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Google Is Testing Its Controversial New Ad Targeting Tech in Millions of Browsers. Here’s What We Know.

Today, Google launched an “origin trial” of Federated Learning of Cohorts (aka FLoC), its experimental new technology for targeting ads. A switch has silently been flipped in millions of instances of Google Chrome: those browsers will begin sorting their users into groups based on behavior, then…

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Your ‘smart home’ is watching – and possibly sharing your data with the police

Smart-home devices like thermostats and fridges may be too smart for comfort – especially in a country with few laws preventing the sale of digital data to third parties

www.theguardian.com

I Called Off My Wedding. The Internet Will Never Forget

In 2019, I made a painful decision. But to the algorithms that drive Facebook, Pinterest, and a million other apps, I’m forever getting married.

www.wired.com

How Netflix is creating a common European culture

Streaming subtitled box sets is the new Eurovision | Europe

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‘Speed watching’: o que você perde quando acelera a velocidade do filme? – BBC News Brasil

Cada vez mais plataformas de streaming têm oferecido ferramentas de speed watching, que permitem alterar o ritmo do que se assiste ou se escuta.

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Bottega Veneta ditches Instagram to set up ‘digital journal’

Fashion world will watch with interest after brand replaces social media posts with magazine Issue

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Facebook, Twitter and Instagram need to make these changes to fight online harassment, nonprofit says

Free expression advocacy group PEN America called on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and other social media companies to address online abuse in a new report.

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Facebook’s VP of Global Affairs on the News Feed’s new controls

Facebook’s Nick Clegg on giving users more control.

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Facebook makes it easier for users to see News Feed stories in chronological order | Engadget

Facebook is rolling out a News Feed update that lets you switch off algorithmically-ranked posts in favor of a chronological timeline.

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533 million Facebook users’ phone numbers and personal data have been leaked online

The data includes phone numbers, Facebook IDs, full names, locations, birthdates, bios, and, in some cases, email addresses.

www.businessinsider.com

Have I Been Zucked?

Check if your details are included in the 2019 Facebook data breach.

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Cade investiga cartel de RH em farmacêuticas

Caso envolve grandes indústrias, além de fornecedores de serviços e equipamentos médico-hospitalares, que teriam trocado informações sobre condições de contratação, remunerações, reajustes salariais e benefícios oferecidos aos funcionários

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The Intercept on Twitter

Amazon ambassadors were trained to defend Jeff Bezos and clap back at Bernie Sanders under a program codenamed “Veritas,” according to an internal description of the program obtained exclusively by The Intercept. https://t.co/09LFxiXjRO

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She Built Website To Turn Dick Pics Into NFT Art To Name And Shame Guys

OMG! That’s quite a hard measure.

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NFT THE DP

How to mint your NFTDP in 10 simple steps: Awww did someone get NFTDPd ??? You’re in luck… Here’s how to burn the NFT (and consider yourself lucky your actual schlong isn’t getting burned):

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Toni Kroos: ‘It’s wrong that the World Cup was awarded to Qatar’ | DW | 31.03.2021

Germany’s Toni Kroos has criticized 2022 World Cup host nation Qatar’s treatment of migrant workers and its persecution of homosexuality. But he doesn’t agree with calls to boycott the tournament.

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Pelo segundo ano consecutivo, Google cancela o Dia da Mentira

Assim como no ano passado, o motivo do cancelamento das brincadeiras do Dia da Mentira é a pandemia de Covid-19

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Falsa enfermeira já vacinava pessoas em BH desde o início do mês, diz PF

Mulher está presa desde essa terça (30/3) e aplicava soro fisiológico nas pessoas que encomendavam o serviço irregular

www.em.com.br

‘Sun, sea, sand and Soberana 02’: Cuba open to inoculating tourists with homegrown Covid vaccine

Cuba aims to be one of the first countries in the world to vaccinate its entire population in 2021.

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1º de abril: Volkswagen se desculpa após ter anunciado mudança no nome como trote do Dia da Mentira

Montadora divulgou que unidade nos Estados Unidos passaria a se chamar Voltswagen

epocanegocios.globo.com

The best EDM-related April Fools in 2021

It’s the 1st of April and brands, companies, organizations, and even record labels come out with the craziest news, as of April fools.

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Famosos teriam sido pagos pelo governo para divulgar atendimento precoce; Flávia Viana confirma

À Quem, a ex-BBB explicou a decisão de participar de campanha da Secretaria de Comunicação

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Defensores de tratamento precoce contra a covid-19 atacam perfil Sleeping Giants – Agência Pública

Campanha que associa genocídio a Sleeping Giants envolveu perfis com alta probabilidade de automação e sites acusados de desinformação, aponta levantamento

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Apostador não aparece e perde prêmio de R$ 162,2 milhões da Mega da Virada

Prêmio é o maior já ‘esquecido’ na história das loterias da Caixa. Vencedor tinha até esta quarta-feira (31) para retirar o prêmio.

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Coming Soon: The ‘Vaccine Passport’

In the near future, travel may require digital documentation showing that passengers have been vaccinated or tested for the coronavirus. Answers to your questions.

www.nytimes.com

China launches COVID-19 vaccination certificates for cross-border travel

China has launched a digital COVID-19 vaccination certificate for its citizens planning cross-border travels, joining other countries issuing similar documents as they seek ways to reopen their economies.

www.reuters.com

COVID-19: Digital green certificates

The Commission has instigated a programme of digital vaccine certificates to facilitate the re-opening of economic and social activity as well as travel

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‘Vaccine passports’ are on the way, but developing them won’t be easy

The effort has taken on momentum amid President Biden’s pledge that the nation will start to regain post-pandemic normalcy this summer, and with a growing number of companies saying they will require proof of vaccinations before reopening their doors.

www.washingtonpost.com

Raios UV entram na batalha para desinfectar aviões na Suíça

Uma startup criou um robô capaz de usar lâmpadas ultravioleta para impedir que o coronavírus se espalhe dentro de aeronaves. Estudos feitos aqui no Brasil pela USP mostram que os raios UV podem eliminar até 99% dos vírus

canaltech.com.br

Moderna begins testing its vaccine in babies and young children.

The company plans to study healthy children ages six months through 11 years old in the U.S. and Canada.

www.nytimes.com

Why do so few people in France want to take the COVID-19 vaccine?

Just 40% of French people say they would get a COVID-19 vaccine if available, making the country one of the most vaccine-hesitant in the world.

www.euronews.com

Enter the Age of the Vaccine Selfie

From topless politicians to designers, it’s a thing. And it’s part of a longer tradition than you might expect.

www.nytimes.com

Vaccine brand “comparison shopping” presents a critical public health challenge

It’s a position shaped as much by public understanding of efficacy rates as well as cultural stereotypes, nationalism, and long-held notions about country of origin branding.

qz.com

We Need to Talk About the AstraZeneca Vaccine

For the moment, reports of a very rare, dangerous blood disorder among recipients cannot be ignored.

www.theatlantic.com

The Story of One Dose

Inside the sprawling operational puzzle of bringing the Johnson & Johnson COVID vaccine to the public.

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Como força-tarefa de cientistas encontrou variante do coronavírus em Sorocaba – BBC News Brasil

Por ora, não há evidências de que mudanças afetem gravidade da covid-19, mas há indícios de que elas podem diminuir a resposta imune e afetar a taxa de eficácia das vacinas.

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‘Zola’ Trailer: A Viral Twitter Thread Becomes One of the Wildest Movies of the Year

The Zola trailer adapts an infamous viral Twitter thread to the screen, with wild and crazy results.

www.slashfilm.com

Flying Lotus–Scored Netflix Anime Series Yasuke Gets First Trailer

The new show stars Lakeith Stanfield and arrives later this month

pitchfork.com

Seaspiracy: Netflix documentary accused of misrepresentation by participants

NGOs and experts quoted in film say it contains ‘misleading’ claims, erroneous statistics and out-of-context interviews

www.theguardian.com

Inteligência artificial cria músicas inéditas de Nirvana, Amy Winehouse, The Doors e Jimi Hendrix

Projeto de apoio à saúde mental reúne “novas” músicas, criadas por Inteligência Artificial, de artistas que faleceram aos 27 anos de idade. Saiba mais!

www.tenhomaisdiscosqueamigos.com

Morre Lafayette, tecladista de Roberto Carlos nos anos 1960 e celebrado pela geração 2000 do rock brasileiro

Músico que ajudou a definir o som da jovem guarda passou por um período de obscuridade e voltou ao disco em 2009 com o grupo Os Tremendões

oglobo.globo.com

The Avalanches: We Will Always Love You review – multilayered, blissed-out psychedelia

The Melbourne duo meticulously stitch together an array of guests and samples on their rewarding third album

www.theguardian.com