The scariest Friday the 13th tech stories

Looks like the robots are finally coming to kill us! Well, not yet... But it sure seems likely we will have to fend for ourselves in the very near future. Here are some recent stories that seem to be steering us closer to that reality.

A woman was slowly eaten by her Roomba

This is a great headline and definitely better TV than Discovery’s “Eaten Alive”snake show. It appears that the Roomba’s have started to crave the taste of human hair and attacked a poor lady while she slept. Thankfully most of us simply do not sleep on the ground, but it’s only a matter of time before the Roomba’s figure this out!

Robots want to make balloon animals for you

This sounds pretty harmless, right? But just think of the kids who have no idea this balloon-bending bot is luring them into a false sense of security. Just like real clowns, they always sound nice but are hiding their true darkness behind their creepy painted faces.

Google thinks you should take your aggression out on a robot dog

The newest addition to the robot family is already being kicked around by its creators. And, of course, this path of building and abusing robots will only hurt their owners in the end! Every time you look at one of these robots, can’t you just imagine what would happen if they were let loose into some unsuspecting community? Who knows maybe this is already happening somewhere.

The U.S. Government hacked a car and turned the brakes off

We are headed toward a completely automated car future… our controls will be handed over to a robot who should be a better driver than us. But what happens when these controls can be compromised like our email accounts? Someone has to put the brakes on this before we literally can’t put the brakes on.

Your TV is snooping on you

It’s now possible to speak voice commands to your remote control and find that episode of Greys Anatomy you missed last night. What you don’t know is that these voice commands are also being stored on some server and it’s presumable that any private conversation could be descrambled by a third party. You can forget about yelling at your TV ever again because it could soon be a recorded offense! Perhaps it’s time to go back to the dumb TV…

While these stories are strange and a bit scary, it’s going to be a while before the Terminator rocks up on your doorstep!

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Written By: Christine Romans
CopyWriter at The Computer Guyz Cape Town