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Photo of a wild bird. To the right is a colorized transmission electron micrograph of H5N1 virus particles (purple). H5N1 bird flu is widespread in wild birds worldwide, and in 2024 is causing a multistate outbreak in poultry and U.S. dairy cows. NIAID and CDC

NIH Officials Call for Balanced Approach as H5N1 Virus Shows Expanding Reach

Categories Health, Life & Non-humans

Who is watching the watchers? Computer scientists at UC Davis find that popular makes of 'smart' TVs use a method called automatic content recognition (ACR) to capture content on screen and share it with manufacturers, who can use it to sell advertising. (Getty Images)

Your Smart TV Knows Everything You Watch – Even When You’re Not Watching TV

Categories Social Sciences, Technology

A Virginia Tech study of wildlife common in Virginia found that SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19, is widespread in animals, particularly around areas of high human activity. The researchers identified variants consistent with those circulating in humans at the time, and one opossum with previously unreported viral mutations, underscoring the potential for changes that can potentially impact humans and their immune response.

Virus that causes COVID-19 is widespread in wildlife

Categories Health, Life & Non-humans

The round lens of PrivacyLens captures standard digital video while the square lens senses heat. The heat sensor improves the camera’s ability to spot and remove people from videos. Image credit: Brenda Ahearn, Michigan Engineering.

You’re just a stick figure to this camera

Categories Technology

maternal death rate charts

Good news: the US maternal death rate is stable, not sky rocketing, as reported

Categories Health, Social Sciences

This app launcher on an Androip phone displays app icons: the Spyhuman app installed itself as the innocous-seeming WiFi icon. What are spyware apps? Spyware apps surreptitiously run on a device, most often without the device owner’s awareness. They collect a range of sensitive information such as location, texts and calls, as well as audio and video. Some apps can even stream live audio and video. All this information is delivered to an abuser via an online spyware portal.

This is what happens when your phone is spying on you

Categories Social Sciences, Technology

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