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Perseverance's Selfie with Ingenuity
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover took a selfie with the Ingenuity helicopter, seen here about 13 feet (3.9 meters) from the rover in this image taken April 6, 2021, the 46th Martian day, or sol, of the mission by the WATSON (Wide Angle Topographic Sensor for Operations and eNgineering) camera on the SHERLOC (Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman and Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals) instrument, located at the end of the rover's long robotic arm.
A switch has silently been flipped in millions of instances of Google Chrome: those browsers will begin sorting their users into groups based on behavior, then sharing group labels with third-party trackers and advertisers around the web. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/03/google-testing-its-controversial-new-ad-targeting-tech-millions-browsers-heres
Myanmar is fighting for democracy.
Do you know which countries have a functioning democracy?
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Cartoon by Emanuele Del Rosso (https://delrossostudio.com/)
Charts from Our World in Data: https://ourworldindata.org/democracy
De Correspondent goes #dataviz with this brilliant article about #bigtech.
"The discussion about Big Tech is often about privacy, surveillance, disinformation and abuse of power. These are legitimate concerns. But this ignores the fact that Big Tech creates a new infrastructure that society cannot do without."
The Dutch privacy authority can't deal with the incoming number of complaints - almost 10.000 from last year haven't been processed still. Well, privacy, you know, it's just a little thing...
https://tweakers.net/nieuws/179138/autoriteit-persoonsgegevens-kan-stroom-aan-privacyklachten-niet-aan.html
Police warn students to avoid science website (Sci-Hub)
Comments: https://lemmy.ml/post/57629
🤖 Mars has a visitor: #Perservance
after a 472 million kilometer journey, #Nasa 's robotic vehicle landed safely and as scheduled on #Mars.
But did you know that the underlying program #code is based on a multi-platform compatible #opensource #framework called F' (F Prime)?
"Draw an iceberg and see how it will float"