The kiosk set up at the site of Taylor Swift’s Rose Bowl concert in May stopped many fans in their tracks, and they came in closer for a look. It showed rehearsal clips and other highlights of the singer performing. But what wasn’t immediately apparent was the fact that while her fans were watching the kiosk, the kiosk was watching them back.

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Taylor Swift used facial recognition tech at an LA concert to track creeps originally appeared on BGR.com on Thu, 13 Dec 2018 at 22:04:43 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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It’s been a couple of months since the Japanese space agency (JAXA) deployed robots to the surface of the asteroid known as Ryugu. The Hayabusa-2 “mothership” sent the bots down to examine the space rock’s surface and send back readings to Earth, and we got to see the images shortly after they arrived.

Now, as JAXA prepares for the most daring maneuver of the entire mission — a touchdown that will allow Hayabusa-2 to snag a sample of the rock’s surface before heading back to Earth — the space agency is showing off more of the awesome images snapped by its rovers.

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Japan’s asteroid rovers continue to send back amazing images of its alien surface originally appeared on BGR.com on Thu, 13 Dec 2018 at 21:02:16 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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People seem to be actually answering their phones less and less these days, also using them to make fewer calls when texting and social network messaging works just fine and is even quicker in many cases. Arguably helping that trend along is the fact that we don’t always know who it is on the other end of the phone when we get a call, thanks to the veritable explosion in robocalls and a myriad of scam-type phone calls.

Transaction Network Services has estimated that one-third of all calls placed in the first half of 2018 were robocalls. Also, the FTC says it gets about 400,000 complaints about robocalls every single day.

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Robocalls are out of control, and these were the most common types in 2018 originally appeared on BGR.com on Thu, 13 Dec 2018 at 20:39:04 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The debate over whether violent video games makes someone violent in the real world has been raging for decades. There’s been no indisputable evidence to support the theory that interactive virtual violence has a negative affect on a person — especially when violent imagery is so easy to consume on any TV screen with a cable connection —but a new study suggests that those who play violent video games may be better at ignoring disturbing images outside of the game world.

The research, which was led by psychologist Dr. Steve Most of the University of New South Wales in Australia, focused on how both gamers and non-gamers are affected by grotesque and unsettling images when seeing many different images in rapid succession.

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Violent video games may promote immunity to disturbing images originally appeared on BGR.com on Thu, 13 Dec 2018 at 20:08:33 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The presence of Waymo self-driving cars in Arizona has certainly kicked up a hornet’s nest, it seems. People are bullying, harassing and even outright attacking the cars and drivers to such a degree that police have been called almost two dozen times over everything from tires being slashed to drivers feeling threatened.

The Arizona Republic has reported on details related to a number of these incidents, which have included instances of guns being pulled. One man so bothered by the presence of Waymo cars in his neighborhood even reportedly stood directly in front of one of the vehicles and wouldn’t move until police showed up.

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Arizonans are slashing tires, throwing rocks, and pointing guns at Waymo cars originally appeared on BGR.com on Thu, 13 Dec 2018 at 19:37:46 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Taking young children to meet who they believe to be the jolly old fellow that fills their stockings every year is a cherished Christmas tradition in many countries around the world. Unfortunately for kids and parents in the town of St. Ives in England, the Santa that was chosen for a recent holiday event just couldn’t keep his cool.

While Santa was in the midst of listening to kids run down their Christmas wish lists a fire alarm sounded in a neighboring building. The alarm prompted the evacuation of the holiday gathering, but as kids and parents were making their way outside the jolly old actor absolutely lost his mind, and probably traumatized a few kids in the process.

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Fire alarm sends Santa into a panic in front of traumatized kids originally appeared on BGR.com on Thu, 13 Dec 2018 at 19:06:35 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apple and Qualcomm’s legal dispute seems to be intensifying with each passing week. With no sign of a settlement agreement on the horizon, Qualcomm remains intent on turning up the pressure on Apple. Just a few days after the company secured an injunction against older iPhone models in China, the Financial Times reports that the company is now looking to secure a new injunction which would prevent Apple from selling the iPhone XR, XS, and XS Max in China.

In a statement provided to the Financial Times, an attorney for Qualcomm relayed that the company plans to wield the same patent that formed the basis for the original injunction. Interestingly enough, that patent involves how one manipulates a photo via a touchscreen. While that technology literally has nothing to do with the core issues of the dispute, it’s not uncommon to see tech giants involved in complex litigation assert all sorts of infringement claims as a means to assert more pressure on the opposing party.

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Qualcomm now looking to ban iPhone XS and XR sales in China originally appeared on BGR.com on Thu, 13 Dec 2018 at 18:38:41 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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No matter how much we read about hacks and data breaches and the importance of taking solid security precautions, one of the unchangeable truths of the world is that people on average are absolutely terrible when it comes to choosing passwords. We use the same ones over and over, to the delight of hackers, and the ones we come up with tend to be pathetically easy so that we’re able to remember them.

SplashData is out with its eighth annual compilation of the Worst Passwords of the Year, a ranking it produces after evaluating more than 5 million passwords that have been leaked on the Internet. If you use any of these, we can’t stress this enough. As SplashData puts it themselves, anyone using any of these passwords is putting themselves “at substantial risk of being hacked and having their identities stolen.”

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Using one of the worst passwords of 2018 is a great way to get hacked originally appeared on BGR.com on Thu, 13 Dec 2018 at 18:15:28 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The most exciting Android phone of the year is, at least on paper, a phone that you can’t even buy right now. That’s the Huawei Mate 20 Pro, a phone that packs a bunch of features that aren’t available on other 2018 Android flagships, including Face ID-like 3D facial recognition, revered wireless charging support, a 7nm processor, and a triple-lens camera on the back — these are just a few of the phone’s highlights.

Come next year, Samsung will wow Android fans with a hot Infinity-O design of its own for the various Galaxy S10 models, but Huawei won’t be able to replicate it.

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The Galaxy S10’s biggest Android rival in 2019 won’t look nearly as cool originally appeared on BGR.com on Thu, 13 Dec 2018 at 17:52:14 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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If you’ve been dying to prove to your friends that your Pokemon really are stronger than theirs, you’ll finally have the chance to prove it, as Trainer Battles are now live in Pokemon Go. Developer Niantic has been hinting at live player versus player combat since before Pokemon Go even launched, but the feature was finally confirmed at the end of November through a series of vague tweets, and then detailed in a subsequent blog post.

While Niantic undoubtedly has plenty of additional plans for the mobile game (as well as hundreds more Pokemon to introduce), the addition of Trainer Battles makes Pokemon Go as complete a Pokemon game as any of us ever could have hoped it would be. Trading, gyms, trainer battles — everything that defines the series is here.

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‘Pokemon Go’ Trainer Battles are now live for all players level 10 and above originally appeared on BGR.com on Thu, 13 Dec 2018 at 17:29:35 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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