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YouTube just banned supremacist content, and thousands of channels are about to be removed
YouTube is changing its community guidelines to ban videos promoting the superiority of any group as a justification for discrimination against others based on their age, gender, race, caste, religion, sexual orientation, or veteran status, the company said today. The move, which will result in the removal of all videos promoting Nazism and other discriminatory ideologies, is expected to result in the removal of thousands of channels across YouTube.
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What happens to our online identities when we die?
By 2100 there could be 4.9bn dead users on Facebook. So who controls our digital legacy after we have gone? As Black Mirror returns, we delve into the issue
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This Windows Flaw Is So Bad, Even the NSA Is Begging You to Update
It’s not every day that the National Security Agency urges you to update your computer.
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Firefox gets aggro blocking ads from tracking you online.
Browser makers are using privacy features to try to win us over.
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Michelin Rolls Out an Airless Tire That Will Be "Puncture-Proof"
Michelin Uptis passenger-car tires will be road tested on the Chevy Bolt EV and could be on sale as soon as 2024.
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YouTube decides that homophobic harassment does not violate its policies
The company sides with edgy commentator Steven Crowder
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The Surprising Complexity of Animal Memories
Chimpanzees, birds, and even rats have shown signs of reviewing their own past to prepare for the future.
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Facebook shareholder revolt gets bloody: Powerless investors vote overwhelmingly to oust Mark...
'Arrogance is not a substitute for good corporate governance,' said Michael Connor, who helped coordinate the symbolic action by activist investors.
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Inside Apple’s Earthquake-Ready Headquarters
The circular building housing Apple’s headquarters in Silicon Valley is so big, it’s nearly a mile in circumference. So it’s hard to fathom that it is not actually attached to the ground. The spaceship, as the building is often called, is a mammoth example of a technology that reduces earthquake shaking by as much as five times.
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Ocasio-Cortez: $10 trillion needed for effective climate plan
Freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) said Wednesday that any plan to sufficiently address the climate crisis will need to cost at least $10 trillion.
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Google Maps Is Going to Piss Off the Cops With Its Latest Update
Folks, I’ve got some great news if you’re a driver and some bad news if you’re a cop: Google has confirmed it’s rolling out the ability to see speed and mobile cameras, as well as speed limits, in more than 40 countries in Maps.
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What Does It Mean When a Product Is 'Amazon's Choice'?
It almost certainly doesn’t involve Amazon employees selecting products they think are the best.
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Brush your teeth -- postpone Alzheimer's
Researchers at the University of Bergen in Norway have discovered a clear connection between oral health and Alzheimer´s disease.
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The iPad finally outgrows iOS
As the iPad comes up on ten years since its introduction, the hardware has reached bold new heights but the software has been the limiting factor. Onstage at WWDC in San Jose, Apple announced that iPad’s software will now exist inside its own vertical OS. iPad OS.
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The guy who made a tool to track women in porn videos is sorry
The programmer supposedly used face recognition to match social-media photos with images from porn sites. Collecting that data would have been illegal in some countries but not others.
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The Uncertain Future of Sweden’s Floating Libraries
On the Boats Bringing Books to Thousands Who Need Them
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YouTube star banned for 5 years after feeding homeless man toothpaste-filled Oreos
A YouTube star has been banned from the platform for five years after he made a video tricking a homeless person into eating Oreo cookies filled with toothpaste and then joking they would clean him. 21-year-old Chinese YouTuber Kanghua Ren, creator of the popular channel ReSet, was given the unusual sentence by a judge for the video posted in January 2017.
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UK scientists create tiny shape-shifting 'surgeon' robots that can make cuts from...
Tiny shape-shifting robots that can make precise cuts within the human body and one day replace surgeons are being developed by scientists in Edinburgh.
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Maine lawmakers pass bill to prevent ISPs from selling browsing data without consent
Good news! Maine lawmakers have passed a bill that will prevent internet providers from selling consumers’ private internet data to advertisers. The state’s senate unanimously passed the bill 35-0 on Thursday following an earlier vote by state representatives 96-45 in favor of the bill.
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'We're Not Being Paranoid': U.S. Warns Of Spy Dangers Of Chinese-Made Drones
The Department of Homeland Security is warning about the dangers of using Chinese-made drones, while some lawmakers want to prevent transit systems from buying Chinese-made subway cars.
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GM fungus 'kills 99% of malaria mosquitoes'
A fungus has been genetically modified with spider venom to kill the mosquitoes that spread malaria.
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The Art of Doodling
To doodle is human, as these drawings from Stephen King, Queen Victoria, and more prove.
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A New York School District Will Test Facial Recognition On Students Even Though The State Asked...
The western New York school district says it is "confident" in its data collection policies.
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Assange 'subjected to psychological torture'
The UN's special rapporteur on torture says the Wikileaks founder is not fit to stand trial.
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The Collapsing Crime Rates of the ’90s Might Have Been Driven by Cellphones
Did technology disrupt the drug game, too?
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Why Las Vegas Is Betting on Elon Musk
Even if the Boring Company's “people mover” for the Las Vegas Convention Center is a bust, it helps burnish the city's high-tech brand.
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How to set your Google account to delete itself after you die
Here's how to configure your Google account so all of your data is shared with a loved one or friend, or deleted entirely, after you die.
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There's a scarily good 'deepfakes' YouTube channel that's quietly growing –...
Watch for yourself
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Microsoft hints at new modern Windows OS with ‘invisible’ background updates
Windows might be getting more like Chrome OS
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Autism symptoms replicated in mice after faecal transplants
Study aims to discover whether gut microbes play a part in development of the condition




















