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TikTok famous: How the app is turning teenagers into celebrities
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Vox
How TikTok turns regular teens into celebrities
Haley downloaded the app for fun. Now millions of people watch her videos.
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Adobe deactivates all Venezuelan accounts
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Adobe
Cumplimiento de Adobe de orden ejecutiva de EE. UU. | Venezuela
Busque respuestas sobre el cumplimiento de Adobe con la Orden Ejecutiva 13884.
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IRS: Sorry, but It’s Just Easier and Cheaper to Audit the Poor
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ProPublica
IRS: Sorry, but It’s Just Easier and Cheaper to Audit the Poor
Congress asked the IRS to report on why it audits the poor more than the affluent. Its response is that it doesn’t have enough money and people to audit the wealthy properly. So it’s not going to.
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R is a joy if you treat it like Awk
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Satellites That Can Pinpoint Methane and Carbon Dioxide Leaks (2018)
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Scientific American
Meet the Satellites That Can Pinpoint Methane and Carbon Dioxide Leaks
European and Canadian orbiters can work together to catch wayward emissions
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Cross-Laminated Timber
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AVC
Cross Laminated Timber - AVC
Cross Laminated Timber (or CLT for short) is a structural building material that can replace concrete and steel in new building construction. I wrote about CLT back in April and mentioned that the Gotham Gal and I are in the process of making two CLT buildings…
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VeraCrypt 1.24
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veracrypt.fr
VeraCrypt - Free Open source disk encryption with strong security for the Paranoid
VeraCrypt is free open-source disk encryption software for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. In case an attacker forces you to reveal the password, VeraCrypt provides plausible deniability. In contrast to file encryption, data encryption performed by VeraCrypt…
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Street by Street, Amsterdam Is Cutting Cars Out of the Picture
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Bloomberg
Street by Street, Amsterdam Is Cutting Cars Out of the Picture
Armed with a street-design tool called the knip, the Dutch capital is slashing car access in the city center, and expanding public transit hours.
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South Park Scrubbed from Chinese Internet
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The Hollywood Reporter
'South Park' Scrubbed From Chinese Internet After Critical Episode
After the "Band in China" episode mocked Hollywood for shaping its content to please the Chinese government, Beijing has responded by deleting all clips, episodes and discussions of the Comedy Central show.
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Stupid Alexa Trick: Speaking French with a Horrible American Accent
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Microsoft News
Silly Alexa trick: Speaking French with a horrible American accent
Asking for a repeat, but in a different speech synthesizer.
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South Park Responds to Being Banned in China for “Band in China”
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Twitter
South Park
Watch the full episode - cart.mn/sp-2302 @THR article - cart.mn/china
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Slog: Cheating the low-latency vs. strict serializability tradeoff
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Blogspot
Introducing SLOG: Cheating the low-latency vs. strict serializability tradeoff
This post provides an overview of a new technology from my lab that was recently published in VLDB 2019 . In short: SLOG is a geographicall...
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A simple file encryption tool and format
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Google Docs
age — A simple file encryption tool & format
A simple file encryption tool & format Filippo Valsorda (@FiloSottile) — Ben Cartwright-Cox (@Benjojo12) Designed at the Recurse Center during NGW 2019 This is a superseded design document, retained for historical reasons. You can find the v1 specification…
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PG&E could shut off power across Bay Area on Wednesday and Thursday
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Berkeleyside
Update: PG&E will shut off power for nearly 800,000 customers starting Wednesday
The utility said it has decided to implement the "public safety power shutoff" it began warning about Monday.
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China’s Breeding Giant Pigs That Are as Heavy as Polar Bears
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Supreme Court says blind people can sue retailers if websites are not accessible
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Los Angeles Times
Supreme Court allows blind people to sue retailers if their websites are not accessible
The justices let stand an appeals court ruling that the Americans With Disabilities Act protects access to retailer websites and apps.
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Why the NBA Apologized to China over Daryl Morey's Tweet About Hong Kong
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NY Times
Hong Kong Protests Put N.B.A. on Edge in China
A tweet from the Houston Rockets general manager prompted a backlash in China, making things uncomfortable for a league used to its players and representatives speaking out on politics.
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What3Words submitting takedown requests against Tweets [pdf]
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We’re Entering the Era of Big Podcasting
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VULTURE
We’re Entering the Era of Big Podcasting
What started as a quiet digital backwater is now growing in prominence, drawing the attention of audiences and moneyed interests alike. In all probability, the medium is heading toward the entertainment industrial complex.
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Norway's largest pension fund KLP exits oil sands companies
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Reuters
Norway's largest pension fund KLP exits oil sands companies
OSLO (Reuters) - KLP, Norway’s largest pension fund, will no longer invest in companies deriving their income from oil sands, and recently sold stocks and bonds in such firms worth about $58 million, it said on Monday.
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Twenty New Moons Found Orbiting Saturn
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dtm.carnegiescience.edu
Twenty New Moons Found Orbiting Saturn
A team led by Carnegie's Scott S. Sheppard has found 20 new moons orbiting Saturn. This brings the ringed planet’s total number of moons to 82, surpassing Jupiter, which has 79.
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