Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The percentage of 12th graders who said they’d vaped marijuana at least once in the past 30 days nearly doubled between 2018 and 2019, according to new data from the Monitoring the Future survey. The increase, from 7.5 percent to 14 percent, was the second-largest jump in the
Read MoreFollow the launch of the world’s newest orbiting telescope, which will search for habitable worlds. Europe’s Cheops Satellite Will Try to Launch Again Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreThe update didn’t delete data, but made accessing it impossible. Google Chrome update fixes Android data loss problem – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreNick Statt / The Verge: Email cleanup service Unroll.me settles with FTC for misleading users about how it shared users’ email data, will have to delete personal info it collected — The settlement forces Unroll.me to delete all the email receipts it collected — Before this year’s blockbuster Superhuman scandal … Email cleanup service Unroll.me
Read MoreBloomberg Law: NLRB rules that employers can ban workers from using company email for union and other organizing purposes, overturning the Board’s ruling from 2014 — Businesses can ban workers from using company email for union and other organizing purposes, the National Labor Relations Board decided in a Dec. 17 decision. NLRB rules that employers
Read MoreNow is an amazing time to be involved in the hobby electronics scene. There are robots to build, cheap microcontrollers which are easy to program, and computers themselves are able to be found for very low prices. That wasn’t the case in the 1960s though, where anyone interested in “electronics” might have had a few
Read MoreThe authorities can scan your phones, track your face and find out when you leave your home. One of the world’s biggest spying networks is aimed at regular people, and nobody can stop it. A Surveillance Net Blankets China’s Cities, Giving Police Vast Powers Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreCommentary: Fan reaction to The Last Jedi was scary. We don’t need a repeat. Star Wars fans, let's not be jerks about The Rise of Skywalker – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreCNN: The Epilepsy Foundation files criminal complaint against 30+ unidentified Twitter users for coordinated attack of seizure-inducing videos to its feed last month — (CNN)Attackers sent videos of flashing and strobing lights to people on Twitter last month as part of a cyberattack which deliberately targeted people with epilepsy. The Epilepsy Foundation files criminal complaint
Read MoreMarriage Story leads the nominations, followed by The Irishman and Joker. Golden Globes 2020: Where to watch, date, start time and nominations – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreIt’s been a big week for investigations here at The Interface. On Monday, we published my investigation into the mental health woes of content moderators for Google and YouTube who remove terrorist content from the web. And on Tuesday, Zoe published a follow-up investigation into the high-flying luggage company Away. There’s a lot in there:
Read MoreThese are the best and hottest toys that will be on letters to Santa this year. The hottest Christmas toys 2019 – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe Korean brand has a history of actually naming its cars, but that could change. Kia may be planning to ditch car names for alphanumerics in the US – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreQuantum physics! Now that I have your attention, let’s talk about sex. Cultural norms would have us believe that human sexuality is divided up into a series of categories. We’re all supposedly somewhere between totally heterosexual and entirely homosexual on the Kinsey Scale, and everyone’s either male, female, in-between, both, or neither. From a quantum
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Before this year’s blockbuster Superhuman scandal, in which the email app maker was caught providing a non-consensual read receipt feature to its users, there was the Unroll.me controversy. It erupted two years ago, when it was discovered the popular email cleanup tool was collecting information on user purchases
Read MoreAnalytics firm App Annie revealed data about the most-downloaded apps and games of the past ten years. Most of it is about what you’d expect: microtransaction games dominated, as did social media and telecommunications. But there is one small detail that’s a bit galling: Facebook, quite literally, owned this decade. On App Annie’s list of
Read More{$inline_image} Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: After a cyber attack, Canadian medical lab LifeLabs paid a ransom to recover the stolen data of 15M+ customers, which included login info and test results — Data breach took place in early November, and hackers also gained access to 85,000 laboratory test results. After a cyber attack, Canadian medical
Read MoreCatalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: After a cyber attack, Canadian medical lab LifeLabs paid a ransom to recover the stolen data of 15M+ customers, which included login info and test results — Data breach took place in early November, and hackers also gained access to 85,000 laboratory test results. After a cyber attack, Canadian medical lab
Read MoreChris Prentice / Reuters: SEC charges former Palo Alto Networks IT administrator and four accomplices with insider trading from 2015 to 2018; the traders made over $7M in illegal profits — WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. authorities on Tuesday said they have charged a former IT administrator and four friends involved … SEC charges former Palo
Read MoreRemember when the organization in charge of .org domain names traditionally used by non-profits decided to sell itself to a for-profit company? It surprised everyone because up to that point, there was little indication that the Internet Society (ISOC) was shopping the Public Interest Registry (PIR) for sale. Among those surprised, it appears, was ICANN,
Read More{$inline_image} Piloting a boat is all well and good, but can get dull when you’d rather be reclining on the deck with a cold beverage in hand. For [Timo Birnschein], this simply wouldn’t do. He began to gather parts to put together an autopilot to keep his boat on the straight and narrow. The build
Read MorePiloting a boat is all well and good, but can get dull when you’d rather be reclining on the deck with a cold beverage in hand. For [Timo Birnschein], this simply wouldn’t do. He began to gather parts to put together an autopilot to keep his boat on the straight and narrow. The build is
Read MoreThe owner of the unbelievably rare, possibly unique prototype Play Station revealed the device is going to auction. Come February, someone is going to go home with a precious piece of gaming history. In case you don’t know what I’m talking about, in the late 1980s, Nintendo and Sony worked out a deal to create
Read MoreSam Mendes turns a family story from the Great War into a terrifyingly immersive movie experience, even if it does cheat a bit. 1917 review: One-take WW1 epic a breathless anthem for doomed youth – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Talking with Google Assistant can be a handy way to get answers to questions, run your smart home, or ask for the weather. But every once in awhile, the Assistant might reply to a question you didn’t ask, or it might accidentally record a snippet of a conversation
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