Bot Swarms · July 2022Gaffe level: Blunder
Fake reviews are making you overpay on online shopping
Fake reviews are quietly making you overpay for worse products, and the bots and review farms behind them are thriving. That five-star rating might have been purchased in bulk.
Source: Axios
A Thought-Controlled Bionic Arm Moved Into Its First Home Trial
Avi Davidson, who lost his left arm 17 years ago, is the first person to take the University of Utah's thought-controlled LUKE Arm home for a full year. The direct nerve interface lets him move the arm with his thoughts and feel pressure and texture through it, so within days he was making a sandwich and holding his wife's hand.
Source: University of Utah