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argentina

A Sudden Wave of Cocaine Deaths Sparks a Panic in Argentina
The tainted cocaine has led to 20 deaths and 84 hospitalizations in 24 hours.
Nathaniel Janowitz
2.3.22
amazon

Dystopic TikTok Trend Demands Amazon Workers Dance for Surveillance Cameras
TikTok users leave a note for their delivery drivers asking that they dance for the camera. Then, they put it online for the enjoyment of strangers.
Gita Jackson
2.3.22
rights

Happy Black History Month From Companies That Make Prison Even Lonelier
JPay and Securus are notorious for exploiting incarcerated people and anyone who wants to talk to them. Now they’re giving something back!
Katie Way
2.3.22
crypto

Gold Cube in Central Park Is a Bizarre Crypto Ad
The unimpressive object was hauled to a dinner with Wall Street fat cats. Everything bad, combined in a single story.
Jordan Pearson
Maxwell Strachan
2.3.22
Hacking

Ransomware Wants You to Like and Subscribe, Or Else
Researchers have found a new type of ransomware that asks for YouTube subscriptions and comments rather than Bitcoin.
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
2.3.22
covid

Scientists Find Putting Pantyhose on Your Head Makes Your Mask Safer
After testing seven ways to make masks seal better around the face, researchers found that a pair of hosiery does the trick best.
Samantha Cole
2.3.22
extremism

How White Nationalists Are Hijacking the Anti-Abortion Movement
The growing overlap between anti-abortion activism and far-right extremism has started to spill into the real world in high-profile ways.
Tess Owen
Carter Sherman
2.3.22
SCOTUS

GOP Senator Thinks Biden’s SCOTUS Nominee Won’t Know a ‘Law Book From a J. Crew Catalog’
“I’m going to talk about what I want to talk about, and if they don’t like that, they can call somebody who cares,” Sen. John Kennedy told Politico.
Paul Blest
2.3.22
police tech

This Company Wants to Sell High-Tech Lasso Weapons to Schools and Hospitals
Wrap Technologies is trying to make its BolaWrap lasso device available to teachers and private security.
Ella Fassler
2.3.22
USPS

The One Simple Trick to Make the USPS Buy Electric Trucks
Perhaps the party that controls Congress could exercise that power.
Aaron Gordon
2.3.22
jeff bezos

Iconic Bridge to Be Dismantled So Jeff Bezos Can Sail His Massive Yacht
Rotterdam has agreed to take down its 144-year-old bridge for two weeks just to allow Bezos's €430 million yacht pass through.
Sophia Smith Galer
2.3.22
facial-recognition

Facial Recognition Firm Clearview AI Gets Military Contract for AR Glasses
The contract with the facial recognition firm was specifically for research around "protecting airfields," according to public procurement records.
Joseph Cox
2.3.22
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