Refinery29 Is Your Phone Listening To You? A year-long study conducted by Northeastern University monitored over 17,000 of the most popular apps to see if they were secretly using the phone’s microphone to capture conversations and found no evidence of these apps using the microphone or sending audio out under the radar. The scientists involved in the study did not claim that this proved […]
MSN Is Your Smartphone Secretly Listening to You? During the 2017-18 school year, researchers led by Northeastern University computer science professor David Choffnes set out to see whether they could catch a smartphone spying on what they said.
Gizmodo Flytenow is the airplane rideshare service you can actually afford Admit it: You’ve always wanted to ride in a private plane. Imagine stretching out your legs and listening to music without headphones. What luxury! Too bad, you probably can’t afford it. But, with Flytenow, you just might. Think of it as a Lyft for airplanes. Flytenow aims to connect pilots looking to rack up hours […]