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Happy Mother’s Day? UK retailers’ email opt-out welcomed by some

Customers offered choice not to be sent marketing material in run-up to Mothering Sunday

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Associação de proteção dos direitos de crianças processa empresas de games por venda de loot boxes no Brasil

Processo envolve 13 empresas incluindo Riot, Ubisoft e Google e pede R$ 19 bilhões em indenizações por danos morais

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EU law requires companies to fix electronic goods for up to 10 years

Companies that sell refrigerators, washers, hairdryers, or TVs in the European Union will need to ensure those appliances can be repaired for up to 10 years.

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Four causes for ‘Zoom fatigue’ and their solutions | Stanford News

It’s not just Zoom. Popular video chat platforms have design flaws that exhaust the human mind and body. But there are easy ways to mitigate their effects.

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World’s first space hotel scheduled to open in 2027

Voyager Station is a cruise ship-style hotel built from modules connected into a ring that will rotate to create artificial gravity in orbit.

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An AI saw a cropped photo of AOC. It autocompleted her wearing a bikini.

Image-generation algorithms are regurgitating the same sexist, racist ideas that exist on the internet.

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OpenAI’s state-of-the-art machine vision AI is fooled by handwritten notes

Reading is believing.

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China’s ‘Sharp Eyes’ Program Aims to Surveil 100% of Public Space

The program turns neighbors into agents of the surveillance state

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WhatsApp terá envio de imagens temporárias que somem após serem vistas | Aplicativos e Software | Tecnoblog

WhatsApp começou a testar o envio de imagens temporárias igual ao do Instagram Direct, mas recurso permite fazer captura de tela

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Clubhouse grava suas conversas sem autorização, mas esse nem é o maior problema

O Clubhouse foi um sucesso instantâneo. Mesmo que a limitação de só ter suporte para iOS tenha impedido que um maior público tivesse acesso à rede social de conversas por áudio, o app logo se tornou um sucesso na App Store. Gostando ou não, muitas pessoas famosas compraram a ideia e engajaram seus seguidores a …

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Google to Stop Selling Ads Based on Your Specific Web Browsing

The Alphabet company said that it plans next year to stop using or investing in tracking technologies that uniquely identify web users as they move from site to site across the internet.

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Don’t Play in Google’s Privacy Sandbox

Last week, Google announced a plan to “build a more private web.” The announcement post was, frankly, a mess. The company that tracks user behavior on over ⅔ of the web said that “Privacy is paramount to us, in everything we do.” Google not only doubled down on its commitment to targeted…

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The privacy mirage

The privacy mirage

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Walker ‘stunned’ to see ship hovering high above sea off Cornwall

David Morris encounters rare optical illusion known as superior mirage while out on coastal stroll

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Fixing What the Internet Broke

How sites like Facebook and Twitter can help reduce election misinformation.

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Brazil study suggests AstraZeneca vaccine is effective against Brazil COVID-19 variant

Preliminary studies suggest the AstraZeneca vaccine will protect against the P1 variant of the coronavirus, Mauricio Zuma, the head of production at Brazil’s Fiocruz biomedical institute said on Monday, confirming a Reuters report on Friday.

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CoronaVac e Oxford são eficazes contra variante de Manaus, dizem laboratórios

Estudos preliminares mostraram que tanto a CoronaVac, vacina contra covid-19 do laboratório chinês Sinovac, quanto a vacina desenvolvida pelo laboratório AstraZeneca em parceira com a Universidade de Oxford mostraram ser eficazes contra a variante de M

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Facebook has an apparent double standard over COVID-19 misinformation in Brazil, researchers say

A study by fact-checking organization Agência Lupa points to 29 instances of President Jair Bolsonaro seemingly violating Facebook’s rules.

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‘Facebook has a blind spot’: why Spanish-language misinformation is flourishing

Researchers say Spanish-language content is less often and less quickly moderated for misinformation than English content

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Paraguai tem terceiro dia de protestos; manifestantes pedem renúncia de presidente devido a erros na gestão da pandemia

Neste sábado, o presidente do país, Mario Abdo Benítez, trocou ministros da Educação, do Ministério da Mulher e o chefe de gabinete. Na sexta, ministro da Saúde renunciou.

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Site oferece ‘passaporte de imunidade’ da Covid-19; especialistas alertam para os riscos

O serviço oferecido seria uma espécie de liberação para participar de eventos em segurança. A Secretaria Municipal de Saúde do Rio informou que não reconhece o passaporte. A Anvisa disse que iniciativa pode contribuir para a propagação do vírus. Os organizadores pontuam que ‘o Passaporte Rio é um ensaio de protocolo’.

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China launches ‘virus passport’

The digital certificate is aimed at boosting international travel, but it has sparked privacy concerns.

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Why Facebook is losing friends in Hong Kong

One day in mid-October, Antony Leung received a message from Facebook telling him that his group, Cat Is Cat, had been indefinitely suspended. Leung, who runs a pet supply shop in Hong Kong…

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‘I will shoot whoever I see’: Myanmar soldiers use TikTok to threaten protesters

Armed Myanmar soldiers and police are using TikTok to deliver death threats to protesters against last month’s coup, researchers said, leading the Chinese video-sharing app to announce it was removing content that incites violence.

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Hong Kongers crowdsourced a protest manual—and Myanmar’s already using it

The how-to guide details 60 different roles in Hong Kong’s protests, from frontliners to medics to translators.

qz.com

Hong Kong protests: Coordinating chaos

The tactics protesters use to fortify the front lines

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NFT art: the bizarre world where burning a Banksy can make it more valuable

A blockchain company has bought a piece of Banksy artwork worth US$95,000 and burnt it.

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Please do not give billionaire Jack Dorsey money for his tweet

How? Why? Yes.

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Square acquires majority of Tidal, Jay-Z’s streaming service, in $297 million deal.

Jay-Z bought Tidal in partnership with other artists in 2015 for $56 million. It will be led by an interim director from Square under Jack Dorsey.

www.nytimes.com

Are Old Rap MP3s Hip-Hop’s Hottest New Collectible?

MP3s are bubbling thanks to the influx of streaming and the fact that a whole generation of classic hip-hop songs and mixtapes are not available on streaming services. Last year, vinyl sales surpassed CD sales for the first time since the ‘80s. Americans spent well over $200 million on vinyl, a muc

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O mito do herói: Minha História: ídolo do atletismo, Joaquim Cruz conta por que está pronto para voltar ao Brasil após 30 anos

Minha História: ídolo do atletismo, Joaquim Cruz conta por que está pronto para voltar ao Brasil após 30 anos

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Late-Stage Pandemic Is Messing With Your Brain

We have been doing this so long, we’re forgetting how to be normal.

www.theatlantic.com

10 Breakthrough Technologies 2021

This list marks 20 years since we began compiling an annual selection of the year’s most important technologies.

www.technologyreview.com

Diretor de Space Jam 2 explica visual menos sexualizado de Lola Bunny

Há 25 anos chegava aos cinemas o primeiro Space Jam, estrelando LeBron James, Bill Murray e os Looney Tunes na mesma tela. Mas nesse intervalo entre o filme e sua sequência, em julho, o diretor e a produção observaram que foram necessárias mudanças em Lola Bunny

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Space Jam 2: Pepe Le Gambá não estará no filme

Personagem teria sido excluído após conteúdos relacionados a assédio sexual

www.tecmundo.com.br