Bots get purged, bots hijack the IoT, bots come to your emotional rescue and more! (There is some non-bot news, as well.)
- Burger King goes political (and viral) with a video weighing in on the debate over Net Neutrality. (Aaron Mak, Slate)
- Is Twitter in the midst of a bot purge? (Kerry Flynn, Mashable)
- Speaking of bots, have you heard how the technology could hijack your internet-connected devices? (Martin Giles, MIT Technology Review)
- Privacy issues with activity-tracking apps like Strava highlight the vulnerabilities of fitness apps that rely on sharing user data. (Rachel Metz, MIT Technology Review)
- Emotional Chatbots: “Tell me how that makes you feel.” (Arielle Pardes, Wired)
- Here’s a primer on the difference between Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. (Robert Triggs, Android Authority)
- The Ninth Circuit rules that violating a website’s TOS is not a crime. (Jamie Williams, Electronic Frontier Foundation)
- Virtual reality comes out a winner at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival (Kim Voynar, IndieWire)
- Automated delivery robots take to the streets (of the cities that will allow them in). (Javier Espinoza, Financial Times)
- How will brand loyalty fare during the Internet of Things era? (Michelle Evans, Forbes)