Yep, "civili liberties" issue is only "valid" if it's Amuuuurican citizens who are spied upon... However, if it's the rest of us... oh, well... who gives a flying fcuk about a few pieces of chicken-poo...
Astronomers are now certain that the mysterious object detected hurtling past our sun last month is indeed from another solar system. They have named it 1I/2017 U1(‘Oumuamua) and believe it could be one of 10,000 others lurking undetected in our cosmic neighborhood. The certainty of its interstellar origin comes from an analysis that shows its orbit is almost impossible to achieve from within our solar system. It is thought to be an extremely dark object, absorbing 96% of the light that falls on its surface, and it is red. This color is the hallmark of organic (carbon-based) molecules. Organic molecules are the building blocks of the biological molecules that allow life to function. It is widely thought that the delivery of organic molecules to the early Earth by the collision of comets and asteroids made life here possible. ’Oumuamua shows that the same could be possible in other solar systems.
The Verge: Google admits it tracked user location data even when the setting was turned off. http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIwkP2K-TY
Decades later, Vietnam vets may be silently fighting cancer-causing parasite Facebook (still) lets housing advertisers exclude users by race
Gizmodo: NASA's New Titanium Airless Tires Are Nearly Indestructible. http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIwg7vC_DY
Medical Breakthrough – Malaria Vaccine on the Horizon November 23, 2017 After ten years of research and testing by the university hospitals in Leiden and Nijmegen, a malaria vaccine seems to be on the horizon. Tests on 19 human subjects in the Netherlands over the past six months seem to indicate a breakthrough. They were injected with genetically weakened malaria parasites and none of them got malaria. Worldwide there has never been an experiment where malaria parasites were genetically weakened and then used to vaccinate people. Genetic modifying has been happening for decades, but not with parasites. The researchers are very happy with the results of this first round of tests, but will only start celebrating after the new group of 48 volunteers have been tested in the spring. Should none of these new volunteers get malaria, a large experiment will start in Africa. https://nltimes.nl/2017/11/23/malaria-vaccine-horizon-leiden-nijmegen-univ-research
Forbes Now: When The FCC Kills Net Neutrality, Here's What Your Internet Will Look Like. http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIw5YG6mTo
Ubergizmo: Microsoft Office Android Apps Are Working On Chromebooks Now. http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIw4qnK_jY