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Mere Intern Facebook Lække Dokumenter Online, Afslører, Hvordan Facebook Planlagt at Sælge Bruger Data
Foto: Getty Ved udgangen af 2018, i en dramatisk serie af begivenheder, lovgivere i England havde en sergent-at-arms storm til en Amerikansk tech executive hotel værelse, og insisterede på udgivelsen af fortrolige dokumenter fra hans selskabets igangværende retssag mod Facebook. Derefter, i stil med vagtværn hackere, lovgivere sendt mange af dem ret-forseglet poster, udsætter hundredvis…
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Google Translate Kan Hjælpe Læger til at slå Bro over den Sproglige Kløft Med Patienterne—men Det er Ikke Fejlfri
Skærmbillede: Gizmodo Læger, der serverer forskellige fællesskaber ofte står over for den udfordring at kommunikere effektivt med patienter, der ikke deler deres sprog. Nogle læger er ved at bygge bro dette hul med hjælp fra Google Translate, en AI-drevet app, der er blevet mere og mere sofistikerede i de seneste år. Men mens en ny…
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A Common Household Ingredient Might Sabotage Your Antibiotics
A 2009 photo of a toothbrush with Colgate Total toothpaste on it, a brand that once contained triclosan. The company only switched its formula this year.Photo: Carolyn Kaster (AP) Your daily gob of toothpaste or spritz of body spray might be inadvertently mucking up your antibiotic treatment, suggests new research. It found that a common…
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NASA Renames Facility to Honor ‘Hidden Figures’ Subject Katherine Johnson
Katherine Johnson in 1966Photo: NASA NASA has changed the name of a facility in Fairmont, West Virginia to the “Katherine Johnson Independent Verification and Validation Facility,” in honor of the retired NASA mathematician. West Virginia-born Johnson performed mathematical calculations crucial to the space race, including calculating orbital trajectories for the first crewed space flights, the…
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Report: Facebook Moderators Are Routinely High and Joke About Suicide to Cope With Job [Updated]
Photo: Getty It’s no secret that the workforce tasked with reviewing the most offensive content on the web is underpaid, overworked, and poorly supported. A new story from The Verge on Facebook moderators in Phoenix, Arizona further illustrates the disturbing reality of life for these workers—who reportedly make just $28,800 a year and use sex…
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Weird Meat Allergy Caused by Ticks May Be Easier to Catch Than We Thought
A female Lone Star tick, or Amblyomma americanum.Image: Amanda Loftis, William Nicholson, Will Reeves, Chris Paddock (CDC) One of the strangest side-effects of a tick bite—a new allergy to red meat—could be even easier to get than previously thought. New research out this weekend suggests that bites from certain ticks can cause the allergy no…
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A 30-Million-Page Archive of Humanity’s Achievements (and Failures) Is Headed to the Moon
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Amazon and Chase Are Still Confusingly Opaque About What They Do With Your Credit Card Data
Photo: Gizmodo Last month, I tried to find out what Amazon learns about people who have an Amazon Rewards Visa Signature Card from Chase. Neither Chase nor Amazon would give me a straight answer. In fact, Chase’s spokesperson, Mary Jane Rogers, gave me a wrong answer in telling me that Amazon fell into a category…
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Dramatic Dark Smudge Appears Where Hayabusa2 Landed on Ryugu Asteroid
The shadow of Hayabusa2 can be seen on the asteroid’s surface, along with the new dark smudge at the touchdown site.Image: JAXA, University of Tokyo, Kochi University, Rikkyo University, Nagoya University, Chiba Institute of Technology, Meiji University, University of Aizu, AIST. Japan’s Hayabusa2 probe touched down successfully on the Ryugu asteroid late last week, blasting…
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More Internal Facebook Documents Leak Online, Revealing How Facebook Planned to Sell User Data
Photo: Getty At the end of 2018, in a dramatic series of events, lawmakers in England had a sergeant-at-arms storm to an American tech executive’s hotel room and insisted on the release of confidential documents from his company’s ongoing lawsuit against Facebook. Then, in the style of vigilante hackers, the lawmakers posted many of those…