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2521.
Spain's coronavirus antibodies study adds evidence against herd immunity
Spain's large-scale study on the coronavirus indicates just 5% of its population has developed antibodies, strengthening evidence that a so-called herd immunity to Covid-19 is "unachievable," the medical journal the Lancet reported on Monday.
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2522.
Internet speeds were awful, so these rural Pennsylvanians put up their own wireless tower
The Rural Broadband Cooperative's fixed wireless system offers customers high-speed internet in a connectivity desert in Mifflin and Huntingdon Counties.
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2523.
A plan to redesign the internet could make apps that no one controls
In 1996 John Perry Barlow, cofounder of internet rights group the Electronic Frontier Foundation, wrote “A declaration of the independence of cyberspace.” It begins: “Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the…
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2524.
The 5 most over-hyped tech devices
We love our gadgets and new tech, but sometimes we -- or their makers -- get way too excited about them. Sometimes, though, great successes emerge from these failures.
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2525.
How Much It Sucks to Be a Sri Lankan Worker Making Beyoncé's New Clothing Line
According to a newspaper investigation, the sweatshop workers making the Ivy Park collection for Topshop are only making 64 cents an hour. We ask an expert on the Sri Lankan clothes industry just how bad the situation really is.
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2526.
Google Maps releases new features to help people navigate coronavirus hot spots
Google Maps has launched new features to help users safely get around during the coronavirus pandemic. More than 11 million people worldwide have contracted the virus, according to Johns Hopkins University, and 500,000 have died.
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TikTok's Boogaloo extremism problem
Extremists have found a home on Tiktok, and the platform is working out what to do about it.
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2528.
The Walkman, Forty Years On
The gadget that taught the world to socially distance.
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2529.
Court sides with publisher of tell-all book by Trump's niece
A version of this article first appeared in the "Reliable Sources" newsletter. You can sign up for free right here. Bad news for President Trump and his younger brother, Robert Trump, who has been trying to block an unflattering tell all book by the President's niece, Mary Trump, that Simon & Schuster is set to publish in July.
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2530.
Microsoft is force-feeding Edge to Windows users with a spyware-like install
Forced automatic updates were bad enough.
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2531.
US rivers and lakes are shrinking for a surprising reason: cows
Cattle-feed crops, which end up as beef and dairy products, account for 23% of water consumption in the US
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San Francisco apartment rent prices are dropping fast as tech companies embrace remote work and...
According to Zumper, the median rental price for a one-bedroom apartment in San Francisco fell 11.8% year over year, from $3,720 to $3,280, beating May's 9% drop
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2533.
Bizarre new planet is largest known rocky world, 40 times as massive as Earth
The bulky object—possibly the core of a failed gas giant—challenges what astronomers think about how planets form.
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Jeffrey Epstein friend Ghislaine Maxwell arrested on child sex abuse conspiracy, perjury charges
The case against Jeffrey Epstein, a former friend of Presidents Donald Trump and Bill Clinton, and Prince Andew, has ensnared his ex-girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell.
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Nonprofit ad campaign targets Facebook’s oversight board
Facebook's content oversight board hasn't met yet, but it's already the focus of calls to "speak up" or "step down." Accountable Tech, a progressive nonprofit, launched a campaign Tuesday to persuade the members of Facebook's independent oversight board to demand more authority over content decisions. It is several months before the board will start reviewing cases.
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2536.
California Police Are Using Copyright to Hide Surveillance Documents
California police are refusing to release documents about the surveillance technology it uses, despite a new law that requires their release.
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Aon to restore most salaries cut by COVID-19 pandemic — and pay employees back what they gave up
Two months after cutting pay for most employees by 20% in response to the coronavirus pandemic, Aon is restoring their salaries, repaying them for what they gave up -- and adding a bonus. The global insurance giant announced Tuesday it was ending most of those salary reductions, in part because the likelihood of a worst-case macroeconomic outcome had “decreased significantly” since the pay ...
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Canada is Going to be Building Canadarm3 for the Artemis Missions
When you need a robotic arm in space, you call in the experts. Over the past several decades, the Canadian Space Agency has expertly provided robotic arms for the Space Shuttle and International Space Station. And now it will build the next-generation of robotic systems for going to the Moon, called Canadarm3.
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2539.
Twitch has suspended Donald Trump's account
The President's account broke the platform's hateful conduct policy.
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2540.
Autonomous robot uses UVC light to disinfect warehouses
Researchers from MIT have developed a new way to keep shared spaces free of the coronavirus and other pathogens: a UVC light-equipped robot.
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2541.
‘PizzaGate’ Conspiracy Theory Thrives Anew in the TikTok Era
The false theory targeting Democrats, now fueled by QAnon and teenagers on TikTok, is entangling new targets like Justin Bieber.
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Your Personal Data Is Worth Money, and Andrew Yang Wants to Get You Paid
Contact tracing has been a somewhat controversial tool for fighting coronavirus in the US. American consumers wanted privacy to be preserved, so Apple and Google set about devising an API that could help track potential Covid-19 outbreaks while keeping users’ identities anonymous. But what many of us seemed to forget during conversations about contact tracing is that we’re already living under a digital microscope, with multiple companies following and recording our every move.
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U.S. likely regained 3 million jobs in June, but coronavirus flareups hamper recovery
Investors already got fooled once after several million people returned to work in May. They might get fooled again in June, but they worry the next surprise won’t be so pleasant. Wall Street DJIA, -2.83% predicts the U.S. regained an additional 3 million jobs in June, with forecasts going as high as 8 million.
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Facebook announces new hate speech and misinformation policies amid advertiser revolt
Announcement came after Unilever said it would join 100 other companies in pulling ads from platform over hate speech policies
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2545.
Microsoft Edge Accused of Sneakily Importing Firefox Data on Windows 10
Users say Edge imports Firefox files without authorization
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2546.
Factbox: More U.S. companies join Facebook ad boycott bandwagon
A handful of U.S. companies have pulled advertising from Facebook Inc in support of a campaign that called out the social media giant for not doing enough to stop hate speech on its platforms.
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ARM and Linux take the supercomputer TOP500 crown
For the first time, an ARM-powered supercomputer took first place in the TOP500 supercomputer competition.
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Facebook acquires VR studio behind ‘Lone Echo’
Facebook has been on a game studio acquisition spree over the past year, buying up developers behind some of the most popular VR titles. That trend continued today with the company’s acquisition of Ready at Dawn Studios, the developer behind the Lone Echo games, one of Oculus’s most suc…
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Apple is switching Macs to its own processors starting later this year
Apple’s first ARM-based Mac will be available later this year
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2550.
Russia to Install ‘Orwell’ Facial Recognition Tech in Every School
More than 43,000 Russian schools will be equipped with facial recognition cameras ominously named “Orwell,” the Vedomosti business daily reported Tuesday. The state technology firm Rusnano’s Orwell platform is described as a image-recognition monitoring system that uses computer vision algorithms. It will be integrated with face recognition developed by NTechLab, a subsidiary of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s close associate Sergei Chemezov’s Rostec conglomerate.
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