Uber Record your rides for shared peace of mind

 Record your rides for shared peace of mind

We’ve heard from riders that they feel more confident knowing a trip is recorded. It sets a professional tone and encourages respectful behavior for everyone in the car.*

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Your Record My Ride questions, answered:

How does recording work?

Your phone works like a built-in dashcam— no extra cost, setup or hardware needed

When does recording start and stop?

Recording only happens during trips, so off-trip conversations are never recorded.

Will my phone calls be recorded?

No. Recording pauses automatically if you receive a call, so personal conversations are never captured.

Is Uber listening as the recording is happening?

Nope, the recording is encrypted and Uber cannot listen to or watch the recording unless it is attached to a safety report.

Do riders know I’m recording?

Yes, riders are notified before the trip starts when recording is on, which can help encourage more positive interactions.

changes to how wire transfers and ACH (external bank transfers)

 This is a service update email from Bank of America explaining changes to how wire transfers and ACH (external bank transfers) will work in their Mobile and Online Banking system starting in July.

Here’s the simple breakdown:

What is changing (temporary limitations)

During the upgrade period:

• ❌ You cannot set up recurring wire or ACH transfers
  (no repeating monthly/weekly transfers)
• ❌ You cannot schedule future-dated transfers
  (everything must be sent “now” / same-day only)
• ⚠️ You can still do one-time transfers, but they must be immediate

So basically: fewer scheduling features temporarily.

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What will still work

• ✔ One-time wire transfers
• ✔ One-time ACH transfers to other banks
• ✔ Sending money to your own external accounts or someone else’s

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What they are improving

After the upgrade, they will add:

• 📊 Better transfer tracking (see status after sending money)
• 📜 18 months of transfer history in the app
• 📱 Easier ACH transfers through Mobile Banking (more user-friendly system)

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Recipient list transfer

• People/accounts you’ve paid in the last 24 months will be moved automatically
• If something is missing or incorrect, you’ll need to re-add them manually

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Important warning (practical impact)

If you:

• already scheduled recurring transfers, or
• set up future-dated payments before the upgrade,

they may delay or disrupt your transition, so they are warning you ahead of time.

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What you should do

If you use this bank for transfers:

• Set up any important recurring payments before the change
• Don’t rely on future scheduling during the transition period
• Double-check your saved recipients after the update

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Bottom line

Bank of America is upgrading its transfer system.
For a short period, they’re removing scheduling features, but in return you’ll get better tracking, history, and a more modern transfer system later.

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This is Starlink’s Global Privacy Policy

 This is Starlink’s Global Privacy Policy. It explains how Starlink may collect, use, share, protect, and keep your personal information.

2. How do they collect your personal information?
Starlink may collect information from you when you use their website, app, account, or Starlink service. This can include your name, email, address, payment details, device information, and service usage.

3. How and why do they use your information?
They may use your information to provide internet service, manage your account, process payment, give customer support, improve services, send updates, follow laws, and protect security.

4. Who do they share your information with?
They may share your information with service providers, payment processors, legal authorities, business partners, or other companies when needed. It does not always mean they sell your information, but they may share it for service or legal reasons.

5. How do they protect your information?
They use technology, physical security, and company rules to protect your data. They also encrypt information sent to and from Starlink equipment. But they say no system is 100% safe.

6. Your privacy rights
You may have the right to see, update, delete, restrict, or object to the use of your personal information. To request this, you can email: privacy@spacex.com. They may ask you to prove your identity first.

7. Children’s privacy
Starlink says they do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16. If they find out they collected a child’s information, they will delete it.

8. Data retention
They keep your personal information as long as needed. Starlink account information is usually kept for the life of the account plus 2 years, unless the law requires longer.

9. Third-party websites
If Starlink links to another website, Starlink is not responsible for that website’s privacy rules. You should check the other website’s privacy policy.

10. Changes to the policy
Starlink can update this policy. If you keep using Starlink after updates, it means you agree to the new policy.

11. Contact
For privacy questions, email privacy@spacex.com.
Mail address: SpaceX, 1 Rocket Road, Hawthorne, CA 90250.

Important part:
This policy says you can opt out of some marketing emails. It also says you may be able to opt out of using your data for AI model training by going to your user settings.

5 Inventions That Failed Spectacularly

 From the wheel to the light bulb, innovation has played a central role in the story of human civilization. But history’s inventors also left behind a trail of misfires, failures, and downright disasters. Here are five ideas that promised to make life better, safer, or more efficient, but turned out to be spectacular flops.

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Baby Cages

In the early 20th century, crowded cities such as New York and London grappled with widespread tuberculosis. At the time, one common treatment was fresh air, prescribed by figures including the influential pediatrician Luther Emmett Holt. In his 1894 book, The Care and Feeding of Children, Holt wrote that babies exposed to fresh air enjoyed better appetites, brighter cheeks, and improved health.

Enter the baby cage — a wire enclosure fastened to an open window, which allowed apartment dwellers to suspend infants several stories above city streets to “air them out.” The first U.S. patent was granted to Emma Read of Spokane, Washington, in 1922, though the idea had circulated earlier. The baby cage briefly caught on, notably among members of the Chelsea Baby Club in London. Even Eleanor Roosevelt used one for her infant daughter Anna, until a horrified neighbor threatened to call the New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. Baby cages declined in the second half of the 20th century, largely due to safety concerns.

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X-Ray Shoe Fitters 

In the 1940s and ’50s, shoe stores across the U.S. offered customers a peek inside their shoes. The shoe-fitting fluoroscope was a wooden box that displayed real-time moving X-ray images of customers’ feet. Invented by Boston physician Jacob Lowe in 1919, the device was originally designed to diagnose foot problems in World War I veterans, and was repurposed for retail use after the war.

Though the X-ray technology was real, the device was essentially a marketing gimmick to help shoe sellers boost sales by lending the fitting process a scientific veneer. But that was the least of the invention’s issues — the fluoroscopes emitted dangerous doses of radiation that far exceeded the maximum safe daily dose. As a result of growing awareness around the dangers of radiation, shoe-fitting fluoroscopes were banned by the late 1950s.

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Thomas Edison’s “Little Monsters”

Even the illustrious Thomas Edison had his flops. In 1890, the inventor unveiled the world’s first talking doll, a technological milestone that combined phonograph technology with the classic toy. The 4-pound, 22-inch doll had a porcelain head, wooden limbs, and a tin torso that housed a miniature phonograph. Turning a crank on the doll’s back played wax recordings of nursery rhymes such as “Mary Had a Little Lamb” and “Jack and Jill.”

Unfortunately, Edison’s dolls didn’t speak so much as screech. Due to the low recording volume, the women voicing the rhymes were required to scream into the recorder, resulting in creepy recordings that upset customers. The dolls were also plagued by durability issues and were prone to breaking. Parents complained, children were terrified, and many of the 2,650 dolls sold were returned. Within weeks, Edison withdrew them from the market, ruefully calling them his “little monsters.” Today, Edison’s “monsters” are considered rare collector’s items and have been displayed at the Smithsonian.

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The Isolator

Science fiction pioneer Hugo Gernsback — founder of Amazing Stories magazine and namesake of the Hugo Awards — was also a prolific inventor. In 1925, he introduced one of his strangest creations: the Isolator, a helmet designed to eliminate distractions and maximize focus.

Made of wood and felt, the helmet completely enclosed the wearer’s head, leaving only narrow slits for vision. After realizing that people became drowsy inside the helmet after 15 minutes, partly due to oxygen deprivation, Gernsback added an oxygen tank connected to the helmet by a tube. He claimed the device was 75% efficient and predicted it would be a “great investment” for anyone in need of focus. Though the Isolator never caught on, its spirit lives on in noise-canceling headphones and focus apps.

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Anti-Bandit Bag

In the 1950s and ’60s, inventors sought clever ways to foil thieves — and few were as dramatic as the Anti-Bandit Bag. One of the most famous versions was debuted by French Canadian inventor John H.T. Rinfret in 1963. Rinfret, inspired by his experience of being robbed, designed a bag with a spring-loaded handle, which enabled the carrier to launch the bag’s contents all over the place in the event of a robbery.

Other anti-bandit bags spewed smoke and dye or triggered shrieking alarms when snatched. One model, aptly named the “Arrestor,” clamped onto the thief’s hand and blasted out three 12-foot telescoping metal rods, preventing the robber’s escape. None of these designs reached mass production, likely due to their unwieldiness, dubious efficacy, and potential to be triggered accidentally.

Calico cats are considered good luck.

 Calico cats are considered good luck.

That’s the reason maneki-neko are so often depicted as calicos. The “beckoning cat” figurines found throughout Japan and at Japanese and Chinese establishments around the world are intended as tokens of good fortune, with one of their paws raised high in a waving motion. This dates back to the tradition of Japanese sailors traveling with calicos to bring about safe passage — the multicolored cats were believed to be able to chase away storms and ancestral ghosts. In the United States and England, meanwhile, male calicos are considered especially lucky because of their rarity.

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