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Byte Me #8: Eating tampons, triggering men, and a horny pen

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by on September 30, 2019 at 8:06 am
Posted In: Around the Web, newsletter


Subscribe to our monthly Byte Me newsletter NOW! Welcome back to Byte Me, our feminist newsletter that makes everyone mad <3 Since we last spoke, Anouk was made the first-ever queen of editorial, Cara’s edgy football club won their division (and she scored a bajillion goals), and Gigi’s mum won a big tech award, so that bodes well for her genes. Each month, our gloriously talented designer, Saïna, illustrates a weird comment or tweet we receive from one of TNW’s misogynistic, or just odd, readers. Here’s this month’s:  What? Let’s unpack this, with art. the bloody news The Irish Times wrote about why Greta Thunberg is so triggering for certain…

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China’s new 500-megapixel ‘super camera’ can instantly recognize you in a crowd

Sep30
by on September 30, 2019 at 7:09 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Asia


China is already home to extensive facial recognition technology, using it to identify criminals, monitor students’ attention, and even let citizens purchase train tickets. Now, in an attempt to enrich its surveillance arsenal, reseachers from the country have developed a 500 megapixel facial recognition camera capable of capturing “thousands of faces at a stadium in perfect detail and generate their facial data for the cloud while locating a particular target in an instant.” The AI-based cloud camera service was developed in collaboration between Shanghai-based Fudan University and Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics of Chinese Academy of Sciences in…

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Elon Musk wants SpaceX’s crewed Starship to reach orbit in 6 months

Sep30
by on September 30, 2019 at 5:48 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Space


Last Saturday, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said the company’s ambitious Starship spacecraft – designed to (eventually) take humans to Mars – might reach Earth’s orbit within the next six months. Currently, the company is working on engine designs. It has tested a single raptor engine with a prototype vehicle called Starhopper this year. Now, it’s building a triple raptor engine (Mk1) in order to take the vehicle 20km off the ground. Plus, SpaceX is building the second engine prototype, Mk3, at its facility in Florida; construction of the third prototype (Mk3) will begin in Boca Chica, Texas, in a month.…

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