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Level1 News August 20 2019: Patron Edition

1:21 - FCC Forgets About, Then Dismisses, Complaint Detailing Verizon's Long History Of Net Neutrality Violations 3:51 - CenturyLink, FCC reach settlement over 'cramming' fees on phone bills 6:03 - U.S. FTC chief says regulator is prepared to break up big tech firms: Bloomberg 8:21 - Trump Administration Asks Congress to Reauthorize N.S.A.’s Deactivated Call Records Program 9:56 - Exclusive: U.S. set to give Huawei another 90 days to buy from American suppliers 11:45 - Google Workers Demand Company Not Work With Border Agencies 13:43 - CBP says systems are being restored after earlier outage at airports 15:20 - Judge Says It's Too Late to Switch Out Georgia Voting Machines 17:14 - Ohio AG Yanks Access to State Facial Recognition System for Over 4,500 Officers 19:19 - U.S. Regulator Bans Recalled Apple Laptops From Flights 21:26 - Cray is building a supercomputer to manage the US' nuclear stockpile 23:30 - Tennesee couple's video doorbell system led to capture of 'extremely dangerous' escaped inmate, authorities say 25:49 - The US Navy will replace its touchscreen controls with mechanical ones on its destroyers 28:44 - Websites Can Discriminate Against You Even If You Don't Use Them, California Supreme Court Rules 30:50 - Epic hit with class-action suit over hacked Fortnite accounts 32:58 - Irish State told to delete ‘unlawful’ data on 3.2m citizens 35:16 - Terrifying 'giant fork' Chinese forces prepare to use on Hong Kong protesters 37:38 - Huawei Technicians Helped African Governments Spy on Political Opponents 40:04 - India Shut Down Kashmir’s Internet Access. Now, ‘We Cannot Do Anything.’ 42:32 - Kaspersky AV injected unique ID that allowed sites to track users, even in incognito mode 44:26 - Found: World-readable database used to secure buildings around the globe 46:11 - Summer camps use facial recognition so parents can watch from home 48:13 - $3 million Fortnite winner—and his parents—become latest swatting targets 52:22 - ‘Shooting,’ ‘Bomb,’ ‘Trump’: Advertisers Blacklist News Stories Online 56:29 - Disney fights streaming account sharing with help from cable industry 58:21 - Amazon offered vendors 'Amazon's Choice' labels in return for ad spending and lower prices 1:01:59 - Apple Seeks to Shut Down Corellium’s ‘Perfect Replicas’ of iOS 1:03:57 - Verizon to Sell Tumblr to WordPress.com Owner 1:06:31 - New Spotify Premium? Company Testing More Expensive Service 1:08:57 - Microsoft Surface Pro 6 and Surface Book 2 devices are throttle locking to 400 MHz 1:11:27 - British Airways testing VR headsets for first-class passengers this year 1:15:10 - Domino’s launches e-bike delivery to compete with UberEats, DoorDash 1:17:45 - The crowdfunded phone of the future was a multimillion-dollar scam 1:21:47 - Samsung Just Made a 108MP Camera for Phones 1:24:16 - FBI seeks to monitor Facebook, oversee mass social media data collection 1:26:09 - Facebook (FB) Paid Contractors to Transcribe User Audio Files 1:29:55 - Trauma Counselors Were Pressured to Divulge Confidential Information About Facebook Moderators, Internal Letter Claims 1:32:10 - YouTube shuts down music companies’ use of manual copyright claims to steal creator revenue 1:34:26 - YouTube: LGBT video-makers sue claiming discrimination 1:36:00 - Teen claims to tweet from her smart fridge – but did she really? 1:39:33 - Amazon says its facial recognition can now identify fear 1:42:17 - Facial recognition test mistakes California lawmakers for crooks 1:44:06 - This AI startup claims to automate app making but actually just uses humans 1:46:21 - The fashion line designed to trick surveillance cameras 1:48:55 - AI researchers launch SuperGLUE, a rigorous benchmark for language understanding 1:51:44 - AI reads books out loud in authors' voices 1:53:59 - How One City Saved $5 Million by Routing School Buses with an Algorithm 1:57:23 - UPS Has Been Delivering Cargo in Self-Driving Trucks for Months And No One Knew 1:59:26 - Postmates lands permit to test its Serve autonomous delivery robots in SF 2:02:46 - Robot Dog Astro Can Sit, Lie Down, and Save Lives 2:04:52 - Scientists Propose Training Mice To Detect Deepfakes 2:07:05 - Pumpkin Spice Spam to drop this fall 2:07:59 - Man wearing TV on his head caught on camera leaving old TVs on front porches in Henrico County, Virginia 2:10:05 - Americans would rather get food poisoning on vacation than not have internet access 2:11:50 - A Tesla owner implanted the RFID chip from her Model 3’s keycard into her arm 2:13:22 - He tried to prank the DMV. Then his vanity license plate backfired big time. 2:14:44 - Washington State Patrol finds driver playing Pokemon Go on 8 phones at once 2:17:20 - People Who Use More Emojis Have More Sex and Get More Dates