Facebook announced on Tuesday that it is shutting down its facial recognition tool and destroying the faceprints of more than 1 billion users, according to a company executive. The change means that more than a third of Facebook's daily active…
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Google stated on Thursday that it is censoring information on its site that contradicts well-established scientific data, effectively shutting out climate-change doubters. According to a company blog post, Google is taking a two-pronged approach, targeting advertisers and publishing partners who…
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China lashed out at the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia for agreeing to a defense technology pact that would assist Australia in developing a nuclear-powered submarine fleet. This collaboration experts believe is a response to Beijing's rapidly rising…
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A high school district outside of Portland, Oregon, is investigating a student's alleged involvement in a racist Snapchat group called "Slave Trade," in which teenagers from throughout the United States purportedly hurled homophobic and racial slurs while feigning to auction…
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A federal judge has authorized a class-action lawsuit alleging that Apple's Siri voice assistant infringes on customers' privacy. According to Reuters, US District Judge Jeffrey White earlier this month let plaintiffs to proceed with cases alleging that Siri routinely captured…
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SpaceX is poised to attempt a new first: orbiting a spaceship operated by non-professional astronauts. A billionaire, a physician assistant, an engineer, and a scientist comprise the four-person team. They will clamber onboard a Crew Dragon spaceship atop a Falcon…
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According to a new report, Facebook's encrypted messaging app WhatsApp is not as private as the company claims. The popular chat app, which prides itself on its privacy safeguards, claims that parent company Facebook cannot see conversations transmitted between users.…
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According to reports, 38 million personal information was mistakenly exposed onto the open internet due to a weakness in over a thousand Microsoft web applications. The personal data breached includes phone numbers, home locations, social security numbers, and COVID-19 immunization…
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A vigilante organization on TikTok claims to be scanning the platform for trolls and exposing their names in short clips to their parents and coworkers. The group is known as the Great Londini, and its logo is a mask with…
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The Murfreesboro Police Department in Tennessee attributes a phone app for saving the lives of two teenage girls who got lost in a park. The Police Department addressed the event in a news release, implying that had it not been…
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