Facebook's ad targeting and the subsequent data collection strategies have already enraged users. Recently, we learned how Facebook stretches out its authority over phone numbers used for two-factor authentication by the users, for ad targeting. And now, Facebook seems geared up to collect users' data through a brand new method. This time, it may use its latest launch Facebook Portal, for the purpose. Facebook Portal is an amalgamation of smart camera and home assistant technologies. The camera repositions itself and zooms automatically, using AI, to keep a moving person in focus.

IN DECEMBER OF 2016, a team of researchers showed up at Romy Camargo's house with a better-than-average holiday gift. The front of the nondescript silver box lowered--like one of those spaceship doors from Star Wars, minus the dramatic clouds of vapor--to reveal a fetching robot, with cameras for eyes and a flatscreen for a hat. With the assistance of its human handlers, the Human Support Robot, as Toyota calls it, wheeled into Camargo's home on a mission: to support the quadriplegic veteran and in the process pave the way for truly useful care robots. Click here to see the video.

In December of 2016, a team of researchers showed up at Romy Camargo's house with a better-than-average holiday gift. The front of the nondescript silver box lowered--like one of those spaceship doors from Star Wars, minus the dramatic clouds of vapor--to reveal a fetching robot, with cameras for eyes and a flatscreen for a hat. With the assistance of its human handlers, the Human Support Robot, as Toyota calls it, wheeled into Camargo's home on a mission: to support the quadriplegic veteran and in the process pave the way for truly useful care robots. First, though, the HSR had to surmount a host of obstacles. That's why self-driving cars are so promising: Urban planners have certain rules for signage, for instance, that the car can read.

Toyota's been working on a few great projects aimed at helping people with limited mobility, and they've made a big announcement today. They have completed their first North American in-home trial of HSR, the Human Support Robot. The company worked with Romulo Camargo, a veteran who sustained serious injuries in Afghanistan. He's now paralyzed from the waist down. HSR's mission was to make Camargo's life easier and improve his quality of life; it helped him open doors and brought him water and snacks. The HSR is lightweight and is equipped with a telescoping, articulated arm with a soft, flexible hand.