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Germany

An All-White Panel on German TV Decided Racism Wasn’t a Big Deal
The show is facing a backlash after one guest had described how dressing up in blackface as Jimi Hendrix at a costume party had helped him understand how black people felt.
Tim Hume
2.2.21
capitol hill riots

How Normal People Deployed Facial Recognition on Capitol Hill Protesters
Facial recognition is now freely accessible to random people on Twitter using a Polish website called Pimeyes.
Alice Hines
2.2.21
amazon

Amazon Will Pay Gig Workers $61.7 Million for Stealing Their Tips
A Federal Trade Commission investigation found that Amazon baited drivers with promised earnings, and then secretly slashed wages by pocketing tips.
Lauren Kaori Gurley
2.2.21
vaccines

Documents Show How Government’s $44M Vaccine Software Was Supposed to Work
Public records obtained by VICE News show the complicated VAMS system operates inside a nightmarish bureaucracy of interconnected software platforms.
Emma Ockerman
2.2.21
Interviews

Here's the Book You Need For a Definitive History of Women in Rap
'The Motherlode' tells the stories of the women from rap's inception all the way to Cardi B.
Kristin Corry
2.2.21
Internet

Surreal Dance Video Accidentally Captures Myanmar Coup As It Happened
OSINT experts agree that the video of a woman dancing while the military takes over the democratically elected government behind her, is probably real.
Matthew Gault
2.2.21
tech-science

Scientists in the Arctic's 'Ice Factory' Found a Worrying Sign of Climate Change
For 40 days last fall, an expedition collected samples that confirm the thaw of the Arctic’s mysterious subsea permafrost.
Becky Ferreira
2.2.21
Tesla

Tesla Recalls 135,000 Cars Due to Faulty Flash Memory
It's still OK to abuse Autopilot, though.
Aaron Gordon
2.2.21
Marjorie Taylor Greene

Mitch McConnell Calls Marjorie Taylor Greene’s ‘Loony Lies’ a ‘Cancer’ for the GOP
The GOP has spent weeks flirting with the very same Big Lie conspiracy theories about voter fraud that Greene and other QAnon followers believe.
David Gilbert
2.2.21
Social Media

What You Need to Know About Clubhouse, the Social Network You Can't Join
Launched last year, the app is now booming with boomers. But its privacy policies are questionable.
Tarek Barkouni
2.2.21
News

‘Bad Date’ Reporting Tool for Sex Workers to Launch in Canada
The first province-wide database of its kind in Canada will allow sex workers in B.C. to report violent encounters and access information about alleged offenders.
Anya Zoledziowski
2.2.21
COVID-19

LA Paid $62 Million for COVID Tests It’s Using Incorrectly
The off-label use of Curative's COVID-19 test increased the risk of false negatives.
Aaron Gordon
2.2.21
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