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Submission + - Youtube bans faces?

Submitted by lpq
lpq writes: I received an updated TOS (Terms of Service) from Youtube that states: "Facial recognition restrictions: The Terms of Service already state that you cannot collect any information that might identify a person without their permission."

So given that facial recognition is based on facial images — does that mean youtube videos can't show things like scenes reporting 'news items' of crowds attending the event? Or any video showing real events with people in attendance unless all individuals give their permission or have their face blanked or edited out?

The restriction seems almost guaranteed to be usable to silence any videos of ongoing, real time events. Almost any video footage shot in real life (vs. posed-life as seen in scripted videos) would seem out of bounds under this new restriction.

Does anyone else see this as a convenient way to censor any real-life/real-time news?

Submission + - Coronaviruses Closely Related to SARS-CoV-2 Discovered in Cambodia, Japan (nature.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Two lab freezers in Asia have yielded surprising discoveries. Researchers have told Nature they have found a coronavirus that is closely related to SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for the pandemic, in horseshoe bats stored in a freezer in Cambodia. The virus in Cambodia was found in two Shamel’s horseshoe bats (Rhinolophus shameli) captured in the country’s north in 2010. The virus’s genome has not yet been fully sequenced — nor its discovery published — making its full significance to the pandemic hard to ascertain. The new virus would have to be at least 99% similar to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, to be an immediate ancestor of the current pandemic virus. The genomes of RaTG13, the previous closest relative of SARS-CoV-2 discovered by Chinese scientists, differ to it by only 4%, but that divergence represents between 40 and 70 years of evolution. The newly discovered Rc-o319 seems to be the most distantly related, says Veasna Duong, a virologist at Institute Pasteur in Phnom Penh, who led the search of the old samples in Cambodia. Meanwhile, a team in Japan has reported the discovery of another closely related coronavirus — also found in frozen bat droppings from 2013.

Submission + - How three conspiracy theorists took 'Q' and sparked Qanon (nbcnews.com) 1

Submitted by AmiMoJo
AmiMoJo writes: In November 2017, a small-time YouTube video creator and two moderators of the 4chan website, one of the most extreme message boards on the internet, banded together and plucked out of obscurity an anonymous and cryptic post from the many conspiracy theories that populated the website's message board. Over the next several months, they would create videos, a Reddit community, a business and an entire mythology based off the 4chan posts of “Q,” the pseudonym of a person claiming to be a high-ranking military officer. The theory they espoused would become Qanon, and it would eventually make its way from those message boards to national media stories and the rallies of President Donald Trump. Now, the people behind that effort are at the center of a fractious debate among conspiracy enthusiasts, some of whom believe the three people who first popularized the Qanon theory are promoting it in order to make a living. Others suggest that these original followers actually wrote Q’s mysterious posts.

NBC News has found that the theory can be traced back to three people who sparked some of the first conversation about Qanon and, in doing so, attracted followers who they then asked to help fund Qanon “research.”

Submission + - Experimental Drug Given To Trump Wins FDA Clearance 1

Submitted by hcs_$reboot
hcs_$reboot writes: The experimental drug given to Trump to treat Covid-19 wins FDA clearance. The Food and Drug Administration on Saturday granted emergency authorization to the experimental antibody treatment given to President Trump last month when he developed Covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. President Donald Trump received the therapy, called REGEN-COV2, when he was hospitalized for coronavirus. The treatment has to be infused into the bloodstream and is meant to mimic an immune response to infection. Regeneron’s drug is a cocktail of two monoclonal antibodies, called casirivimab and imdevimab. The FDA said in authorizing the cocktail that it may be effective in treating mild to moderate covid-19 in adults and children 12 or older, and is indicated for those at high risk of developing severe illness. The cocktail has not been authorized for use in patients who are hospitalized with Covid-19 or need oxygen therapy because of Covid-19.

Trump administration officials at the recent coronavirus task force briefing promised to distribute the treatment fairly and swiftly, basing distribution on a strategy similar to what is used for remdesivir, an antiviral drug for hospitalized patients. The administration’s rollout of remdesivir was plagued by problems in its early phases, including sending doses to hospitals with no eligible patients, but officials said they had learned from those mistakes.

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