New investigation lays bare how textile firms add dangerous chemicals to clothing for fragrance to boost profits

New investigation lays bare how textile firms add dangerous chemicals to clothing for fragrance to boost profits

Although Europe practices precautionary principles, the US assumes chemicals are safe until proven otherwise. Unfortunately, it may take many years before science can prove a toxin triggers negative health effects, unnecessarily exposing you to danger. Laundry detergent, fabric softener and dryer sheets also add fragrance to your clothing, much of which may be vented to your neighbourhood through your dryer, contributing to declining air quality.

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Hopes of finding missing submersible in Atlantic bound for Titanic site fade as US, Canadian Coast Guards search draw blanks

Hopes of finding missing submersible in Atlantic bound for Titanic site fade as US, Canadian Coast Guards search draw blanks

OceanGate’s expeditions to the Titanic wreck site include archaeologists and marine biologists. The company also brings people who pay to come along, known as “mission specialists.” They take turns operating sonar equipment and performing other tasks in the five-person submersible.

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How Florida-based tech-savvy young woman Marissa Kearny is matching Black-owned businesses with big stores in US

How Florida-based tech-savvy young woman Marissa Kearny is matching Black-owned businesses with big stores in US

In 2018, Census Bureau data found about 3,115,000 Black-owned businesses had no employees, compared to 134,567 with employees. Yet, Black companies only make up about three per cent of all US businesses.

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Truth’s treason: It’s 10 years since Edward Snowden blew whistle on US government spying on journalists

Truth’s treason: It’s 10 years since Edward Snowden blew whistle on US government spying on journalists

Law enforcement agencies have also begun using facial recognition technology to identify crime suspects despite the fact that the software is known to frequently misidentify people of colour – leading to the wrongful arrest and detention earlier this year of Randal Reid in Georgia, among other cases.

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Credibility of legacy media put to test as a US children’s rights body sues major news companies for free speech, antitrust violations

Credibility of legacy media put to test as a US children’s rights body sues major news companies for free speech, antitrust violations

Core partners of TNI’s “coalition of the willing” include the AP, Agence France Press, the BBC, CBC/Radio-Canada, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), the Financial Times, First Draft, Google/YouTube, The Hindu, The Nation Media Group, Meta, Microsoft, Reuters, the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, Twitter and The Washington Post.

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Mind-reading technology: With brain-machines now in use human, rights may expand to cover thought crime and thought data violations  

Mind-reading technology: With brain-machines now in use human, rights may expand to cover thought crime and thought data violations  

For the first time, mind-reading technology looks viable by combining two technologies that are readily available — albeit with a hefty price tag. MRI machines currently cost anywhere between $150,000 and $1 million.

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Why British women are shunting their fussy midgets and shopping for ‘Viking babies’ in Dutch sperm banks

Why British women are shunting their fussy midgets and shopping for ‘Viking babies’ in Dutch sperm banks

Customers, whether single women or couples, can log in to the website and choose their donor at leisure. They are provided with a photograph of the donor as a child, often an audio file of his voice talking about himself, and a run-down of his physical qualities such as eye and hair colour, height, weight and educational standard.

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Artificial Intelligence is dangerous to humanity’s future and civilisation, new poll finds

Artificial Intelligence is dangerous to humanity’s future and civilisation, new poll finds

When it came to religious beliefs, Evangelical Christians were more likely to “strongly agree” that AI presents risks to humanity, standing at 32 per cent compared to 24 per cent of non-Evangelical Christians.

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Retiring password: Google transitions to passkeys to enhance online security by restricting phishing

Retiring password: Google transitions to passkeys to enhance online security by restricting phishing

Passkeys can sync between your devices through end-to-end encrypted services like Google Password Manager and iCloud Keychain. Or you can set up passkeys on multiple devices by generating a QR code on a device that’s logged in to your Google account that will anoint another device where you want to log in.

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How the AI ogres Hollywood writers and studios fed in science fiction have returned to eat them up

How the AI ogres Hollywood writers and studios fed in science fiction have returned to eat them up

In Hollywood, AI is helping to erase wrinkles from an aging performer’s face, clean up an actor’s liberal use of f-bombs and draw animated short films with the aid of OpenAI’s Dall-E, which can create realistic images. Some writers are experimenting with creating scripts.

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