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Facebook to put 1.5 billion users out of reach of new EU law
페이스북, 15억 회원 EU의 신(新) 정보 보호법에 영향 받지 않도록 규정 변경
Terms of Service. If you've never paid attention to this fine print when you signed up for a Facebook account, you may want to know. That's because Facebook is about to change it…And is doing so just as the EU prepares to roll out a strict data privacy law next month with steep financial penalties. Users in Africa, Asia, Australia and Latin America - who account for more than 70 percent of Facebook's monthly active users - will no longer see this language: "This Statement is an agreement between you and Facebook Ireland Limited" meaning those users will no longer be under the EU's jurisdiction. "It’s still a strategically driven tech company and they're making the moves in order to protect their primary revenue source which is the segmentation, the commoditization of users' data to tease advertisers to come and invest." The new EU law, known as the General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, allows for fines of up to 4 percent of global annual revenue - that could mean potential penalties in the billions of dollars for Facebook. Facebook opened its international headquarters in Dublin in 2008, making the legal entity there the subject of regulation across the 28-nation European Union. In a statement about the change, Facebook said it intends to make the privacy controls and settings that Europe is getting available to the rest of the world. And Zuckerberg said in an interview earlier this month that Facebook would apply the EU law globally quote "in spirit".
Bubbles key to disease prevention, medicine delivery, and cutting naval costs, says scientist
물 방울이 질병 예방, 체내 약물 전달, 해군 비용 감소를 도울 수 있다고 밝힌 과학자
Bubbles as you've never seen them before. Slowed-down video released by Boston University's Dr. James Bird show how different bubbles form - and burst. Bird's team studies the dynamics of bubbles. He says bubbles have a role in delivering future medicine and preventing deadly diseases. Coating micro-bubbles with medicine that can be ruptured with sound waves within brain capillaries could help breach the blood-brain barrier. While understanding how bubbles help spread respiratory illnesses like Legionnaire's disease could help reduce the risk. Bubble science may also help the U.S. Navy cut the cost of cleaning barnacles and algae off its ships. Bird was keynote speaker at the Center for Excellence in Education's annual congressional lunch in Washington. The talk had its lighter side....Bird explaining why our noses get tickled when we have a fizzy drink.
Airlines check Boeing 737 engines after fatal Southwest accident
사우스웨스트 항공 사고 이후 보잉 737 기의 엔진을 점검하는 항공사들
Airlines began inspecting engines of their Boeings 737 after an explosion killed a passenger on a Southwest Airlines flight. The flight made an emergency landing in Philadelphia on Tuesday after an engine ripped apart mid-air, shattering a window on the 737, and nearly sucking out a passenger. An early review of the accident found evidence of metal fatigue and a fan blade break-off. Independent aviation journalist Jon Ostrower: "The engine we're talking about here is the CFM56-7B engine. Just to give you a sense of how prevalent these engines are in the world, this is probably the most produced jet engine in operation right now without a doubt. The 737, the next generation, there have been thousands upon thousands of these engines delivered over the last roughly 20 plus years or so. So, this is like mandating inspections on all the engines are all the Honda Civics and Toyota Camrys in the world. This is an incredibly popular aircraft engine and really the backbone of global air travel." A producer of the engine that broke during the fatal Southwest flight, says there are more than 8,000 of them in operation on Boeing 737 planes.
Starbucks to close 8,000 U.S. stores for racial-bias training
스타벅스, 인종 차별 문제 훈련으로 미국 8,000 여 매장 문 닫을 것
Starbucks will close 8,000 company-owned cafes for the afternoon on May 29 to train nearly 175,000 workers on how to prevent racial discrimination in its stores. The announcement comes as Starbucks is trying to cool tensions after the arrest of two black men at one of its Philadelphia cafes last week sparked accusations of racial profiling at the chain. Protesters have called for a boycott of the company, in what has become the biggest public relations test yet for chief executive Kevin Johnson. Vespula Capital's Jeff Tomasulo: "This is a CEO who has actually taken a situation that is... that is just horrifying, if you want to say that, and he's taken action. He's being very progressive, and doing what he needs to do, and he's being proactive instead of being passive, right? We saw, if you compare to what United did with their PR debacle last year, when they ripped off that guy off the plane, you saw that the CEO flew from Seattle, or the West Coast, to be there within a day, and now they're going to take time to train their employees on how to handle these situations better." The afternoon hours are the slowest time for Starbucks' business. But the closure of 8,000 stores and its corporate offices will almost certainly have an impact on sales.
Plastic-eating enzyme holds promise in fighting pollution - scientists
플라스틱 분해할 수 있는 효소, 오염문제에 대한 해결책 제시할까
The war on plastic pollution could have a new weapon. Scientists in Britain have solved the structure of a plastic-eating enzyme - and improved on it. This image of the enzyme was captured by the Diamond Light Source synchrotron near Oxford with X-rays billions of times more powerful than the sun. "We've taken that protein, that enzyme, fired incredibly powerful x-rays at it in this beamline and we've been able to see the 3D structure, every single atom down to incredible detail and that tells us how it works which is really important." The team believes the enzyme could chomp through millions of tonnes of plastic waste --- turning it back into its basic building blocks. "So, what we've done is using the structure that we solved here we've tweaked the enzyme. We actually thought we were making the enzyme slower by changing a few amino acids but actually we've made it faster. We've made an improved version of the enzyme better than the natural one already. That's really exciting because that means that there's potential to optimize the enzyme even further." Polyethylene terephthalate, or PET, used in bottles,is its favorite snack.This is a speeded up view of it turning a plastic bottle back in its raw material in 4 days magnified 3000 times. "So just in the same way that washing power detergents were developed and made more stable, being able to work at high temperature or low temperatures, we're going to do the same with this enzyme and hopefully create something that we can use on an industrial scale." While some independent researchers have urged caution, McGeehan believes further tweaks to the enzyme could speed up the process and make it economically viable.
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