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Protect your privacy: A guide to avoiding drone surveillance
The Texas Department of Public Safety say criminal organizations have increasingly turned to using drones to scout out areas for illegal immigration. I share a ton of tips to protect your privacy online. Do this quick 30-second check to keep your Google and Facebook accounts safe if you haven't yet. What about when you leave your home? Just about everywhere you go, you're being watched.
Uncertain if Autopilot was engaged in man's fatal Tesla crash into San Francisco-area pond
CASTRO VALLEY, CALIFORNIA โ A man was killed when the Tesla automobile he was driving veered off a road, crashed through a fence and plunged into a pond, authorities said Monday. California Highway Patrol spokesman Daniel Jacowitz said rescuers pulled the Tesla Model S from the pond early Monday and found the man's body inside. The driver was identified as Keith Leung, 34, of Danville, California, said Sgt. Ray Kelly, spokesman for the Alameda County Sheriff's office. Kelly said it was too soon to know if the vehicle's semi-autonomous Autopilot mode was engaged when the crash occurred or whether the driver may have been speeding or intoxicated. Photographs of the car show that its back-end was destroyed, its hood crumpled and windows shattered.
Frog Fractions: inside the mind behind the world's strangest video game
When Jim Crawford released a browser game named Frog Fractions in 2012, half the people who played it called him a genius; the rest thought he was deranged. What most of them seemed to agree on however, was that they loved it. When influential site Rock Paper Shotgun covered the game, it did so under the header: "Frog Fractions might be the greatest game of all time". Unpredictable and absurd, Frog Fractions starts out under the guise of a piece of edutainment software in which you control a frog sat on a pond scooping up bugs and defending fruit. Then after buying a few upgrades, you're suddenly riding a dragon through an underground tunnel that takes you into Crawford's own bizarre version of video game wonderland.
Gene editing can end disease and fight global famine
It's called this because each CRISPR unit is made of repeated DNA base-pair sequences that can be read the same way forward or in reverse and are separated by "spacer" pairs. Think of it like an organic Morse code palindrome. With CRISPR we can now edit any genetic code -- including our own. In the three years since its advent, researchers have used CRISPR to investigate everything from sickle-cell anemia and muscular dystrophy to cystic fibrosis and cataracts. One group has even used it to snip off the cellular receptors that HIV exploits in order to infect the human immune system.