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Earlier today, some users reported getting endless photos of one particular car crash in the search results for images, unrelated to the search terms, with the photos also sprinkled throughout other news and other results as well.
The Wall Street Journal’s Digits blog notes that for example, looking for results for “Emmys” pulled up the repeat photos in the news search, which have nothing to do with who won which thing for that show where the guy wears lots of T-shirts and talks about science. And switching to simply “Images” produced a parade of the same image.
But it wasn’t every single search on Google, and it’s not known which words triggered the results or if there’s any connection to a bug or hack attack.
Google apologized for the issue and said it had been resolved.
“Oops–speaking of accidents, we’ve fixed it!” the company said in a statement, via the Washington Post. “We apologize. The least we could have done was show everyone micropigs instead.”
Google Resolves Repeat-Image Problem in Search [WSJ Digits]
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The new app creates tracking shots and fast, time-lapse videos that were once only possible with high-quality equipment, Wired reports.
“Traditionally, time-lapse videos depend on holding your phone or camera still while you film,” Instagram wrote in a blog post. “Hyperlapse from Instagram features built-in stabilization technology that lets you create moving, handheld time lapses that result in a cinematic look, quality and feel — a feat that has previously only been possible with expensive equipment.”
So how it is it possible for such a small device to produce awe-inspiring video? Apparently, Instagram created the perfect storm with engineers and imagination.
Back in 2013, Instagram data worker Thomas Dimson reconnected with a friend who had recently sold his start-up, Luma, to Instagram. While the firm’s image-stabilization technology was deployed to improve video capture in the Instagram app, the engineers saw far greater potential.
Eventually, a prototype was produced and the duo uploaded a video of the app to Instagram’s internal message board where it received a thumbs-up from company CEO and founder, Kevin Systrom.
Wired reports that boost of confidence propelled the Dimson and Karpenko to present the project at the company’s “pitch-a-thon” last January. Officials with Instagram chose to release Hyperlapse as a standalone rather than an upgrade to the current app in an effort to keep the core app simple for users.
The app seems simple enough to use: Users just have to press the record button and when they’re done filming chose a speed to run in which to run the video. The finished product can then be shared directly to Facebook or Instagram.
Hyperlapse, Instagram’s New App, Is Like a $15,000 Video Setup in Your Hand [Wired]
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Alas, a British twosome decided to stay mum on their bit of money magic, after what was supposed to be a prepaid debit card that you know, debits money from the balance on it instead started adding funds to the account when it was used, reports the Hull Daily Mail.
The couple ended up with £10,000 — around $16,000 in “free” stuff from a local shop by using the glitchy card. After about a year of mysteriously losing money, the store owner called the police and officials realized what was going on.
“The system should have been the person who owns the card pays money in advance, then spends money on the card,” the prosecutor said. “In this case, it was the reverse. When they bought something, they were credited rather than debited so the amount on the card was increasing and that went on for nine months.”
Both the man and the woman pleaded guilty to fraud, because though they didn’t realize it wasn’t just a magic “opposite day” kind of thing at first, once they did, they kept on taking advantage of the card.
“They don’t understand how the money was put on it, whether it was a glitch in the system or the shopkeeper didn’t know how it worked, but once they realized, they did carry on like it was a golden ticket,” the woman’s lawyer explained, adding that she “regrets her involvement and the effect it had on the shopkeepers.”
‘Golden ticket’ debit card paid out £10,000, Hull Crown Court hears
Life Alert has a new spot airing, apparently on daytime television. It’s aimed at their typical audience of senior citizens who live alone, but…well, we’ll just let you watch it.
The sound isn’t necessary, if you’re at work: there’s menacing music and the voice of an older woman wailing in agony, then saying, “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up” to no one in particular, because there’s no one within earshot who can save her. That’s the point. The ad preys on the fears that people who live alone have: life is going on right outside her window, but too far away to hear her cries for help. The spot makes it clear that the woman will die in horrible pain stuck at the bottom of her basement stairs. It’s the cold opening of an episode of CSI: Boca Raton.
It’s meant scare you into asking “what if” about yourself or elderly loved ones. It’s effective marketing. Too effective, if you ask many viewers of the ad who have complained on the Life Alert Facebook page.
Welcome to the Facebook age: where once our complaints were written on paper or even e-mail and acknowledged privately, now we can post our complaints for the everyone to see. This is good and bad, but what really interests Consumerist is how Life Alert is responding to viewers’ concerns.
Here’s a selection of complaints posted on the Facebook wall and as comments in response to the company’s posts, lightly edited to fix major grammar and punctuation issues:
I sleep with my tv on at night and your commercial wakes me up and i think something is happening to my mother. It’s a very scary way to wake up in the middle of the night. …It’s terrible.
Stop airing that awful basement commercial with the old lady begging for help from the bottom of the stairs. It’s indecent and disturbing and wakes me up when I’m trying to fall asleep to the TV.
I do applaud you for offering Life Alert’s services. BUT I am troubled by your most recent commercial. My kids beg me to change the channel when it comes on tv, because it frightens them.
Shame on you for a commercial that is meant only to scare senior citizens. It is a disgusting way to sell any product. Stop airing the ad with the woman crying for help at the bottom of the stairs. It is truly a shameful way to try to take advantage of older Americans. If that’s what you need to sell your product, it is not worth anything.
Please stop airing that commercial with the old woman at the bottom of the stairs. I thought that her skull was going to have been cracked open and bleeding when they showed her. My own grandmother fell and cracked her hip and we brought her to the hospital immediately, but this just makes me feel so awful inside I start crying. I’m 17 years old and this is way too scary. I don’t want to see anyone in that much pain and crying when I’m just trying to enjoy my day. Please take it off the TV.
How does Life Alert respond to complaints like these? They say that when you’re lying at the bottom of your stairs wailing for help, you’ll wish that their ads had been even scarier.
In our business, we consistently hear horror stories of how families procrastinated in getting a Life Alert only to discover their loved one had fallen and was on the floor for hours (sometimes days) before someone found them. They have even complained that our commercials are corny, and NOT SERIOUS ENOUGH, and that our message doesn’t get through. The guilt and fear these families feel after a preventable tragedy is very real and far worse than any commercial.
Our goal is to wake people up to the realities of what is going on with the elderly and to get a medical alert system as a PREVENTIVE measure, not a reactionary result to a tragedy. To date we have received many calls and emails from aging parents and/or adult children thanking us for showing them the severity of the problem affecting our beloved aging community.
We understand that some people may have different tastes and either like or dislike our commercial, but the thousands of lives we are saving daily is very important to us and the families that trust us.
We hope that you will remember this commercial when it comes time for a family member who may need extra help, and although you may not choose our service, we encourage you not to wait for a tragedy to happen before getting a medical alert system for an elderly loved one.
Thank you,
Life Alert
Okay. We get that, and we’re all for being proactive and not waiting for an emergency to take precautions. Their goal is to disturb you and make you imagine yourself or someone you care about in the same position. Maybe this ad will save lives, but we know for sure that it’s freaking people out.
A used-car dealer in New Jersey has admitted to selling cars damaged by flooding during superstorm Sandy in 2012 to unsuspecting customers. Some of those who drove off with lemons found their cars breaking down just minutes after leaving the dealership.
According to the Asbury Park Press, the operator of a used car dealership confessed to a judge that he used fake vehicle titles to sell the waterlogged cars, aided by a former technician at the state Motor Vehicle Commission. She admitted to make the “clean” titles for the cars in the scheme.
A salesman was also charged in the scheme, as well as a clerk and receptionist at the dealership.
The con lasted from February through July 2013, after the dealership bought eight cars at auction that had been flooded during Sandy. All were owned by the same insurance company, which had them listed as acceptable to be used “for parts only.”
That’s when authorities said the dealer, helped by the insider at the Motor Vehicle Commission’s local office, created the fake titles for the cars and forged the signatures of past owners to transfer the titles over to the dealership.
Seven of those cars were sold for a gain of $86,000.
The dealer pleaded guilty to theft by deception and is facing three years in prison. He’ll also pay the scammed customers back and won’t be able to sell vehicles in New Jersey for a certain amount of time that has yet to be determined.
“By ruthlessly cashing in on superstorm Sandy, [the dealer] not only cheated customers of his car dealership, he put those customers and other motorists at risk, because these flood-damaged vehicles had the potential to fail and even catch fire on the highway,” acting Attorney General John J . Hoffman said in a prepared statement. “Two of the cars did, in fact, fail shortly after they were purchased, but fortunately no one was hurt.”
Dealer sold Sandy-flooded cars [Asbury Park Press]
