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Comment Re:Tile (Score 3, Interesting) 23

BLE tags use a compatible phone to report their location back to a central service, but unless you had an Apple Airtag [or AirTag compatible], your tags would only be picked up by other phones with the Tile app installed. This is of course fine if you're just keeping track of your keys and other household items, but Apple Airtags are really popular to slip into luggage, packages, and other valuables as a cheaper [and far smaller] alternative to SMS/GPS trackers.

These new tags use a component in Google Play Services [installed on every Android phone with the Google Play store], instead of the Tile app, making them, at least on paper, as good or better than Airtags, and far more reliable than Tile tags for remote tracking.

Instead of waiting for a phone with the Tile app installed to come by, now any android phone can pick up and report these tags back.

There's the whole problem of privacy, security, etc involving any BLE tag, but that's a whole different can of worms..

Comment From the GitHub Page: (Score 4, Informative) 60

by micksam7 (#63476662) Attached to: An AI Scraping Tool Is Overwhelming Websites With Traffic

"Websites can pass the http headers X-Robots-Tag: noai, X-Robots-Tag: noindex , X-Robots-Tag: noimageai and X-Robots-Tag: noimageindex By default img2dataset will ignore images with such headers."

Followed directly by:
"To disable this behavior and download all images, you may pass --disallowed_header_directives '[]'"

I wonder what option most users will end up enabling. :)

Also this tool doesn't seem to check robots.txt [from a quick source search, may be wrong.] Getting the impression they don't entirely care about this.
Science

Researchers Working On Crystallizing Light 129

Posted by samzenpus from the tripping-on-the-light-fantastic dept.
An anonymous reader writes Researchers at Princeton University have begun crystallizing light as part of an effort to answer fundamental questions about the physics of matter. The researchers are not shining light through crystal – they are transforming light into crystal. As part of an effort to develop exotic materials such as room-temperature superconductors, the researchers have locked together photons, the basic element of light, so that they become fixed in place. "It's something that we have never seen before," said Andrew Houck, one of the researchers. "This is a new behavior for light."
Games

Study: Video Gamer Aggression Result of Game Experience, Not Violent Content 180

Posted by Soulskill from the random-number-generators-are-the-root-of-all-evil dept.
An anonymous reader writes "A new study published in the March edition of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology indicates that a gamer's experience of a video game and not the content of the game itself can give rise to violent behavior. In other words, 'researchers found it was not the narrative or imagery, but the lack of mastery of the game's controls and the degree of difficulty players had completing the game that led to frustration.' Based on their findings, researchers note that even games like Tetris and Candy Crush can inspire violent behavior more so than games like World of Warcraft or Grand Theft Auto if they are poorly designed and difficult to play."
Privacy

Massachusetts Court Says 'Upskirt' Photos Are Legal 519

Posted by timothy from the just-because-you-can dept.
cold fjord writes with this CNN report: "Massachusetts' highest court ruled Wednesday that it is not illegal to secretly photograph underneath a person's clothing — a practice known as "upskirting" — prompting one prosecutor to call for a revision of state law. The high court ruled that the practice did not violate the law because the women who were photographed while riding Boston public transportation were not nude or partially nude."

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