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Meta told its workers on Friday not to disclose the Supreme Court’s ruling abolishing the constitutional right to discuss abortion on broad-reach communication channels within the company, people familiar with the situation said. Meta’s managers, who own Facebook and Instagram, cite the company’s policy of putting a “strong rail around social, political and sensitive conversations”…
In the coming years, NASA will be busy on the moon. A huge rocket will lift the capsule around and behind the moon, probably before the end of summer, with no astronauts. The parade of robotic landers will leave experiments on the moon to collect rims of scientific data, especially about water ice in the…
The more than 1.4 billion people living in China are constantly watched. They are recorded by police cameras that are everywhere, on street corners and subway ceilings, in hotel lobbies and apartment buildings. Their phones are tracked, their purchases are monitored, and their online chats are censored. Now, even their future is under surveillance. The…
After more than a year of silence, the mysterious person behind the QAnon conspiracy theory has reappeared. The figure, known simply as Q, was posted on Friday for the first time in a year at 8kun, where the account last appeared. “Shall we play the game again?” Post read in the typical secret style of…
After nearly 25 years of smoking, Tim Marchman wanted to quit. And yet he didn’t want to be the so-called “vap guy” who spends hours in specialized stores, choosing from dozens of electronic nicotine delivery devices, many of which are very elaborate. So he settled on that the easiest option for him, Jul, was a…
Meta told its workers on Friday not to disclose the Supreme Court’s ruling abolishing the constitutional right to discuss abortion on broad-reach communication channels within the company, people familiar with the situation said. Meta’s managers, who own Facebook and Instagram, cite the company’s policy of putting a “strong rail around social, political and sensitive conversations”…
Companies had more than a month to respond to the end of federal abortion rights in the United States if they did not respond immediately after a draft opinion was leaked in May. But when the final decision was made Dobbs v. On Friday the Jackson Women’s Health Organization, relatively few people had anything to…
Dr. Knolton stayed at Bell Labs until 1982, experimenting with everything from computer-generated music to technology that allows deaf people to read sign language over the telephone. He later joined Wang Laboratories, where, in the late 1980s, he helped develop a personal computer that could allow users to analyze documents with synchronized voice messages and…
For years, activists and academics have expressed concern that facial analysis software that claims to be able to identify a person’s age, gender, and emotional state may be biased, unreliable, or aggressive – and should not be sold. Acknowledging some of those criticisms, Microsoft said Tuesday it plans to remove those features from its Artificial…