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| Ruby Prosser Scully / New Scientist: |
Researchers say they have been able to store the digital data of thumbnail-sized images on molecules smaller than DNA and retrieve it with ~99% accuracy — DNA isn't the only molecule we could use for digital storage. It turns out that solutions containing sugars, amino acids and other small molecules could replace hard drives too.
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Engadget, Scientific American, Brown University, CNET, and Slashdot
Tweets: @khlopomanstvo, @brownuresearch, @synbiobeta, and @brownuresearch
| Nellie Bowles / New York Times: |
A look at the growing demand for screen time consultants, parenting coaches getting paid up to $250/hour to help parents wean their kids off devices — Screen consultants are here to help you remember life before smartphones and tablets. (Spoiler: get a dog!)
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Axios. Tweets: @drvantilburg, @abenedikt, @djforohio, @heatherkelly, @ozzyetomi, @seanherms, and @raju
| Julia Alexander / The Verge: |
Some creators are posting apologies for bad behavior on alternate platforms, letting them acknowledge issues without damaging their main channels — Creators have perfected the inauthentic public apology — When Guy “Dr Disrespect” Beahm released a statement apologizing for his behavior …
Tweets: @codinghorror
| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple tests Face ID and Touch ID sign-in for iCloud․com on iOS 13 and macOS Catalina betas — For iOS 13, iPadOS 13, and macOS Catalina beta testers, Apple is trying out a new sign-in process for iCloud on the web. When you head to beta.icloud.com on a device running the betas …
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The Verge and MSPoweruser
| Leticia Miranda / BuzzFeed News: |
A list of Amazon's known businesses, subsidiaries, and brands, including some that have been discontinued or absorbed into other services — Everything about Amazon in 2019 is inconceivably big: Amazon will make up an estimated 38% of the US e-commerce market this year … | Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
7-Eleven Japan shut down its 7Pay mobile payment app two days after launch after hackers reset passwords for ~900 accounts and made ~$500K in illegal charges — Hackers exploit 7-Eleven's poorly designed password reset function to make unwanted charges on 900 customers' accounts.
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The Verge, Japan Times, Engadget, Nikkei Asian Review, Business Insider, SlashGear, and BBC
| Reuters: |
Source: CFIUS has cleared SoftBank's $2.25B investment in GM's Cruise after fresh assurances that Cruise's technology would be completely off limits to SoftBank — (Reuters) - Cruise, a U.S. self-driving vehicle company majority-owned by General Motors Co, told Reuters on Friday …
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Engadget
| Matt Apuzzo / New York Times: |
EU's Rapid Alert System to combat election interference has become hamstrung by disagreements, produced no alerts, and is at the risk of becoming defunct — BRUSSELS — The European Union launched an ambitious effort earlier this year to combat election interference: an early-warning system …
Tweets: @lukolejnik
| Martha Pskowski / The Verge: |
Uber Eats couriers in Mexico, delivering orders by bikes, describe dangerous work conditions and impossibility of obtaining promised insurance after accidents — In the past six months, five Uber Eats couriers in Mexico have died in crashes, and dozens more have been injured.
Tweets: @thesocreview
| Karlene Lukovitz / MediaPost: |
Comscore report: in March, 69.9M US homes had DVRs and 64.1M had smart TVs; monthly viewing hours on smart TVs hit 5.5B, vs. 4.6B for DVRs — Among the many positive indicators for OTT in Comscore's newly released 2019 “The State of OTT” report is the platform's imminent surpassing of DVR tech.
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The Streamable and Comscore, Inc.
| Chris Hamby / New York Times: |
Experts worry that the upcoming US Census, the first to incorporate digital methods, could fall victim to disinformation campaigns, glitches, and hacking — The government plans to deploy new technology for next year's head count, but risks abound. — In the run-up to the 2020 census … | Klaus Fiala / Forbes: |
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