Larry Sanger, American internet project developer and co-founder of Wikipedia, argues in a blog post that vendors must start adding physical on/off switches to webcams, smartphone cameras/mics, and other devices that spy on us. He writes: Have you ever noticed that your webcam doesn’t have an “off” switch? I looked on Amazon, and I couldn’t find any webcams for sale that…
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This Cthulhu-like creature crawled the ancient seafloor
Paleontologists have named the 430 million-year-old fossil of a tentacled sea creature after horror author H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu monster. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/chtulhu-like-creature-fossil…
Global Attention Span Is Narrowing and Trends Don’t Last As Long, Study Reveals
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: It’s just as you suspected; the information age has changed the general attention span. A recently published study from researchers at the Technical University of Denmark suggests the collective global attention span is narrowing due to the amount of information that is presented to the public. Released on Monday in the scientific…
Another asteroid disintegrates over Russia
A bright meteor was caught in many dashcam videos – in broad daylight – on April 6, 2019, over the Russian city of Krasnoyarsk. See a video compilation here. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/bright-meteor-krasnoyarsk-russia-apr-6-2019…
Male scientists are often cast as lone geniuses. Here’s what happened when a woman was.
The sexist backlash against the woman involved with the black hole image, explained. Just after the Event Horizon Telescope project announced last week that its astronomers had managed to capture the first-ever image of a black hole, MIT tweeted this image. Here’s the moment when the first black hole image was processed, from the eyes… Continue reading Male scientists are often cast as lone geniuses. Here’s what happened when a woman was.
Wikipedia Isn’t Officially a Social Network. But the Harassment Can Get Ugly.
Unlike at social networks such as Facebook and Twitter, the people who respond to reports of harassment are largely unpaid volunteers. Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/08/us/wikipedia-harassment-wikimedia-foundation.html?partner=rss&emc=rss