Society
Facebook to stop ads that target, exclude races usatoday
Facebook will also require advertisers to affirm that they will not place discriminatory ads on Facebook and will offer educational materials to help advertisers understand their obligations, Egan said.
China Singles Day : Alibaba hits $1bn of sales in less than five minutes independent.co.uk
At this pace, Alibaba could be on track to sell over $20 billion in merchandise, according to analysts.
Singles Day has become a Chinese tradition since students at Nanjing University njust.edu.cn in the 1990s chose the date as an antidote to Valentine’s Day, so single people could have a day to buy things for themselves. Alibaba, the driving force behind the event, turned into a shopping bonanza in 2009.
Health
UK red squirrels carry 'a form of leprosy' - scientists bbc
Leprosy was thought to have died out in the UK in medieval times, but these recent discoveries confirm that red squirrels nhptv.org carry the disease.
...researchers are keen to stress that the squirrel infection poses little, if any, threat to humans.
Research
Ticklish Rats Giggle and Jump for Joy, According to New Research nbcnews
What's the point of tickling rats for science? Neuroscientist Shimpei Ishiyama and colleagues said they were answering important questions.
AI
MIT let an AI loose on the web - what could possibly go wrong? techradar
To be fair, it's been done in the spirit of helping AIs to learn more effectively. The system was created to automatically classify text data, combing through it and looking for patterns that correspond to different categories provided by humans.
Security
'Fool-proof' biometric testing needed to keep [UK] borders safe, says anti-terror cop telegraph.co.uk
“Everybody's identity should be checked as they come through a border in a way that is fool-proof. Fingerprints, iris scans, the documents need to be tamper-proof. What we need is a debate about what border security really means.”
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