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Amazon Wants to Put a Camera and Microphone in Your Bedroom - Motherboard : "Amazon is giving Alexa eyes. And it's going to let her judge your outfits. The newly announced Echo Look is a virtual assistant with a microphone and a camera that's designed to go somewhere in your bedroom, bathroom, or wherever the hell you get dressed." What could possibly go wrong here with basically every IOT device being p0wned by malware groups?

First look: Rigiet iPhone camera gimbal is an affordable way to stabilize video recordings : "Before its crowdfunding campaign kicked off on Tuesday, AppleInsider had the opportunity to go hands-on with Rigiet, a new iPhone-compatible camera gimbal offering super-smooth video recording at a budget price." Steadicam for your breast pocket.

Guess who's back at Microsoft? Excel, Word creator Charles Simonyi • The Register : "Microsoft has recaptured Charles Simonyi – the man who spearheaded the building of Redmond's flagship productivity products, Word and Excel." Chickens come home to roost?

Chap 'fixes' Microsoft's Windows 7 and 8 update block on new CPUs • The Register : "Developer says he's found a way to stop Windows' new CPU check, which means updates flow again" The water finds a way.

Apple considers investing 'several billion dollars' for stake in Toshiba chip business, report says : "According to the latest industry whispers surrounding the sale Toshiba's semiconductor unit, Apple is considering investing several billion dollars in a bid that would give it and partner investor Foxconn a more than 20 percent stake in the business. " Currency wars, trade wars, see now?

How's that for a remote login? NASA puts New Horizons probe to sleep 3.5 billion miles away • The Register : "NASA's New Horizons spacecraft – right now 3.5 billion miles (5.6 billion kilometres) from Earth – has been powered down by boffins as it heads out to the icy wastes of the Kuiper Belt." The outer limits...

A 1986 bulletin board system has brought the old Web back to life in 2017 | Ars Technica : "For the interested client in 2017, it’s simply a matter of "dialing" the BBS using a domain name and port number instead of a phone number in their preferred terminal software. Most software will accept any string of characters, not just numbers." No way! Way!