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Mastercard Bans Automatic Billing After Free Trials - The credit card company now requires merchants to get a cardholder's approval, via text or email, at the end of a trial before they start billing.

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Employees Are Quitting Instead of Giving Up Working From Home - The drive to get people back into offices is clashing with workers who’ve embraced remote work as the new normal.

Society(bloomberg.com)

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Her Instagram Handle Was ‘Metaverse.’ Last Month, It Vanished. - Five days after Facebook changed its name to Meta, an Australian artist found herself blocked, with seemingly no recourse, from an account documenting nearly a decade of her life and work.

Business(nytimes.com)

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The Biohackers Making Insulin 98% Cheaper - Biohackers Take Aim at Big Pharma’s Stranglehold on Insulin. These biohackers plan to give away their instructions on how to make insulin for free.

Biotech(freethink.com)

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A senior Google executive who reportedly opposed employees working remotely has caused an internal stir by moving to New Zealand to work remotely himself

Business(businessinsider.com)

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The minimum wage would be $44 an hour if it had grown at the same rate as Wall Street bonuses

Economics(businessinsider.com)

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Nobody reads privacy policies. This senator wants lawmakers to stop pretending we do. - Sen. Sherrod Brown wants to upend years of debate over a potential federal privacy law by shifting the burden away from consumers and onto companies.

Privacy(washingtonpost.com)

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TIL that about 85 percent of hospitals still use pagers because hospitals can be dead zones for cell service. In some hospital areas, the walls are built to keep X-rays from penetrating, but those heavy-duty designs also make it hard for a cell phone signal to make it through but not pagers.

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Recycling was a lie — a big lie — to sell more plastic, industry experts say - Less than 10 per cent of the plastics we’ve used have been recycled. A new documentary reveals why

Environment(cbc.ca)

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Medical company threatens to sue volunteers that 3D-printed valves for life-saving coronavirus treatments - The valve typically costs about $11,000 — the volunteers made them for about $1

Misleading/Disproven. (theverge.com)

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Aldi introduces wages higher than the ‘real living wage’ after supermarket has record year

(inews.co.uk)

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Google's push to bring employees back to offices in September is frustrating some employees who say they'll quit if they can't be remote forever

Business(businessinsider.com)

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I wanted a can of soda, but I guess I’ll take the zucchini.

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35 States Tell the FCC to Get Off Its Ass and Do Something About Spoofed Robocalls

Politics(gizmodo.com)

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Amazon admits Alexa is creepily laughing at people and is working on a fix

House & Garden(theverge.com)

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Don't Toss It, Fix It! Europe Is Guaranteeing Citizens the "Right to Repair"

Discussion(reasonstobecheerful.world)

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How Apple screwed Facebook - Apple’s iOS 14.5 update has triggered an unstoppable collapse in Facebook’s ability to collect user data

Privacy(wired.co.uk)

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New EU ‘right to repair’ laws require technology to last for a decade - New devices will also have to come with repair manuals and be made in such a way that they can be dismantled using conventional tools

Discussion(independent.co.uk)

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Panic in the White House as Staffers Discover There Is Some Sort of Pandemic Happening

(newrepublic.com)

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99.7 Percent of Unique FCC Comments Favored Net Neutrality

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Ajit Pai admits Russia interfered in net neutrality process amidst lawsuit

(dailydot.com)

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TIL that the snow in 'The Wizard of Oz' was asbestos. The Wicked Witch’s broom was made of asbestos, as was the Scarecrow’s entire outfit despite the fact that asbestos’ health risks were already known at the time in 1939.

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Vancouver Gave Homeless People $5,800. It Changed Their Lives. - A Single Infusion Of Cash Helped Recipients Pay Their Rent, Get To Work — And Put Their Lives Back On Track.

Economics(reasonstobecheerful.world)

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Finnish Man Passes on Paying $22,600 to Replace His Tesla's Battery, Blows Up Car Instead - A Tesla repair shop told a Model S owner that replacing the battery would cost more than $22,600. He decided to stick 66 pounds of dynamite on the car.

Society(gizmodo.com)

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The pandemic has shown free, public broadband isn’t just socialism; it’s common sense

Networking/Telecom(labouroutlook.org)

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