[nonostantement #76] - fear based social media / trackers on porn sites / livestream massacre from sudan
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Notre-Dame came far closer to collapsing than people knew. This is how it was saved.
"A baffling alert. A race to the wrong building. Notre-Dame still stands only because firefighters decided to risk everything, a New York Times reconstruction has found."WEAR SPACE
"WEAR SPACE is a wearable device designed to aid concentration by limiting your senses of sight and hearing, via noise-canceling technology and a partition that controls your field of view."The rise of fear-based social media like Nextdoor, Citizen, and now Amazon’s Neighbors
"Why people are socializing more about crime even as it becomes rarer."
- I co-founded and designed a platform like these in 2015. It's plain impossible to develop something similar in Italy without connections with the government. Everything is available and locked up at the same time.[Video] - This Soup Has Been Simmering for 45 Years
"This family-run restaurant in Bangkok has been serving soup with the same broth for 45 years. It’s a beef noodle soup called neua tuna. It simmers in a giant pot."[Video] - Throwflame - Introducing the TF-19 Flamethrower Drone
"The TF-19 Drone Flamethrower attachment is the first of its kind, available for sale now"Facebook and Google Trackers Are Showing Up on Porn Sites
"A new study scanned 22,484 pornography sites and found them riddled with trackers from major technology companies."Use of age-altering FaceApp grants Russian company ‘perpetual, irrevocable’ rights to your content
"the terms and conditions of FaceApp allow it to access to use, modify, adapt and publish any images that a user offers up in exchange for its free artificial intelligence service."The lesson from the ruins of Notre Dame: don’t rely on billionaires
"The French super-rich promised to dig deep, but such philanthropy comes at a steep price"[In Italian] - Il murales a Ostia e l'appartenenza politica che conta più della lotta alla mafia
"Il Comune ha chiesto di rimuovere alcuni volti - come quello di Federica Angeli, giornalista - comparsi su un murales contro la criminalità organizzata perché giudicati troppo di sinistra"Elon Musk unveils Neuralink’s plans for brain-reading ‘threads’ and a robot to insert them
"Not for humans yet"A 17-Year-Old Girl Was Murdered. How Did Photos of Her Death Go Viral?
"A 17-year-old Instagram celebrity was brutally murdered allegedly by an obsessed male friend who then posted images of the slaying on Instagram, gaming website Discord, and 4chan, prompting an outpouring of shock and horror on social media."[Video] - Sudan's Livestream Massacre - Documentary - BBC Africa Eye
"On June 3, 2019, there was a massacre on the streets of Sudan’s capital, Khartoum. This is the story of that massacre, told through the phone cameras of those who kept filming, even as they came under live fire."[Video] - Sadness As An Orangutan Tries To Fight The Bulldozer Destroying Its Habitat
"As loggers smash the base of a tree in the Ketapang District, West Borneo, heart-breaking video shows one of the great apes perched in the tree’s canopy as it falls to the floor."A Chinese AI startup is tracking lost dogs using their nose prints
"The app can also be used to find irresponsible pet owners"
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