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Goodbye Privacy: Police Are Silently Stealing Your Photos to Use Against You Privacy Concerns

Goodbye Privacy: Police Are Silently Stealing Your Photos to Use Against You

Clearview AI can create an in-depth profile on any person based on a single photo. Everything from that person’s activities and interests to their network of friends is easily accessible via the Clearview database. The police say the tech is “the biggest breakthrough in the last decade,” and the privacy…
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February 15, 2020
SETI search of interstellar Comet Borisov finds no sign of alien ‘technosignatures’ Black Hole

SETI search of interstellar Comet Borisov finds no sign of alien ‘technosignatures’

Home News Search For Lives NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured this view of the interstellar object Comet 2I/Borisov on Oct. 12, 2019. (Image: © NASA/ESA/D. Jewitt (UCLA)) Our solar system's second known interstellar visitor appears to be keeping quiet, just like the first.The Breakthrough Listen SETI (search for extraterrestrial intelligence)…
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February 15, 2020
The Wall Street Journal: State attorneys general reject $18 billion settlement with opioid wholesalers Oxycodone

The Wall Street Journal: State attorneys general reject $18 billion settlement with opioid wholesalers

An $18 billion offer from three major drug wholesalers aimed at settling litigation over their alleged role in the opioid crisis fell through, after more than 20 state attorneys general rejected it in a letter to the companies law firms this week. The letter…
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February 15, 2020
One More Glance at Abe Slavery Abolition

One More Glance at Abe

I didn’t get in on the observances here of Lincoln’s birthday earlier in the week, though Scott had the beat well covered. But perhaps one last glance back. From time to time people ask me what I regard as the best Lincoln biography, and without hesitation I still always pick…
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February 15, 2020