Real Or Fake Tech Headlines? Weekly Quiz
There's no shortage of tech news that seems too strange to be true. Can you tell the real headlines from the ringers this week?
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Each week in tech we see truth that is stranger than fiction.
Another major corporation suffers an embarrassing breach of customer information. Another device maker launches a product that leaves people scratching their heads and saying, "What?" A major cloud service provider gets hacked, leaving a trail of naked celebrity selfies in its wake.
With news like this, it's pretty hard to tell what's real and what is the figment of a fevered imagination.
That's why we're bringing you another Real or Fake? quiz. Each slide has one real headline and three fakes. See if you can spot the real tech headline. Reminder: We trust you not to use Google, and not to scroll ahead for the answers.
When you're done, let us know how you score in the comments section below.
Have fun!
A. WhyMe? Social Network Debuts For Chronic Complainers
B. WhoIsThat Video Doorbell Puts Safety First
C. IsItYou Promises To Make Face Authentication Actually Work
D. WhatHeSaid App Makes Online Arguing Easier
A. Wearable Device Monitors Amount Of Caffeine In Your System
B. Market For Personal Spycams Predicted To Grow 75 Percent By 2020
C. Google Glass To Debut At LensCrafters in 2015
D. Apple iWatch Could Be At The Heart Of A Giant New Industry
D: Apple iWatch Could Be At The Heart Of A Giant New Industry
Not everyone is convinced that smartwatches will spark a new wave in wearables. But that's not dampening Citigroup's enthusiasm. With the big reveal of the Apple Watch on Sept. 9 (that's right, they're not even calling it iWatch), Citigroup predicts that the overall market for smartwatches could reach $10 billion in four years. Fans of traditional watches need not despair, though. According to Citigroup, the traditional watch market could expand to $85.3 billion in 2018. The market for all forms of wearable devices could reach $30 billion in the same time period. Citigroup predicts there will be 52 million smartwatches sold by 2018.
A. Taking a Naked Selfie? Your Phone Should Step In to Protect You
B. What To Do When Your Boss's Nude Selfies Surface On Twitter
C. 10 Ways To Reverse Your Dumbest Online Mistakes
D. Why Smartphone Cameras, Booze, And Mirrors Don't Mix
A: Taking a Naked Selfie? Your Phone Should Step In to Protect You
Yup, The New York Times is writing about naked selfies. What is this world coming to? Blogger Farhad Manjoo writes: "Phone makers should build their products with the expectation that lots of us will take indelicate photos of ourselves and our loved ones. When we do so, our phones should step in with options for protecting such photos, and should apply extra scrutiny when the people who are snapping them are underage." Soon, we'll be expecting our phones to demand that we eat our veggies, and call after us to bring a sweater when we go out, just in case it gets cold.
A. San Francisco Transit System Converts Cow Dung To Power For Rail Lines
B. A New Concept For Shape-Shifting Architecture That Responds To Heat
C. Feminist Designer Creates Office Building With All-Glass Ceilings
D. Why Your Kitchen Will Soon Be Smarter Than You Are
B: A New Concept For Shape-Shifting Architecture That Responds To Heat
Wired takes a look at the Translated Geometrics project developed by three students at Barcelona's Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia. The students are exploring the use of Shape Memory Polymers, which Wired describes as "a composite material that can deform and return to its original state when activated by cues like heat, humidity, and light." The team is working on using such materials for buildings that, theoretically, could expand to four times their original size based on heat and light, or be transformed in other ways to meet changing functional or environmental needs.
A. After Breach, Home Depot Requires Shoppers To Pay In Cash Only
B. Toe-Factor Authentication: Security Systems Go Barefoot
C. DNA Profiles Will Replace Passports By 2030
D. Barclays Brings Finger-Vein Biometrics To Internet Banking
D: Barclays Brings Finger-Vein Biometrics To Internet Banking
ArsTechnica reports that Barclays will offer infrared biometric scanners to its wealthy corporate clients starting in 2015. Eventually, its more, uh, proletarian customers will also have access to the new authentication devices, which were developed using Hitachi's Finger Vein Authentication Technology. No, we're not talking about the kinds of devices used by diabetics to draw blood from fingertips. As ArsTechnica describes it, this gadget is designed to "read the subdermal patterns of the client's finger vasculature in order to combat identity fraud." In layman's terms, this means that the veins in your fingers form a pattern as unique as your fingerprint but much harder to fake.
It's time to 'fess up: How often were you tricked by a fake headline? Did you get any right? Tell us about it in the comments section below.
It's time to 'fess up: How often were you tricked by a fake headline? Did you get any right? Tell us about it in the comments section below.
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