Every day, the same, again
Fake Lufthansa pilot tries to board airplane
Defecting Chinese spy offers information trove to Australian government. His testimony shows how Beijing’s spies are infiltrating Hong Kong’s democracy movement, manipulating Taiwan’s elections and operating with impunity in Australia.
Chess players make more mistakes on polluted days. Air pollution effects on cognitive functions. Bonus: The Effect of Traffic Pollution on Academic Performance
Merely 20% of the Tinder users in the sample have had one-night stands following Tinder use
Letting robots kill without human supervision could save lives [2017]
5 Ways Smart People Sabotage Their Success
Google made algorithmic changes to its search results that favor big businesses over smaller ones
Facebook, Google fund nonprofit think tanks shaping federal privacy debate
There Will Be No Turning Back on Facial Recognition
Jeff Bezos says Amazon is writing its own facial recognition laws to pitch to lawmakers
Faces and licence plates are among the details that can be clearly seen in a 195 billion pixels photograph of Shanghai [photo + read more]
China to take over Kenya’s main port over unpaid huge Chinese Loan [Thanks Tim]
Salon Kitty was a high-class Berlin brothel used by the Nazi intelligence service for espionage purposes during World War II. The Sicherheitsdienst (Security Service of the Reichsführer-SS, or SD) took over the brothel, had the place wire tapped and all the prostitutes replaced with trained spies in order to gather data on various members of the Nazi party and foreign dignitaries.
Thai photographer Visarute Angkatavanich portrays Siamese fighting fish (Betta Splendens)
Chilean protesters using lasers to take down a drone.
The rise of ‘facadism’ in London [Thanks Tim]
See Forever™ from the observatory at One World Trade Center. Choose to skip just the ticket line or all the lines. [Thanks Tim]