Men and women take to the streets of Cape Town asking for the government to step up against crimes against women.

Residents survey damage after the most damaging storm ever to hit the island nation.

Jon Udell demo'd a feature that lets you expand-collapse in Markdown files on GitHub. Here's how to do it. If you enclose text in an XML <details> element it is collapsable. A <summary> sub-element provides the text that you click to expand.

I created a new Node package called persists. Here's a test app that uses it. Docs coming. I think this is the closest you get to imitating the Frontier object database, syntactically, in JavaScript.

The not-so-widely-used trusted face smart unlock feature has officially been removed from Android, news blog Android Police reported this week. From the report: Trusted face was added in 2014 and has been accessible to users on all Android devices until recently. Now, it's completely gone from stock and OEM devices, running Android 10 or below. The feature was accessible under Settings -> Security -> Smart Lock -> Trusted face. It didn't use any biometric data for security, instead just relying on your face to unlock your device. A photo could easily fool it. The writing was on the wall for its removal: It was broken on Android Q Beta 6 and we know Google has been working on a more secure face authentication method. But it's not only Android 10 that no longer has the Trusted face option. We've verified that the option is gone from the OnePlus 6T, Samsung Galaxy S9 and S10, Nokia 3.2, all of which are running Android Pie stable.

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Hearings in London and Belfast continue on Friday in cases aiming to block the suspension of parliament.

UK prime minister is embattled after facing double defeat as parliament rejects his plans for Brexit and snap election.

Ed Bridges, who face was scanned without consent while shopping and again at a protest, to challenge landmark ruling.

An anonymous reader shares a report: Last week, a California state legislator introduced an amendment to the state's constitution that would classify nuclear energy as "renewable." If the amendment passes, it would likely result in the continued operation of the state's last nuclear plant, Diablo Canyon, well past 2025, its current closure date. Diablo generates 9% of California's electricity and 20% of its clean, carbon-free electricity. It is also the most spectacular nuclear plant in the world, made famous by an employee's photo of a humpback whale breaching in front of the plant. "I'm not going to argue it's not a long shot," said the legislation's sponsor, Assemblymember Jordan Cunningham. "But we can't make a serious dent in slowing the warming trend in the world without investment in nuclear power." If Governor Gavin Newsom decides to support the legislation it would likely become law and Diablo Canyon could continue operating to 2045 or even 2065. That's because Newsom, who was elected last year with an astonishing 62% of the vote, exercises extraordinary power over the legislature, particularly on energy.

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Critics say ban on public officials from doing business with the government will not deter illegal practices.

Life-threatening storm surges, dangerous winds possible in South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia, officials say.

British PM slammed for using police recruits as a political prop during an 'electioneering stunt' in Wakefield.

hackingbear writes: A team of researchers at China's Zhejiang University were able to create a gel that makes tooth enamel repair itself, they wrote in the science journal Science Advances, a development that could spell the end of fillings as an (unreliable) method to repair cavities which are one of the most prevalent chronic diseases in humans. The gel succeeded in making the enamel repair itself within only 48 hours. Though it now only manages to generate a layer of about 3 micrometres -- about 400 times thinner than undamaged enamel, the researcher says the gel could be repeatedly applied to build up this repair layer. The team is now testing the gel in mice and hopes to later test it in people.

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An anonymous reader shares a report: Image and video manipulation powered by deep learning, or so-called "deepfakes," represent a strange and horrifying facet of a promising new field. If we're going to crack down on these creepy creations, we'll need to fight fire with fire; Facebook, Microsoft, and many others are banding together to help make machine learning capable of detecting deepfakes -- and they want you to help. Though the phenomenon is still new, we are nevertheless in an arms race where the methods of detection vie with the methods of creation. Ever more convincing fakes appear regularly, and though while they are frequently benign, the possibility of having your face flawlessly grafted into a compromising position is very much there -- and many a celebrity has already had it done to them. Facebook, as part of a coalition with Microsoft, the Partnership for AI, and several universities including Oxford, Berkeley, and MIT, is working to empower the side of good with better detection techniques. "The most interesting advances in AI have happened when there's a clear benchmark on a dataset to write papers against," said Facebook CTO Mike Schroepfer in a media call yesterday. The dataset for object recognition might be millions of images of ordinary objects, while the dataset for voice transcription would be hours of different kinds of speech. But there's no such set for deepfakes.

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Demonstrators say the concession will not stop them from protesting against what they see as an unjust leadership and China's influence.