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Hundreds to Pose Naked in NYC Streets in Social Media Censorship Protest(nbcnewyork.com)
1 points by Jerry2 8y ago|0 comments
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Why are Silicon Valley billionaires starving themselves?(theweek.com)
10 points by Jerry2 8y ago|2 comments
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by Jerry2 8y ago
Well, if you look at the study [0] you can see that you can get rid of the most of the tracking by disabling App Background Refresh, removing the Google apps and by running a content blocker. If you do all those steps, Big Google won't
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by Jerry2 8y ago
Thank you! That was helpful.
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by Jerry2 8y ago
Just go into Settings and disable "Background App Refresh" for all the apps you don't want running in the background. And also check your Battery section to see which apps use the battery the most. I'm a recent convert t
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by Jerry2 8y ago
Since you work at Google, do you have any knowledge about Sensorvault? Where does the data come from?
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by Jerry2 8y ago
> Though Google’s data cache is enormous, it doesn’t sweep up every phone, said Mr. Edens, the California intelligence analyst. And even if a location is recorded every few minutes, that may not coincide with a shooting or an assault. &
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by Jerry2 8y ago
Is there a way to check what trackers/libraries/"kits" an iOS app uses? I don't use many apps on my iPhone and most of them don't have background & location rights so I'm not that worried but would sti
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Facebook accidentally shipped thousands of VR controllers with hidden messages(businessinsider.in)
3 points by Jerry2 8y ago|0 comments
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Amazon Workers Are Listening to What You Tell Alexa(bloombergquint.com)
3 points by Jerry2 8y ago|2 comments
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by Jerry2 8y ago
> The US government spies on you to prevent the next 9/11 so it goes. China spies on you to steal your IP to give to its native businesses. NSA has also been caught spying for economic purposes. They were spying on Brazilian oil gi
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Uber driver suspected of burglarizing home of his passenger(eastbaytimes.com)
3 points by Jerry2 8y ago|0 comments
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Feds warn: China sending ‘thousands’ of spies to US colleges(washingtonexaminer.com)
15 points by Jerry2 8y ago|2 comments
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Facebook and Google have placed opeds and native ads to steer future regulations(theguardian.com)
2 points by Jerry2 8y ago|0 comments
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UK to keep social networks in check with internet safety regulator(cnet.com)
2 points by Jerry2 8y ago|0 comments
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Minority Report-style crime prevention with AI is fast becoming reality(scmp.com)
2 points by Jerry2 8y ago|0 comments
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by Jerry2 8y ago
> window visible in the frame Take a closer look. These windows are not windows to the outside. They're windows to hallways inside of massive bunkers. You can even see giant steam/water pipes in some of the pics (say pic #1).
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by Jerry2 8y ago
When I open this page in Firefox, everything works fine. But when I open it in Chromium, I see: www.bloomberg.com refused to connect. ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED What could be causing this? Never encountered something like this before.
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A million people live in underground nuclear bunkers in Beijing (2017)(nationalgeographic.com)
130 points by Jerry2 8y ago|53 comments
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In a WeWork World, Finding an Office Buddy Is a Social Minefield(wsj.com)
1 points by Jerry2 8y ago|0 comments
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by Jerry2 8y ago
It goes something like this: corporations hire lobbyists, lobbyists write bills and hire former gov officials and judges to go over the proposed bills and catch any flaws in them. Then they lobby the current, elected officials and bribe the
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by Jerry2 8y ago
The thing that this article doesn't discuss is the fact that Uber spent $2M on lobbying to help push through congestion pricing. [0] >“Over the past several years, we’ve been proud to work with a diverse coalition to fight for compr
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Google Helps Government Conduct Warrantless Searches, Alleges Epic(tomshardware.com)
2 points by Jerry2 8y ago|0 comments
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Chinese high-security jail puts AI monitors in every cell(telegraph.co.uk)
2 points by Jerry2 8y ago|0 comments
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Kotok-McCarthy: The first computer program to play chess convincingly(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by Jerry2 8y ago|0 comments
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by Jerry2 8y ago
The 1-900 number as other poster mentioned is an obvious "premium rate number" [0] but there are also others which are typically used for scams which are assigned to Caribbean countries. [1] [2] I have no idea how to acquire one o
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Man makes money from cold calls with his own higher-rate phone number (2013)(bbc.com)
384 points by Jerry2 8y ago|133 comments
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Tourist Taking Photos Dies in Fall at Grand Canyon(bloomberg.com)
1 points by Jerry2 8y ago|0 comments
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Positive Technologies discovered undocumented technology in Intel chips(hackernews.blog)
2 points by Jerry2 8y ago|0 comments
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by Jerry2 8y ago
I fly at least once a month. I'll be avoiding MAX until agencies other than the FAA recertify the plane. FAA cannot be trusted because of regulatory capture so I won't take their word over this anytime soon.

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