89% of the U.S. is wearing face masks where required
According to research at CMU, 89% of those surveyed wear a face mask, as required. Source: Home – COVIDcast – Delphi Research Group – Carnegie Mellon University When a public…
Facial recognition’s 96 percent false positive rate
Close enough for government work, eh? “If we would use the software only , we would not solve the case 95-97 percent of the time,” Craig said. “That’s if we…
Primary business of the Internet is spying: More apps found to have copied contents of your phone’s clipboard
The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, HuffPost, and scores of other apps may have accessed your passwords and other copy and pasted data. Source: Tons of news apps caught…
University of California to drop the SAT and ACT testing requirement
Yes! This is a permanent elimination: The University of California board of regents, in a landmark move that could reshape the college admissions process across the country, voted Thursday to…
Not April 1st: Valley County Public Health, Montana, orders all out of county residents to wear pink arm bands
Many people wonder why there are protests against lockdown/house arrests without stopping to ask: perhaps its because of the incoherent, inconsistent public messaging. It is not the public’s fault they…
Experts slam UW’s IHME model, saying it should not be used for public policy
As I noted, every page on their web site should say “For Entertainment Purposes Only”: Epidemiologists are criticizing an influential coronavirus model as flawed and warning against relying on it…
Business: A Nationwide Scam on Airbnb
A writer for VICE got scammed by AirBnb rentals. And then went on to uncover a nationwide scam. AirBnb refuses to discuss this publicly. The FBI is now involved. Am…
Bloomberg’s “hacked” Supermicro server boards article comes under fire
Bloomberg wrote an article a few weeks back accusing Supermicro of delivering compromised server system boards that were used by Apple, Amazon and up to 30 companies. Apple and Amazon…
FDA hit with one quarter million fake comments to proposed rules
More than a quarter million comments submitted to the Food and Drug Administration about flavored vapor products were fake, according to a watchdog group. Source: FDA hit with bot-generated wave…
Facebook’s ad placement tools used by many companies to avoid hiring older workers
A proposed class-action lawsuit alleging Facebook’s ad placement tools facilitate discrimination against older job seekers has been expanded to identify additional companies, further widening the latest front in claims that…