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UPDATE: I got a letter from David Ford, the toothless inmate who got dentures after my story. 3D printers to make more teeth are now being installed, he says -& the other inmates are calling him a hero
So grateful to be a part of this. #journalismmatters chron.com/news/houston-texas…
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Wow! China Airport face recognition systems to help you check your flight status and find the way to your gate. Note I did not input anything, it accurately identified my full flight information from my face!
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Phone number is such a private, important security link. But Facebook will even let you be targeted for ads through phone numbers INCLUDING THOSE PROVIDED *ONLY* FOR SECOND FACTOR AUTHENTICATION. Messing with 2FA is the anti-vaccination misinformation of security. Unconscionable.
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This is so crazy: even if you deliberately don't include your mobile number in your Facebook profile, they'll harvest it when you use it for two-factor authentication, and let advertisers target you with it. gizmodo.com/facebook-is-givi…
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The Internet began as ARPAnet, named for the @DeptofDefense's ARPA: blogs.scientificamerican.com…
@vgcerf & Bob Kahn developed TCP/IP while working on a US government grant.
@GOPChairwoman is right about 1 thing: the Internet DID come "from the greatness of America":
our government.
According to the chair of the Republican Party, the internet's creation had nothing to do with the government. washingtonpost.com/politics/…
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Once hailed as unhackable, blockchains are now getting hacked trib.al/KMdOkVs
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Now do you understand how Facebook makes its money, Senator Do Nothing? techcrunch.com/2019/02/26/fa…
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Satellite project led by @UniOfSurrey successfully tests a harpoon system designed to capture space junk in orbit surrey.ac.uk/news/harpoon-su…
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Uh, the kid took a screenshot of the Siri response to his saying "I am going to shoot up a school.", and posted the image to social media, which caused some of his contacts to notify police and *that* is what got him detained by cops, not his initial Siri inquiry.
Boy “jokes” to Siri about shooting up a school—then cops arrest him arstechnica.com/tech-policy/… by @binarybits
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I wrote about a microbiology experiment that is supposed to last 500 years. The last vial of bacteria will be opened in 2514—assuming, you know, the world still exists and everything theatlantic.com/science/arch…
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The Vine is a prosthesis with 26 articulated vertebrae by Kelly Knox and the Alternative Limb Project.
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Footage of China's #Yutu2 rover on the Moon's far side, captured by the Chang'e-4 lander. Via @CGTNOfficial youtube.com/watch?v=Vg9GBSHf… ht @LaunchStuff
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Good splashdown of Dragon confirmed, completing SpaceX’s fourth resupply mission to and from the @Space_Station with a flight-proven spacecraft.
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Zuckerberg Hospital, which is named after the Facebook founder, has the most exploitive billing experts have been able to find.
They refuse almost all insurance, leaving vulnerable people to pay 5 and 6 figure bills, even though they are insured.
vox.com/policy-and-politics/…
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Roy Allela’s six-year-old niece was born deaf. She found it difficult to communicate with her family, none of whom knew sign language.
So Allela – a 25-year-old Kenyan, invented smart gloves that convert sign language movements into audio speech.
Digital Village KPFK retweeted
An Israeli spyware firm has named itself after an invisible bloodsucking catfish said to swim up men’s urethras. 🐟
haaretz.com/israel-news/busi…
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#Google Shifted €19.9 billion ($22.6b) to Bermuda through Netherlands in '17, reports Dutch financial daily Het Financieele Dagblad citing annual accounts of the company.
Bermuda's GDP is $5.9 billion or 26% of what Google sent in 2017, by the way...
H/T @vergauwenwout
