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Silicon Valley Is Getting Into the Hearing Aid Business With These Impressive AI-Driven Earpieces
Although hearing “Silicon Valley” and “hearing aids” in the same sentence might not seem all that normal, it is now. This week, the startup Whisper launched its new flagship product, the Whisper Hearing System, and also announced a whopping $US35 ($49) million Series B investment.
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Turns Out The Report That Whisper Tracks Users Was Mostly Super Wrong
Last year, anonymous secret-sharing app Whisper got chewed out for tracking its users in a brutal expose from The Guardian. Only now, months later, The Guardian is back-pedalling harder than a spin class devotee on many of its accusations against Whisper.
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Report: Whisper Tracks Users Even When They Ask It Not To
You should know by now that purportedly anonymous apps aren’t really anonymous. But now, The Guardian reports that Whisper, the secret-telling app and so-called “safest place on the internet,” actually tracks its users to a frightening degree of detail. Even if you opt out of location services, The Guardian says, Whisper will apparently find you.