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[Keri Blakinger @keribla]

UPDATE: I got a letter from David Ford, the toothless inmate who got dentures after my story. 3D printers to make more teeth are now being installed, he says -& the other inmates are calling him a hero

So grateful to be a part of this. #journalismmatters https://t.co/Aan6hSa8gF

[Matthew Brennan @mbrennanchina]

Wow! China Airport face recognition systems to help you check your flight status and find the way to your gate. Note I did not input anything, it accurately identified my full flight information from my face!

[zeynep tufekci @zeynep]

Phone number is such a private, important security link. But Facebook will even let you be targeted for ads through phone numbers INCLUDING THOSE PROVIDED *ONLY* FOR SECOND FACTOR AUTHENTICATION. Messing with 2FA is the anti-vaccination misinformation of security. Unconscionable.

[Tom Gara @tomgara]

This is so crazy: even if you deliberately don't include your mobile number in your Facebook profile, they'll harvest it when you use it for two-factor authentication, and let advertisers target you with it. https://t.co/0TIr0zsJOt

[Alexander B. Howard @digiphile]

The Internet began as ARPAnet, named for the @DeptofDefense's ARPA: https://t.co/TBPy67YMqE
@vgcerf & Bob Kahn developed TCP/IP while working on a US government grant.
@GOPChairwoman is right about 1 thing: the Internet DID come "from the greatness of America":
our government.

[MIT Technology Review @techreview]

Once hailed as unhackable, blockchains are now getting hacked https://t.co/ezvTjHtEhS

[RockAlien @RockAlien]

Now do you understand how Facebook makes its money, Senator Do Nothing? https://t.co/URGytv1Nxi

[Jason Major @JPMajor]

Satellite project led by @UniOfSurrey successfully tests a harpoon system designed to capture space junk in orbit https://t.co/3Mnpy59L8f

[Doran @doranb]

Uh, the kid took a screenshot of the Siri response to his saying "I am going to shoot up a school.", and posted the image to social media, which caused some of his contacts to notify police and *that* is what got him detained by cops, not his initial Siri inquiry.

[New Scientist @newscientist]

🖌 by @tomgauld

[Sarah Zhang @sarahzhang]

I wrote about a microbiology experiment that is supposed to last 500 years. The last vial of bacteria will be opened in 2514—assuming, you know, the world still exists and everything https://t.co/nN5PygUFl5

[MachinePix @MachinePix]

The Vine is a prosthesis with 26 articulated vertebrae by Kelly Knox and the Alternative Limb Project.

[Jason Major @JPMajor]

Footage of China's #Yutu2 rover on the Moon's far side, captured by the Chang'e-4 lander. Via @CGTNOfficial https://t.co/Pfrq6CiGuR ht @LaunchStuff

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Good splashdown of Dragon confirmed, completing SpaceX’s fourth resupply mission to and from the @Space_Station with a flight-proven spacecraft.

[Violet Blue® @violetblue]

Um.

[Brianna Wu @BriannaWu]

Zuckerberg Hospital, which is named after the Facebook founder, has the most exploitive billing experts have been able to find.

They refuse almost all insurance, leaving vulnerable people to pay 5 and 6 figure bills, even though they are insured.

https://t.co/xqBaeziGbY

[News Central TV @NewsCentralTV]

Roy Allela’s six-year-old niece was born deaf. She found it difficult to communicate with her family, none of whom knew sign language.

So Allela – a 25-year-old Kenyan, invented smart gloves that convert sign language movements into audio speech.

[NSF - NASASpaceflight.com @NASASpaceflight]

Yutu-2 has begun exploring the far side of the Moon. 😍

[Raphael Satter @razhael]

An Israeli spyware firm has named itself after an invisible bloodsucking catfish said to swim up men’s urethras. 🐟
https://t.co/Tnk6CHHydI

[Fercan @FercanY]

#Google Shifted €19.9 billion ($22.6b) to Bermuda through Netherlands in '17, reports Dutch financial daily Het Financieele Dagblad citing annual accounts of the company.

Bermuda's GDP is $5.9 billion or 26% of what Google sent in 2017, by the way...
H/T @vergauwenwout