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Facebook now supports 2-factor authentication without SMS, here’s how to set it up

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by on May 24, 2018 at 8:37 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web


If you have a Facebook profile – it doesn’t really matter if you use it a lot or not – it’s important to secure it with two-factor authentication so your account isn’t hacked. The social network has offered an SMS-based option to do so for a while, but a new feature lets you protect your account without handing over your phone number – and you should switch right away. All you need is an authentication app like Google Authenticator, Authy or TypingDNA’s browser extension. Just log into your Facebook account, head to Settings > Security and Login, and then to…

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Estonia is using its citizens’ genes to predict disease

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by on May 24, 2018 at 8:14 am
Posted In: Around the Web


The Estonian government announced in March that it would offer free genetic testing to 100,000 citizens as a part of its national personalized medicine program. The participants will donate blood samples to the Estonian biobank, which will conduct a genome-wide genotyping and alert those among them who are likely to suffer from conditions like cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, and breast cancer. But this is only the first step of Estonia’s big push into preventive medicine. TNW spoke with Lili Milani, senior scientist at the Estonian Genome Center at the University of Tartu and a member of the national steering…

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Review: The Lockdown brings Minority Report to your living room

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by on May 24, 2018 at 7:41 am
Posted In: Around the Web, artificial intelligence, augmented reality, gaming


Escape rooms are all the rage right now. All over the world, corporate employees are bonding over difficult puzzles. Tourists in Greece prefer breaking out of rooms in Athens over visiting the Acropolis. Even the Obama family reportedly loves to play them and busted out of a Hawaii location with only 12 seconds left. All of these escape rooms do require one essential component, though: You have to be physically present. A new AR-based app, named The Lockdown, offers the world’s first mobile escape room. In other words, you can play the game whenever, wherever, as long as you have a…

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Launch your question into MIT’s Danielle Wood’s Answers session

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by on May 24, 2018 at 7:27 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Space, TNW Answers


What is Space Enabled? What projects are you working on? What do you see as some of the most exciting projects in space exploration right now? How can satellite systems save the world? Ask all this and more to MIT Media Lab’s Director of Space Enabled, Danielle Wood. Danielle’s interest in space exploration sparked when she was growing up in Orlando watching NASA space shuttle launches. Today she is an Assistant Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at the MIT Media Lab and leads Space Enabled Research Group, which seeks to advance justice in earth’s complex systems using designs enabled by…

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