February 17th, 2022 | No Comments »
Apple announced the development of a smart wedding ring called iRing
In February 2022, rumours started to circulate on social media that Apple was developing a smart wedding ring called “iRing” that would allow married couples to track down their partners’.
Apple ‘iRing’ Smart Wedding Ring Is Concept Art Mixed with Satire
In fact, Apple has not made any announcements about the development of a smart wedding ring. The image above appears to be the combination of an old piece of satirical news and an older piece of concept art.
And, the image in this meme was created by product designer Emily Soto in 2007. The picture shows a piece of concept art for a non-existent product but, does not show a genuine Apple product. Emily Soto wrote on her Behance page that the original idea for this Bluetooth ring was that it would be able to control the “playback functionality” of Apple devices. The original concept page does not mention of the ability to monitor your marital partner, whereabout.
The viral 2022 meme seems to have also borrowed from a satirical article that was published in 2016 on the since-defunct website “fakingnews.” That article claimed that Apple was developing a product called “iDo” that could signal your partner’s mood by changing colours and remind you of important dates and anniversaries. The fictitious article also claimed that the iDo had a “Moral Messenger” feature that would alert partners about the other’s immoral deeds. We rate this FALSE.
Though Apple is not developing a smart wedding ring but, smart rings do exist in the market. These rings tend to have various sensors that can monitor physical activity, heartbeats and sleep patterns but, we have yet found any smart rings on the market with a “moral messenger” feature.
“No, Apple Isn’t Making a Paired Wedding Ring Set to Spy on a Spouse.” AppleInsider
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Tags: Apple, Apple iRing, Apple Products, Emily Soto, fake news, smart rings, technology
February 12th, 2022 | No Comments »
Keanu Reeves wrote or uttered a long message asserting that “Humans are about to release themselves of the matrix.”
In February 2022, an old quotation falsely attributed to the Hollywood star Keanu Reeves regained prominence on social media. It contained the type of generic new-age rhetoric about mental slavery, consumerism, and spirituality that has become especially popular among opponents of COVID-19-era restrictions and mandates. It typically began “Humans are about to [release themselves/break free] from the matrix” and “A war is underway that will shape the future of human existence…:”
A notorious purveyor of junk news and conspiracy theories strikes again.
In reality, this came from a four-year-old article published by a notorious purveyor of fabricated nonsense. The screed did not originate in anything Reeves actually wrote or uttered. And we are rating this article FALSE.
The truth is the original source was a Feb. 2, 2018 article posted by a junk news website with a long track record of producing fabricated and sensationalized conspiracy theories and other nonsense – YourNewsWire.com
In 2018, the creators rebranded the site as Newspunch.com, and continue to produce inflammatory disinformation
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Tags: entertainment, False, Keanu Reeves, Keanu Reeves Quotes, Questionable Quotes, Quotes
February 12th, 2022 | No Comments »
Ski events at the 2022 Olympic Games took place near a nuclear power plant.
In February 2022, as the Winter Olympic Games kicked off in Beijing, rumours started to circulate on social media. Most social media fans were a little surprised to see that some of the ski events were being held on what looked to some like the remnants of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.
While these tweets were likely posted humorous – the Chernobyl nuclear disaster took place in Ukraine in 1986, while the 2022 Olympics are being held in China and many people appeared to believe that the large structures in the background belonged to a nuclear power plant.
Though the photos are real, but this is not the site of a nuclear power plant now, much less that of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Those structures are not nuclear silos. In fact, this ski event took place near an old steel mill, with furnaces, chimney stacks, and old silos visible in the background. We rate this as Miscaptioned.
CNN reported:
Behind the skiers launching themselves off the 60-meter-high (196-foot) ramp are furnaces, tall chimney stacks and cooling towers on the site of a former steel mill that for decades contributed to the Chinese capital’s notoriously polluted skies.
The mill, founded in 1919, ceased operations more than 15 years ago, as part of efforts to clear the air in the capital ahead of the 2008 Summer Olympics.
According to NPR, some of those silos have been converted into office spaces, while others were used to make snow for the Olympic games.
The host of “Morning Edition,” Steve Inskeep, and reporter Emily Feng discussed the Olympics’ steel mill setting
No, the Olympics’ Big Air Ski Jump Isn’t next to a Beijing Nuclear Power Plant.
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Tags: 2022 Olympic Games Beijing, 2022 Winter Olympics, Chernobyl, china, miscaptioned, nuclear power plant, Ski events, Sports
