Reality Checks: Facial Recognition for Astronomy, Fraudulent Genetic Testing, Incompetent IT, and Some Tips for Dealing with Insecurity

Elizabeth — October 1, 2019

35 0 0

Lego workmen repairing a faulty hard drive

Facial recognition tech for astronomy. (via Digital Trends)
35 people arrested in massive genetic testing fraud. (via Reuters)
Baltimore city kept ALL of its data on local drives. (via Ars Technica)
Tips for dealing with insecurity. (via NPR)

Featured image credit: flickr

Elizabeth

Elizabeth is a professional belly dancer, a flaky computer scientist, and a returned Peace Corps volunteer. She lives in Georgia (the state of the U.S., not the country) but is nonetheless somehow not a combination of stereotypes from Gone with the Wind and Deliverance. Her personal blog is Coffeefied. Operafied. Fluffified. Beglittered.

Reality Checks: Facial Recognition for Astronomy, Fraudulent Genetic Testing, Incompetent IT, and Some Tips for Dealing with Insecurity

Reality Checks: Investigating Environmental Activism as Domestic Terrorism, Setting Fire to the Homeless, FCC Loses in Court, and Impeachment Inquiries Vs Trump

Reality Checks: Saturns Many Moons, the Impeachment Story Thus Far, Car Pedestrian Detection, and the Continuing Scourge of Cholera

Elizabeth

Reality Checks: Civil that Disobedience and Film the Police

Reality Checks: Quarantined at a Haunted German Castle with Wolves, One Woman’s Experience with Conspiracy Theories, Remdesivir has a Good Clinical Trial, and Infection via Eyes

Reality Checks: Ancient Meteor Fluids, Religious Freedom and Covid Closings, Repositive Covid Patients not Infectious, Florida Covid Data Scientist Fired

Reality Checks: Watchdog probing Saudi Arms Sales Fired, Artemis Accords, Results of Stay at Home orders, And Divisiveness in Times of Covid

No Comment

Leave a reply Cancel reply

Reality Checks: Facial Recognition for Astronomy, Fraudulent Genetic Testing, Incompetent IT, and Some Tips for Dealing with Insecurity

Share this:

Reality Checks: Investigating Environmental Activism as Domestic Terrorism, Setting Fire to the Homeless, FCC Loses in Court, and Impeachment Inquiries Vs Trump

Reality Checks: Saturns Many Moons, the Impeachment Story Thus Far, Car Pedestrian Detection, and the Continuing Scourge of Cholera

Elizabeth

Related Posts

Reality Checks: Civil that Disobedience and Film the Police

Reality Checks: Quarantined at a Haunted German Castle with Wolves, One Woman’s Experience with Conspiracy Theories, Remdesivir has a Good Clinical Trial, and Infection via Eyes

Reality Checks: Ancient Meteor Fluids, Religious Freedom and Covid Closings, Repositive Covid Patients not Infectious, Florida Covid Data Scientist Fired

Reality Checks: Watchdog probing Saudi Arms Sales Fired, Artemis Accords, Results of Stay at Home orders, And Divisiveness in Times of Covid

No Comment

Leave a reply Cancel reply