Strava’s fitness heatmaps are a ‘potential catastrophe’

The 2018 cybersecurity race to the bottom is off to an exciting start. First out of the gate is Strava — now widely known as the “social network for athletes” — and its reckless data-visualization “heat map” gimmick that revealed details of secret military bases around the world. It was the kind of incident deserving […]

YouTube’s heatmaps show where eyes linger in VR videos

YouTube’s growing library of VR content is a definite asset in Google’s struggle to dominate the virtual reality sphere. The video platform isn’t just improving the consumer experience either, as it did when it added shared virtual viewing rooms and live voice chat back in May. To help content creators figure out which parts of […]