The New York Times
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Taylor Lorenz
– Nov 20, 2020, 1:54 PM
A business trying to make money off mansions full of TikTok influencers has gone public on the stock market through an unusual deal. It involves a former Chinese health care company, and if that sounds confusing, well, we can explain. Social media…
If Jason Benkoski is right, the path to interstellar space begins in a shipping container tucked behind a laboratory high bay in Maryland. The set up looks like something out of a low budget sci-fi film: One wall of the container is lined with…
Electronic Frontier Foundation
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Bill Budington
– Nov 19, 2020, 11:40 AM
Today, we're pleased to announce Cover Your Tracks, the newest edition and rebranding of our historic browser fingerprinting and tracker awareness tool Panopticlick. Cover Your Tracks picks up where Panopticlick left off. Panopticlick was about…
Wired
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Cecilia D'Anastasio
– Nov 20, 2020, 7:32 AM
In 1993, Sega made a Power Rangers -esque VR headset that the company hoped would bring VR to the masses. “It takes us into the future,” said MTV's Alan Hunter on stage at that summer's Consumer Electronics Show. “The future…
The New York Times
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Carl Zimmer
– Nov 20, 2020, 9:00 AM
The front-runners in the vaccine race seem to be working far better than anyone expected: Pfizer and BioNTech announced this week that their vaccine had an efficacy rate of 95 percent. Moderna put the figure for its vaccine at 94.5 percent. In…
