Also, the 7GB plan is bumped to 8GB.
Polling Place In Predominantly Black Neighborhood Clearly Brick Wall With Door Painted On
Facebook referred to GDPR authority over targeting methods – CNET
The UK Information Commissioner taking action beyond the $645,000 fine.
Midterm Elections 2018: All the Hoaxes and Viral Misinformation
WIRED is looking out for the biggest stories, the most common hoaxes, and the likeliest sources of confusion as they emerge throughout the day.
Christopher Nolan’s films top Fandango survey of movies fans want in 4K – CNET
The director is also getting an award for his cinematic vision.
Your Horoscopes — Week Of November 6, 2018
Family tree of 400 million people shows genetics has limited influence on longevity
Although long life tends to run in families, genetics has far less influence on life span than previously thought, according to a new analysis of more than 400 million people. The results suggest that the heritability of life span is well below past estimates, which failed to account for our tendency to select partners with similar traits to our own.
Mothers prefer daughters and fathers prefer sons
A research group has studied whether parents’ gender preferences and investment in offspring are affected by their status, wealth, education or childhood environment. Instead, parental preferences were best predicted by their sex. These results help to make sense of the often contradictory findings on offspring sex preferences.
Cosmic fountain offers clues to how galaxies evolve
Galaxy evolution can be chaotic and messy, but it seems that streams of cold gas spraying out from the region around supermassive black holes may act to calm the storm.
Facebook admits it screwed up on Myanmar — but it refuses to take all the blame
Facebook has released the conclusions of an independent assessment regarding its role in the recent genocidal violence in Myanmar. In short, the company admits that it previously wasn’t doing enough to prevent its network from “being used to foment division and incite offline violence,” but it argues it’s already begun making the changes necessary to prevent it from happening again. However, while the report shows that the company has made progress in how transparent it is about moderation, it stops short of making any firm commitments about audits like this in the future — a key demand from activists.
Facebook’s handling of the Myanmar crisis has been criticized by everyone from activists to the United Nations. Back in May, a coalition…