Amazon’s Alexa Recorded and Shared a Couple’s Conversation
 
Amazon’s Alexa Recorded and Shared a Couple’s Conversation

Amazon’s Alexa Recorded and Shared a Couple’s Conversation News station KIRO 7 reported a Portland couple’s conversation was recorded and sent to one of their contacts via their Amazon Echo device. They found out when the husband’s employee called him saying, via KIRO 7 The voice-activated assistant is used by more than 60 million U.S. consumers, according to Bloomberg. But what will happen if these devices become digital spies within our homes? Daniel Kahn Gillmor, Daniel Kahn Gillmor, to Bloomberg Daniel Kahn Gillmor, to Bloomberg Amazon Inc. issued a statement that the incident in Portland is an “extremely rare occurrence,” and the company did not state whether it was a bug or
due to hacking.

7 MLB Teams With the Best Odds of Making the Playoffs
 
7 MLB Teams With the Best Odds of Making the Playoffs

7 MLB Teams With the Best Odds of Making
the Playoffs, via Westgate Las Vegas SuperBook 5. Boston Red Sox (-310) 4. Chicago Cubs (-360) 3. New York Yankees (-400) 2. Washington Nationals (-700) 1. (3 tied for -1100) Astros, Indians and Dodgers

Nevada sports books suffer record $11.4M loss after World Series
 
Nevada sports books suffer record $11.4M loss after World Series

Nevada sports books lost a record $11.4 million on baseball in November after bettors cashed on the Astros beating the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 7 and on futures wagers on Houston to win the World Series. It was the largest baseball loss ever suffered in a month by the state’s sports books, according to Michael Lawton, the Nevada Gaming Control Board’s senior research analyst. The books’ previous record baseball loss was $6.2 million in November 1999, when bettors cashed their winning tickets on the New York Yankees following their World Series sweep of the Atlanta Braves. The state’s casinos won $909 million overall, including $274.7 million on penny slots.

Las Vegas airport on course for record passenger traffic
 
Las Vegas airport on course for record passenger traffic

For a 6th straight month, McCarran International Airport logged more than 4 million airline passengers. The numbers are from August, the Clark County Aviation Department reported. More than 4.24 million airline passengers arrived or departed from the nation’s 8th-busiest airport last month. That’s a 3.6 percent jump from the same period in 2016, a spokeswoman said. County aviation director Rosemary Vassiliadis has said she believes McCarran will set a record this year. The current record of 47.8 million airline passengers was set in 2007.