đź”— Articles: Tuesday 09.Apr.2024
Daring Fireball: Google Launches Upgraded Find My Device Network for Android
Erik Kay, writing on Google’s company blog:
Today, the all-new Find My Device is rolling out to Android devices around the world, starting in the U.S. and Canada. With a new, crowdsourced network of over a billion Android devices, Find My Device can help you find your misplaced Android devices and everyday items quickly and securely. Here are five ways you can try it out. […]
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A separate post by Dave Kleidermacher on the Google Security Blog gives a high-level overview of the platform’s privacy and security features.
Guardian: Epidemic fears as 80% of Indigenous Amazon tribe fall ill
“The vulnerability of this community is extremely high; any infection can quickly escalate into an epidemic,” said Manoel Chorimpa, a local leader and adviser at OPI, an organisation dedicated to protecting Indigenous groups in voluntary isolation and those recently exposed to urbanisation.
Healthcare workers operating in the territory say that of the 101 individuals from the Korubo community diagnosed with symptoms, 22 cases had progressed to pneumonia, of whom 15 were under nine years old.
This article is about more than the virus.
NYT: FAA Investigates Claims by Boeing Whistle-Blower About Flaws in 787 Dreamliner
The engineer, Sam Salehpour, who worked on the plane, detailed his allegations in interviews with The New York Times and in documents sent to the F.A.A. A spokesman for the agency confirmed that it was investigating the allegations but declined to comment on them.
Mr. Salehpour, whose rĂ©sumĂ© says he has worked at Boeing for more than a decade, said the problems stemmed from changes in how the enormous sections were fitted and fastened together in the assembly line. The plane’s fuselage comes in several pieces, all from different manufacturers, and they are not exactly the same shape where they fit together, he said.
Boeing conceded those manufacturing changes were made, but a spokesman for the company, Paul Lewis, said there was “no impact on durability or safe longevity of the airframe.”
CBC: Canadian DNA lab knew its paternity tests identified the wrong dads, but it kept selling them
A Canadian DNA laboratory knowingly delivered prenatal paternity test results that routinely identified the wrong biological fathers — ruling out the real dads — and left a trail of shattered lives around the globe, a CBC News investigation has found.
Harvey Tenenbaum, the owner of Viaguard Accu-Metrics, told a CBC producer with a hidden camera during a conversation in his office that prenatal paternity test results that his laboratory produced for about a decade were “never that accurate.”
CBC: Kelowna woman gets 2 successful clones of her dead cat
After two years and four failed attempts, a ragdoll cat that belonged to a Kelowna, B.C., woman has been successfully cloned.Â
Kris Stewart received not one but two kittens cloned using DNA from her beloved cat Bear.
Stewart said she sent Bear’s DNA to ViaGen, a Texas-based pet cloning company, after he died at the age of five in a traffic accident in January 2022.
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Stewart said four embryo transfers failed before Bear Bear and Honey Bear were born. She said the process cost her about $50,000 in total.
Hmmm, what are the implications…?
Last Updated: 09.Apr.2024 18:40 EDT