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Privacy Not Included was launched in 2017 to help you understand the privacy risks of tech products that connect to the internet. We are continuing that work in the form of Product Reviews at our magazine Nothing Personal, where our privacy experts do hours of hands-on testing and research on the most popular consumer…
Los Angeles lost a hundred thousand affordable homes in a decade. Don’t look to bulldozers to explain how.
COVID-19 snarled the US healthcare supply chain, but it was in trouble long before, experts say.
Russian officials have accused Wagner Group of staging a mutiny, with some calling it an attempted coup. What happens next? Monday 26 June 0700 UTC With the situation somewhat stab
Thousands of volunteers helped map surveillance cameras that the NYPD could use to track people using facial recognition.
Meta charges up to €251.88 to respect the fundamental right to privacy of EU users. This is a violation of the GDPR
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This map story is about one specific map, the only one remaining from the Roman …
New CU Boulder research finds that overweight populations have a 22% higher mortality risk than those of healthy weight, while obese populations have as much as
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The LEGO Foundation to donate LEGO® MRI Scanners to hospitals globally
This is a short story about what happened to the U.S.
Health care provided by nurse practitioners and physician assistants expected to rise
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AI will make us smarter and better at our jobs. But if we don't watch out, it will create chaos.
The low, low cost of (committing) cybercrime, Author: Jan Kopriva
Model licensing & surveillance will likely be counterproductive by concentrating power in unsustainable ways
Population exposure to the synthetic chemical Bisphenol A (BPA), which is used in everything from plastic and metal food containers to reusable water bottles and drinking water pipes in Europe is well above acceptable health safety levels, according to updated research data. This poses a potential health risk to…
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The recent Ohio train derailment and subsequent fire that released vinyl chloride into the environment has been a terrifying experience for the nearby population. The accident rekindles memories of the 1979 train accident in Mississauga, Ontario, when over 200,000 people had to be evacuated after a wheel bearing…
"Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."
Recently, Wired reported on documents leaked in May from the Council of the European Union’s ongoing deliberations over the draft Child Sex Abuse Regulation. The proposal is controversial because, as presently written, it would require online service providers to proactively scan their services – including users’…
Once people had recovered from the shock of seeing both a power button and a real-time clock on a Raspberry Pi, one of the most commented-on features of the new platform was the small, vertical, 16-way FFC (Flat Flexible Cable) connector on the left-hand side of the board, which exposes a single-lane PCI Express…
George Orwell was greatly concerned with truth and language and how deliberately misleading language is used to conceal disagreeable political facts. To guide writers into writing clearly and truthfully, he proposed six writing rules.
Researchers mined an old drug forum and fed the entries to an AI. The result could augur a new class of psychedelic-based antidepressants.
