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4 years ago+33 33 0 x 1Facebook sues analytics firm Rankwave over data misuse
Facebook might have another Cambridge Analytica on its hands. In a late Friday news dump, Facebook revealed that today it filed a lawsuit alleging South Korean analytics firm Rankwave abused its developer platform’s data...
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4 years ago+50 50 0 x 1Researchers Identify Sleep As A Key Reason Why Personality Traits Predict Longevity
Your personality traits play an important part in how long you are likely to live, as much as, or even more than, other personal factors like your intelligence and your family’s economic background. Now a study in the Journal of Research in Personali ...
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4 years ago+36 36 0 x 1Head injuries, broken bones plague e-scooter users as more data rolls in
A three-month period in Austin, Texas, saw 20 injuries per 100,000 rides.
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4 years ago+32 32 0 x 1Venezuela's opposition leader calls for military uprising to oust president
Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido has taken to the streets with detained activist Leopoldo Lopez and a small contingent of heavily armed soldiers in a military uprising but the country's president was defiant, saying top military leaders ...
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4 years ago+29 29 0'Overwork' kills 270 Indonesia poll staff
Scores of election workers have died, mostly of fatigue-related illnesses, an official says.
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5 years ago+24 24 0 x 1Ecuador legalized gangs. Murder rates plummeted.
A stunningly successful experiment has the potential to upend the US approach to deviance.
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5 years ago+7 7 0Why the Flow of Time Is an Illusion
Getting human feeling to match the math is an ultimate goal in physics.
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5 years ago+9 9 0'It's not play if you're making money': how Instagram and YouTube disrupted child labor laws
‘Kidfluencers’ are earning millions on social media, but who owns that money?
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5 years ago+25 25 0 x 1Twitter Won't Treat White Supremacy Like ISIS Because It'd Have to Ban Some GOP Politicians Too
A Twitter employee who works on machine learning believes that a proactive, algorithmic solution to white supremacy would also catch Republican politicians.
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5 years ago+26 26 0How to hide from the AI surveillance state with a color printout
AI-powered video technology is becoming ubiquitous, tracking our faces and bodies through stores, offices, and public spaces.
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5 years ago+35 35 0 x 1Sheryl Crow, Johnny Cash - Redemption Day (2019)
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5 years ago+37 37 0 x 1Downsized dwellings: Inside Tokyo's tiny living spaces
Twenty-five-year-old Sotaro Ito lives in a 9.46-square-meter apartment with a loft in the capital's retro-hip Koenji district...
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5 years ago+11 11 0When less is more: the beauty bloggers exposing the industry's wasteful secret
Anti-hauls, project pans, empties and declutter videos are becoming popular as bloggers expose the excesses of the beauty industry
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5 years ago+25 25 0‘I Make Six Figures As a Travel Influencer’
Former French teacher Oneika Raymond now gets paid to travel the world.
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5 years ago+30 30 0 x 1Buying College Essays Is Now Easier Than Ever. But Buyer Beware
What was once limited to small-scale side hustles has mushroomed into so-called essay mills on the Internet, becoming a global industry.
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5 years ago+28 28 0 x 1'Extraordinary' 500-year-old library catalogue reveals books lost to time
The Libro de los Epítomes was a catalogue for Hernando Colón’s 16th-century collection, which he intended to be the biggest in the world
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5 years ago+41 41 0 x 1Why Physicists Tried to Put a Ferret in a Particle Accelerator
Felicia had a job to do.
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5 years ago+28 28 0E-cigarettes 'do not promote smoking in teens'
"The sharp increase in the use of e-cigarettes has not led more British children to take up cigarettes or regard smoking as normal," The Guardian reports. There's been some concern about the popularity of e-cigarettes among young peopl ...
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5 years ago+13 13 0Goodbye, Google+: How Google's social network changed my life
Google+ was a quirky social site that no one really thought they needed, but I'll always be grateful to this dying platform for helping my find my voice, my community, and my dream job.
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5 years ago+35 35 0 x 1‘A Swiss cheese-like material’ that can solve equations | Penn Today
Engineering professor Nader Engheta and his team have demonstrated a metamaterial device that can function as an analog computer, validating an earlier theory.