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Facebook Wants to Put a Camera in Your Living Room
KTLA ^ | 09/20/2019 | Rich Demuro

Posted on 09/20/2019 7:30:54 AM PDT by BenLurkin

Facebook has new devices to help you video chat from your couch!

Smart speakers are popular these days but Facebook says they’re missing a key feature – the ability to video chat!

The company’s new line of gadgets called Portal look like picture frames but let you make video calls, too! There’s even a model that sits on top of your TV so you can video chat from the couch.

Portal TV. This device sits on top of your TV and lets you video chat from the most comfortable seat in the house: your couch. It’s much more relaxing than trying to hold your phone out at arms length. The person on the other end can use another Portal or the Facebook Messenger or WhatsApp on their phone.

Facebook built a bunch of AI smarts into the wide angle camera: it can follow you around, include the entire group or focus on just one person you pick.

(Excerpt) Read more at ktla.com ...


TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: apple; appletv; camera; comcast; facebook; livingroom; roku
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To: gaijin
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21 posted on 09/20/2019 8:21:35 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Elitist Liberals have no idea the hunger and strength of the beast they have uncaged.)
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To: BenLurkin

1984 was not a how-to.


22 posted on 09/20/2019 8:24:20 AM PDT by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: BenLurkin

You just thought listening to your brother in law over the regular phone while he’s on the toilet was bad.


23 posted on 09/20/2019 8:24:43 AM PDT by bgill
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To: BenLurkin

We probably already have one...


24 posted on 09/20/2019 8:40:32 AM PDT by dhs12345
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To: BenLurkin

No thanks.


25 posted on 09/20/2019 8:41:24 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: BenLurkin

Roku’s stock has been in decline for a week or so — that trend got started when Apple TV+ or w-ever it’s called was announced at the Apple Event.

How Facebook, Comcast Just Shook Up The Streaming Video Wars
Jayson Derrick , Benzinga Staff Writer
September 18, 2019
https://www.benzinga.com/analyst-ratings/analyst-color/19/09/14452864/how-facebook-comcast-just-shook-up-the-streaming-video-wars


26 posted on 09/20/2019 8:48:22 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: BenLurkin

27 posted on 09/20/2019 8:53:53 AM PDT by maggief
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To: BenLurkin

The KGBs and Gestapo’s dream come true.


28 posted on 09/20/2019 8:55:09 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: C19fan

they already have Alexa and the other robots which sit and listen to your conversation


29 posted on 09/20/2019 8:56:32 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: grania

Yes, I know youtube does too.


30 posted on 09/20/2019 9:00:43 AM PDT by Openurmind
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To: L,TOWM

It will become mandatory and you will have to accept it or have your social credit dinged.


31 posted on 09/20/2019 9:02:50 AM PDT by Openurmind
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To: BenLurkin

[[Smart speakers are popular these days]]

Smart Speakers are for dummies


32 posted on 09/20/2019 9:03:32 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: thefactor
I agree. The main thing tech companies are interested in is money. So they will learn all they can about you in order to figure out how to target advertising at you so that when you do actually want/need something why shucks, here's info on that right here... Or perhaps more insidious - targeting advertising at you that will likely induce you to want something. "Gee those people seem to be having so much fun with X, maybe I should get one too!"

As for government and/or law enforcement... A definite maybe. I have no doubt if there's information they can access without a warrant, they will pull it together looking for crimes to prosecute. This is similar to how lawyers tell us never consent to a search. We are innocent until proven guilty. The only thing a search can do is turn up evidence to change that. Same thing with this voluntary search/surveillance.

I have no delusions that my life is interesting enough to merit attention from government or law enforcement. If they have nothing better to do than look into my life, I genuinely feel sorry for them, but also believe we should trim their budgets since they obviously have too much staff, too much time on their hands. Funny sidebar - I like to sing along to classic rock in the car while I'm driving. I have a terrible singing voice. Terrible might be too kind. Occasionally as a joke I'll say out loud something like "To who-ever is listening, sorry, I'll buy you a beer sometime..." Now, if I'm ever sitting in my favorite brew pub and a stranger comes up to me and says "Say, how 'bout that beer you promised me the other day before you butchered that Rolling Stones song?" I'll definitely freak out...

Seriously though, it goes back to that consent to search. If for some reason I ever do come to the attention of some government agency and/or law enforcement, I don't want to have already put out there all kinds of information - who knows what things like this fb device, Alexa, Kinect, etc. are collecting, how it is organized, how long it is stored, and how well it is secured. I don't want to find out the hard way.

33 posted on 09/20/2019 9:17:28 AM PDT by ThunderSleeps ( Be ready!)
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To: ThunderSleeps

As a law enforcement officer for a long time, let me tell you this. Do not consent to a search, ever! And if they have a warrant, make sure it’s signed by a J-U-D-G-E!


34 posted on 09/20/2019 9:21:52 AM PDT by thefactor (yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt)
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To: Retvet

No.6’s pad had them.


35 posted on 09/20/2019 9:59:49 AM PDT by wally_bert (Hola. Me llamo Inspector Carlton Lassiter. Me gusta queso.)
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To: BenLurkin

so when they listen to you have sex, they can watch, too.


36 posted on 09/20/2019 10:47:43 AM PDT by camle (keep and open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
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To: BenLurkin

I want to put my foot in FaceBook’s A$$


37 posted on 09/20/2019 10:54:52 AM PDT by Levy78
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To: maggief

Can you kindly provide the context for your photo.
I’m missing it.

Thanks


38 posted on 09/20/2019 11:50:31 AM PDT by SheepWhisperer (not on the book of faces,...written in the book of life)
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To: SheepWhisperer

Zuck has electrical tape placed over his webcam and mic to prevent spying.


39 posted on 09/20/2019 12:52:35 PM PDT by maggief
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