven]

My electric toothbrush has Bluetooth and I can't think of a good reason to connect this to my phone. Does it just want to know which anime tiddys I've seen (all of them)

[techniktagebuch]

15. April 2024

Nicht ganz die gewünschte Zukunft des Zähneputzens

Seit einer Woche nutze ich eine neue elektrische Zahnbürste, eine Oral-B iO 4N. Bei der Auswahl war für mich der runde Bürstenkopf zentral, im Gegensatz zu der vorherigen elektrischen Zahnbürste mit doppelt langem und lediglich vibrierendem Kopf vermittelt dieser mir das Gefühl, wirklich um jeden Zahn herum zu putzen.

Allerdings hatte ich in der Gebrauchsanleitung gelesen (ich bin das, ich lese Gebrauchsanweisungen), dass sie verschiedene Putz-Programme hat; der Knopf zur Auswahl ist leicht zu finden (der eine Knopf, der nicht an- und ausschaltet). Nur kann ich nicht erkennen, welches Programm gerade aktiv ist, anscheinend brauche ich dazu die App auf dem Smartphone, die per Bluetooth mit der Zahnbürste verbunden wird.

Die App installiert habe ich schnell, auch mittelschnell die Zahnbürste damit gekoppelt - doch während ich noch darin rumklicke auf der Suche nach den Putz-Programmen, will die App neue Firmware für die Zahnbürste herunterladen und installieren. Na von mir aus, das kenne ich ja von Apps. Nur dass das nicht funktioniert, drei Versuche werden von der App abgebrochen.

Die vier Programme finde ich schließlich in der App (die vor allem auf Gamification abzielt, Zahnputzziele erreichen lässt, dafür Fleißbildchen verleiht - aus dem Alter, in dem man mir Anreize fürs Zähneputzen bieten muss, fühle ich mich aber seit einigen Jahrzehnten raus), doch keinen Hinweis darauf, welches denn gerade auf meiner Zahnbürste aktiv ist: Ich kann lediglich die Reihenfolge der Anwählbarkeit über den Knopf auf dem Gerät ändern.

Letztendlich nutze ich die Funktion "auf Werkseinstellungen zurücksetzen", denn die Gebrauchsanweisung nannte die Default-Einstellung bei Kauf ("tägliches Putzen").

Das ist nicht ganz die Zukunft des Zähneputzens, die ich bestellt hatte.

(die Kaltmamsell)

#Zahnbürste #Bluetooth #App #Smartphone #IoT #Kaltmamsell

[blowery]

things normal people do: set up a separate wifi network just for problematic internet of trash devices that don't like modern 5Ghz networks.

#totally normal behavior #internet of trash #iot

[innonurse]

Denmark: A significant healthtech hub

- By InnoNurse Staff -

According to data platform Dealroom, Danish healthtech firms raised a stunning $835 million in 2023, an 11% rise over the previous record set in 2021.

Read more at Tech.eu

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Other recent news and insights

A 'Smart glove' could improve the hand movement of stroke sufferers (The University of British Columbia)

Oxford Medical Simulation raises $12.6 million in Series A funding to address the significant healthcare training gap through virtual reality (Oxford Medical Simulation/PRNewswire)

PathKeeper's innovative camera and AI software for spinal surgery (PathKeeper/PRNewswire)

Ezdehar invests $10 million in Yodawy to acquire a minority stake in the Egyptian healthtech (Bendada.com)

#denmark #startups #innovation #smart glove #stroke #neuroscience #iot #Oxford Medical Simulation #health tech #digital health #medtech #education #pathkeeper #ai #computer vision #surgery #ezdehar #yodawy #egypt #mena

[craigbrownphd]

#Technology Unveiling the Future of Text Analysis: Trendy Topic Modeling with BERT https://www.analyticsvidhya.com/blog/2023/07/text-analysis-topic-modeling-with-bert/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=tumblr

#DataAnalytics #DataScience #DataDriven #Infrastructure #ML #AI #IoT #BusinessIntelligence

[nixcraft]

Internet of things.

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#IoT #programmers humor #IT #sysadmin #devlife

[adafruit]

Build an IoT project, the easy way! 🔌💡🌐

WipperSnapper is a firmware designed to turn any WiFi-capable board into an Internet-of-Things device without programming a single line of code.

#adafruit #iot #wippersnapper #internetofthings #firmware #wifi #nocode #lowcode #diy #smartdevices #easypeasy #wireless #techinnovation #plugandplay #projectguide #hasslefree #makeiteasy #iotmagic

[spacemonkey2e0vsz]

This cracks me up every time :-D

#flipper zero #sempai #electronics #IoT #hacking

[tingvall]

A lot of ghost stories can be abstracted into that there is a "state" where there should be none; houses keeping the routines of the old dead owners, dolls remembering the name of kids...

With Internet of Things we are basically making everything haunted by introducing hidden states to our everyday objects. This brings up a need for proper digital exorcists.

We are building a world filled with witchcraft and wonders.

#iot #internet of things #ghosts #paranormal

[feministdragon]

y’know, the internet used to be beautiful

and now it’s just so ugly

#iot #internet #ux #ui #user interface #web design #website