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Microsoft is adding a new key to PC keyboards for the first time since 1994 (arstechnica.com)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Copilot key will eventually be required in new PC keyboards, though not yet.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Do you remember a few years ago, it came out that some company was working on a new idea that, when you were given an advertisement on a TV, it could require you to say the product name aloud or it wouldn't continue?

I try not to concede anything related to advertising because everything they want seems so dystopian.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Please drink a verification can.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

I remember another one proposing using eye tracking on a phone's selfie camera to make sure you were watching ads, with the ads pausing every time you looked away.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

There was also another patent for a TV with an eye-tracker camera in it to make sure you were actually watching the ads, another one that would unmute itself if it was muted during ads, and one designed to count the number of people in a room to charge you for piracy if you didn't buy enough tickets for everybody for pay per view shows.