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Olivia Solon / NBC News: Meta partners with UK-based Revenge Porn Helpline to help people prevent intimate images from appearing online by uploading them to StopNCII.org — Facebook's parent company, Meta, has worked with the U.K.-based nonprofit Revenge Porn Helpline to build a tool that lets...

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: LinkedIn adds Hindi support in India after initially supporting only English, which is spoken by less than 20% of India's 1.3B people — Less than 20% of India's 1.3 billion people speak English. But LinkedIn, the largest professional social network globally, has so...

Mack DeGeurin / Gizmodo: UN report: 2.9B people, or 37% of the world's population, have never used the internet, while internet users rose from 4.1B in 2019 to 4.9B in 2021 — But the pandemic has fueled a rapid surge of worldwide internet users. — Alerts — Nearly two-thirds of the world's...

Less than 20% of India’s 1.3 billion people speak English. But LinkedIn, the largest professional social network globally, has so far catered only to this sliver of the population in the world’s second largest internet market. On Thursday, the Microsoft-owned service said it’s beginning to...

Twitter updated its private information safety policy this morning to ban sharing images or videos of private individuals without their consent. The platform already banned users from sharing others’ personal information without permission, like their address or location, identity documents...

Amanda Keton Contributor Amanda Keton is general counsel for the Wikimedia Foundation. Christian Humborg Contributor Christian Humborg is the executive director of Wikimedia Deutschland. As COVID-19 spread rapidly across the world in 2020, people everywhere were hungry for reliable...

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Slice, whose credit cards are used by 5M+ people in India and let users pay their bills interest-free over three months, raises a $220M Series B — Rajan Bajaj, founder of fintech Slice, chimed in on a Twitter thread earlier this year and wondered aloud what he needs...

PMID: J Reprod Immunol. 2021 02 ;143:103266. Epub 2020 Dec 17. PMID: 33385732 Abstract Title: Vitamin D deficiency as a risk factor for endometriosis in Iranian women. Abstract: PURPOSE: Vitamin D (Vit D), as an immunomodulator, has been hypothesized to play a critical role in the...

When we look back at history, we see that the greatest catalysts for change, especially in social justice realms, rarely get to enjoy the fruits of their labor. Usually, as with Martin Luther King, Jr and his “I have a dream” vision, it’s quite the opposite. Spark lighters tend to get...

Just as a point of inquiry, let’s take a moment to explore the relationship between common religious and spiritual teachings and how they might be linked to oppression. I don’t believe there’s some Evil Cabal out to control the world, but let’s consider the actual historical conspiracy of mostly...

PMID: Cell Discov. 2021 Oct 26 ;7(1):99. Epub 2021 Oct 26. PMID: 34697287 Abstract Title: Comprehensive investigations revealed consistent pathophysiological alterations after vaccination with COVID-19 vaccines. Abstract: Large-scale COVID-19 vaccinations are currently underway in many...

A case filed in federal court charges the ride-hailing giant with violating the Americans with Disabilities Act.