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News & Articles By Cassie B.
04/27/2020
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By Cassie B.
Amazon under fire for closing customer service line despite record sales
As you might expect, online retail giant Amazon has been enjoying incredible sales these days as people are generally stuck at home around the world – around $11,000 a second of sales, to be more precise. Their share price has climbed by more than a third in under a month, and owner Jeff Bezos has […]
03/14/2020
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By Cassie B.
Chinese government using facial recognition tech that can identify people even when they’re wearing coronavirus masks
The Chinese government is known for being extreme when it comes to tracking people, and now they’ve found a way to continue their creepy surveillance even when people are wearing masks. A Chinese firm has announced that it has developed the country’s first facial recognition technology capable of identifying people who are wearing masks. The […]
09/30/2019
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By Cassie B.
Hackers shut down operations in Wyoming hospital, forcing patients to be transferred
In case we needed another reminder of how terribly things can go wrong when we place too much trust in technology, an attack on the computers of a healthcare system in Wyoming forced a hospital to transfer patients and cancel surgeries. The problem was caused by a ransomware attack that took control of the computers […]
08/05/2019
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By Cassie B.
Artificial justice: Estonia is building a robot judge to settle backlogged cases
Estonia has come up with a solution to its backlog of small claims disputes that is as novel as it is disturbing: They’re building a robot judge to decide on pending cases. As outrageous as it sounds, officials from the country’s Ministry of Justice have asked Chief Data Officer Ott Velsberg to design an artificial […]
07/17/2019
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By Cassie B.
Here’s ANOTHER reason to reduce kids’ screen time: Social media found to negatively influence their food choices
The reasons to minimize the time your kids spend using screens continue to pile up, with everything from depression and vision problems to poor school performance and social relations being blamed on excessive electronics device use. Now scientists have found yet another compelling reason to impose some limits on screen time — and social media […]
04/23/2019
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By Cassie B.
Mental health apps secretly share your private data with marketing companies to target your “disorders”
If you’re looking to make some positive changes for your health, you might enlist the help of an app. If, like many people, you already depend on your smartphone for managing many of your other daily tasks, it might seem logical to add health-related matters to the list. However, some people are quickly finding that […]
01/28/2019
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By Cassie B.
Unethical Facebook caught tricking kids into spending their parents’ money on in-game purchases
Just in case you needed another reason to hate Facebook, it has now been revealed that the social media giant intentionally duped children into spending their parents’ money on video games within the platform and then refused to refund the money. Their actions are bad enough on their own, but the fact that they had […]
12/24/2018
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By Cassie B.
Texas congressman wants social media firms held accountable for biased censorship of speech
A Texas lawmaker has introduced a bill that would see social media firms stripped of their “special legal protections” if they act in a biased way. Representative Louie Gohmert said that social media companies such as Google, Twitter and Facebook are among the biggest in the world and wield an enormous amount of influence; in […]
10/21/2018
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By Cassie B.
Health surveillance: Engineers unveil smart wristband that broadcasts your health and environmental data to a phone through Wi-Fi
Just when you thought that tracking humans through technology couldn’t get any worse, engineers have developed a smart wristband that uses a wireless connection to smartphones to power a new generation of devices that monitor personal health and environmental data. In a study that was published in the journal Microsystems and Nanoengineering, researchers from Rutgers […]
09/24/2018
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By Cassie B.
Whiny feminists claim new, bigger iPhones are somehow sexist
When Apple announced its new smartphone lineup recently, much of the attention was focused on the bigger size of some of its offerings. As smartphones increasingly become laptop replacements for many people, it’s a reasonable business move to cater to the growing demand for bigger screens. What isn’t reasonable, however, is the surprising response from […]
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