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Tax filing websites have been sending users’ financial information to Facebook Major tax filing services such as H&R Block, TaxAct, and TaxSlayer have been quietly transmitting sensitive financial information to Facebook when Americans file their taxes online, The Markup has learned. Continue Reading . . . https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/22/23471842/facebook-hr-block-taxact-taxslayer-info-sharing

Apple changed how reading books works in iOS 16, and I may never be happy again Apple Books has been my main reading app for years for one very specific reason: its page-turning animation is far and away the best in the business. Continue Reading . . . https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/21/23471306/apple-books-ios-16-page-flip-animation-sucks

Time’s up: the Leap Second is being scrapped A global panel of scientists and government representatives have voted to scrap leap seconds by 2035. The ad-hoc time adjustment is occasionally inserted to account for the gradual slowdown of the Earth’s rotation, and has caused headaches for numerous tech companies over the years. Continue Reading . . . https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/21/23470759/leap-second-scrapped-2035-time-computer-chaos

SwiftKey is unexpectedly back on iOS Microsoft’s SwiftKey keyboard has unexpectedly returned to the App Store. The company officially discontinued support for the keyboard and removed it from the App Store in October, but now it’s available for iOS users once again. Continue Reading . . . https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/18/23467204/swiftkey-ios-iphone-app-store-return-back-microsoft

Elon Musk begins reinstating banned Twitter accounts, starting with Jordan Peterson and the Babylon Bee Elon Musk has begun reinstating Twitter accounts that were previously subject to lifetime bans, taking the first steps toward his promise of lighter moderation on the platform. Continue Reading . . . https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/18/23466625/elon-musk-twitter-reinstatement-jordan-peterson-kathy-griffin-babylon-bee

Antimicrobial Resistance Is Growing Because of COVID Even before the COVID pandemic, antimicrobial resistance, in which microbes no longer respond to common medications like antibiotics, was a big concern for public health organizations and health care specialists. Continue Reading . . . https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/antimicrobial-resistance-is-growing-because-of-covid/

Lab-Grown Meat Gets FDA Approval for the First Time Ever Lab-grown meat has officially received the FDA's safety stamp of approval for the first time ever. In a press release issued on Wednesday, the FDA stated that it has "evaluated the information submitted to the agency and has no further questions at this time about the firm's safety conclusion. Continue Reading . . . https://www.cnet.com/health/lab-grown-meat-gets-fda-approval/