id=”article-body” class=”row” section=”article-body”> Sony is having another big sale on PlayStation titles.

Sony Sony already had a big sale during E3 2019, but the company is having another sales event before the season ends. The PlayStation Store Summer Sale lasts until Aug. 20 and offers discounts on PS4, PS3 and PS Vita games. 

This sale includes some of the biggest titles along with dozens of indie darlings worth purchasing. There’s also downloadable content and season passes on sale.

Keep in mind, these are digital downloads of the game. There are also a few titles with an additional discount for PS Plus subscription holders. 

Here are some of the best deals of the sale:

Grand Theft Auto V — $15 (Discounted from $30)

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See at PlayStation Store PLAYERUNKNOWN’S BATTLEGROUNDS — $15 (Discounted from $30)

PUBG Corporation The military battle royale game PUBG continues to be one of the most popular games. 

See at PlayStation Store Resident Evil 2 — $36 (Discounted from $60)

Capcom Resident Evil 2 is one of the best games released in 2019 so far. Players return to Raccoon City in a remake of the PlayStation classic. 

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Dark Souls III, $15(discounted from $60)

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, 카지노사이트 $24 (discounted from $60)

Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown, $36 (discounted from $60)

Dead Cells, $17 (discounted from $60)

Kingdom Come: Deliverance, 카지노사이트 $20 (discounted from $30) 

Red Dead Redemption 2, $39 (discounted from $60)

Persona 5, $14 (discounted from $20)

Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare 2, $1 (discounted from $20)

Rez Infinite, $15 (discounted from $30)

Shadow of the Tomb Raider, $20 (discounted from $60)

Shadow of the Colossus, $13 (discounted from $20)

The Last Guardian, $12 (discounted from $20)

Salt and Sanctuary, $9 (discounted from $18)

Nier: Automata Game of the Yorha Edition, $27 (discounted from $40)

Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana, $30 (discounted from $60)

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Update, July 30: Adds more titles. 

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Disclaimer: I can not say that any of these Las Vegas Hotels are good or bad because I have not stayed at any of them. But I can say they sure don’t sound like places I would want to stay. I compiled this list strictly for fun based on some really comical and outrageous comments from different sources online. These comments come from real guests and made me laugh. And there are a few other bad Hotels, but I made my decision based solely on user reviews at Trip Advisor.

The Worst Las Vegas Hotels – Not in any particular Order.

#1 – Knights Inn

“Stay Clear. Especially with kids. Better off sleeping outside on a park bench.”

“Honestly, I’ve never stayed in a worse hotel. Customer service is obviously NOT in their vocabulary! Ok, problem one: in one of the rooms we were staying in had only one working light”

“Horrible Horrible Horrible I was over charged not to mention woke up after the first night with 32 bug bites down my arm and 2 on my legs! “

#2 – St. Tropez All Suite Hotel

“Worst Hotel Ever It was so filthy, and holes in the walls. Scary place. Nothing like the ad on the internet. Lousy service. No breakfast, No hot water. They didn’t vacuum, lousy towels, sheets, pillows, blankets, no coffee, remote didn’t match TV, etc.”

“First time in my life I checked out just after checking into a hotel”

#3- Motel 6 Las Vegas I-15

“Never ever again even for Free”

#4 – Clarion Emerald Suites Las Vegas

“Where to start…well first off, the pictures on the web are TOTALLY false,”

“We thought that we were being filmed for a Candid Camera episode. The place (beyond the lobby) was absolutely filthy and service to match.”

#5 – Sahara Westwood Hotel

“This place is a dump. The first thing we saw as we drove into the parking area was a huge sign that read “PARK AT YOUR OWN RISK”.”

“This hotel is by far the worst on the Vegas strip. The carpets and walls are a depressing, tobacco-stained shade of grey, and the lobby, casino, and hallways can smell pretty bad. At times I plugged my nose on my way through the hotel. I could not spend an extra minute anywhere in the lobby and casino areas”

Honorable Mention: Circus Circus Manor Motor Lodge

“The Circus Manor (slums of circus circus) is a separate building that sits across from the main towers. Upon entering the room two lights did not work. The beds were as if we brought our own cots! The safe had a hole in it and there was no lock. The stench was that of smoke”

“Stayed here for two nights in June. The “manors” are back behind the actual casino and hotel. Walking back there at night was a scary experience. The rooms themselves were in terrible condition — bad beds, carpet stains, missing fixtures, etc.”

What You Can Learn from Other People Vegas Hotel Experiences

What a depressing experience these people must have had. This makes me feel really bad for all of them. Las Vegas has so many outstanding Hotels for anyone to have to go through this kind of miserable experience is simply sad. Some of these people actually paid more for these rooms than they would have paid at a nice Las Vegas Strip Resort!

The lesson anyone reading this article should learn is to do some research before making your reservations.

Recommended Sites for Researching Las Vegas Hotels based on the opinion of people who have actually stayed on a Hotel Property:

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I’ll be working on an article about the Best Bang for the Buck Vegas Hotels Soon.

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Preston Rideout

8 years ago from Memphis Tennessee

The number one worst Las Vegas Casino Hotel is Circus Circus

Stan

8 years ago

Jenny was right the Golden Nugget is the worst. But my issue was bed bugs and I had to deal with the same guy in Risk Management. What an ass. I had rotten service in the over priced mediocre restaurants and even tbe Spa was full of snobby employees. I liked the dealers but you can tell they are even miserable working for Landrys. I can’t believe Landrys think they know enough to buy another casino, this time Atlantic City. Ill never stay at or eat at any place assiciated with them again. I hope the recession wipes them out.

AUTHORMikeNV

9 years ago from Henderson, NV

The Luxor is a little worn now, could use and update. The two biggest mistakes people make is not hydrating in the heat, and not wearing comfortable walking shoes. The scale of the Strip is overwhelming for SM카지노주소 many once they get here! Thanks for the comment.

Jean Bakula

9 years ago from New Jersey

I went to Vegas for the first time about 3 years ago. I was not prepared for the heat, it really wore me out! We stayed at the Luxor, because my husband always liked the pyramid, but I think wherever you stay you will smell smoke from the casinos. It is fun and interesting. I was surprised almost none of the pools are deep enough to swim in, but I guess for insurance purposes and drunk people who may try to dive into 3 ft. of water. I would return, but maybe in Mar or Nov, while it’s cool enough to walk around. I think it would also be fun to split the visit and stay in 2 different hotels, with different themes, as that’s fun. I would also go when I had tickets to good shows!

Jenny

9 years ago

The worst hotel I have ever stayed was the Golden Nugget. I had stayed there about 10 years ago and loved it, then. I try to stay somewhere different every time we go to Vegas. We go twice a year. So after staying on the strip for the past 20 or so trips we decided to try the Golden Nugget. It was beautiful, they have done a lot of remodeling. But the customer service was minimal to none. I had something come up missing from my room. A few years ago when I had the same type of issue at a Harrah’s property I was apologized to and treated like they actually cared.They did everything could to find my item and when they couldn’t find it they made it right. So when something came up missing at the Golden Nugget I did the same thing I had done at Harrah’s, I called Security, did a report and then a few days later called the Risk Manager. The Risk Manager was the rudest, most condescending and meanest person I have ever dealt with. He pretty much told me that it wasn’t his problem something was missing, he wasn’t going to look for it, Security does set ups in the rooms all the time so the maids would never steal and they couldn’t possibly have thrown out my item because the garbage was checked for things like that, etc. He basically called me a liar and told me that he didn’t care about my problem and company policy was not to do anything to make me happy because they had not violated any innkeeper laws. So after reading some other posts online and realizing that the Golden Nugget was a nice place before the restaurant company Landry’s Restaurants took it over I realized that we made a mistake staying there and will never stay there again or even eat at a Landry’s restaurant because we demand to be treated like paying customers and SM카지노 will not tolerate being treated like they don’t need our service. I would suggest you do some research and if you read good posts or comments about the Golden Nugget or Landry’s restaurants you might want to wonder if it is their advertising people just putting in good stories to override the obvious bad ones.

AUTHORMikeNV

9 years ago from Henderson, NV

Yep… I’ve walked through nearly every Casino on the Strip and they all smell of smoke. If it’s in your budget and you want to get away from Smoke the Place to Stay is the Four Seasons on the upper Floors of the Mandalay Bay complex. There is no Casino attached directly to Four Seasons Las Vegas.

Peg Cole

9 years ago from Northeast of Dallas, Texas

We just finished our first vacation trip to Las Vegas. I was pretty disgusted with the pungent odor of cigarette smoke, even being an ex-smoker, my eyes watered and my nose ran the whole time I was there. Our hotel was wonderful compared to these listed. Now I feel rather lucky. We stayed at the Luxor.

polymathlv

9 years ago from USA

Circus Circus has got to be the grossest Strip hotel. And the Slots O Fun building right next to it always smells of smoke and diarrhea — a truly scarring experience.

lasvegasattorney

9 years ago

You should remember that just because you are in a luxury hotel you may still have problems with bed bugs. A good site to go to is bedbugsregistry.com (I have no affiliation with the site.)

Jaynie2000

9 years ago

Yikes! You get what you pay for, I guess. We stayed at the Luxor and loved it. Spent quite a bit of time at New York, New York, Ceasar’s Palace, the Venetian and MGM Grand as well. All great.

KD

9 years ago

Haven’t been to most on these on the list, but I must agree with the Sahara review. The Sahara’s only selling point is “Hey, some famous people stayed here in the 70’s!” Everything from the wallpaper to the carpet was bland, and there was literally nothing to do if you didn’t want to linger in the pitiful casino. And you KNOW it’s bad when even the gift shop is so boring that kids want to leave without getting anything.

Midnytefire

9 years ago

I thought the Midway was cool at Circus Circus but I had no idea that the rooms were that bad. Thanks for the info. I stayed at the Mandalay Bay Four Seasons which was amazing.I will only bring kids to visit the Midway at Circus Circus not actually to stay in the rooms there. How sad.

Patrick King

9 years ago from Springfield, IL

Lucky for my wife and I, we stayed at the Mirage and it was awesome. The one thing we miss the most is the bed from the hotel. We have never stayed at hotel with such a comfort bed and pillows as the Mirage.

Mike Lickteig

10 years ago from Lawrence KS USA

Las Vegas offers the best of the best and the worst of the worst. Luckily, it is also possible to fall somewhere in between. There are plenty of reasonable places to stay in LV if your budget doesn’t allow for the Bellagio or other glamor spots on the strip.

Downtown is seen as a place to avoid, but the city has worked hard to clean it up over the last 5-10 years. Places like the Golden Nugget and Four Queens will offer decent rooms at reasonable rates.

Bargains can also be found on the Strip, especially in a down economy. Lots of empty rooms means lots of discounts and promotions.

I truly feel for anyone who has rented from the places mentioned here and others that are similar, because the side of Las Vegas that is not fun or glamorous is very near. It is definitely a city to be careful in while having fun.

Daniel Carter

10 years ago from Salt Lake City, Utah

Very accurate from my observations. I stayed (out of desperation) at Circus Circus manor motor lodge, and it was noisy, arguing, SM카지노 fights in parking lot, and rooms were sprayed to cover up cigarette smoke. YUCK. There are many rat holes in Vegas. Glad you are posting this info.

Peggy Woods

10 years ago from Houston, Texas

Wow! These all sounded like terrible experiences. I have only been to Las Vegas twice and stayed at the Mirage and at Circus Circus (NOT the manor motor lodge!) and loved our rooms.

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Alfred Ng / CNET This story is part of CES 2020, our complete coverage of the showroom floor and the hottest new tech gadgets around. Konami Gaming, a slot machine maker, wants to weave facial recognition into its one-armed bandits. During a visit to its Las Vegas headquarters to hear more about its plans, I quickly discovered what the world would be like if facial recognition is everywhere. 

“Hello, Alfred,” said a measured, robotic voice, startling me. It came from a kiosk called “Biometrics Welcome Console” positioned right next to the door of the conference room where my meeting was held. The kiosk knew who I was because Konami had set up a profile for me, using a public photo from my CNET bio without telling me. The facial recognition tagged me before I’d even said hello to the Konami team members in the room. 

I looked at the screen showing the photo the kiosk took of me when I walked in. The camera had caught just my eyes and nose. Still, the facial recognition software calculated it detected me with 60.5% accuracy.

“Any picture you use online can be used to identify you already,” Sina Miri, Konami’s vice president of innovation and strategic research and design, told me. Konami had also set up profiles of my colleagues at the visit, again without telling them.

Now playing: Watch this: Google’s Nest Hub Max smart display tracks your face 6:01 Throughout the interview, Konami’s facial recognition cameras followed us. They captured our images so many times that the kiosk kept greeting us long after the meeting started. Eventually, a Konami staffer resorted to covering her face with paper to keep the machine quiet while we stood out of its view.

The exchange, which Konami saw as a positive demonstration of its capabilities but which I viewed as an invasion of privacy, illustrates the fine line that facial recognition needs to walk. Technology companies can’t wait to incorporate the feature, which can be as benign as Face ID on your iPhone, into more gadgets and systems. But consumer advocates worry it’ll have a chilling effect on our private lives.

Konami set up a facial recognition profile for me using my CNET profile picture without telling me.

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Just as connecting a television to the internet was a fairly new concept in 2011, a world filled with facial recognition is essentially uncharted territory now. That might change fast. By 2019, analysts found that you couldn’t buy a new TV without an internet connection. Facial recognition companies want that sort of acceptance for their technology.

That means inserting FR, as the technology is called in shorthand, into every part of your life. You’ll experience it at the shopping mall, at school and in your own home. 

“Once it’s used in other industries, it’ll be in places everywhere,” said Tom Soukup, Konami’s senior vice president and chief systems products officer. “There’s going to be widespread customer acceptance within the next two, three years.”  

But facial recognition is used by police departments and government agencies for investigations, often without legal guidelines that protect citizens when it’s used. Lawmakers have raised concerns about, for example, the effect on free speech if police could use facial recognition to pinpoint and track protesters in a crowd. 

“This is a tech that threatens to supercharge our cameras and turn them into surveillance devices like never before,” said Jay Stanley, a senior policy analyst at the American Civil Liberties Union. 

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At CES, facial recognition appeared to be on the verge of wedging itself into spots it had never been before. The trade show itself implemented facial recognition for badge pickups for the first time, while LG showed off a door that could scan your face to unlock. A storage box for marijuana using facial recognition won a CES innovation award.

On Wednesday, Konami Gaming showed off its plans for implementing facial recognition in slot machines, explaining that gamblers could use their faces for loyalty and rewards programs from a casino. 

All it took was a capture of my eyes and nose and the facial recognition detected me in an instant.

Alfred Ng / CNET Konami’s Miri envisions a future in which facial recognition could enable pervasive, real-world online tracking for targeted advertising via Google and Facebook. 

“Once we face ID you, what we do is build a profile,” Miri said. “If we know your favorite drink is rum and coke, we can put an advertisement of a specific brand of rum where you are, for example.” 

Throughout the interview, Soukup referred to our faces as “QR codes,” reducing one of our most intimate, personal features to a machine-scannable jumble.

Soukup said Konami doesn’t have privacy officers who work on facial recognition development at its headquarters. Instead, the company has compliance officers, whose job is to make sure its technology meets the minimum standards of privacy laws like the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation, which includes provisions covering biometric information.

In the US, almost no regulations on facial recognition exist, outside of Illinois’s biometrics law. Everything that Konami did — taking my image without my permission to build a profile and then constantly tracking me in its office even though I never opted in — is completely legal. 

“We’re living in a wild west when it comes to privacy protections,” the ACLU’s Stanley said. “Most deployments of facial recognition aren’t empowering individuals, but they’re empowering the companies that lie behind those devices.”

How convenient?

Konami’s executives said that facial recognition would speed up the process for gamblers looking to get loyalty rewards points. Under the current system, it takes about a minute and a half. With the biometric, Miri says, it would take 30 seconds. 

You’d be exchanging a potential lifetime of facial tracking to save a minute. 

PopID, a facial recognition company based in California, is behind facial recognition for businesses like Deli Time and Stoner’s Pizza Joint. It’s also got its technology on the campuses of schools like Stanford University and University of Southern California. 

The company provided a similar comparison, saying it takes about 90 seconds to order food through facial recognition, compared to 3 minutes without it.

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Yale Goldberg, SM카지노 PopID’s vice president of strategy and business development, says the company’s facial recognition is in more than 100 locations that ring up more than 1,500 transactions per week. 

He says facial recognition will spread, pointing out the success it’s had at PopID’s parent company, Cali Burger.

“We have significantly more loyal top customers than we did before we had these kiosks. It’s because they know they can get this great experience every time,” Goldberg said. “They don’t need to add their onions and light ketchup and everything else. We know that for them. We make their lives easier.”

Facial recognition companies believe this technology will be everywhere in the next five years, arguing that the convenience will win over the public. 

But with unease building over technology companies’ invasion of privacy, more people are becoming aware of the strings attached to that convenience, the ACLU’s Stanley said.  

“We’ve seen a growing backlash against facial recognition in the country and growing understanding of the technology’s consequences,” Stanley said. “We need to be very, very wary about exchanging convenience for a world that we don’t recognize anymore.” 

Before leaving Konami’s office, I asked the company’s staff to delete the profile it had made of me, along with any other biometric data that its cameras collected during my visit. 

The staff deleted my profile but said they’d need to contact Konami’s biometric supplier to get rid of the data they collected on me. I wasn’t able to stay to see that happen.

After the story published, Konami apologized for building a facial recognition profile of us without our permission, and said that the company should have provided notice. 

“We did not mean to offend the team or make light of important values,” a Konami spokeswoman said. “We will ensure that the data associated with Wednesday’s visit is purged from our internal system and that of our biometric technology partner.”

id=”article-body” class=”row” section=”article-body”> At Konami’s headquarters in Las Vegas, its facial recognition powered cameras tracked me around the room.

Alfred Ng / CNET This story is part of CES 2020, our complete coverage of the showroom floor and the hottest new tech gadgets around. Konami Gaming, a slot machine maker, wants to weave facial recognition into its one-armed bandits. During a visit to its Las Vegas headquarters to hear more about its plans, I quickly discovered what the world would be like if facial recognition is everywhere. 

“Hello, Alfred,” said a measured, robotic voice, startling me. It came from a kiosk called “Biometrics Welcome Console” positioned right next to the door of the conference room where my meeting was held. The kiosk knew who I was because Konami had set up a profile for me, using a public photo from my CNET bio without telling me. The facial recognition tagged me before I’d even said hello to the Konami team members in the room. 

I looked at the screen showing the photo the kiosk took of me when I walked in. The camera had caught just my eyes and nose. Still, the facial recognition software calculated it detected me with 60.5% accuracy.

“Any picture you use online can be used to identify you already,” Sina Miri, Konami’s vice president of innovation and strategic research and design, told me. Konami had also set up profiles of my colleagues at the visit, again without telling them.

Now playing: Watch this: Google’s Nest Hub Max smart display tracks your face 6:01 Throughout the interview, Konami’s facial recognition cameras followed us. They captured our images so many times that the kiosk kept greeting us long after the meeting started. Eventually, a Konami staffer resorted to covering her face with paper to keep the machine quiet while we stood out of its view.

The exchange, which Konami saw as a positive demonstration of its capabilities but which I viewed as an invasion of privacy, illustrates the fine line that facial recognition needs to walk. Technology companies can’t wait to incorporate the feature, which can be as benign as Face ID on your iPhone, into more gadgets and systems. But consumer advocates worry it’ll have a chilling effect on our private lives.

Konami set up a facial recognition profile for me using my CNET profile picture without telling me.

Alfred Ng / CNET Meanwhile, facial recognition’s spread marches on. Over the last decade, anything you can think of — toothbrushes, televisions, cars, refrigerators and even beds — has been connected to the internet. Within the next 10 years, facial recognition companies hope to do the same with their technology. CES 2020, where many of these companies showed their wares, was a glimpse into what the future of surveillance could look like. The annual tech conference was a prime spot to help make the biometric service mainstream. 

Just as connecting a television to the internet was a fairly new concept in 2011, a world filled with facial recognition is essentially uncharted territory now. That might change fast. By 2019, analysts found that you couldn’t buy a new TV without an internet connection. Facial recognition companies want that sort of acceptance for their technology.

That means inserting FR, as the technology is called in shorthand, into every part of your life. You’ll experience it at the shopping mall, at school and in your own home. 

“Once it’s used in other industries, it’ll be in places everywhere,” said Tom Soukup, Konami’s senior vice president and chief systems products officer. “There’s going to be widespread customer acceptance within the next two, three years.”  

But facial recognition is used by police departments and government agencies for investigations, often without legal guidelines that protect citizens when it’s used. Lawmakers have raised concerns about, for example, the effect on free speech if police could use facial recognition to pinpoint and track protesters in a crowd. 

“This is a tech that threatens to supercharge our cameras and turn them into surveillance devices like never before,” said Jay Stanley, a senior policy analyst at the American Civil Liberties Union. 

Forward facing 

When everything became connected online in the last decade, the convenience came with some strings attached. For televisions, it meant that companies could start tracking people’s viewing habits and selling that data to advertisers. 

With facial recognition, it could happen on a broader scale. You can’t change your face the way you can change an advertising ID associated with your device. 

At CES, facial recognition appeared to be on the verge of wedging itself into spots it had never been before. The trade show itself implemented facial recognition for badge pickups for the first time, while LG showed off a door that could scan your face to unlock. A storage box for marijuana using facial recognition won a CES innovation award.

On Wednesday, Konami Gaming showed off its plans for implementing facial recognition in slot machines, explaining that gamblers could use their faces for loyalty and rewards programs from a casino. 

All it took was a capture of my eyes and nose and the facial recognition detected me in an instant.

Alfred Ng / CNET Konami’s Miri envisions a future in which facial recognition could enable pervasive, real-world online tracking for targeted advertising via Google and Facebook. 

“Once we face ID you, what we do is build a profile,” Miri said. “If we know your favorite drink is rum and coke, we can put an advertisement of a specific brand of rum where you are, for example.” 

Throughout the interview, Soukup referred to our faces as “QR codes,” reducing one of our most intimate, personal features to a machine-scannable jumble.

Soukup said Konami doesn’t have privacy officers who work on facial recognition development at its headquarters. Instead, the company has compliance officers, whose job is to make sure its technology meets the minimum standards of privacy laws like the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation, which includes provisions covering biometric information.

In the US, almost no regulations on facial recognition exist, outside of Illinois’s biometrics law. Everything that Konami did — taking my image without my permission to build a profile and SM카지노주소 then constantly tracking me in its office even though I never opted in — is completely legal. 

“We’re living in a wild west when it comes to privacy protections,” the ACLU’s Stanley said. “Most deployments of facial recognition aren’t empowering individuals, but they’re empowering the companies that lie behind those devices.”

How convenient?

Konami’s executives said that facial recognition would speed up the process for gamblers looking to get loyalty rewards points. Under the current system, it takes about a minute and a half. With the biometric, Miri says, it would take 30 seconds. 

You’d be exchanging a potential lifetime of facial tracking to save a minute. 

PopID, a facial recognition company based in California, is behind facial recognition for businesses like Deli Time and Stoner’s Pizza Joint. It’s also got its technology on the campuses of schools like Stanford University and University of Southern California. 

The company provided a similar comparison, saying it takes about 90 seconds to order food through facial recognition, compared to 3 minutes without it.

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Yale Goldberg, PopID’s vice president of strategy and business development, says the company’s facial recognition is in more than 100 locations that ring up more than 1,500 transactions per week. 

He says facial recognition will spread, pointing out the success it’s had at PopID’s parent company, Cali Burger.

“We have significantly more loyal top customers than we did before we had these kiosks. It’s because they know they can get this great experience every time,” Goldberg said. “They don’t need to add their onions and light ketchup and everything else. We know that for them. We make their lives easier.”

Facial recognition companies believe this technology will be everywhere in the next five years, arguing that the convenience will win over the public. 

But with unease building over technology companies’ invasion of privacy, more people are becoming aware of the strings attached to that convenience, the ACLU’s Stanley said.  

“We’ve seen a growing backlash against facial recognition in the country and growing understanding of the technology’s consequences,” Stanley said. “We need to be very, very wary about exchanging convenience for a world that we don’t recognize anymore.” 

Before leaving Konami’s office, SM카지노주소 I asked the company’s staff to delete the profile it had made of me, along with any other biometric data that its cameras collected during my visit. 

The staff deleted my profile but said they’d need to contact Konami’s biometric supplier to get rid of the data they collected on me. I wasn’t able to stay to see that happen.

After the story published, Konami apologized for building a facial recognition profile of us without our permission, and said that the company should have provided notice. 

“We did not mean to offend the team or make light of important values,” a Konami spokeswoman said. “We will ensure that the data associated with Wednesday’s visit is purged from our internal system and that of our biometric technology partner.”

id=”article-body” class=”row” section=”article-body”> A screenshot from 8chan owner Jim Watkins’ video responding to a shooting in Oslo, Norway.

Jim Watkins/YouTube 8chan owner Jim Watkins uploaded a video to YouTube on Sunday in response to media reports that incorrectly said an alleged gunman, accused of an attempted terrorist attack on a mosque in Norway on Saturday, posted on the message board prior to the incident. Watkins says in the video that the image board has been down, by choice, for the last week and it wouldn’t be possible to post anything to the site. 

“The website has been offline voluntarily for the last week,” he said in the video taken at the Sands Regency Casino Hotel in Reno, Nevada, according to the YouTube description. “It’s really really sad. Please don’t blame me.” 

Now playing: SM카지노 Watch this: What might happen to 8chan? (The Daily Charge, 8/7/2019) 6:06 Watkins says he will bring the site back online once he’s talked with “Homeland Security.” He’s likely referring to the House Committee on Homeland Security, which requested he appear in front of Congress to address the proliferation of extremist content on 8chan. 

“I want them to understand that we have nothing to do with this crazy violence that’s been happening,” he said. “I want them to understand what’s been going on because it’s obviously a smear by the press.”

A spokesperson for the Committee told CNET they have been in contact with Watkins. 

8chan, a site popular with extremists, has been largely offline since Aug. 5 after internet security company Cloudflare and other providers decided to stop working with the site. “They have proven themselves to be lawless, and that lawlessness has caused multiple tragic deaths,” Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince wrote in a blog post on Aug. 5.

The catalyst was a mass shooting that killed 22 people and injured another two dozen at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, on Aug. 3. A hate-filled manifesto from the suspected gunman was published on 8chan just before his attack. At least three gunman have posted manifestos to the site before shooting rampages this year. 

On Saturday, a man wearing body armor and a helmet, while carrying two “shotgun-like weapons and pistol,” attempted to fire on a mosque located outside of Oslo. The alleged gunman was stopped by a worshiper, according to The New York Times. When police searched the man’s house after the attempted shooting, they reportedly discovered the body of a dead woman. 

It appears the alleged attacker did post messages online prior to the incident, but on a different message board known as EndChan. The board’s Twitter account made a statement confirming that messages, images and a link to a Facebook livestream were posted by someone claiming to be the gunman, which were removed by moderators.

We just confirmed that someone claiming to be the Oslo shooter posted their Facebook stream and imgur links on our user-run politics board (which has denounced violence). Its moderators have deleted the thread. A manifesto was not posted.

— EndChan (@EndChanXYZ) August 12, 2019 The statement across multiple tweets said there had been an influx of users since 8chan’s shutdown. It says that the alleged shooter is “not representative of our regular user base” and that the site has had no similar incidents since it opened in 2015.

8chan administrators didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. 

Originally published Aug. 13, 8:21 a.m. PT.

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id=”article-body” class=”row” section=”article-body”> 8chan owner Jim Watkins was subpoenaed to appear before the US Committee on Homeland Security.

Jim Watkins Following two mass shootings, the US House Committee on Homeland Security on Wednesday subpoenaed 8chan owner Jim Watkins to testify as part of its efforts to counter “extremist content on social media.” The subpoena (PDF) orders Watkins to appear before the committee on Sept. 5 at 6:30 a.m. PT/9:30 a.m. ET.

On Aug. 4, nine people died in a shooting in a popular nightlife district in Dayton, Ohio. The day before, 20 people died in a shooting in a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, with another two victims dying two days later. Just prior SM카지노추천 to the El Paso attack, the suspected gunman posted a hate-filled statement on 8chan, an anonymous online forum.

Watkins is required to testify on “matters of inquiry” and is “not to depart without leave of said committee,” the subpoena states.

“At least three acts of deadly white supremacist extremist violence have been linked to 8chan in the last six months,” Rep. Bennie G. Thompson, committee chairman and a Democrat from Mississippi, and SM카지노추천 Rep. Mike Rogers, ranking member and a Republican from Alabama, said in a joint statement. “We have questions on what is being done to counter this trend so we can be sure it is being properly addressed. Receiving testimony from Mr. Watkins is critical to our oversight on this matter.”

The House Committee on Homeland 카지노사이트 Security originally requested on Aug. 6 that Watkins appear in front of Congress to address extremist content on 8chan.

Watkins said in a YouTube video Tuesday that 8chan has been down by choice for SM카지노주소 the past week until he speaks with “Homeland Security.” 

“The website has been offline voluntarily for the last week,” he said in a video filmed from the Sands Regency Casino Hotel in Reno, Nevada, according to the YouTube description. The video came in response to media reports that incorrectly stated an alleged gunman accused of an attempted terrorist attack on a mosque in Norway on Saturday posted on the 8chan message board prior to the incident.

“I want them to understand that we have nothing to do with this crazy violence that’s been happening,” he said. “I want them to understand what’s been going on because it’s obviously a smear by the press.”

Watkins lives in the Philippines but is currently in the US.

Following the El Paso shooting, 8chan has mostly been offline due to a series of hosting and security companies, starting with Cloudflare, deciding to stop working with the site.

CNET couldn’t find contact information for Watkins, and he hasn’t yet responded publicly to the subpoena. 

First published at 1:42 p.m. PT on Aug. 14.

Update, 3:27 p.m.: Adds statement from the House committee.

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