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Hvad Har Google Faktisk Finde Ud af Om Hvordan Det Betaler Kvinder og Mænd?
Foto: Getty I 2017, Google blev beskyldt for køn betale forskelsbehandling af det AMERIKANSKE Department of Labor. Senere på året, Google-medarbejdere, der gennemførte deres egen uformelle løn, revision, konstateringen af, at kvinder får mindre i løn end mænd. I januar sidste år, flere kvinder gemt en class-action retssag mod selskabet med påstand om, at det…
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Astronomer over Hele Verden Er Træning i Tilfælde af en Kæmpe Asteroide Truer Jorden
Kunstnerens koncept af apokalypse.Illustration: NASA/Don Davis Den 12 oktober 2017, en 20 meter asteroide passerede lige 50,000 km (31,000 miles) fra Jorden. For uger, snesevis af astronomer fra laboratorier rundt om i verden mobiliseret, at måle alt, hvad de kunne, om den asteroide som forberedelse til en effekt. Denne asteroide, der var blevet opdaget fem…
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Hvorfor ‘ji32k7au4a83’ Er et Bemærkelsesværdigt Fælles Password
Foto: Getty For alt For mange mennesker, at flytte cifre rundt i nogle variation af Patriots69Lover er deres idé om en stærk adgangskode. Så du kan forvente noget kompliceret som” “ji32k7au4a83” ville være et godt password. Men ifølge de data, brud repository Har jeg Været Pwned (HIBP), det viser sig oftere, end man kunne forvente.…
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How to Protect Your Facebook Without Giving It Your Phone Number
Photo: Getty Over the weekend, Facebook users were freaked out to learn that the social network allows “Everyone” to look them up with the phone number they provided for two-factor authentication (2FA) by default. This sneaky ad-targeting method disguised as a privacy tool really has no privacy benefits, but there’s still a way to protect…
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‘Elixir of Immortality’ Uncovered in 2,000-Year-Old Chinese Tomb
The so-called “elixir of immortality” and the bronze pot within which is was found. Image: Xinhua/Li An A yellowish liquid found in a bronze pot dating back some 2,000 years is not wine, as Chinese archaeologists initially thought. It’s actually an “elixir of immortality” concocted during ancient times. The bronze pot was discovered last October…
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Opioid Maker Purdue Is Reportedly Considering Bankruptcy
Photo: Mark Lennihan (AP Images) The bottom may be falling out for Purdue Pharma, the drug company most synonymous with the opioid crisis. Sources reportedly told Reuters that Purdue is considering filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, a decision that would help the company better take on a growing swarm of lawsuits filed against it for…
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Amazon May Finally Have to Start Paying Taxes (in France)
Photo: Matt Winkelmeyer (Getty) A newly unveiled French tax proposal targets American internet companies like Amazon, a company notorious for paying zero federal taxes in the United States on multibillion-dollar annual profits. The French proposal promises to end tax avoidance at a time when Silicon Valley’s tax practices and tax avoidance schemes are coming under a…
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Failed Robot Toy Jibo Tells Users Goodbye: ‘I’ve Really Enjoyed Our Time Together’
Jibo’s website is a graveyard of videos that cannot be loaded. Screenshot: Victoria Song (Gizmodo) Like Jibo suggested, I went to Jibo.com to find more information, but the website is a crumbling graveyard of broken links where videos used to be. Its support page redirects you to a warning that the site is unsafe and…
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Dems to Introduce ‘Save the Internet Act’ to Restore Net Neutrality
Speaker of the House Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) speaks during a weekly news conference at the U.S. Capitol February 14, 2019 in Washington, DC. Photo: Getty / Alex Wong House Democrats on Wednesday will introduce a bill to reinstate the net neutrality rules repealed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in late 2017. In a…
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Let’s Not Be so Quick to Praise Lyft’s Promise of $10,000 Bonuses for Drivers
Photo: Isaac Brekken (Getty) Ridesharing platform Lyft bought itself some goodwill in the wake of its initial public offering last week when SEC disclosures made it clear—as had been rumored—that the company would be distributing bonuses to select drivers. The number of drivers who might receive these benefits, however, may be vanishingly small. “Up to…