Saudi Arabia sentences schoolgirl to 18 years over tweets, says rights group (www.middleeasteye.net)
How would you expain the idea of social status to a child? (en.wikipedia.org)
Social status (in my own words) is the idea that a person has a relative social worth in a certain context. For example in a class room a teacher has a high social status and therefore must be listened to. On the other hand, if that same teacher was stopped by the police for speeding, they would not have a relatively low status...
NYC Mayor Announces New NYPD RoboCop That Needs a Cop to Guard It (www.vice.com)
Vaping linked to higher risk of asthma in teens - UPI.com (www.upi.com)
New research underscores the harms of e-cigarettes, showing that vaping increases the risk of asthma in teens who have never smoked cigarettes....
Android 14 will turn your phone into a webcam for your PC (www.xda-developers.com)
iOS 17 Could Break Crucial Diabetic Glucose Monitor Alerts, Manufacturer Warns (www.404media.co)
Owners of the FreeStyle Libre 3, one of Abbott Laboratories’ flagship glucose monitors, received an email this week warning them to “disable automatic system updates on your iPhone” because the new operating system’s StandBy Mode and Assistive Access Mode “may impact your ability to receive time-sensitive notifications...
Hyundai is offering free home chargers and install discounts for new EV buyers (www.theverge.com)
Alabama school band director says he was 'just doing my job' before police arrested him (apnews.com)
EV batteries more reliable than predicted. (news.yahoo.com)
EV batteries more reliable than predicted.::The study took real-world data from 15,000 EVs of various makes and models in the U.S.
Microsoft Paint is finally adding some of Photoshop’s best features (www.theverge.com)
Microsoft Paint is introducing support for both layers and transparency
Do You Speak Droidish? The Pentagon Is Spending Millions On A Language For Drones (www.forbes.com)
“It lets R2D2 talk to C3P0," Keven Gambold, Droidish’s mastermind and the CEO of government contractor Unmanned Experts, explained to Forbes, recalling the iconic robot duo from Star Wars....
Bill Maher postpones return to the air, the latest TV host to balk at working during writers strike (apnews.com)
Bill Maher has delayed returning to his HBO talk show during the ongoing strike by writers and actors, a decision that follows similar pauses over the weekend by “The Drew Barrymore Show,” “The Talk” and “The Jennifer Hudson Show.”...
Chinese hackers have unleashed a never-before-seen Linux backdoor (arstechnica.com)
'Oppenheimer' Surpasses 'Bohemian Rhapsody' Becomes Highest-Grossing Biopic of All-Time (streamsgeek.com)
Slack Is Basically Facebook Now (www.theatlantic.com)
The article’s title covers everything. Slack simply serves as a form of social media for the office that reduces employee productivity.
Scientists call fraud on supposed extraterrestrials presented to Mexican Congress (apnews.com)
Isa Balado: Anger in Spain after man appears to grope reporter live on air (www.bbc.com)
Isa Balado was reporting on a Madrid robbery on Tuesday when he walked up and appeared to touch her bottom, which he denied when she confronted him....
Unity rushes to clarify price increase plan, as game developers fume (www.axios.com)
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Developer Explains Why Starfield NPCs Look Like They’re Dead Inside - IGN (www.ign.com)
Playing Starfield and wondering why the NPCs look like they’re dead inside? One developer reckons they’ve worked out why.
Poll: Most Ukrainians consider president directly responsible for corruption in government (kyivindependent.com)
Elusive Ernie: China's new chatbot has a censorship problem (www.bbc.com)
EU spares Apple from mandatory RCS, for now (www.androidpolice.com)
The Burning Man fiasco is the ultimate tech culture clash. Climate change, protests, tech, elitism, (untrue) Ebola rumors — everything converged when heavy rains left thousands of people stranded i... (www.wired.com)
The Burning Man fiasco is the ultimate tech culture clash. Climate change, protests, tech, elitism, (untrue) Ebola rumors — everything converged when heavy rains left thousands of people stranded i…::Climate change, protests, tech, elitism, (untrue) Ebola rumors—everything converged when heavy rains left thousands of...
Utah officials sued over failure to save Great Salt Lake: ‘Trying to avert disaster’ (www.theguardian.com)
Environmental and community groups have sued Utah officials over failures to save its iconic Great Salt Lake from irreversible collapse....
