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catparty writes:
Uber's latest rider safety scandal involves a Los Angeles UberX driver who allegedly raped a female passenger after pretending to be on duty in the early hours of Sunday Feb. 1. The incident is unfolding just days after a female rider in India filed a lawsuit against Uber in the U.S. for failing to provide proper safety precautions. Sunday's incident is just the latest in a string of sexual assault charges against Uber drivers, who work as contractors for the ride sharing company.
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blottsie writes:
Forecasting and future analysis is kind of Rashied Amini's thing. The NASA JPL systems engineer was part of a team responsible for casting scenarios for Lunar and Martian base building and forecasting demand for nuclear fuel for use in space nuclear power systems. Now he’s aiming to land on a more abstract target: love.
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catparty writes:
On stage at a Windows 10 event, Microsoft VP Terry Myerson said that features in the new version of Windows would have "countered the techniques used in the recent headline making attacks."
He implies that Windows 10 could have prevented not just the Sony hack but the Lizard Squad DDoS attacks that took down Xbox Live, thought to be executed through an embedded SSH vulnerability.
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blottsie writes:
In the trial of Ross Ulbricht on Thursday, Homeland Security agent Jared Der-Yeghiayan testified that his two-year investigation into Silk Road led squarely to Mt. Gox founder Mark Karpeles. “Lots of little things added up to [Karpeles],” Der-Yeghiayan testified.In a meeting with other Homeland Security agents, Der-Yeghiayan recalled saying that “we have built up quite a large amount of information that leads to this.”
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blottsie writes:
If implemented correctly, the proliferation of online voting could solve one of the biggest problems in American democracy: low voter turnout. The 2014 midterms, for example, boasted the lowest voter turnout in 72 years. Making it easier to vote by moving the action from a polling station to your pocket could only increase turnout, especially in the primaries. Making online voting work is infinitely harder than it initially seems. However, in the past few years, there’s been a renewed effort to solve the conundrum of online voting using a most unexpected tool: Bitcoin.
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blottsie writes:
It didn't... hurt. Hurt isn't the right way to describe it. It felt like a tightness; it felt like the patch was trying to crawl across my skin. But—if you can believe this—in a good way.
And while Thync was attached to the right side of my head, occasionally I felt "tingles" pulling and hitting my brain on the left side and in the middle.
I was feeling progressively awake and aware. Granted, I had patches stuck to my head sending gentle vibrations to my brain, so that might have been part of my sudden alertness. But still, after 20 minutes of Thync I just felt... better.
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blottsie writes:
A new report takes a deep dive into companies like Hacking Team, which have sprouted up in the years since 9/11 sparked a global war on terror and a wired technological revolution. As the U.S. developed the online surveillance tools that, over a decade later, would eventually be revealed to the world by National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden, savvy businesses across the globe realized there were plenty of countries that might not be able to afford to develop such sophisticated technology in-house but still had money to burn.
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blottsie writes:
If there are two ways in which the Internet is similar in the United States and Canada, it’s that it’s slow and expensive in both places relative to many developed countries. The big difference, however, is that Canada is looking into doing something about it.
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission—the northern equivalent of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)— is examining how the wholesale market, where smaller Internet service providers (ISPs) use parts of bigger companies’ networks to sell their own services, should operate in the years ahead.
The industry reaction to this proposal provides insights to the potential consequences of re-classifying broadband in the U.S. as a Title II public utility.
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catparty writes:
Twitter wants to know what apps you're downloading to target ads better. Here are instructions on where to look for the opt-out option in both Android and iOS.
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catparty writes:
A number of changes buried in Facebook’s proposed November 2014 ToS agreement will make it easier for any company under the Facebook umbrella to share data—whether the FTC likes it or not.
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catparty writes:
Google didn't invent email, but ten years ago it began refining it. From Gmail to Wave, Buzz, Priority Inbox, Google+ and beyond, Google's quest could end with Inbox.
