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Weirdest Shit Out of Silicon Valley
The fun side of facial recognition?
Weirdest Shit Out of Silicon Valley is a weekly series from The Bold Italic documenting the bizarre news, gadgets, and developments in the tech world.
I’m sure that at some point in your life, you’ve been asked/told what random celebrity you slightly resemble, and if the comparison was flattering, you’ll never forget it. One friend is forever owning his Bieber doppelgänger, even as he ages out.
I just watched the mini-documentary Finding My Twin Stranger by Channel 4, and dropped down a rabbit hole of identical-ish strangers. In the film, researchers collect a bunch of “twins” and analyze them using…
Weirdest Shit Out of Silicon Valley
They’ve since stopped
Weirdest Shit Out of Silicon Valley is a weekly series from The Bold Italic documenting the bizarre news, gadgets, and developments in the tech world.
It’s hard for superspreaders these days. You open up Walt Disney World to the screaming sticky masses, and suddenly everyone’s a hater. Sure, you ask them all to wear a mask, but how do you actually enforce that?
Those classic snapshots of screaming log riders captured these anti-maskers in all their glory on Disney’s PhotoPass system. At first, Disney sky lords decided to just delete those images, reports Mashable, but then decided that the $20…
The Weirdest Shit to Come Out of Silicon Valley
This month, we witness a virtual-reality spa, a smile-to-pay app, and consultants paid to keep your kids screen-free
Hail to the summer edition of Two Truths and a Lie, Silicon Valley Startup Edition. Out of the following three startups, which is the fake one? One that rents puppies for four-hour segments. One that gives you access to public toilets via an app. Or one that uses nose recognition to find lost dogs. (Scroll to the bottom for the answers.)
Now it’s time to dive into the strange stuff coming out of the valley this past month. …
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