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07/27/2018

The UK government released a report announcing plans for a centralized database for law enforcement to access and share.

The UK government’s Home Office released a report this week announcing plans for a forthcoming centralized biometric database of its citizens, compiling DNA, fingerprint, face, and possibly even voice data for law enforcement to access and share, according to the Telegraph. In addition to helping ...

07/26/2018

Use Hirshhorn Eye, a new museum guide app at the ’s Hirshhorn gallery, to learn about works of art directly from the people who made them.

Hirshhorn’s new museum guide lets visitors scan the art with their phones to unlock the story behind it.

07/26/2018

. now displays , and outcomes data about colleges when people type their names into search.

The tech giant will display certain publicly available information about colleges when people type their names into search

07/24/2018

Just in time for a Eugene heatwave are our COOL new summer staff shirts!

07/10/2018

Columbia and Yale scientists used individualized notions of - not religiosity - to measure and locate the area in the associated with processing spiritual experiences.

Whether your transcendent state involves a church, nature, or a stadium full of sports fans, it appears to have the same effect on the brain.

07/06/2018

The NSA has moved most of the mission it collects, analyzes and stores into a computing environment known as the Community GovCloud.



https://www.nextgov.com/emerging-tech/2018/06/nsa-systematically-moving-all-its-data-cloud/149179/

07/04/2018

4 cups of coffee a day will keep the doctor away, according to a recently published study in PLOS Biology.

We've known for a while that drinking coffee is associated with a whole host of health benefits, but scientists haven't figured out why. A new study says it might have a lot to do with how caffeine improves the way our cells perform.

07/04/2018

Thanks to 2016’s trade secret law and algorithmic justice, America’s courts have become Al-Kafka nightmares.



https://boingboing.net/2018/06/20/unknowable-evidence.html

06/28/2018

., , and will stop selling your phone’s location to data brokers: apparently plans to “wind down” their aggregator agreements.

Carriers forced to make changes after leak of real-time phone location data.

06/27/2018

.’s Medical Brain team is training to predict a host of patient outcomes, including how likely they are to die when admitted to a hospital.

AI advances by the 'Medical Brain' team could help the internet giant finally break into the health-care business

06/27/2018

Apple’s watchOS5 won’t work on the gold Apple Watch people were paying 10K+ for just a few years ago.



https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/apple-watch-update-latest-edition-watchos-5-expensive-out-of-date-obsolete-a8385291.html