Berkeley to Finally Vote on Privacy Ordinance to Make It a Digital Sanctuary City
Berkeley, California became the nation’s first sanctuary city in 1971, and tomorrow its city council will prepare to refine what that means in 2019 with an ordinance…
Category: Technology
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… Read More
Israel’s privately built Beresheet lunar lander is currently en route to the Moon–and tucked away on it is a small disk that’s crammed with 30 million pages… Read More
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… Read More
First, let me be clear that I’m not, in any legal sense, accusing anyone of anything. All I’m saying is that there’s been two recent patent filings… Read More
Report: Facebook Moderators Are Routinely High and Joke About Suicide to Cope With Job [Updated]
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…
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 household… Read More
As the measles outbreak in the Pacific Northwest continues to worsen, an Arizona House panel has approved multiple bills to expand vaccine exemptions in the state, the… Read More
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said last week that it ended its investigation into an ongoing Salmonella outbreak linked to various raw chicken products. It… Read More
When Microsoft introduced HoloLens four years ago, it allegedly changed the industry. But did it really? I mean, you can’t really buy a HoloLens, and its applications… Read More