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This week I learned about Extinction Rebellion by reading their life changing book, This Is Not A Drill (review). They are a cross-discipline international group seeking radical change through non-violent civil disobedience to minimise the risk of human extinction and ecological collapse. If you are worried about the climate emergency, sceptical or inquisitive, I urge you to read This Is Not A Drill.
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Cloudinary have a handy free website image speed test analysis tool that gives you recommendations on how to save space on the images on your site.
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Researchers at UC Berkeley and a team at Adobe have trained a convolutional neural network to detect photoshopped faces at 99% accuracy compared to 53% human accuracy.
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The Spanish soccer league LaLiga has been fined €250,000 for breah of data privacy laws after they used their scores app to covertly listen for soccer matches being illegally streamed in bars using the phone's microphone and GPS location. The app was downloaded more than 10 millions times and did include a clause in the terms and conditions that user would consent to allowing their phone to be used to detect fradulent behaviour like pirated soccer games. The Spanish data protection agency judged that this wasn't made clear enough to users and has ordered a takedown of the app.
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Climate scientist at University of Reading Ed Hawkins has created the #ShowYourStripes datavis site, which generates an image of temperature increases for every country for the last 100 years or so. Each stripe averages the temperature over a year and is built from the Berkely Earth Temperature Dataset. (H/T to Mikael for sharing this)
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NASA is to open up the International Space Station (ISS) to tourists from 2020, at the cost of $35,000 per night PPS. The price doesn't include transfers to and from earth, which are estimated at $60m each way!
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