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Facebook estimates hate speech seen in 1 out of 1000 views on its platform
Facebook Inc for the first time on Thursday disclosed numbers on the prevalence of hate speech on its platform, saying that out of every 10,000 content views in the third quarter, 10 to 11 included hate speech.
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Apple cuts its App Store commission from 30% to 15% — if your apps earn less than $1M
Apple announced today that it’s reducing its App Store commission to 15% for developers earning less than $1 million a year. The company has made this cut from the 30% commission is previously charged. The new announcement comes as a part of Apple‘s “App Store Small Business Program” initiative. Under this project, only developers whose apps cumulatively earn less than $1 million per year can qualify.
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Sun-Like Star Identified As the Potential Source of the Wow! Signal
The Big Ear Radio Telescope in Delaware, Ohio, was disassembled in 1998 having operated for over 30 years. It was replaced by a golf course. Big Ear was never the world’s biggest radio telescope, nor its most sensitive. But Big Ear nevertheless made one of the most famous observations in the history of astronomy, one that till this day has never been explained.
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Yes, people are still using '123456' and 'password' as their password
When it comes to updating passwords, we are creatures of habit -- and change is hard.
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Apple settles with states for $113M over iPhone battery throttling
The problem wasn't so much what Apple did, states said, as what Apple hid.
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Google Pay’s massive relaunch makes it an all-encompassing money app
Google says all of this data won’t be used for ads, but it’s still a lot of data to give to Google.
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The Rise and Fall of Getting Things Done
How personal productivity transformed work—and failed to.
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Robotic dogs to start patrolling Florida military base
Fido, meet F1d0. Newly developed robotic K9s will soon be prowling Tyndall Air Force Base in Panama City, Florida, to enhance security and surveillance patrolling, Florida Insider reported Monday.
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If graphene batteries do everything scientists say, they could be a gamechanger
Imagine you’re cruising down the freeway in your new electric car, equipped with the latest graphene battery. You notice you’re running low on juice, so you pull over at a rest stop, plug it in, and head inside to grab a pizza. By the time you’re done and back outside, your car is already nearly charged — and ready for another uninterrupted 300 miles.
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Why NASA wants to put a nuclear power plant on the moon
NASA plans to build a nuclear power plant on the moon and Mars to support its long-term exploration plans.
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The Hot New Covid Tech Is Wearable and Constantly Tracks You
Sports leagues, large employers and colleges are turning to devices that could usher in more invasive forms of surveillance.
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Yelp is Screwing Over Restaurants By Quietly Replacing Their Phone Numbers
The phone numbers add tracking before connecting to a restaurant so that Grubhub can bill for a marketing fee.
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Most statin problems caused by mysterious 'nocebo effect', study suggests
Issues are not caused by the drug but by people believing it will make them sick, a study suggests.
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Google is killing unlimited free storage for Photos, Docs, and Drive — but Pixel owners get an...
Free unlimited Google storage has seven months to live. Starting June 1 2021, Google will cap free cloud photos and document storage, it said.
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Google Warns Google Drive Users: Use It, Or Lose Your Files
It's 10 p.m. Do you know where your files are? Google announced a new storage policy Wednesday governing user accounts, and while most of the resulting headlines focused of a new price tag for Google Photos, an important change went mostly overlooked. Notably, going forward, Google says that if you don't check in on your Google Drive files every now and then, it may delete them.
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The economy as we knew it might be over, Fed Chairman says
The Covid-19 pandemic brought the economy to a screeching halt, and while it has started its long road to recovery, the economy we knew is probably a thing of the past, said Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell on Thursday.
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Guido van Rossum, the Python language's founder, joins Microsoft
No, that's not a misprint. The famed open-source developer has come out of retirement to join Microsoft Developer Division and continue his work on the Python language.
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Privacy Tools
You are being watched. Private and state-sponsored organizations are monitoring and recording your online activities. PrivacyTools provides services, tools and knowledge to protect your privacy against global mass surveillance.
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A Native health center asked for COVID-19 medical supplies. It got body bags instead.
"Are we going to keep getting body bags or are we going to get what we actually need?" a Seattle Indian Health Board official asked.
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New device puts music in your head — no headphones required
LONDON (AP) — Imagine a world where you move around in your own personal sound bubble. You listen to your favorite tunes, play loud computer games, watch a movie or get navigation directions in...
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Elon Musk’s Totally Awful, Batshit-Crazy, Completely Bonkers, Most Excellent Year
In 2020, the COVID-doubting, media-hating Twitterholic CEO became the third-richest man alive, SpaceX launched two astronauts into orbit, and Tesla became the most valuable car company on the planet. Inside the mind of Silicon Valley’s most vainglorious villain.
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Ring Recalls 350,000 Video Doorbells Over Fire Risk; Injuries Reported
Ring has issued a recall over its second generation video doorbells as the batteries can overheat, potentially causing fires or burns. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission on Tuesday said the device’s battery can overheat when the incorrect screws are used for installation. About 350,000 units sold in the country were part of the recall, according to CPSC.
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YouTube went down around the world, but it’s now fixed
The outage seemed to be widespread.
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New MacBook Air specs: a comical difference for a good reason
A number of people commented on what appears to be a comical difference in the new MacBook Air specs, between the $999 base model and the $1249 version. Both models have an 8-core CPU with 4 performance cores and 4 efficiency cores, along with a 16-core Neural Engine. But while the higher-spec model has an 8-core GPU – also seen in the new MacBook Pro and Mac mini – the base model only has a 7-core GPU...
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Social media is making a bad political situation worse
America’s polarization problem is bigger than we thought it would be.
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Norway pioneered electric ferries. Now it's making them self-driving
With medieval origins and a quaint, colorful port, the low-rise Norwegian city of Trondheim doesn't look very futuristic. But the former Viking capital is making waves with a pioneering transport initiative: a zero-emissions, self-driving electric ferry.
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The big Xbox Series S interview: why Microsoft made an entry-level next-gen console
"For me, it was an easy decision - let's go do this."
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BMW Backed Impeller Thrusted Electric Wingsuit Can Fly at 185 MPH
The suit can achieve horizontal speeds of 186 mph (300 km/h) whereas regular ones can only achieve about 62 mph (100 km/h). Get more details inside.
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A vicious culture war is tearing through Wikipedia
Edit-warring was already common as India descended into political polarisation. Then along came Covid-19
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'Nobody can block it': how the Telegram app fuels global protest
The controversial messaging app has moved huge crowds on the streets of Belarus. But who is its secretive puppet master?
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