All Things Internet: The Big Players & The Issues
The world has grown increasingly connected over the past few decades and a huge chunk of our lives are online. We cover the companies you care about: YouTube, Google, Amazon, and the issues you care about: NBN, IoT, social media, privacy and security.
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Wildfires Are Fuelling a Dangerous Feedback Loop of Arctic Warming
Wildfires across the globe are contributing to conditions that make future fires more likely, new research finds. The study estimates that brown carbon emissions from sources like wildfires are a greater contributor to warming in the Arctic atmosphere than previously thought. And because this warming then contributes to the weather conditions that give rise to…
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U.S. Justice Department Admits: We Don’t Even Know How Many Predictive Policing Tools We’ve Funded
Several of the nation’s largest cities use federal tax dollars to fund the development of software promising to predict the locations of future crimes. They’ve done so for the better part of a decade. For the first time, though, the agency overseeing the distribution of that money has formally acknowledged it has little idea of…
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Harvey Guillén to Voice Nightwing on Harley Quinn
Following the announcement that The Suicide Squad director James Gunn will be playing himself on the upcoming third season of Harley Quinn, Deadline confirms that Harvey Guillén will also be joining the cast as Nightwing.
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Canada’s Badass Mountain Hut Officially Too Perilous, Will Be Dismantled
A historic cabin high up in Canada’s Yoho National Park is now slated for demolition, park officials said, because the rock and soil beneath it is eroding, putting the 100-year-old structure at risk of collapse.