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Thousands of Stores Will Soon Use Facial Recognition Without Your Consent
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BuzzFeed.News
Thousands Of Stores Will Soon Use Facial Recognition, And They Won't Need Your Consent
Facial recognition cameras are scanning faces at hundreds of retail stores to catch shoplifters before they steal. But everyday shoppers are often unaware that their faces are being scanned.
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In Serving Big Company Interests, Copyright Is in Crisis
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
In Serving Big Company Interests, Copyright Is in Crisis
Copyright rules are made with the needs of the entertainment industry in mind, designed to provide the legal framework for creators, investors, distributors, production houses, and other parts of the
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Today, the Trident Era Ends
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schepp.dev
Today, the Trident Era Ends
About the rise and fall of Microsoft's take on the web.
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New coronavirus can spread between humans–but it started in a wildlife market
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Science
New coronavirus can spread between humans—but it started in a wildlife market
With confirmed cases in multiple countries, health officials are looking to similar outbreaks from the past and seeing a common thread.
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Using floating-point numbers for money
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Goldman to Refuse IPOs If All Directors Are White, Straight Men
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Bloomberg.com
Goldman to Refuse IPOs If All Directors Are White, Straight Men
The bank is the latest firm to eschew a lack of diversity in corporate governance.
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Oil-and-gas wells produce radioactive waste
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Rolling Stone
America’s Radioactive Secret
Investigation shows oil-and-gas wells' toxic waste could be making workers sick and contaminating communities across America.
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Coronavirus Infections–More Than Just the Common Cold
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Jamanetwork
Coronavirus Infections—More Than Just the Common Cold
In this Viewpoint Anthony Fauci and colleagues review the emergence of pathogenic human coronaviruses (SARS-Cov and MERS-CoV) as background for discussing a rapidly spreading novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) identified in 2019 in China and the public health…
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5/3nm Wars Begin
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Semiconductor Engineering
5/3nm Wars Begin
New transistors structures are on the horizon with new tools and processes, but there are lots of problems, too.
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AWS Graviton2
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Writing a Polyglot Script
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Show HN: R-cade, a simple arcade game engine for Racket
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GitHub
GitHub - massung/r-cade: Retro Game Engine for Racket
Retro Game Engine for Racket. Contribute to massung/r-cade development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Wuhan scientists: What it’s like to be on lockdown
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Nature
Wuhan scientists: What it’s like to be on lockdown
Measures to contain a new virus’s spread have cut off the city's researchers.
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Why does gigabit internet via coax cable not offer symmetrical speed like fiber?
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Super User
Why does a gigabit/sec Internet connection via cable (coax) not offer symmetrical speeds like fiber?
In our area, we have Cox Communications (cable) which offers 1 Gbit/s down, and 30 Mbit/s up, while CenturyLink (fiber) offers 1 Gbit/s up and down.
Why does copper only 'allow' fast speeds for
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Am I Unique?
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One of biggest frauds in U.S. farm history
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Kansas City Star
Missouri charmer led double life, masterminded one of the biggest frauds in farm history
“There was a lot of good in Randy and the real tragedy is that he went down this path.”
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A Year with the Surface Go
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Precision Opportunities for Demanded Bits in LLVM
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Snowmobiler finds family of five stuck in frozen wilderness
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CBC
'What in the Sam Hill are you doing out here?' Snowmobiler finds family of 5 stuck in frozen wilderness | CBC News
Phil Waldner wasn't expecting to come across a stranded family of five from Calgary when he went out for a snowmobile ride in rural Manitoba after Christmas last month.
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Why does Wuhan coronavirus genome end in aaaaa.. (33 a's)?
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Bioinformatics Stack Exchange
Why does the SARS-Cov2 coronavirus genome end in aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa (33 a's)?
The SARS-Cov2 coronavirus's genome was released, and is now available on Genbank. Looking at it...
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How can we develop transformative tools for thought?
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numinous.productions
How can we develop transformative tools for thought?
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