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Sam Altman wants to scan your eyeball in exchange for cryptocurrency. His startup Worldcoin is developing an orb-shaped device that can read a person's iris. Sam Altman has a new startup that intends to give a special type of cryptocurrency to every person on earth. But first, it wants to scan everybody's eyeballs. (Ellen Huet via Bloomberg)
T-Mobile uses eSIM to let iPhone owners test its network for free. T-Mobile is offering a new way for people to test out its network coverage in the area where they live. In a change spotted by Light Reading, the carrier has expanded its existing Test Drive program to include eSIM-compatible iPhones. (Igor Bonifacic via Engadget)
The Internet Is a collective hallucination. Sixty years ago the futurist Arthur C. Clarke observed that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. The internet—how we both communicate with one another and together preserve the intellectual products of human… (Jonathan Zittrain via The Atlantic)
Amazon Demands One More Thing From Some Vendors: a Piece of Their Company. Suppliers that want to land Amazon.com Inc. as a client for their goods and services can find that its business comes with a catch: the right for Amazon to buy big stakes in their companies at potentially steep discounts to market value. (Dana Mattioli via Wall Street Journal)
Instagram tests letting anyone share a link in stories. Instagram has always limited who can post swipe-up links to their stories, but today, the company is starting a new test that could widen that ability. In this case, however, it isn’t a swipe up that people will be able to offer, but instead a linking sticker. (Ashley Carman via The Verge)
Hackers exploited 0-day, not 2018 bug, to mass-wipe My Book Live devices. Western Digital has published an update that says the company will provide data recovery services starting early next month. My Book Live customers will also be eligible for a trade-in program so they can upgrade to My Cloud devices. A spokeswoman said the data recovery service will be free of charge. (Dan Goodin via Ars Technica)
Inside the risky bat-virus engineering that links America to Wuhan. If you study a hundred different bat viruses, your luck may run out.-Ralph Baric, University of North Carolina Baric asked Shi if he could have the genetic data for SHC014. “She was gracious enough to send us those sequences almost…(Rowan Jacobsen via MIT Technology Review)
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