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Police Use of Clearview AI’s Facial Recognition Tech Spiked After Capitol Raid

Police Use of Clearview AI’s Facial Recognition Tech Spiked After Capitol Raid

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Police Use of Clearview AI's Facial Recognition Tech Spiked After Capitol Raid Clearview AI’s controversial facial-recognition app has seen a spike in use as police track down the pro-Trump insurgents who descended on the Capitol on Wednesday. With so many of those idiots snapping selfies and livestreaming the raid as if it was a school field trip, I’m surprised police even needed the help.Read more... Go to Source
Sunday’s Best Deals: Epson EcoTank Inkjet Printers, Deadly Premonition 2, Xenoblade Chronicles Definitive Edition, Crux Artisan Juicer, Takeya Water Bottles, K-Beauty Skincare, and More

Sunday’s Best Deals: Epson EcoTank Inkjet Printers, Deadly Premonition 2, Xenoblade Chronicles Definitive Edition, Crux Artisan Juicer, Takeya Water Bottles, K-Beauty Skincare, and More

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Sunday's Best Deals: Epson EcoTank Inkjet Printers, Deadly Premonition 2, Xenoblade Chronicles Definitive Edition, Crux Artisan Juicer, Takeya Water Bottles, K-Beauty Skincare, and More A sale on select Nintendo Switch titles and a Crux Artisan juicer lead Sunday’s best deals.Read more... Go to Source
YouTube Kicks Steve Bannon’s War Room Podcast Off the Platform

YouTube Kicks Steve Bannon’s War Room Podcast Off the Platform

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YouTube Kicks Steve Bannon’s War Room Podcast Off the Platform Banning, it seems, is in this week. Google and Apple have kicked out social media app Parler from their app stores; Reddit has banned r/donaldtrump, the unofficial subreddit dedicated to President Donald Trump; and Twitter has banned the president himself, as well as other high-profile supporters of the QAnon…Read more... Go to Source
Mozilla Calls for Sites to Go Beyond Just Deplatforming Bigots

Mozilla Calls for Sites to Go Beyond Just Deplatforming Bigots

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Mozilla Calls for Sites to Go Beyond Just Deplatforming Bigots Online platforms are hastily cutting ties with President Donald Trump and his ilk after years of milquetoast responses to the hateful and violent rhetoric fomenting under their watch, and all it took was a deadly insurgency at the nation’s capital. However, Mozilla says deplatforming doesn’t go far enough and has…Read more... Go to Source
Meteorites From the Beginning of the Solar System May Have Carried Water Quite Recently

Meteorites From the Beginning of the Solar System May Have Carried Water Quite Recently

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Meteorites From the Beginning of the Solar System May Have Carried Water Quite Recently Meteorites that formed in the earliest days of the solar system may contain liquid water, according to new research, lending credence to the theory that meteorites brought water and other precursors for life to our planet billions of years ago.Read more... Go to Source
Google Kicks Parler Off Its App Store, And Apple May Soon Follow Suit

Google Kicks Parler Off Its App Store, And Apple May Soon Follow Suit

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Google Kicks Parler Off Its App Store, And Apple May Soon Follow Suit Parler was suspended from Google’s Play Store on Friday over its lack of content moderation, ironically the very reason the social media platform has quickly become an online gutter collecting deplatformed conservatives and far-right extremists. And a ban from Apple’s App Store may not be far behind.Read more... Go to Source
Supreme Court Asked to Consider if Fifth Amendment Protects Passwords

Supreme Court Asked to Consider if Fifth Amendment Protects Passwords

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Supreme Court Asked to Consider if Fifth Amendment Protects Passwords The American Civil Liberties Union and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, two of the nation’s largest defenders of digital privacy, are asking the Supreme Court to stop criminal prosecutors from forcing people to unlock their own cellphones, under the argument that the U.S. Constitution’s protection against…Read more... Go to Source
West Virginia Lawmaker Livestreamed His Way Into Federal Charges

West Virginia Lawmaker Livestreamed His Way Into Federal Charges

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West Virginia Lawmaker Livestreamed His Way Into Federal Charges We can add one more name to the growing list of co-conspirators, sycophants, ladder climbers, and lawmakers who are hoping for a last-minute pardon from President Trump. An official with the Department of Justice announced on Friday that Derrick Evans, a member of the West Virginia House of Delegates, will face…Read more... Go to Source
It’s Been A Year And I’m Still Thinking About The Sony Car

It’s Been A Year And I’m Still Thinking About The Sony Car

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It's Been A Year And I'm Still Thinking About The Sony Car For companies that exist to build cars, automakers sure like to parade around non-working mockups with the promise they’ll one day be drivable. How ironic is it that when Sony, a major tech company, decided to bring a car to the Consumer Electronics Show last year, it brought one that ran.Read more... Go to Source
Early Evidence Suggests Pfizer Vaccine Works Against New Coronavirus Variant

Early Evidence Suggests Pfizer Vaccine Works Against New Coronavirus Variant

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Early Evidence Suggests Pfizer Vaccine Works Against New Coronavirus Variant Scientists are hard at work testing out whether mutations found in new variants of the coronavirus could bypass the immunity offered by currently developed vaccines. The first results from this work are encouraging: They suggest that the Pfizer vaccine is still effective against one important mutation found in these…Read more... Go to Source
Senator Says Computer Stolen From Capitol Office During Coup Attempt by Trump Loyalists

Senator Says Computer Stolen From Capitol Office During Coup Attempt by Trump Loyalists

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Senator Says Computer Stolen From Capitol Office During Coup Attempt by Trump Loyalists A laptop computer belonging to the office of U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley from Oregon was one of several electronic devices stolen by Trump loyalists during a failed coup attempt on Wednesday, according to a new report from Politico. The news comes as the Department of Justice tries to make an assessment of the property…Read more... Go to Source
FCC Chairman Quietly Abandoned Attempt to ‘Clarify’ Section 230

FCC Chairman Quietly Abandoned Attempt to ‘Clarify’ Section 230

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FCC Chairman Quietly Abandoned Attempt to 'Clarify' Section 230 Approximately 5 million years ago back in October, Federal Communications Chairman Ajit Pai vowed to “move forward with a rulemaking” to “clarify” Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, a key legal shield that protects online platforms from liability for certain types of content posted by users. However,…Read more... Go to Source