I’m quitting Facebook. Not comfortable with the flood of false information that’s allowed in its political advertising, nor am I confident in its ability to protect its users’ privacy.’
That’s literary legend Stephen King explaining in a tweet why he’s deleting his Facebook FB-3.64% account.
King, who has 5.6 million followers on his still-active Twitter TWTR-2.23%account, has long been a fierce critic of President Donald Trump and isn’t afraid to voice his political opinions on social media.
Elderly residents targeted in their homes by alleged phone and credit card scam
Police have warned the elaborate scam targets consumers over the phone and at their front door, with reported individual losses exceeding $11,000.
. How many people remember sportsmanship? I remember it and now think of it chiefly as the element missing from contemporary sports. Sportsmanship was once central to tennis. It was notably practiced by the great Australian generation of Rod Laver, Ken Rosewall, Roy Emerson and John Newcombe. Harry Hopman, the Australian Davis Cup coach between 1939 an 1967, might send a player home for cursing on the court.
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Column: That Wells Fargo accounts scandal was even worse than you can imagine Los Angeles Times
Is software making car repairs more expensive?
“An unprecedented scientific effort to LiDAR scan the entire surface of the Earth before it’s too late. The climate crisis threatens to destroy our entire cultural & ecological patrimony. We’ve already lost 50% of the world’s rainforests. We’re losing 18 million acres of forest each year. Rising sea levels will make whole cities, countries, and continents unrecognizable. Unless we have a record of these places, no one in the future will even know they existed. LiDAR, Light Detection & Ranging, involves shooting a dense grid of infrared beams from an airplane towards the ground. It’s a high-resolution scan of the earth’s surface & everything on it. Not an actual image, but a dense three-dimensional cloud of points. Earth Archive is both a program of scanning focused on endangered landscapes and an open-source collection of LiDAR scans accessible to scientists around the world. We won’t live long enough to see the full impact of the Earth Archive. Neither will you. But that’s exactly why it’s worth doing. The Earth Archive is a bet on the future of humankind. A bet that together, collectively, as people & as scientists, that we will face the climate crisis. And that we’ll choose to do right thing. Not just for us today, but to honor those who came before us, and to pay it forward to future generations who will carry on our legacy…”
New web service can notify companies when employees get phished
You’ve got snail mail Washington Post: “Targeted online ads are now literally following you home Marketers are using the same technology and data as online advertising companies to decide who gets what flier, postcard or envelope…As people become numb to targeted digital ads that follow them across social media and into their email inboxes, some high-tech marketers are turning to a surprisingly old-school approach to cut through the noise: snail mail. And they’re using the same technology and data as online advertising companies to target who gets what flier, postcard or envelope — even tying people’s online browsing activity to their home address. It means after you research Parachute’s bedsheets online, its ad won’t just follow you around on the Internet. It may also end up as a paper ad in your hands, delivered to your front door…”