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The Lincoln, Nebraska-based company is often the first choice of law enforcement looking to keep tabs on the communications of criminal suspects. It’s probably best known, if it’s known at all, for its work helping convict Scott Peterson, who murdered his wife Laci and their unborn son in a case that fomented a tabloid frenzy in the early 2000s. Nowadays the company has been helping cops keep tabs on suspected wrongdoing by users of Google, Facebook, and WhatsApp – whatever web tool that law enforcement requests.
With $20 million revenue every year from U.S. government customers such as the Drug Enforcement Administration, the FBI, Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE), and almost every other law enforcement agency in the federal directory, PenLink enjoys a steady stream of income. That doesn’t include its sales to local and state police, where it also does significant business but for which there are no available revenue figures. Forbes viewed contracts across the U.S., including towns and cities in California, Florida, Illinois, Hawaii, North Carolina, and Nevada.
“PenLink is proud to support law enforcement across the U.S. and internationally in their effort to fight wrongdoing,” the company said. “We do not publicly discuss how our solution is being utilized by our customers.”
Sometimes it takes a spy to get transparency from a surveillance company. Jack Poulson, founder of technology watchdog Tech Inquiry, went incognito at the National Sheriffs’ Association’s winter conference in Washington. He recorded a longtime PenLink employee showing off what the company could do for law enforcement and discussing the scale of its operations. Not only does the recording lift the lid on how deeply involved PenLink is in wiretapping operations across the U.S., it also reveals in granular detail just how tech providers such as Apple, Facebook and Google provide information to police when they’re confronted with a valid warrant or subpoena.
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PenLink works closely with U.S. government agencies in tapping phones and in collecting data from interceptions of social media giants like Facebook, Google Snapchat, and WhatsApp. (Photo by Muhammed Selim Korkutata/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) Getty Images
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March 1, 2022
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You better think twice next time you carelessly toss your plastic utensils after lunch — you never know where they could end up.
For this sea turtle, someone’s fork would up in a place it never should have — its nostril. But the Olive Ridley turtle was lucky enough to find itself in the hands of some capable researchers on a beach in Costa Rica.
“As I tested how firmly the object was lodged in its nose; it was clear that it was lodged into her nose very deeply,” Nathan Robinson, who works with the sea turtle conservation organization Leatherback Trust, wrote in a blog post. In the video below — which is not for the squeamish — Robinson and his team remove the fork from the turtle’s nose. Knowing that they were miles from the nearest vet, Robinson had to make a quick decision about the turtle’s predicament. He enlisted the help of two biologists to restrain the turtle and used his pocket knife to carefully extract the fork.
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Removing a plastic fork from the nostril of a sea turtle. Photo Credit: Sean Williamson— with Brett Butler and 2 others.
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March 1, 2022
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I call it my arch enemy. It’s located at the base of my big toes.
There lies, on each foot, a bunion: protrusions of bone that make my toes bend inward at weird, sharp angles and give my feet the rough overall shape of diamonds. They sometimes hurt, sometimes don’t fit into shoes. They are always repellent to look at.
Bunion shame is real. One year, before the family Hanukkah party, my mom — who also has bunions — politely suggested I put on socks so I wouldn’t force relatives to witness my feet.
The summer my friends all bought gladiator sandals, I couldn’t partake: My feet wouldn’t fit through the straps. The salespeople would frown and attempt, half-heartedly, to convince me the straps would “stretch out.”
In high school, my then-boyfriend was so perplexed by the way my left bunion jutted out my foot, he measured the angle with a protractor.
And in college, midway through a conversation with a friend, I watched a look of horror explode on her face. “What happened? Why is it so swollen?” she asked, pointing with a trembling finger down to my flip-flop-clad foot.
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March 1, 2022
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February 28, 2022
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The human body is made up of roughly 10 trillion cells. That’s a huge number, but it’s dwarfed by the 40 trillion or so bacterial cells that live on and inside the body.
In recent years, scientists have learned that our bacteria — known collectively as the microbiome — are intimately involved with many aspects of our health, including the robustness of our immune system and our risk of developing asthma and allergies. Now, new research suggests that the microbiome may also play a key role in neurological and psychological disorders.
“At a basic neuroscience level, all the key mechanisms of the brain have been shown to be regulated by the microbiome,” says John Cryan, a neuroscientist at University College Cork in Ireland.
As scientists investigate how the microbiome impacts our bodies and minds, some experts envision fundamental changes in the way doctors diagnose and treat disease.
“Someday soon, you and I will go into the doctor’s office, and the doctor will prescribe medicine that won’t be a chemical from a lab but may be live bacteria,” says Sarkis Mazmanian, a microbiologist at Caltech in Pasadena, California. “In addition to blood work, yearly physicals may include fecal samples to profile the microbiome,” tracking changes in bacteria to predict your risk for illness, sometimes long before symptoms appear.
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These E. coli bacteria are part of the normal content of the digestive systems of humans and other animals. However, under certain conditions, they can cause gastroenteritis and urinary tract infections. Some strains also cause food poisoning.Ian Cuming / Getty Images/Ikon Images
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February 28, 2022
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What do Barbra Streisand, Ozzy Osbourne and Will.i.am have in common? Yes, they’re famous musicians — but they also process sound differently from most of us.
That’s the latest finding of a study that examines people with mild to moderate tinnitus, a hearing condition common among musicians that causes a ringing sound in the ears. (As a drummer for nearly two decades and a former member of a touring band, I’ve had tinnitus for five years. I know what it’s like to never live in complete silence.)
The research, published in the journal PLOS One, shows that people with tinnitus can habituate the bothersome sound, mentally condemning it to that neurological basement area where refrigerator hums and street traffic live.
But here’s the especially cool part: To counteract the ringing, your brain literally changes how it operates.
University of Illinois speech and hearing science professor Fatima Husain, leader of the study, had subjects with mild to moderate tinnitus listen to pleasant, unpleasant and neutral sounds (for example: laughter, pained screaming and a bottle opening).
Husain expected to find that people with tinnitus would be further irritated by negative sounds, like adding a fire alarm on top of a Meghan Trainor song. Instead, Husain found the negative sounds didn’t bother patients as much, because in their brains, the sounds took a different path. They were rerouted from a place of emotional processing to one of logical processing.
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February 28, 2022
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Was Trump Looking in a mirror during his lengthy CPAC speech?
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February 27, 2022
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The cost of college, like the cost of everything else, is going up. In fact, in the past 10 years, the price of attending a university has risen by more than 25%. It’s so expensive that a lot of promising students don’t get to go and those who do often end up saddled with student loan debt. So the fact that Oakland University in Michigan sent emails to 5,500 students mistakenly awarding them hefty scholarships seems like a very cruel joke.
Students received a congratulatory email on January 4th, according to the New York Times. It read, “You worked hard and it paid off!” it read, and informed students that they would receive a $48,000 academic scholarship over the course of four years. That’s a $12,000 a year scholarship at a school where the in-state tuition is $13,934 per year, according to Oakland University’s website. That’s basically a full ride.
So, when those individuals got those emails, they were understandably overjoyed. They called their parents. They told their friends. Someone probably texted all their friends to plan a celebratory beer run. Several people probably cried. Two hours later, those same students were totally deflated when they got another email from the university. “CORRECTION,” read the subject line of the email that reportedly said, “Because you are not a recipient of the Platinum Presidential Scholar Award, this message was unfortunately sent to you in error.”
“When they sent that email, I was like ‘Wow, this is my escape, this is everything I’ve ever wanted,'” Charmaine, an 18-year-old in Farmington and an incoming freshman at Oakland University, told ABC. Brown had been applying for scholarships nonstop, so the email was a dream come true. And then it was a nightmare. “That’s a big mistake. That’s a very big mistake,” Brown told ABC. She and her mother are currently petitioning the university to honor the scholarships.
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The eight individuals who own as much as half of the rest of the planet are all men and have largely made their fortunes in technology. Most are American, with one European and one Mexican in the mix. Several have pledged to give it all to charity.
The eight tycoons’ net worth, as calculated by Forbes magazine, was cited Monday by anti-poverty activists Oxfam in a report highlighting income inequality. Although most of them will not be joining the annual meeting of business and political elites in the Swiss town of Davos this week, the extraordinary individual wealth they typify will be part of the gathering’s discussions on inequality.
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Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, speaks during a discussion on innovation hosted by Reuters in Washington, U.S., April 18, 2016.REUTERS
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