Welcome to my first entire episode of 'What The Tech'! A new app is coming, called Catlateral Damage! In this game, you get to step into the paws of a feline and destroy things in your owner's household. The first person simulator puts you inside the mind of a cat. Your only goal is to leave a path of grand destruction through the owner's home by knocking as much stuff onto the floor as your animated cat arms will allow in two minutes. Catlateral damage isn’t full ready for prime time yet, but an alpha game play is currently free on Windows, Mac and Linux.
Welcome to a story that has irony written all over it. This week, California Senator Dianne Feinstein, claims to have had a scary run in with surveillance technology. She claims a drone was peeking into the window of her home, and was “inches from her face”. Updates are currently coming in that this “drone” was actually a tiny toy helicopter flown by NSA protestors from Code Pink. Not only was the little pink toy unarmed but photos taken that day show the helicopters did not have any cameras, proving they weren’t “looking in anywhere”.
Apple is going to refund customers at least 32.5 million after a settlement with the FTC. All because parents approving in app purchasing have no way of knowing the full extent of the charges they could incur during that window. I have a feeling that if parents paid a little more attention to what their children were doing on their tablets or smartphones, this wouldn't happen so often. Speaking of apps, Apple's App Store pulled a “kid friendly”, Barbie-inspired plastic-surgery app on Tuesday, following intense backlash fueled in part by a Twitter campaign. The game, which launched last week and was rated for children 9 and older, walked players through the graphic steps of liposuction that must be performed on an "unfortunate girl" to make her "slim and beautiful." I could not believe this was real when I first read it. Thank goodness they nixed it.