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WorkWorkWorkWorkBluesky is adding age verification features for users in the UK While the update will only affect Bluesky users in the UK, officials in the US have been pursuing similar measures for years. The US Supreme Court recently upheld a Texas law requiring porn sites to conduct age verification checks on users. Digital rights and privacy advocates in the United States and the UK have long criticized these measures, saying that they erode privacy and create more opportunities for children and adults' data to be misused.
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WorkWorkLarry David and the Obamas team up for American history sketch comedy show The series will be the first project with HBO for Higher Ground, which has predominantly worked with Netflix since its launch in 2019. Past projects include the documentaries Crip Camp and American Symphony, Michelle Obama’s autobiographical film Becoming, and the Oscar-nominated feature Rustin. The company won an Oscar in 2020 for the documentary American Factory. WorkWork
WorkApple, Mastercard and Visa's antitrust lawsuit over payments has been dismissed Since 2023, Apple has made at least one significant change to how Apple Pay and NFC payments work. As part of its compliance with the European Union's Digital Markets Act, Apple opened up NFC tap-to-pay transactions to any developer building their own contactless payments system, whether they're in Europe, the US or the UK. WorkResearch: The Gender Wage Gap Tipping Point - Harvard Business Review (No paywall) The gender wage gap has been in existence at least since the U.S. Civil War era, when an 1869 letter to The New York Times exposed unfair treatment of women working in government and argued that equal work should command equal pay without regard to the sex of the laborer. Fast forward 156 years and women still only earn 83 cents for every dollar that men make, a number that has barely budged over the past two decades and is consistent across OECD countries. WorkWorkAre You Experiencing Posting Ennui? - The New Yorker (No paywall) The breakfast photo is the ur-text of the narcissistic internet, a bit of content that no one else is necessarily interested in but which the poster feels the need, or even the responsibility, to make public for anyone online to see. Posting a picture of what you ate on a given morning was something we did during the early years of Twitter and Instagram, and at the time it felt novel: suddenly, you could share the most mundane moments of your life with a crowd of waiting strangers who might just be excited to see them. In a way, the breakfast photo represented the utopian dream of social media: billions of average people could throw fragments of their lives onto the internet with little mediationtheir meals, their pets, their shower thoughtsand it would turn into something not only engaging but vital, a dynamic record of reality from the ground level. To post, and to interact with others posts, was to participate in a grand project that valorized amateurism, banality, and a sort of content-based meritocracy: anyone and anything could be interesting, and even go viral, if only you posted it the right way.
WorkWorkWorkWorkHow A-listers are shaking up the consumer-goods business - The Economist (No paywall) Celebrities ARE venturing beyond the billboard and the big screen and into big business. Hailey Bieber, a model married to Justin, recently sold Rhode, her make-up brand, in a deal valued at as much as $1bn. Skims, a shapewear label founded by Kim Kardashian, a reality-TV star, makes $1bn in annual sales and is expected to list on the stockmarket soon. Rihanna is now a billionaire not directly because of her music, but thanks to Fenty Beauty, her make-up label. Ryan Reynolds, a Hollywood actor, is active in everything from telecoms to online privacy. Surprisingly, many of these superstar businesses have become a source of innovative new consumer products.
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WorkWorkCan RFK Jr. Track My Oura Ring? - The Cut (No paywall) In late June, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Congress that he wants all Americans wearing health-tracking devices within the next four years. Wearables, the Health and Human Services secretary said, are key to his Make America Healthy Again agenda. Its a way people can take control of their own health. They can take responsibility, he told lawmakers. They can see, as you know, what food is doing to their glucose levels, their heart rates, and a number of other metrics as they eat it, and they can begin to make good judgments about their diet, about their physical activity, about the way that they live their lives. The agency is now preparing to launch a public-health campaign encouraging people to use these devices. WorkWork
WorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWhy Jolly Ranchers Are Banned in the UK but Not the US - WIRED (No paywall) On June 11, the UKs Food Standards Agency (FSA) issued an alert declaring several candies manufactured by The Hershey Company unsafe to eat. Four products from the flagship Jolly Rancher brandHard Candy, Misfits Gummies, Hard Candy Fruity 2 in 1, and Berry Gummiescontain mineral oil hydrocarbons, banned from food in the UK. WorkWork 
WorkEarth's Rotation Is Speeding Up This Summer. Here's Why If you're the kind of person who gets a lot done, you're grateful for every one of the 86,400 seconds that make up a day. On July 9, however, as well as on July 22, and August 5, you won't get your full complement of seconds. On these days the Earth will be measurably and, so far, unaccountably accelerating its rotation, shaving from 1.3 to 1.5 milliseconds off of the usual 24 hours the typical day gets. WorkWorkWork 
WorkWorkConservative and Liberal Brains Might Have Some Real Differences - Scientific American (No paywall) In 1968 a debate was held between conservative thinker William F. Buckley, Jr., and liberal writer Gore Vidal. It was hoped that these two members of opposing intellectual elites would show Americans living through tumultuous times that political disagreements could be civilized. That idea did not last for long. Instead Buckley and Vidal descended rapidly into name-calling. Afterward, they sued each other for defamation. WorkWork 
WorkWorkCan AI Replace Air Traffic Controllers? - Scientific American (No paywall) On January 29 a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter collided midair with an American Airlines passenger jet near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, killing 67 people. Although air traffic controllers in the airport tower at the time saw warning signals flash across their screens at least 20 seconds beforehand and attempted to notify both aircraft, they weren't able to prevent the accident. Crash investigations are ongoing, but aviation experts agree that some degree of human error played a role - maybe in the cockpits, maybe in the tower. Could this crash, and several other high-profile airplane accidents since then, have been avoided if artificial intelligence were running air traffic control (ATC) alongside human controllers? Researchers are testing systems right now to see how they might perform. WorkWork
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