Science, Technology, and Social Media
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Justice Department Announces Effort to Disrupt Exploitation of Microsoft’s Exchange Server
WASHINGTON – The Justice Department today announced a court-authorized operation to copy and remove malicious web shells from hundreds of…
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Drone Spying Bill Passed by Florida Senate
The Florida Senate passed (SB-44) on a 39 to 0 vote, a bill granting exceptions “for drone use by law…
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Yes, all this screen time is hurting your eyes
Zhong-Lin Lu, Knowable Magazine OPINION: A neuroscientist says that he’s particularly worried about kids, who may have spent much of…
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Social Media Doesn’t Allow Posts That Break COVID-19 Narratives, Even Though Health Organizations Keep Backtracking Previous Findings
Social media companies have policed coronavirus-related content based on information from top health organizations, even as those organizations have contradicted…
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Nearly Every Lawmaker Overseeing Privacy, Antitrust Issues Received Big Tech Money In 2020
Nearly all members of Congress who oversee privacy and antitrust issues have received donations or lobbying money from Big Tech,…
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Facebook Confirms It Deleted Account For Suspected Boulder Shooter Containing Posts About Islam, Trump
Facebook deleted accounts belonging to suspected Boulder, Colorado, shooter Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa on Tuesday in line with its longstanding…
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Trump To Return To Social Media on His Own Platform
Jason Miller made a comment Sunday that will excite Trump supporters across the country. The former Trump adviser said that…
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AI’s next big leap
Anil Ananthaswamy, Knowable Magazine The unlikely marriage of two major artificial intelligence approaches has given rise to a new hybrid…
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Parler is Dead and It’s Their Fault
Parler could have been the answer to Twitter, but it failed to anticipate Apple, Google and Amazon’s censorship. Beyond the…
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Clay Travis Says Facebook’s ‘Orwellian’ Censorship Cost Company ‘Hundreds Of Thousands Of Dollars’
Clay Travis, who runs the sports website Outkick, testified before Congress on Friday that Facebook cost his company ‘hundreds of…
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Memory, the mystery
Adam Levy, Knowable Magazine PODCAST, EPISODE 4: Just in the past half-century, our understanding of how exactly our brains remember…
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Could the immune system be key to Alzheimer’s disease?
Esther Landhuis, Knowable Magazine Increasing evidence suggests that chronic inflammation takes a toll on the brain over the course of…
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Russia Threatens To Shut Down Twitter, Sues Other Social Media Companies For Illegal Content
Russian authorities are slowing media uploads to Twitter after the platform failed to remove illegal content, a state communications watchdog…
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From your hand to the highways to the hills of Mars
Rechargeable lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery technology is everywhere. You use it every day whether you realize it or not. Every time…
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Apple App Store Investigated For Allegedly Violating UK Competition Law
The U.K.’s competition watchdog opened an investigation into Apple’s App Store for potentially stifling competition in violation of British antitrust…
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