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Scientist Sounds The Alarm On 9th Dead Gray Whale Off San Francisco

Why Isn't Anyone Talking About Israel's Nukes?

"People with disabilities are used to adapting because the world isn’t built to fit us.”

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The Sex Educator Teaching BDSM to People With Disabilities

A FEMINIST SISTER AND WICCAN WHOM I KNOW WAS IN SAMOIS THE WOMEN'S LESBIAN SM GROUP, AND SHE ALSO WORKED WITH THE DISABLED, AS WELL AS BEING DISABLED AS HAVE SEVERAL OTHER MEMBERS OF THE KINK COMMUNITY I HAVE KNOWN.

Elizabeth May and her party believe voters are ready to ‘vote for real change’ in the upcoming federal election in October

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Canada: climate change threat could herald ‘dawn of new era’ for Green party

Elizabeth May and her party believe voters are ready to ‘vote for real change’ in the upcoming federal election in October

A terse disagreement on the floor of the Alabama Senate Thursday led lawmakers to table a controversial abortion bill until at least next week.

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Alabama Senate tables abortion bill after uproar on chamber floor

A terse disagreement on the floor of the Alabama Senate Thursday led lawmakers to table a controversial abortion bill until at least next week.

SEE ABORTION

BAD ENOUGH ALEXA FOR ADULTS DOES THIS, AS DOES SIRI AND OTHER VOICE ACTIVATED AI APPS FOR YOUR HOME

Retail giant Amazon is being accused of capturing and saving customers' voice conversations through its popular Echo Dot digital assistant for children, advocacy groups said in a complaint Thursday

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FTC complaint: Amazon Echo Dot Kids illegally records conversations

VOICE ASSISTANTS 

AMAZON ALEXA / ECHO

Amazon Admits Listening To Alexa Conversations: Why It Matters

Amazon workers reportedly listen to what you tell Alexa — here's how Apple and Google handle what you say to their voice assistants

Amazon has people transcribing your conversations with Alexa

Thousands of Amazon Workers Listen to Alexa Users' Conversations

Analysis | The Technology 202: Alexa, are you spying on me? Here's why smart speakers raise serious privacy concerns

Alexa Is Listening All The Time: Here's How To Stop It

Amazon Listens to Random Echo Owners' Alexa Commands of Things?"

Amazon Alexa user receives 1,700 audio recordings of a stranger through ‘human error’

Is your Amazon Alexa spying on you?

Do you swear at Alexa? What our treatment of AI assistants says about humans

The Deliberate Design Flaw In Every Amazon Echo

Alexa Is Listening. Here's How to Keep Your Voice Assistant From Recording You.

Hey Alexa, come clean about how much you’re really recording us

Amazon Echo and Google Home Record What You Say. What Happens to Your Data?

Hey, Google and Alexa: Parents worry voice assistants can listen in on kids, survey finds

APPLE SIRI

Apple considering offline mode for Siri that could process voice locally on an iPhone

Siri is always listening. Are you OK with that?

Siri is listening to you, but she’s NOT spying, says Apple

How to Keep Commercials from Activating Your Smart Speaker

Apple Addresses Privacy Questions About ‘Hey Siri’ And Live Photo Features

Female digital assistants like Alexa and Siri remain popular in Silicon Valley. It's time to boycott them.

I asked Siri, Alexa and Google Assistant if they're spying on me — here's what they said

'Hey Siri, I'm getting pulled over!' App allows drivers to record interactions with police

Voice assistants are always listening. So why won't they call police if they hear a crime?

Ears wide open

Is Facebook secretly recording you? The debate, explained.

SMART PHONES

Your Phone Is Listening and it's Not Paranoia

You're not paranoid, your phone really IS listening to EVERYTHING you say

Is your smartphone listening in on your conversations? | One Page

It's not paranoia, your phone really IS listening to you

I thought I was paranoid but now I’m 100% sure our phones are listening to us – and I’ve got proof

No, you’re not being paranoid, your phone really IS listening to you

Why people think their phones are listening to them

Is this proof your smart phone is eavesdropping on EVERY single word you say?

Is your smartphone listening to everything you say? We asked the experts

Apple's Siri interrupted the UK defense secretary during an important speech: 'It is very rare that you're heckled by your own mobile phone'

Security experts WARNS your phone LISTENS to EVERYTHING you say to target ads

The internet is convinced our phones are listening to us. Here’s what the experts say

Is your phone secretly recording you?

‘Creepy’: Here’s why your phone could be listening to your conversations

Are smartphones listening and targeting us with ads?

Yes, Your Creepy Phone Is Listening to What You Say

HOW TO STOP YOUR DEVICES FROM LISTENING TO YOU

How to disable the microphone on the Amazon Echo

3 gadgets that are always listening and how to stop them

How To Stop Your iPhone From Listening To You

How to stop your iPhone from listening to your conversations

How to stop your devices from listening to (and saving) what you say

How to Kill Active Listening on Siri, Cortana, Alexa, and Google

How to stop your devices from listening to (and saving) everything you say

Which Smart Speaker Should You Trust Most—and Least?

A Caravaggio painting discovered after going largely unseen for more than 400 years went on display Thursday in New York ahead of its planned auction in June. Maison de Ventes Marc Labarbe in Toulouse expects it to sell for between $112 million and $168 million.

THE BEHEADING OF JOHN THE BAPTIST BY SALOME

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Caravaggio painting missing for 400 years expected to fetch $112M at auction

A Caravaggio painting discovered after going largely unseen for more than 400 years went on display Thursday in New York ahead of its planned auction in June.

DID NOT KNOW THAT

Scientists have documented some of the oldest trees in the world, including the bald cypress tree, inside wetlands along the banks of North Carolina's Black River.

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North Carolina swamps home to some of the oldest trees on the planet

Scientists have documented some of the oldest trees in the world inside wetlands along the banks of North Carolina's Black River.

More people have been displaced in their home countries by events like war, violence and natural disasters than at any other time in history, a new report said Friday.

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Study: More people displaced by fighting, disasters than ever before

More people have been displaced in their home countries by events like war, violence and natural disasters than at any other time in history, a new report said Friday.