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Zelda tresure chest is actually is a engagement ring box
Siri and Cortana Record Your Voice, Says Industry Insider
Samsung Galaxy S6 prices in Europe and US revealed

Zelda tresure chest is actually is a engagement ring box

Posted: 04 Mar 2015 07:25 AM PST

Engagements ought to be special, and nothing feels quite as special as finding treasure or a new item in The Legend of Zelda games.

People younger than the Zelda franchise itself are getting married, so entire generations have grown with it – it’s part of everyone’s lives now, at least for the geekiest portion of the world. It’s not surprising that some of us would want to reference it. That is exactly what this $200 Zelda inspired treasure chest with a ‘floating’ rupee engagement ring box does, bring the franchise to the most important moment of your life.

The chest is much more than a good looking chest, it also plays the tune of a chest opening straight from the games when you lift the lid, and features a huge red rupee in the center where the rings are stored (wait, so my love is only worth a red rupee? I would say it’s worth at least a purple / huge rupee, dammit).

Via Geekologie

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Siri and Cortana Record Your Voice, Says Industry Insider

Posted: 04 Mar 2015 05:00 AM PST

As consumer privacy fears grow and people become more concerned about their digital data, one industry insider confirms our worst fears about Siri and Cortana.

At the moment, when it comes to our digital data, we are all on high alert. Wanted NSA hacker Edward Snowden was forced to flee the United States and become a fugitive when he revealed to the world that not only do the world’s governments access our data but they keep tabs on us too. That’s why everyone is now wary and concerned about what happens to the information we share with our digital devices. Who is looking at it and is our data safe?

Most of the concern surrounds messages that we’ve sent via the Internet or our mobile phone networks, such as emails, texts or instant messages. The last place that people would assume we’re being snooped on is via Siri and Cortana, the voice activated virtual assistants that can be found on iOS and Windows devices (respectively). Unfortunately though, one industry insider suggests that Siri and Cortana are actually recording us.

That suggestion comes from a user that goes by the name of FallenMyst who recently revealed all on reddit. The information, they say, comes from their new job at Walk N'Talk Technologies. In a comment, the anonymous poster described their job duties:

“I'm given an audio file (sound bite) and the corresponding text based translation (how the phone translated the speech). My job is to listen to the file, compare it to the text and provide feedback on how correctly the sound bite was interpreted by the phone. If the text and speech are a perfect match, I just move on. However, if the phone either translated something incorrectly due to a heavy accent or loud background noise, I note that in my evaluation."

FallenMyst went on to explain that "I heard everything from kiddos asking innocent things like "Siri, do you like me?" to some guy asking Galaxy to [do something inappropriate and physically impossible]. I wish I was kidding”.

While it makes sense that companies have to run some analytics to figure out the performance of their voice controlled software, it is certainly disconcerting to know that masses upon masses of our audio data is being sent all over the world for employees to listen to. Not only this but this surely means that our data is being saved somewhere, so is it possible that a hacker could access this information? FallenMyst may have made this up of course, but it seems unlikely in the fact of recent reveals that Samsung’s voice controlled smart TVs send our audio through a similar process. Either way, it’s incredibly disconcerting.

Source: BGR

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Samsung Galaxy S6 prices in Europe and US revealed

Posted: 03 Mar 2015 11:05 AM PST

Samsung revealed the Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge at Barcelona’s MWC, and although the phone looked great, a key detail was left out: the price. The Internet started speculating about it right away, and many numbers were touted, but it is only now that we can get the official word by Samsung themselves.

Samsung did reveal the price for Europe at the MWC, and it seems Europe is going to get all three variants (32 GB, 64 GB and 128 GB) of the Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge on April 10 starting at EUR 699 for the S6 Edge and EUR 849 for the Edge variant, at least in the Netherlands. Seemingly, the Edge 128 GB could go up to EUR 1,049. That is very pricey, especially when you compare with the Americas.

In the US, carriers will be selling the Galaxy S6 at $199 and the Galaxy S6 Edge and $299, way below the European counterparts. The official confirmations should come on April 10, but we are already shocked that Europeans might be getting the phone at 3 times the price.

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