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Drones that can plant 100k trees a day
Drones could fight deforestation by planting 1 billion trees a year.
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The most popular blog posts about society, policy & culture on Hacker News. 295 posts.
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Google Data Collection research
While the public has been focused on the ongoing Facebook and Cambridge Analytica scandal, Google has largely avoided public scrutiny about its data collection practices despite having the ability to collect far more personal data about consumers across a variety of touchpoints. In the new report “Google Data…
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New North American Trade Deal Has Bad News for Canadian Copyright
Earlier this week, the U.S. Trade Representative announced a replacement deal for the North American Free Trade Agreement, the nearly 25-year-old trade deal between the U.S., Mexico, and Canada. Amid the long list of tariff-free products and restriction-free cheese names [PDF] in the new trade deal...
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F-35 Program Cutting Corners to “Complete” Development
Officials Altering Paperwork Instead of Pursuing Actual Fixes
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Two in Three Americans Now Support Legalizing Marijuana
Americans' support for legalizing marijuana continues to set new records, with 66% of U.S. adults now in favor of making the drug legal.
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Eighteenth Century English mail hacks (2001)
(((It's very clear that the postal system is not a dead medium. However, the physical and economic structure of the posts has undergone profound, elaborate changes over the centuries. Early postal systems often doubled as espionage networks, and were often proverbially corrupt.
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Leap: An Online Community for Women
I’m excited to share an experimental project I’ve been working on at YC over the last 10 months. It’s called Elpha [https://elpha.com] and it’s an online community for women in tech to talk about whatever we want. Elpha has ~1,500+ members who are founders, designers, marketers, software engineers, VCs, women in sales…
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A non-profit that figured out how to massively cut suicide rates in Sri Lanka
The cheapest way to save lives may be tackling a means of suicide you've never even heard of.
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The NSA Continues to Violate Americans' Internet Privacy Rights
A federal court will be scrutinizing one of the National Security Agency’s worst spying programs on Monday. The case has the potential to restore crucial privacy protections for the millions of Americans who use the internet to communicate with family, friends, and others overseas.
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Jon Skeet earns 1mm rep on Stack Overflow
Yesterday, Jon Skeet's reputation on Stack Overflow passed 1,000,000 . ONE MILLION. Those of you who are highly engaged with the Stack Overflow community probably have a general idea of a) who Jon Skeet is and b) exactly how amazing and ridiculous this statement is, but just to make sure we are all on the same page…
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Tinder's lack of encryption allows spying
The Sophos Blog
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Proposition C
Read the latest news and information from Stripe, including corporate and product announcements, research reports, brand assets, and more.
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2018 reform of EU data protection rules
Find out what your organisation must do to comply with the GDPR and learn how you can help individuals to exercise their data protection rights.
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Smoking around the world
Tobacco smoking is one of the world’s largest health problems today.
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Federal Judge Says Embedding a Tweet Can Be Copyright Infringement
Rejecting years of settled precedent, a federal court in New York has ruled [PDF] that you could infringe copyright simply by embedding a tweet in a web page. Even worse, the logic of the ruling applies to all in-line linking, not just embedding tweets. If adopted by other courts, this legally and...
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Growing up with AI
By Stefania Druga Graduate Student, Personal Robots Group LEGO Papert Fellow 2018
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Mobile Devices Compromised by Fake Secure Messaging Clients
San Francisco – The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and mobile security company Lookout have uncovered a new malware espionage campaign infecting thousands of people in more than 20 countries. Hundreds of gigabytes of data has been stolen, primarily through mobile devices compromised by fake...
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How many deaths make a disaster newsworthy?
How many deaths make a natural disaster newsworthy?
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Politicians in favor of upload filtering get channel deleted by upload filtering
French politicians of the former Front National are furious: their entire YouTube channel was just taken down by automatic filters at YouTube for alleged
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User Privacy Isn't Solely a Facebook Issue
During Congressional hearings about Facebook’s data practices in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica fiasco, Mark Zuckerberg drew an important distinction between what we expect from our Internet service providers (ISPs, such as Comcast or Verizon) as opposed to platforms like Facebook that operate...
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Proposed NYC legislation would give employees right to ignore after-work email
Meet the experts. Explore the digital magazine where innovators share tech strategies, executive insights, and advancements in AI and IT transformation.
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With EFF’s help, language teacher responds to threat over ‘invalid’ patent
Foreign languages have been taught, and studied, for thousands of years. People who teach languages are the last folks that should be dealing with patent threat letters—but incredibly, that’s exactly what has happened to Mihalis Eleftheriou. Hodder and Stoughton, a large British publisher, has sent...
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