US Department of Homeland Security to track all immigrants’ social media accounts

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) quietly announced this week that it will begin collecting social media information and search results from all immigrants’ social media accounts and internet searches, including popular sites such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. The policy expansion will take effect on October 18th, the same day President Donald Trump’s indefinite travel ban is slated to go into full effect.
Read more: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/09/29/dhss-s29.html?source=Snapzu

How a 3-Ton Mess of Dead Pigs Transformed This Landscape

The unusual ecological experiment took place in Mississippi, and the scientists were awed by the results—especially the rivers of maggots. By Christie Wilcox.
Read more: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/09/dead-feral-pig-science-ecology/?source=Snapzu

People's new iPhones are 'falling apart'

Apple is investigating reports of its new iPhone bursting open, days after the flagship device went on sale. Pictures on social media showed an £800 iPhone 8 Plus handset that appeared to have split alongside the side. One owner said the device's casing cracked open as it was charging, according to Taiwanese media. The phone had reportedly been in use for five days and was being charged with an official cable and power adapter. 
Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/apple-iphone-8-plus-falling-apart-bursting-open-battery-problems-charging-a7975406.html?source=Snapzu

Monty Hall, iconic 'Let's Make a Deal' host, dead at 96

Game show icon Monty Hall, who co-created and hosted the original 'Let’s Make a Deal,' has died of heart failure at the age of 96, the New York Times reports.
Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/monty-hall-let-apos-deal-224526852.html?source=Snapzu

Raccoons solve an ancient puzzle, but do they really understand it?

Scientists have been using an ancient Greek fable written by Aesop as inspiration to test whether birds and small children understand cause and effect relationships.
Read more: https://phys.org/news/2017-09-raccoons-ancient-puzzle.html?source=Snapzu

Trump pouring gasoline on climate change fire

It’s always risky to predict historical judgments. Truman fares better than people at the time might have predicted. But most predicted right on Washington and Lincoln. And Buchanan. The Trump presidency has only had seven months. We already know that it will be judged as one of the worst – we just don’t know how much worse it will get. Perhaps Trump will remove himself, or be removed by a brave Republican Congress. If that would happen soon, the damage could be mitigated.
Read more: http://www.cincinnati.com/story/opinion/contributors/2017/09/28/trump-pouring-gasoline-climate-change-fire/686793001/?source=Snapzu

Elon Musk’s New Vision: Anywhere on Earth in Under One Hour

Entrepreneur Elon Musk, who has long dreamed of creating a human colony on Mars, is planning to build a new rocket ship code named “BFR” capable of traveling anywhere on Earth in under an hour. If the concept becomes reality, Musk said a journey from New York to Shanghai can be done in about 30 minutes. The surprise announcement means that his Space Exploration Technologies Corp., which has already disrupted the aerospace industry with reusable launches, plans to ferry humans not just to distant planets but across this one as well, setting up a potentially competitive challenge to the commercial airline industry.
Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-29/elon-musk-s-new-vision-anywhere-on-earth-in-under-one-hour?source=Snapzu

Government makes hurting your pets punishable by up to five years in jail

People who abuse animals will now face up to five years in prison under a tough new crackdown. Environment Secretary Michael Gove said the increase in the present six-month sentence was needed to combat cruelty. The move comes after a series of cases in which courts said they would have liked to impose tougher sentences if they had the option.
Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/rspca-animal-cruelty-michael-gove-legislation-law-a7975571.html?source=Snapzu

Trump slams Puerto Rico: ‘They want everything to be done for them’

President Trump on Saturday criticized Puerto Rico's "poor leadership" and defended his administration's response to the aftermath of Hurricane Maria's devastation on the island in an early morning series of tweets that earned immediate backlash from Democrats and other critics.
Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/353216-trump-criticizes-san-juan-mayors-poor-leadership-during-puerto-rico?source=Snapzu

Is she Photoshopped? In France, they now have to tell you

From Sunday, in France, any commercial image that has been digitally altered to make a model look thinner will have a cigarette-packet style warning on it. "Photographie retouchée", it will say, which translates to "edited photograph". It is hoped the change will help protect both models and those who see ads from eating disorders.
Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-41443027?source=Snapzu

Harvard researchers help develop ‘smart’ tattoos

Harvard and MIT researchers have developed smart tattoo ink capable of monitoring health by changing color to tell an athlete if she is dehydrated or a diabetic if his blood sugar rises.
Read more: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2017/09/harvard-researchers-help-develop-smart-tattoos/?source=Snapzu

FBI reveals: Threat to U.S. posed by white supremacists now equals that of ISIS

Independent data reportedly paints an even starker picture, putting the number of attacks planned by white nationalists as double those of jihadist movements.
Read more: https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/1.814850?source=Snapzu

Musk revises Mars ambitions—and they seem a little bit more real

Yes, Elon Musk still absolutely wants to go to Mars. But in a speech delivered Friday in Adelaide, Australia, the founder of SpaceX opened the door to sending humans to the Moon first. "It’s 2017, we should have a lunar base by now," he said, speaking just a couple of years shy of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo landings. "What the hell is going on?"
Read more: https://arstechnica.co.uk/science/2017/09/elon-musk-mars-moon-spacex/?source=Snapzu

Democrats are pushing a $40 billion plan to bring the best Internet access to rural America

The Democratic Party is making high-speed Internet access a new plank in its economic agenda as it tries to regain trust among middle-class Americans in the country's heartland. Democratic lawmakers are calling for $40 billion in new federal funding for infrastructure projects for rural and tribal areas and other regions, whose access to fast, affordable broadband has lagged behind that of dense, urban areas. The proposal, unveiled Thursday, would have Internet providers compete for the right to build out the networks.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/09/28/democrats-are-pushing-a-40-billion-plan-to-bring-the-best-internet-access-to-rural-america/?source=Snapzu

Saudi man jailed for threatening to attack women drivers

A Saudi man was arrested for allegedly threatening to attack women drivers, the Interior Ministry said on Friday, following a royal decree that ends a ban on women driving in the kingdom. Many Saudis welcomed Tuesday's announcement by King Salman lifting the ban by next year, but some expressed confusion or outrage after the reversal of a policy that has been backed for decades by prominent clerics.
Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/saudi-arabia-women-drivers-legal-ban-man-jailed-king-salman-burn-car-a7973966.html?source=Snapzu

Blockchain in the USA: Trump admin declares commitment to blockchain, government uses

Donald Trump’s presidential administration just officially confirmed its commitment to the blockchain, declaring that it’s looking at optimizing the U.S government through blockchain use cases. This is bullish news not just for U.S. crypto customers, but for crypto-enthusiasts all across the world. Participating in the Data Transparency 2017 conference, two top Trump White House officials announced for the first time that U.S. policymakers are increasingly looking at crypto as a cornerstone of American tech strategies going forward.
Read more: http://www.cryptoanalyst.co/2017/09/29/blockchain-in-the-usa-trump-admin-declares-commitment-to-blockchain-government-uses/?source=Snapzu

Yemen's man-made cholera crisis is now the worst outbreak on record

The cholera outbreak in Yemen is set to become the largest epidemic since records began, British charity Oxfam has said. Yemen descended into a full-blown civil war in March 2015, and has been suffering from a cholera epidemic since March of this year. Charities had already warned the crisis is the fasting-growing cholera epidemic in history, and have said the number of cases will soon overtake the total of 754,373 cases recorded in the aftermath of Haiti’s 2010 earthquake. Experts believe it will hit a million by November.
Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/yemen-cholera-outbreak-worst-on-record-health-middle-east-a7973726.html?source=Snapzu

Apple Interested in Developing ARM-Based Mac Processors and iPhone Modems in House

Apple is continuing to expand manufacturing efforts related to the production of its own chips, according to a new report today by Nikkei, which stated that the company aims to "better compete" in the artificial intelligence field and reduce reliance on major suppliers like Intel and Qualcomm. Nikkei's sources said Apple's interest lies in building "core processors for notebooks, modem chips for iPhones, and a chip that integrates touch, fingerprint and display driver functions."
Read more: https://www.macrumors.com/2017/09/29/apple-interested-processors-modems/?source=Snapzu

One of Putin's most prominent critics was just arrested on his way to an opposition rally

Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition leader and prominent critic of Vladimir Putin, says he has been arrested again outside his Moscow home after he left to attend a pre-election rally with supporters. Mr Navalny tweeted that he had been "detained and was being taken somewhere", but that he did not know where. Russia will hold a presidential election in March which incumbent Vladimir Putin is widely expected to contest.
Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/alexei-navalny-russia-vladimir-putin-critic-opposition-moscow-nizhny-novgorod-a7973206.html?source=Snapzu

Judge who spared aspiring Oxford student from jail after she stabbed her partner is under investigation

A judge who spared an aspiring Oxford University student from jail after she stabbed her boyfriend is being investigated. Ian Pringle QC gave promising heart surgeon Lavinia Woodward a suspended sentence for attacking her then partner in a drunken assault. Woodward, 24, stabbed her Cambridge University boyfriend in the leg with a bread knife but in an unusual move the judge spared her jail describing her as an “extraordinarily able young lady”, whose talents meant that a prison sentence would be “too severe”.
Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/09/29/judge-spared-oxford-student-jail-bright-stabbed-partner-investigation/?source=Snapzu

Nestlé pays $200 a year to bottle water near Flint – where water is undrinkable

Gina Luster bathed her child in lukewarm bottled water, emptied bottle by bottle into the tub, for months. It became a game for her seven-year-old daughter. Pop the top off a bottle, and pour it into the tub. It takes about 30 minutes for a child to fill a tub this way. Pop the top, pour it in; pop the top, pour it in. Maybe less if you can get gallon jugs.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/sep/29/nestle-pays-200-a-year-to-bottle-water-near-flint-where-water-is-undrinkable?source=Snapzu

Mom arrested after leaving kids at home to go on trip to Germany

A Johnston mom was arrested on Thursday after she left her four kids home alone to go on a trip to Germany. Erin Lee Macke, 30, was charged with four counts of child endangerment and one count of making a firearm available to a person under the age of 21, according to Johnston police. On Sept. 21, Johnston police were called to Macke's home after receiving a report that young children were left unsupervised in the house.
Read more: http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/crime-and-courts/2017/09/28/mom-arrested-after-leaving-kids-home-go-trip-germany/714984001/?source=Snapzu

Trump kids' ski vacation incurs over $300,000 in security costs

Records obtained by CBS News showed hotel costs were nearly $200,000 for the week-long vacation
Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-kids-ski-vacation-incurs-over-300000-in-security-costs/?source=Snapzu

Archaeologists Find Lost Ancient Greek Temple Of Goddess Artemis

It took more than 100 years of searching but archaeologists have finally found a lost temple to the ancient Greek goddess Artemis. The Greek Ministry of Culture reported that a team has found the remains of the sanctuary near Amarynthos, a coastal town a couple of dozen miles northeast of Athens on the large Greek island of Euboea. Scientists and historians have spent more than a century looking for what is left of the temple, but an ancient text with inaccurate directions threw them off the trail.
Read more: http://www.ibtimes.com/archaeologists-find-lost-ancient-greek-temple-goddess-artemis-2594658?source=Snapzu

The US military could soon be flying one of the fastest helicopters ever

The S-97 can fly over 250 mph and still pack some serious firepower.
Read more: http://www.wearethemighty.com/gear-tech/this-helicopter-will-fly-as-fast-as-a-jet?source=Snapzu

Palestinians slam US Israel envoy's 'ignorance'

The US ambassador in Tel Aviv has angered Palestinians with a comment downplaying Israel's 50-year occupation of the West Bank, the second such spat in a month. In a video interview with Israeli news site Walla broadcast in full on Friday, ambassador David Friedman said the Jewish state is "only occupying two percent of the West Bank".
Read more: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/09/palestinians-slam-israel-envoy-ignorance-170929091935836.html??source=Snapzu

CRISPR used to peer into human embryos' first days

Gene-edited human embryos have offered a glimpse into the earliest stages of development, while hinting at the role of a pivotal protein that guides embryo growth. The first-of-its-kind study stands in contrast to previous research that attempted to fix disease-causing mutations in human embryos, in the hope of eventually preventing genetic disorders. Whereas those studies raised concerns over potential ‘designer babies’, the latest paper describes basic research that aims to understand human embryo development and causes of miscarriage.
Read more: http://www.nature.com/news/crispr-used-to-peer-into-human-embryos-first-days-1.22646?WT.mc_id=TWT_NatureNews?source=Snapzu

Google quantum computer test shows breakthrough is within reach

The idea that quantum computers can do things that regular ones cannot isn’t proven. But Google thinks it knows a problem only a quantum computer can solve
Read more: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2148989-google-quantum-computer-test-shows-breakthrough-is-within-reach/?source=Snapzu

Facing poverty, academics turn to sex work and sleeping in cars

Adjunct professors in America face low pay and long hours without the security of full-time faculty. Some, on the brink of homelessness, take desperate measures
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/sep/28/adjunct-professors-homeless-sex-work-academia-poverty?source=Snapzu

Dildon'ts of Bluetooth: Pen test boffins sniff out Berlin's smart butt plugs

You've heard of wardriving – say hello to screwdriving
Read more: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/09/29/ble_exploits_screwdriving/?source=Snapzu

Inside the California factory that manufactures 1 million pounds of fake 'meat' per month

On the outside, Impossible Foods' new manufacturing plant in Oakland, California, looks like all of the other nondescript warehouses bordering the massive building. But inside, company founder Pat Brown believes a revolution is happening. Brown, a former Stanford biochemist, used his scientific background to create fake "meat" using the active ingredient soy leghemoglobin, which he says makes the burger appealing to meat lovers.
Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/27/watch-inside-impossible-foods-fake-meat-factory.html?source=Snapzu

Health Secretary Tom Price resigns amid private-plane controversy

The White House announced Friday that President Trump had accepted the resignation of beleaguered Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price. Press secretary Sarah Sanders released a statement saying that Price had submitted his resignation earlier Friday and Trump had accepted it.
Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/health-secretary-tom-price-resigns-private-plane-controversy-205246483.html?source=Snapzu

iPhone 8 Plus reportedly splits open while charging, another claimed to arrive in same state

A Taiwanese iPhone 8 Plus owner has claimed that her device split open while being charged with the supplied cable and plug adapter. She posted photos which show damage consistent with a swollen battery. A Japanese owner has posted similar photos of his device, which he says arrived in this state...
Read more: https://9to5mac.com/2017/09/29/iphone-8-plus-casing-split-open/?source=Snapzu

People Are Sharing This Fake Photo Of NFL Players Burning The American Flag

The original photo appears to be of Seattle Seahawks defensive end Michael Bennett doing a post-game victory dance with his teammates in the locker room in 2015.
Read more: https://www.buzzfeed.com/mbvd/people-are-sharing-this-fake-photo-of-nfl-players-burning?utm_term=.knQP4P6RM#.ppzyoyGX6?source=Snapzu

Full-blown scandal: Trump Cabinet charged taxpayers at least $1,070,594.19 for luxury travel

Drain the swamp? Taxpayers are getting bilked by the millionaires in Trump's cabinet.
Read more: https://shareblue.com/full-blown-scandal-trump-cabinet-charged-taxpayers-at-least-1070594-19-for-luxury-travel/?source=Snapzu

Twitter says it found 201 accounts linked to the same Russian activity on Facebook

Twitter informed US congressional investigators on Thursday that it found 201 fake accounts linked to the same Russian actors previously disclosed by Facebook. The company revealed the existence of the accounts in a blog post just hours after it met behind closed doors with the committee responsible for investigating Russian interference with US elections.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-found-201-accounts-linked-to-russian-activity-on-facebook-2017-9?source=Snapzu

Ancient boy’s DNA pushes back date of earliest humans

A boy who lived in what’s now South Africa nearly 2,000 years ago has lent a helping genome to science. Using the long-gone youngster’s genetic instruction book, scientists have estimated that humans emerged as a distinct population earlier than typically thought, between 350,000 and 260,000 years ago.
Read more: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ancient-boys-dna-pushes-back-date-earliest-humans?source=Snapzu

Amazon Unveils $35 Gadget for Hands-Free Landline Phone Calls

Amazon.com Inc. is looking to an aging technology to continue its push to digitize and connect the home: the landline phone. At an event in Seattle Wednesday, Amazon unveiled a $35 device that plugs into existing home landline phone jacks. The other end connects to Echo speakers so people can use their voice to ask to make calls and chat hands-free. The system can make and receive calls as well as make calls to emergency phone numbers, Amazon said.
Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-27/amazon-unveils-35-gadget-for-hands-free-landline-phone-calls?source=Snapzu

Google preparing customizable ‘Google Bar’ Search widget and here’s how it looks [Video]

In our teardown of version 7.12 of the Google app last week, we spotted several mentions of a customizable “Google Bar.” Since then, we have been able to activate the feature to reveal that future versions of the Google app could allow users to customize the search bar widget.
Read more: https://9to5google.com/2017/09/28/google-bar-customizable-search-widget/?source=Snapzu

Donald Trump is 'the most dangerous man in the world', claim leading psychiatrists

Donald Trump is “dangerously mentally ill”, a group of experts and commentators has claimed. Led by Yale psychiatrist Dr Bandy Lee, 27 writers hold forth in a new book that also claims “his madness is catching”. The Trump presidency, the authors assert, “has created unprecedented mental health consequences across our nation and beyond”. But not all of the 27 are psychiatric or psychological professionals; the roster includes linguist and media analyst Noam Chomsky, and journalist Gail Sheehy.
Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-psychiatrists-madness-catching-goldwater-rule-yale-dr-bandy-lee-a7971326.html?source=Snapzu

Islanders cut off from world: 'We've lost everything'

The island of Vieques is just seven miles from Puerto Rico. Right now, it might as well be 7,000. It's been destroyed by Hurricane Maria. And almost entirely cut off. For seven days, Vieques' people have been watching stocks of food, water and fuel dwindle while they've been in a black hole of no information. Now, crowds line up in the main square to touch the outside world.
Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/28/us/vieques-cut-off-after-hurricane-maria/index.html?source=Snapzu

'Super Mario Run' Update With New Levels and Character Out Now, IAP on Sale for $4.99

Amidst all of the speculation over whether the game was a financial success, as well as Nintendo's later mobile and console achievements in 2017, the fact that Super Mario Run [Free] was actually an incredibly enjoyable arcade runner has become a bit obscured. It was by no means a revolutionary, platform-defining release as many had expected, but for me, Mario's first foray on the App Store was easily one of the most fun experiences of 2016
Read more: http://toucharcade.com/2017/09/28/super-mario-run-update-out-now/?source=Snapzu

'The last place on Earth': how Sumatra's rainforest is being cleared for palm oil

A palm oil company is continuing to clear forest in a fast-diminishing elephant habitat in Indonesia’s Leuser ecosystem despite being the subject of two reports into illegal deforestation, according to a prominent environmental organisation.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2017/sep/28/last-place-on-earth-deforestation-palm-oil-threat-leuser-rainforest?source=Snapzu

FCC asks Apple to activate the iPhone’s hidden FM radio to aid public safety

FCC chairman Ajit Pai wants Apple to turn on the FM radio that’s hidden inside of every iPhone. In a statement today, he asked that Apple “reconsider its position, given the devastation wrought by Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria.” The FM radio, he said, can be used to receive “life-saving information” during disasters. Most smartphones have an FM radio inside, and they have for a long time. Until recently, however, most of those radios were deactivated, so that owners couldn’t use them.
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/28/16379316/fcc-iphone-fm-radio-activation-request-ajit-pai?source=Snapzu

Indonesian official: More than 120,000 flee Bali volcano

More than 130,000 people have fled the region around the Mount Agung volcano on the Indonesian tourist island of Bali, fearing it will soon erupt, an official said Thursday. The disaster mitigation agency's command post in Bali said the number of evacuees has swelled to about 134,200. The figure is more than double the estimated population within an immediate danger zone but people further away are leaving too.
Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/indonesian-official-120000-flee-bali-volcano-50147437?source=Snapzu

Racial slurs written on dorm room boards of black Air Force Academy cadet candidates

Racial slurs were written on the dormitory message boards of five black cadet candidates at the Air Force Academy Preparatory School earlier this week. Lt. Col. Allen Herritage, director of public affairs for the academy, said the slurs were discovered Monday. One cadet candidate’s mother posted a photo on her Facebook page Wednesday that shows the words “go home n*****r” written on the white board outside her son’s room.
Read more: http://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-air-force/2017/09/28/racial-slurs-written-on-dorm-room-boards-of-black-air-force-academy-cadet-candidates/?source=Snapzu

Price took military jets to Europe, Asia for over $500K

Accompanied by his wife, the HHS secretary journeyed to Geneva, Berlin, Beijing, Tokyo and other cities for events.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/28/tom-price-military-jets-europe-asia-hhs-243276?source=Snapzu

Trump Waives Jones Act to Speed Up Aid Shipments to Puerto Rico

President Donald Trump ordered the Jones Act to be waived for shipments to hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico immediately at the request of Governor Ricardo Rossello, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said Thursday. The waiver will be in effect for 10 days and cover all products being shipped to Puerto Rico, Department of Homeland Security spokesman David Lapan said in an email.
Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-28/trump-waives-jones-act-for-puerto-rico?source=Snapzu

Julian Assange Says He Will Provide Evidence Russia Narrative Is False in Exchange for Pardon

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher thinks the president is being blocked from knowing about the potential deal.
Read more: https://pjmedia.com/video/julian-assange-says-will-provide-evidence-russia-narrative-false-exchange-pardon/?source=Snapzu

Internet-wide security update put on hold over fears 60 million people would be kicked offline

ICANN delays KSK rollover after new data derails plans
Read more: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/09/28/internet_update_on_hold/?source=Snapzu