Tag: Viral

Doctors Are Turning To YouTube To Learn How To Do Surgical Procedures

Some doctors say that medical students and residents are turning to YouTube to fill in gaps in their training. The video-sharing platform hosts tens of thousands of surgery-related videos, and the number keeps climbing every year. CNBC reports: CNBC found tens of thousands of videos showing a wide variety of medical procedures on the Google-owned video platform, some of them hovering…

Germany Makes Measles Vaccinations Compulsory For Children

An anonymous reader quotes CNN:
Germany’s parliament has voted to make measles vaccinations compulsory for children, with parents who fail to immunize their children facing fines of €2,500 ($2,750). The Measles Protection Act, which the Bundestag approved on Thursday, requires all parents to provide evidence that their child has received two measles vaccinations before they are enrolled in school or kindergarten. Medical…

Video of a fish with a human-like face goes viral

Unnerving footage of a carp with distinctly human-like facial features has recently emerged on social media. The peculiar fish, which was reportedly f… Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/331888/video-of-a-fish-with-a-human-like-face-goes-viral…

Viral Tweets From Steve Wozniak and Ruby on Rails Creator Spur Investigation Into Apple Credit Card

An anonymous reader quotes the BBC:
A US financial regulator has opened an investigation into claims Apple’s credit card offered different credit limits for men and women. It follows complaints — including from Apple’s co-founder Steve Wozniak — that algorithms used to set limits might be inherently biased against women. New York’s Department of Financial Services has contacted Goldman Sachs, which runs…

‘Codes of Conduct: Speech Bans Are Poor Strategy’

Christine Peterson, a long-time futurist who co-founded the nanotech advocacy group the Foresight Institute in 1986 and coined the term “Open Source software” among other things writes: I am currently cited on the home page of the Ethical Source Movement, home of the Ethical Source Definition: “In the twenty years since Christine Peterson first coined the term ‘open source’, our community…

Equifax Used ‘admin’ as Username and Password for Sensitive Data: Lawsuit

AndrewFlagg writes: When it comes to using strong username and passwords for administrative purposes let alone customer facing portals, Equifax appears to have dropped the ball. Equifax used the word “admin” as both password and username for a portal that contained sensitive information, according to a class action lawsuit filed in federal court in the Northern District of Georgia. The ongoing…

Vandal Who Keyed A Tesla Discovers That It Filmed Him

For the third time, someone who vandalized a Tesla discovered that the car’s “Sentry Mode” had filmed them — and after the video went viral online, decided to turn themselves in. An anonymous reader quotes Electrek:
The 20-year-old said that he was frustrated after a car cut him off and he thought the Model 3 might have been the same car. The…

How TikTok Censors Videos That Do Not Please Beijing

According to leaked documents revealed by the Guardian, TikTok instructs its moderators to censor videos that mention Tiananmen Square, Tibetan independence, or the banned religious group Falun Gong. “The documents […] lay out how ByteDance, the Beijing-headquartered technology company that owns TikTok, is advancing Chinese foreign policy aims abroad through the app,” writes Alex Hern for the Guardian. From the report:…