擋 Live 與 Podcast 內廣告的工具

看到「An adblocker for live radio streams and podcasts. Machine learning meets Shazam.」這個專案,這個把 machine learning 用到「正途」上了啊...

不過畢竟是比較複雜的演算法,會吃不少 CPU 資源:

On a regular laptop CPU and with the Python time-frequency analyser, computations run at 5-10X for files and at 10-20% usage for live stream.

不過看用法還是偏向 library 性質,如果要大力推廣可能還是需要有其他人包個更好的界面...

Bose 販賣用戶隱私被告

Unroll 在旁邊燒的時候 (參考 Uber 戰火蔓延到 Unroll),Bose 也不甘寂寞決定跟上科技業的潮流:「Bose headphones spy on listeners: lawsuit」。

Bose 直接將他們 app 收集到的資訊拿出來賣:

Bose Corp spies on its wireless headphone customers by using an app that tracks the music, podcasts and other audio they listen to, and violates their privacy rights by selling the information without permission, a lawsuit charged.

這次打算控告的產品包括這些 (這邊提到的 Zak 是原告):

Zak is seeking millions of dollars of damages for buyers of headphones and speakers, including QuietComfort 35, QuietControl 30, SoundLink Around-Ear Wireless Headphones II, SoundLink Color II, SoundSport Wireless and SoundSport Pulse Wireless.

編號可以記一下,之後可以拿來追蹤:

The case is Zak v Bose Corp, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois, No. 17-02928.