| Verizon’s Hum will turn your beater into a connected car Verizon is announcing Hum today, a two-piece hardware system bundled with a phone app and monthly plan that give basically any old car (1996 or newer) OnStar-like capabilities, ranging from stolen vehicle tracking to Check Engine light remote diagnosis. One module, equipped with a CDMA radio and GPS, connects to your car’s on-board diagnostic (OBD) port, while another clips to a visor and serves as a speakerphone with concierge and emergency service buttons. A Bluetooth connection also allows you to take calls through your phone, though the Hum service itself funnels all of its data usage and location tracking through the OBD module.
It was only a matter of time before somebody figured out how to hook any car to the internet. Considering all of the security holes found in similar products, it might be worth waiting a little while on this one until they work the bugs out, and especially until security researchers get to take a whack at figuring out how to break into it. Plus, if you have a smartphone you’ve already got a superior experience with Google Maps. Most cars have an auxiliary audio port, so you can connect your phone into the sound system with a simple audio cable, which lets you play music using your favorite app like Spotify or Apple Music while you’re using Maps to navigate somewhere. Butter In Your Coffee and Other Cons: Stories From a Fitness Insider The more time I've spent in the fitness industry, the more I've learned how much marketing can make a difference. But there's a fine a line between marketing yourself—a necessity if you want to make it in the industry—and becoming a dishonest con man. Unfortunately fitness is one industry where it's easier to make it as the latter.
This is a piece that is well worth reading — not only do we have mass confusion about what foods are good or bad for us to eat, we have shills trying to make money by selling the latest fad. And of course, none of these things work. The sad thing is that there is so much pseudo-science and fake science that it has completely drowned out the real science on health and fitness. Facebook Launches M, Its Bold Answer to Siri and Cortana Companies from Google to Taskrabbit are engineering products to act as superpowered personal assistants. Some, like Apple's Siri, Google Now, or Microsoft's Cortana, rely entirely on technology, and though they can be used by a lot of people, their range of tasks remains limited. Others, like startups Magic and Operator or gig-economy companies like TaskRabbit, employ people to respond to text-based requests. These services can get nearly anything done—for a much smaller number of folks. M is a hybrid. It's a virtual assistant powered by artificial intelligence as well as a band of Facebook employees, dubbed M trainers, who will make sure that every request is answered.
Rich people have always had the luxury of a personal assistant, whether somebody that directly works for them, or a service provided by somebody else. Even with a high-end credit card account, you can call up a concierge (or email them) and ask them to do almost anything. Want tickets for a show? Want them to book a trip to Cancun? Want them to look into something for you and give you an answer? A quick phone call or an email is all that you need — assuming you have a lot of money to spend. That luxury is going to eventually be available for everybody thanks to technology. All you’ll need is a smartphone and to give Google or Facebook a credit card to keep on file. If you want to make a restaurant reservation or a find a birthday gift for your spouse, you can send a quick message to Facebook’s virtual assistant using Messenger, they will confirm what you want, and then buy it for you. Unlike many of the systems, Facebook will also have people involved in the process to make sure that the wrong thing doesn’t get ordered, and to train the system for more accurate results in the future. And all for a small transaction fee, probably extracted from the vendor. | 
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