Tech News Today 1637

Megan Morrone and Jason Howell discuss a browser extension called Web of Trust Services that allows users to rate sites on trustworthiness and child safety for other users, and how it was found to be selling data it collected on its users to third parties. 9 to 5 Mac reports that Apple is not in the business of selling refurbished iPhones in its store. If you wondered why this is news, well, it's because they've never done it before. Samsung says sorry. GoPro just announced a recall of its $800 Karma drone. Project Wing, Alphabet’s Drone project, may be delivering Chipotle burritos to students, but it's not keeping them caffeinated. Sources to Bloomberg say that Starbucks Corporation was to become a partner in drone delivery of coffee, but Project Wing cancelled that arrangement, as well as putting a freeze on hiring and even going so far as to ask some of its staff to look for other jobs within the company. And Prisma, the Russian app that lets you turn photos and videos into art using deep learning, is now available in Facebook Live.

• Mike Murphy, Reporter from Quartz, talks about Snap Spectacles and Snapchat world filters.
• Android will not get a fix for the Dirty Cow vulnerability this month.

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Links

• Browsers nix add-on after Web of Trust is caught selling users' browsing histories
• Apple begins selling refurbished iPhones through its online store for the first time
• Samsung runs full-page apology ads over Galaxy Note 7 recall
• Prisma now supports real-time style transfer on Facebook Live
• Alphabet Taps Brakes on Drone Project, Nixing Starbucks Partnership
• Snapchat’s new update shows what it might be like to use Spectacles
• Facebook is testing a way to live broadcast Snapchat-like filters
• Facebook Manages to Squeeze an AI Into Its Mobile App
• Here’s Facebook’s Plan To Get You Chatting With Messenger Business Bots
• Nintendo's mini-sized classic console is worth the hype
• This Woman Got an Uber Ride from the Voice Behind AOL’s Iconic ‘You’ve Got Mail’ Message