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Mark Zuckerberg (Getty) Call it algorithmic ignorance. Or maybe, algorithmic idiocy. On Thursday, Pro Publica uncovered that Facebook’s ad targeting system, which groups users together based on profile data, offered to sell ads targeting a demographic of Facebook users that self-reported as “Jew Haters.” “Jew Haters” started trending on Twitter when the piece went viral,…

Image: AP Before us humans drained it, South Florida was first and foremost a swamp. Infrastructure improvements went in to make it look the way it is today, with its sewers and drainage systems built to take water back to the ocean. But when Hurricane Irma made itself known last week, it brought back old…

Mistastin Lake, the site of a horrendous asteroid impact some 34 million years ago. (Image: Google Maps) Around 36 million years ago, an asteroid smashed into what is now the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. New research suggests that, for a brief time, the temperature at the point of impact exceeded 4,300 degrees F…

Screenshot: Pornhub.com Now free-to-watch, “Dick For Two” has been retitled “TED CRUZ DID NOTHING WRONG! – CORY CHASE LIKED BY TED CRUZ.” First spotted by Gizmodo on Tumblr, the right-rail and lower ad units feature the @TedCruz account’s infamous fave. Gizmodo was able to reproduce the ads appearances, though they don’t appear to be running…

Image: Gab.ai In the wake of the bloody white supremacist demonstration in Charlottesville last month, complicit tech companies decided to finally enforce their policies, pushing back against the rise of extremism online. One service caught in the crackdown was the “free speech” social network Gab, which was booted from Google’s Play Store, and now the…

Photo: AP YouTube’s latest push to ban terrorist propaganda across its ubiquitous video platform is getting off to a rough start. Earlier this week, noted investigative reporter and researcher Alexa O’Brien woke to find that not only had she been permanently banned from YouTube, but that her Gmail and Google Drive accounts had been suspended…

SAINT LOUIS – A white ex-police officer from the American Saint Louis, Jason Stockley, was Friday acquitted by the court for the murder of an African-American suspect. Stockley was at that time agent in the district of Ferguson and shot to own say in self-defence, in december 2011, the 24-year-old black Anthony Lamar Smith after…

LONDON – The British prime minister, Theresa May, the threat level of attacks in the country adjusted from ’severe’ to ’critical’. That is the highest level. May took the decision Friday night after the attack in the London underground earlier in the day. This last is claimed by Islamic State.

Irish scientists from the University of Queens in Belfast has developed a new flexible organic battery that promises a serious step in the development of medical implants. Currently, medical devices such as pacemakers, use solid batteries, made of metal, which makes them not very comfortable. In addition, these batteries do not have the feature of…

Harvard University hosted the 27th annual ceremony of awarding scientists the IG Nobel prize (in the original: Ig Nobel). “Nobelevku” is awarded to scholars whose works represent questionable value for the world of science. On the other hand, if on some research simply from the heart laugh, others are quite capable to force to think…