2020年9月20日星期日

Judge Halts Trump Administration Order Banning WeChat From Apple and Google App Stores

A U.S. judge in California halted the Trump administration’s ban on downloads of the Chinese-owned app WeChat early Sunday.

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How to erase your data to remove your life from Google’s grip

I use Google for so many things, from looking things up, handing my email and calendar, video chatting with my team, to peeking in on the Nest cam in my mother's living room

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2020年9月19日星期六

Reinventing research – Part One: future scenarios and moving away from the publish or perish mantra

The research community is facing a “crisis of reproducibility”, according to the head of the Center for Open Science, Professor Brian Nosek. He says many of the traditional practices designed to make research robust, actually distort and diminish its effectiveness. In this episode, he details his ideas for reform. We also explore three plausible scenarios for how the academic sector could look in 2030.

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Trump Backs Proposed TikTok Deal With Oracle, Walmart

President Donald Trump said Saturday he’s given his “blessing” to a proposed deal between Oracle and Walmart for the U.S. operations of TikTok, the Chinese-owned app he’s targeted for national security and data privacy concerns

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How to delete yourself from people search sites

Face it: What you do online isn’t private. Even if you’re browsing in good ol’ incognito mode, you’re still not anonymous.

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