10 years in dog years

Perspectives For months, I have had a bag of baby monitors under the cramped desk in the tiny room that serves as my office at the hospital where I work as a high-risk obstetrician. They are not special baby monitors; they are the same ones you could buy on Amazon or at CVS. They’re stacked alongside a plastic bin full of clogs and a box of unused printer paper—the kind of things you can’t quite throw out, because you might need them. … [Read more...] about A year into coronavirus, we’re still counting the dead

Aviles used this method to voyeuristically spy on individuals and couples over a five-year period. However, in April 2020, a customer noticed an unauthorized email in their Pulse account; ADT subsequently learned of Aviles' actions, dismissed him from the company, and informed prosecutors. … [Read more...] about Technician admits to accessing security cameras to watch customers having sex

But children’s privacy advocates have argued that TikTok does not do enough to protect children on its platform. Its Beijing-based parent company ByteDance paid a $5.7 million fine to the US Federal Trade Commission in 2019 for an earlier version of TikTok called Musical.ly, over allegations it violated the Children’s Online Privacy Act (COPPA) in allowing users under 13 to sign up for the app without their parents’ consent. … [Read more...] about Italian watchdog tells TikTok to block users whose ages can’t be verified

The operator of antifa.com didn't respond to a request for comment. Neither did the White House or Cruz's office. In a September tweet, Rob Flaherty, the Biden campaign's digital director, called the antifa.com redirect the work of a troll, adding that Biden "obviously has/wants nothing to do with fringe groups." … [Read more...] about Antifa.com redirects to White House website as trolls needle Biden

And were it a film still, it would surely get nominated for those Oscars given before the main festivities, the ones that honor technological and artistic craftsmanship. Technical achievement mixes with impeccable art design to give a generic, mid-construction bridge the gravitas and sunny warmth of of a William Turner painting, and that says nothing of the grandeur of larger set pieces, like a snow-packed Scottish hillside. Like its scriptwriters, Uncharted 4 artists have learned a fine touch is often superior to flash and decadence, letting their landscapes be void of business save for a selective inclusion of small details. A dimly lit castle on the horizon. The froth of the ocean lapping against the rocks beneath our hero, who makes a habit of dangling from precarious rocks. The muddy water built up at the bottom of a hill on the savannah. Uncharted 4 doesn’t look like most movies; it looks better. … [Read more...] about Uncharted 4 is the best (and possibly last) game of its kind