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DNA Dragnet: In Some Cities, Police Go From Stop-and-Frisk to Stop-and-Spit – ProPublica
Frederick Harran is the public safety director of the Bensalem Township Police Department in Pennsylvania, which has used the DNA program to solve burglaries. “This has probably been the greatest innovation in local law enforcement since the bulletproof vest,” he said. (Greg Kahn, special to ProPublica) The five teenage boys were sitting in a…
How a Twitter Troll Was Revealed to Be a 13-Year-Old Boy (Who’s Now Totally Grounded)
The story, at first, was all too common on Twitter: A user received a threat from an anonymous troll, and Twitter didn’t take it seriously. In this case, the user was political consultant Peter Daou. Last week, he tweeted a video critical of Donald Trump, and an anonymous troll replied: “drown in your own cum…
Samsung tells consumers to stop using Galaxy Note 7
Samsung Electronics on Saturday urged consumers to stop using Galaxy Note 7 smartphones immediately and exchange them as soon as possible, as more reports of the phones catching fire emerged even after the company’s global recall. The call from the South Korean company, the world’s largest smartphone maker, comes after U.S. authorities urged consumers to…
Feds: Stop Using the Samsung Galaxy Note 7
Image: WMBF News screens The US Consumer Product Safety Commission just released an official statement about the exploding Samsung Galaxy Note 7. The CPSC is urging all Galaxy Note 7 owners to stop using their devices. More importantly, the commission also said that it is working with Samsung to “formally announce an official recall of…
You Can Now Buy a Weaponized USB Stick For $55
USBKill.com If you were looking for a USB stick that “instantly and permanently [disables] unprotected hardware,” you’re in luck. You can now purchase one for a little more than fifty bucks! According to ZDNet, “when the USB Kill stick is plugged in, it rapidly charges its capacitors from the USB power supply, and then discharges—all…
Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Explodes, Burns 6-Year-Old: Report
WMBF News screenshot A Samsung Galaxy Note 7 has reportedly exploded again, this time in the hands of a six-year-old boy. The boy experienced “burns to his body,” and is too afraid to be near any other devices, according to The New York Post. “The child was watching videos on the phone when the battery…
Samsung Note 7 explodes setting Jeep on fire: How to check your phone is safe
Samsung told Fox 13 it was investigating whether it could replay the cost of the vehicle destroyed in the fire. Writing after the incident, Dornacher said: “All I want out of this is for everyone to take this recall seriously and, if you didn’t know about it, please educate yourself before it’s too late. “I had the…
Conservative media — and NPR — entertain the possibility of a Hillary Clinton replacement – The Washington Post
A day after Hillary Clinton fell ill at a 9/11 memorial service, prompting her campaign to acknowledge a previously undisclosed pneumonia diagnosis, the far-fetched idea that Democratic officials could move to replace her as the party’s presidential nominee is floating around in all the predictable places — and at least one not-so-predictable place. Breitbart, Newsmax, Infowars, Lifezette and…
Why Israel’s startup community killed an IPO – Business Insider
Shellanoo Group founder O.D. Kobo Shellanoo Group An amazing drama unfolded this week in Israel’s tech community after tech startup Shellanoo Group filed to go public in the Tel Aviv stock exchange. The tight-knit community, who knew the company’s work intimately was appalled at some of the claims made in the IPO documents, with one VC calling…