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Does WiFi Kill Houseplants?

Spoiler alert: No. To come to that conclusion, which runs counter to the combined wisdom of several recent YouTube videos, [Andrew McNeil] ran a pretty neat little experiment. [Andrew] has a not inconsiderable amount of expertise in this area, as an RF engineer and prolific maker of many homebrew WiFi antennas, some of which we’ve

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Interviews with 15 content moderators from YouTube, Facebook, and other platforms on their day-to-day, how the job has affected them personally, and more (Alex Feerst/OneZero)

Alex Feerst / OneZero: Interviews with 15 content moderators from YouTube, Facebook, and other platforms on their day-to-day, how the job has affected them personally, and more  —  Tech platform trust and safety employees are charged with policing the impossible.  They open up to Medium’s head of trust and safety. Interviews with 15 content moderators

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4 years after adopting Bitcoin, this business is still waiting for someone to use it

Ask any Bitcoin fan – be it an investor, trader, entrepreneur, or even the dreaded “thought leader” – for their take on what Bitcoin really needs to fulfil its full potential, and they’ll undoubtedly tell you – mass adoption. It’s understandable, then, that businesses (large or small) are inevitably inundated with requests from persistent bagholders to begin

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Angry users call for Coinbase boycott with #DeleteCoinbase after contested acquisition

Disgruntled cryptocurrency enthusiasts are lobbying to boycott popular exchange Coinbase. Users have taken to social media using the #DeleteCoinbase hashtag, encouraging others to delete their accounts, following a series of perceived mishaps by the US-based company. It comes after Coinbase, founded by Brian Armstrong and Fred Ehrsam in June 2012, proudly announced the acquisition of Neutrino, an

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While Amazon's board has become more diverse, as of January, 44 of 48 execs in Amazon's upper ranks were reportedly men and zero VPs were African-American (Maya Kosoff/OneZero)

Maya Kosoff / OneZero: While Amazon’s board has become more diverse, as of January, 44 of 48 execs in Amazon’s upper ranks were reportedly men and zero VPs were African-American  —  Beyond social justice, experts call it a business liability  —  or all the advances Amazon has made, it still can’t seem to figure out

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Investigation: at least two Canadian provinces keep databases of sensitive info obtained from at-risk people, often without consent, sparking privacy concerns (Nathan Munn/Motherboard)

Nathan Munn / Motherboard: Investigation: at least two Canadian provinces keep databases of sensitive info obtained from at-risk people, often without consent, sparking privacy concerns  —  The database includes detailed, but “de-identified,” information about people’s lives culled from conversations between police, social services, health workers, and more. Investigation: at least two Canadian provinces keep databases

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Dow Jones' watchlist of 2.4M high-risk individuals, including current and former politicians, criminals, and terrorists, was exposed on an unsecured AWS server (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)

Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: Dow Jones’ watchlist of 2.4M high-risk individuals, including current and former politicians, criminals, and terrorists, was exposed on an unsecured AWS server  —  A watchlist of risky individuals and corporate entities owned by Dow Jones has been exposed, after a company with access … Dow Jones' watchlist of 2.4M high-risk individuals,

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Ionic Security, which helps companies secure sensitive data stored on enterprise clouds and devices, raises $40M Series E, bringing total raised to $162.4M (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Ionic Security, which helps companies secure sensitive data stored on enterprise clouds and devices, raises $40M Series E, bringing total raised to $162.4M  —  Atlanta, Georgia-based Ionic Security (formerly Social Fortress) has raised $40 million in series E financing led by JPMorgan Chase … Ionic Security, which helps companies secure sensitive

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