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You can’t see them, but Meta’s trackers are embedded in millions of websites all over the internet, collecting data about where you go and what you do and sending it back to Meta. A recent investigation shows that those trackers are on sites that even the most cynical among us might expect to be off-limits: those belonging to hospitals, including patient portals that are supposed to be protected by health privacy laws. This week, the Markup, a nonprofit news outlet that covers technology’s harms, has been publishing…

Credit: LucasFilm Obi-Wan Kenobi star Ewan McGregor says fans can’t stop sending him horny homoerotic fan art of him and co-star Hayden Christensen, and I… would like to see it. McGregor said in an interview with GQ he has seen a lot of Obi-Wan x Anakin fan art over the years since he and Christensen first appeared in the franchise in 2002’s Attack of the Clones. Sorry Taika Waititi, turns out you and Rhys Darby aren’t the only hotties in Hollywood sword-fighting in horny fan art. “There’s a lot of homoerotic…

Tesla is sending some of its employees who are not in service and are untrained to work on cars into service centers to fix vehicles. It looks like Tesla’s service issues are bigger than we thought. Earlier this month, we reported on CEO Elon Musk’s announcement that Tesla is working on service in North America and how Telsa is aiming to make the majority of appointments same-day repairs. As we noted, it is much needed since Tesla’s customer fleet is growing much faster than its service infrastructure. Last week,…

Many hospital websites have a tracking tool that sends sensitive medical information to Facebook when people schedule appointments, according to an investigation by The Markup. Experts say that the hospitals using the tool may be violating the medical privacy law the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, or HIPAA. The Markup found that 33 of the top 100 hospitals in the United States were using a tracker called the Meta Pixel on their websites. Installing the Meta Pixel gives groups access to analytics…

The minister regretted that the people do not make parking spaces for their vehicles, instead, their vehicles occupy the road. (Image: PTI/File)"Soon, a person sending photograph of a wrongly parked vehicle may get a reward of Rs 500 in case the fine works out to be Rs 1,000," said Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari.PTI Last Updated:June 16, 2022, 20:12 ISTFOLLOW US ON:New Delhi: Soon, a person sending photograph of a wrongly parked vehicle may get a reward of Rs 500 in case the fine works out to be…

Valeriya Safronova / New York Times: Bumble is pushing for legislation across several US states that penalizes “cyberflashing”, the act of sending unwanted sexual images to another person online — Payton Iheme, the head of public policy for Bumble in the Americas, is working to advance legislation that penalizes the act of sending unwanted sexual images. Valeriya Safronova / New York Times: Bumble is pushing for legislation across several US states that penalizes…

In September 2020 Golda Barton’s 13-year-old autistic son became frantic with anxiety the first day she had to return to work after several months at home. His mother called 911 and asked for a crisis intervention team. When Salt Lake City police showed up, the boy ran. One of the officers chasing him shot him 11 times, leaving him in critical condition. According to the family’s GoFundMe page set up to cover the boy’s medical bills, in spring 2021 he had to undergo a complex nerve transplant surgery, one of a line of…

Test tubes labelled "Monkeypox virus positive and negative" are seen in this illustration taken May 23, 2022. Dado Ruvic | ReutersThe Biden administration has distributed 1,200 monkeypox vaccine doses for people who have had high-risk exposures to the virus, part of a nationwide public health response to stamp out the disease before it causes a major outbreak.U.S. health officials, worried the virus is spreading faster than previously thought, have said the global outbreak of monkeypox is the largest ever. The World…

NASA's Voyager 1 is continuing its journey beyond our Solar System, 45 years after it was launched. But now the veteran spacecraft is sending back strange data, puzzling its engineers.  NASA said on Wednesday that while the probe is still operating properly, readouts from its attitude articulation and control system – AACS for short – don't seem to match the spacecraft's movements and orientation, suggesting the craft is confused about its location in space.The AACS is essential for Voyager to send NASA data about its…

Physicians at pediatric liver centers in the United Kingdom have been meeting regularly to work out how best to care for children with a mysterious hepatitis that has afflicted at least 176 children in the United Kingdom and more than 500 worldwide. But they can’t agree. “It’s proving immensely difficult to get everyone to agree how on Earth to manage these children,” says Will Irving, a virologist at the University of Nottingham. At the center of the debate are conflicting…