London’s Metropolitan Police have conducted operations that employ facial recognition cameras in public spaces that could help authorities track down fugitives but have raised concerns from civil liberties groups that say these scans are a violation of privacy.
The U.S. media landscape consolidated more last week when it was announced that Rupert Murdoch’s son, James Murdoch, would be acquiring 50 percent of Vox Media, which include various podcasts and New York magazine, which The New York Times noted was once owned by his father.
Residents in Fort Bend County, Texas, have been raising concerns about the county’s massive coal-fired power plant and its risk to public health as more people move into the area.
A newly released study found that sleep plays a significant role in the brain’s “essential biological purging,” which essentially cleanses the organ of harmful toxic waste.