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How TikTok serves up sex and drug videos to minors. The account was one of dozens of automated accounts, or bots,... Advertisement - Scroll to Continue The account was one of dozens of automated accounts, or bots, created by The Wall Street Journal to understand what TikTok shows young users. (Rob Barry via Wall Street Journal)
Amazon brings its cashierless tech to two Whole Foods stores. Amazon is bringing its automated checkout technology to a pair of Whole Foods stores, the company announced Wednesday, marking the latest test of the grab-and-go system in a full-size supermarket. (Annie Palmer via CNBC)
The world's biggest carbon-sucking machine is switching on in Iceland. We have to start removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to have any chance of averting the worst impacts of global warming, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said last month. The fossil fuel economy must be run in reverse, effectively. The simplest and lowest-cost way to do that—planting trees—requires a lot of land relative to the scale of intervention that’s needed. (Tim McDonnell via Quartz)
The Plan to Stop Every Respiratory Virus at Once. When London vanquished cholera in the 19th century, it took not a vaccine, or a drug, but a sewage system. The city's drinking water was intermingling with human waste, spreading bacteria in one deadly outbreak after another. (Sarah Zhang via The Atlantic)
The fight to study what happens on Facebook. Facebook recently added a new report to its transparency center. The "widely viewed content" report was ostensibly meant to shed light on what’s been a long-running debate: What is the most popular content on Facebook? (Karissa Bell via Engadget)
Amazon And Microsoft Scored $50 Million In Pentagon Surveillance Contracts After Google Quit. After Google decided to quit working on Project Maven in 2018 thanks to staff protests, rivals Amazon and Microsoft quietly took on Department of Defense contracts worth $50 million to help the military identify objects from drone and other aerial footage, according to a new analysis of federal government contract records. (Thomas Brewster via Forbes)
Microsoft launches a personalized news service, Microsoft Start. Microsoft today is introducing its own personalized news reading experience called Microsoft Start, available as both a website and mobile app, in addition to being integrated with other Microsoft products, including Windows 10 and 11 and its Microsoft Edge web browser. (Sarah Perez via TechCrunch)
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