Facebook agrees #163;500k fine over Cambridge Analytica scandal
Facebook will pay a £500,000 fine following an investigation into the use of personal data in political campaigns, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) says.

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World's first on-the-spot test for 'spice' can detect the drug in just 5 minutes
The team hopes the saliva test, which takes just five minutes, could help to treat people suffering the horrible side effects of spice more quickly

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Irish data protection commissioner set to issue decisions on Twitter and Whatsapp probes by end of November
The Irish data protection commissioner expects to issue decisions on investigations into Twitter and Whatsapp by the end of November, a spokeswoman has said.

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Toni Collette in Hereditary

Looking for a monstrously good time this Halloween but don't want to leave the house? Well, what better way to celebrate this positively ghoulish time of year than to cosy up on the couch (or behind it) and have your own horror movie marathon?

Video streaming services is more popular than ever in Australia, and that means Aussie horror fans now

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Government is a technology, so fix it like one

Just as as tangible as airplanes, computers and contraception, The Roman Empire, the Iroquois Confederacy and the United States of America are also human inventions.

Technology is how we do things, and political institutions are how we collaborate at scale. Government is an immensely powerful innovation through which we take collective action.

Just like any other technology, governments open up new realms of opportunity. These opportunities are morally neutral: humans have leveraged political institutions to provide public education andmurder ethnic minorities. Specific features like explicit protections for human rights and civil liberties are designed to help mitigate certain downside risks.

Like any tool, systems of governance require maintenance to keep working. We expect regular software updates, but forget that governance is also in constant flux, and begins to fail when it falls out of sync with the culture. Without preventative maintenance, pressure builds like tectonic forces along a fault line until a new order snaps into place, often violently. Malka Older points out that&democracy is not a unitary state that can be achieved, but a continuous process. We need to keep reinventing and refining government, to keep up with changes in society and technology and to keep it from being too easy for elites with resources to exploit.&

Eliot PeperBandwidth is a riveting novel exploring the dark side of feeds and geopolitics

What might the future of governance actually look like?

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Wow! So this is itGame 7 of the 2019 World Series. One of the Houston Astros or the Washington Nationals will take MLB baseball's biggest prize in this sudden-death winner-takes-all game in Texas tonight. And we’ll help you live stream every World Series minute, no matter where in the world you are.

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